TSF Jazz

**TSF Jazz** is French private radio station owned by **Nova Press**. The station broadcasts jazz music.

## History

In 1981, **TSF Jazz** was originally created in **Seine-Saint-Denis** as a **talk**, **sports**, **music** and **local info** station, then as **TSF-93** established by elected **Socialist Party** members and the **French Communist Party**, and transmitted from Romainville.

In 1990, the radio station merged with the communist radio stations of every department in **Île-de-France** including **TSF Paris: Radio Top Essonne**, 92 Radio, Radio Soleil 94 and TSF Colline 95, to rename all those stations to simply **TSF**.

Beginning in 1993, **TSF** brought together several local radio stations in France: Forum 91,3 in **Bordeaux**, Agora FM in **Grasse**, Loire FM in **Saint-Étienne** and four other local stations known as **TSF** in **Cognac**, **Lyon**, **Nérac**, and **Nice** in addition to **TSF Paris**. **TSF** then changed its Parisian frequency from 93.0 FM to 89.9. **TSF Jazz** in Paris is still broadcasting on this frequency.

In 1995, four new stations began to retransmit some of its programs (news and programs) on Radio Calaisis from **Calais**, Actuel from **Le Havre**, Chalette from **Montargis** and Radio Quinquin from **Saint-Omer**.

In 1996, **TSF** was at its peak with three new stations: **TSF Jordanne** (Cantal department), **TSF Isère** (Grenoble) **TSF Aravis** (Ugine). The **TSF** radio network then broadcast on 19 frequencies in France.

1997 marked the decline of the communist radio station. The station stopped broadcasting in the local radio stations of **Bordeaux**, **Lyon**, **Nérac**, **Nice**, **le Havre**, **Saint-Omer** and **Grenoble**. The other stations Agora, Loire FM, Calaisis, Radio Chalette and Radio Jordanne then become completely independent again, while keeping the spirit of **TSF**.

In 1998, **TSF Cognac** and **TSF Aravis** stopped broadcasting as well.

In 1999, after the decline of the Parisian radio station, a redemption by Fréquence Jazz was mentioned, but finally **TSF** attempted to stay broadcasting by changing its format completely by adopting a jazz format under the name of **TSF Jazz**. The owners of **TSF** eventually failed after this attempt.

In August 1999, the group **Nova Press** rescued the radio station after the failure of the communist **TSF** station, to then become part of the **Nova Press** group in its offices of **Faubourg**, **Paris**. **Jean-François Bizot** and **Frank Ténot** bought the old **TSF** station, then renamed it by referencing its Parisian frequency, **TSF 89.9**, and made it **The Jazz & Info** radio station of Paris and the **Ile-de-France**. Hosts of the **TSF** station did not hesitate to cross the door that separated the two stations of **TSF 89.9** and Radio Nova, to host some programs of Radio Nova, which also played jazz along with various other genres.

In September 2008 the station announced to change its name again to **TSF Jazz** (without reference to the Parisian 89.9 frequency) and adopted a much more simple logo along with a new slogan, with the main objective to cover France nationally.

On 4 December 2008, **TSF Jazz** started broadcasting on its seventh frequency in **Laval**; around 100,000 people in the area could receive the station.

On 26 May 2009, the **CSA** selected the radio station to broadcast digitally in **Marseille**, **Nice** and **Paris**. **TSF Jazz** also celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

In 2011, **TSF Jazz** along with Radio Nova left the group of Les Indés Radios, of which the stations were members.

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