City Paris First air date 5 February 2005 | Broadcast area France Language(s) French | |
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Slogan The Next Deejayneration Format Electronic Music both mixed and unmixed | ||
Paris One, also known as Paris One DJ Webradio or P1 DJ Webradio, is a group of five Internet Radios (or five streams) exclusively dedicated to electronic music. This association was founded in 2003. Each stream corresponds to a specific music style: house electro club on P1 Club, house techno underground on P1 Reverse, deep house, Garage House and soulful house sounds on P1 Deeper, trance and progressive on P1 Trance and retro and topical dance on P1 Dance. Paris One DJ Webradio broadcasts a playlist with standards and new hits of the moment, as well as mixed shows thanks to more than 100 amateur or professional resident DJs.
Contents
Beginnings of the first period (2003)
Everything started in 2003 with a newspaper article about Live 365 on TV magazine « Télé Cable Satellite Hebdo ». Sébastien Petit found it interesting to be able to create one’s own Internet radio. He then decided to set up a non profit Internet radio, aiming to propose listeners an original concept. Back in 2003, the making of the European expansion was booming and he thought about a « Top 40 » of the European charts to contribute to help people discover what the neighbouring countries then listened to, so as to help people to have this feeling of belonging to a European community. Thanks to expats, he set up a website dedicated to European charts. The website was launched in Februar 2004.
Beside the « European Top 40», weekly thematic shows could be found on the provisional scheduled programs, notably with the « club » shows especially dedicated to electronic music.
with DJ Yoan M, first resident DJ to join the Paris One team.
End of the first period (December 2004)
This « European top 40 » was hard to set up though. Tracks were not easy to find, nor were the charts classifications in all the European countries. Besides, two problems were still to be solved, both financial and legal. Tracks could only be bought on legal downloading websites like German Amazon, as most legal downloading website were not available from France at the time. What’s more, the buying of the tracks started to be too expensive, and Internet broadcast of music was something new that the SACEM didn’t manage to clarify in a confusing legal context.
Second period : Paris One DJ Webradio (2005)
Despite legal and financial obstacles, Sébastien Petit decided to go on with Paris One and changed its editorial line, focusing on the « Club » shows on Fridays and Sundays. The Internet radio then started to change its programs going in for electronic music mixed by DJs, still in the perspective to make listeners discover programs they wouldn’t necessarily hear on the existing FM radios, and very little on the few French Internet radios at the time (Radio 9, Radio FG …). In April 2004, « Dance Reloaded » contest was launched to bring new DJs. An add was published in Only For DJs magazine. The DJs had to mix ten imposed tracks in less than 6 minutes. DJ Yoan M was in charge of the recruitment selected three new DJs in June 2004 : DJ Roll’s, Oji Team and Mathieu Fischer. With four resident DJs, Paris One DJ Webradio’s first goal was then to promote amateurs [DJ]s while answering high quality standards.
Expansion of the radio (a history of the 5 streams)
On 11 March 2006 Paris One marked the start of its second stream Paris One Replay, proposing Paris One programs with a 6-hour time-lag so as to gain listeners. The stream didn’t last long though because of the high cost of the bandwidth. Besides, advertising agencies on Paris One are meant for French viewers which made Paris One Replay not interesting enough, so the concept had to be stopped and Paris One America (formerly known as Paris One Replay) became P1 REVERSE. With this second name, Paris One’s second stream turned to more house techno underground programs. One year and a half later, two new streams were added to Paris One DJ Webradios. First in September 2007 with former Just4music.fr Internet radio (deep house, soulful house and garage) which became P1 Deeper, Paris One’s third radio. On the following month (October 2007), the growing numbers of trance fans marked the start of the launching of P1 Trence, Paris One’s fourth radio. At the time, Paris One was also thinking of launching a fifth radio so as to stick to each P1 radio’s style. That’s when Paris One board proposed to K-Zimir (aka Karl Zimmer) to use the success of his Club Classics show (April 2005 - May 2006) to launch P1 Dance, which has been broadcasting dance retro sounds from the 90s as well as new dance releases in remix or bootleg format since 23 April 2008.
Paris One and the terrestrial digital radio (February 2008)
In December 2007, the Ministry of Culture and Communication chose the T-DMB norm for the broadcast of digital radio. Experimental Internet radios broadcast are organized by TDF. Fance Webradios (which Paris One DJ Webradios are part of) take part in the experiment. Technical tests were carried out for three weeks from 5 February 2008, and Internet radios were thus broadcast alternatively from the Eiffel Tower on one of the multiplex frequencies (Click N’ Rock, Electra Radio, Fréquence Metz, Hag'FM, Radio DLV, iMixx, La Grosse radio, Live 9, MplusM, Paris One DJ Webradios, Radio Lina, Sun Line, World Radio Paris).
Competitors
Despite their rather limited life-span, the number of Internet radios in France is still substantial. Since its creation in 2003, Paris One DJ Webradios has always been constantly evolving to meet listeners’ wishes and to adapt to new laws that are gradually passed, as digital broadcast develops. Other internet radios managed to overcome these changes and are Paris One competitors : FG DJ Radio and Contact (two FM radios also broadcasting online), Puls' Radio, Hotmix and M2 Mix.
Special Evenings
Current
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Former
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DJs and producers invited
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