RTL 2

**RTL 2** is French radio station owned by RTL Group. The station broadcasts pop and rock music.

## History

On midnight January 6, 1992, the Maxximum network was merged with the Metropolys network to give birth to **M40**. The main shareholders of the radio were then **Prisa**, which holds 48.05% of the capital and the Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion owns 35.75%.

As a result of staggering hearings and because of a very techno-dance music grid that can not respect the new quota of French music imposed, shareholder **Prisa** decides to sell its shares in 1994 to disengage from the French radio market. The CLT wants to take them back, but the **Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel** (**CSA**) refuses this acquisition to defend radio pluralism, given that the group already owned RTL and Fun Radio. Nevertheless, on 18 January 1995, the network was renamed **RTL 1**, which was oriented towards an audience aged 25 to 45 years. Following a complaint from Europe 1 to the CSA, finding their name too close to its own, it was renamed on 7 March 1995 in **RTL 2**.

In its early stages, **RTL 2** has a soft rock programming. On Saturday night, in 1995, **RTL 2** was broadcasting funk and disco sound, and finally broadcast only pop rock.

**RTL 2** is a mainstream radio broadcasting current hits with pop and rock trends, a new slogan is adopted: **Le son Pop-rock**. Since October 2006, **RTL 2** has gradually resumed its old slogan abandoned in April 2000: **RTL2, ce n'est pas de la radio, c'est de la musique**. **RTL 2** has a facilitator 24 hours a day.

According to **Médiamétrie** radio audiences for the period September - October 2007, **RTL 2** set its cumulative audience record with a score of 5.1 points, a gain of 0.3 points in one year.

At this time, the morning is animated by **Stéfan Caza** and **Alessandra Sublet** and recorded a 20% increase compared to the morning of the season 2006/2007.

For the rest of the 2007 season **Christophe Nicolas** and **Alessandra Sublet** will present ***Le Grand Morning RTL 2*** from 5:00 to 9:00. **Sébastien Folin** returns for a new season with ***Grand Morning du week-end***: new season, new schedules (7 hours / 10 hours at weekends).

In June 2008, **RTL 2** experienced a wave of departures with the non-renewals of **Julien Haultcoeur**, **Cyril Keller**, **Alexandra Dayan** and the departures of **Alessandra Sublet**, **Sébastien Folin** and **Stéfan Caza**.

In September 2008, a new morning was set up: ***Le Grand Morning*** hosted by **Christophe Nicolas** and **Agathe Lecaron**. The issue of **Zégut** becomes weekly.

On 7 September 2009, **RTL 2** launched a new version of its website.

On May 2, 2010, ***Pop-Rock Station*** will be back from Sunday to Thursday from 22:00 to midnight. From 20:00 to 22:00, a new program is created, ***Pop Rock Sélection***, from Monday to Thursday. This program allows listeners to choose and sign a title via the website of the show.

In February 2014, **RTL2** arrived in Luxembourg and Belgium in the province of Luxembourg with regional drops, now the **ALIA** (**Independent Audiovisual Authority of Luxembourg**) 4 prohibited it.

In August 2017, it is announced that **RTL 2** will soon launch a local antenna on its **Toulouse** frequency, the **CSA** having given its approval in June 2017, to allow a local stall in programming on **Toulouse**. The previous local stall authorization, for **RTL 2**, was given on Le Mans in April 2012.

## Programmings

### Current

* ***Le Double Expresso RTL 2***
* ***Le Morning du Week-End***
* ***Le Drive RTL 2***
* ***RTL 2 Pop-Rock Studio***
* ***RTL 2 Pop-Rock Station***
* ***RTL 2 Pop-Rock Party***
* ***RTL 2 Pop-Rock List***
* ***RTL 2 Made in France***
* ***RTL 2 Pop-Rock Story***

### Former

* ***Clap Hands***
* ***Le Grand Morning***
* ***Le Grand Morning du Week-end***
* ***Le Grand Bazar***
* ***Message Pop-Rock***
* ***RTL 2 Maxi Pop-Rock***
* ***RTL 2 Millenium***
* ***RTL 2 Music Match***
* ***RTL 2 Match Live***
* ***RTL 2 Cinéma***
* ***Night Station***
* ***Johann Roques***

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