6 SPECIAL EDITION 1 0 2 h t 3 1 h e c Th r a M - 6 7 # RADleItOter exclusive BRUNO GUILLON: CAN YOU LAUGH ABOUT ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING ON THE RADIO? coaching The most influential Future woman in radio It’s time to lose our transmitter mindset JINGLES • IMAGING • IDENTITIES www.21juin.fr #76 - March 13th 2016 La Lettre.Pro RAD& mIéOdias Welcome #76 - March 13Th 2016 RADIODAYS The IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN THE WORLD tOter RADleI Europe: "There will be many topics tackling the A limited readership letter every month subject of the latest advances, and new ISSN : 2256-7518 developments linked to the radio and concerning digital platforms, but also about new, creative Publisher : Editions HF formats, about journalism, music research and Press Limited Liability Company advertising on the radio. There is a culture of Monthly in french sharing on the radio that is impressive”, says For the first time in its young history, Anders Held, a key witness to the evolution Offices : of radio. EDITIONS HF - 21 rue Montesquieu Radiodays Europe is making a stop in 19100 BRIVE - CORREZE - FRANCE France and has chosen the Palais des Like every other year, Radiodays Europe is Tél : +33 5 55 18 03 61 - Fax : +33 5 55 18 27 97 Congrès in Paris to fashion the shape of Site web : www.lalettre.pro radio in the future. "Creating the Future" relying on the participation of a number of will in fact be the central theme of the 3 big names in radio to help in staging and Editorial director : days featuring some of the big names of presenting this new show: "Kyle and Jackie, the Philippe Chapot - [email protected] radio arriving from the four corners of the Australian stars of a morning show broadcast on earth. An inspired and inspiring Kiiss 1065, Elvis Duran from Z100 in New York. Editor-in-chief : Radiodays show! There will be a number of leading figures such as Brulhatour [email protected] Helen Boaden from the BBC and Travis Baxter Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Milan… and this year, from the Bauer Group in the UK, as well as Editorial team : Paris. The annual Radiodays Europe show will leaders coming specially from the Netherlands, Denis Florent, James Cridland, François be taking place in France from 13 to 15 March. Germany, Sweden, the USA, Canada and Quairel, Frédérik Anders Held (who is organising the show along Belgium. Other very interesting speakers like Dennis Clark and Valerie Geller and the Sub-editors : with Rolf Brandrud) assures us, "Everything is Delphine Lambert going well", although the team don’t hide the Australian advertising guru, Ralph van Dijk, will fact that they experienced some moments of also be there". Secretarial office and subscriptions : doubt after the attacks in Paris and over any [email protected] indirect effect this might have on the show. FRENCH FLAVOUR TO RADIODAYS EUROPE "We went through some moments of hesitation Advertising : [email protected] and questions following the terrorist attacks in Paris… We also want to show that Paris is a city Several public figures from French radio will Graphic design and Layout : that is continuing with life as normal and that it’s also be there, of course: Mathieu Gallet (Radio EDITIONS HF - BRIVE - CORREZE - FRANCE still standing. So I’d like all of the French radio France), Bruno Guillon (Fun Radio), Daniel stations to grasp this opportunity to come and Cohn-Bendit, Gwendoline Debono (Europe 1) Translation greet their European colleagues and those from and Marie-Christine Saragosse (France Médias Karena Keeley around the world, to work to make these Monde)… and this year Radiodays Europe will be providing a simultaneous English/French Contact, editorial team: Radiodays 2016 the best. Coming to Paris is also [email protected] an act of solidarity,” Anders Held notes. translation: "Yes, thanks to Les Médias Contact, Advertising: Will the Palais des Congrès be big enough to Francophones Publics [Public French-language +33 5 55 18 03 61 accommodate all the visitors? "We think so. Media] we will be offering simultaneous Mob. : +33 6 22 70 61 79 It’s a very large space and we’ll have 4 different translations in French all the way through the sessions running in parallel over two days and a conference and this will help considerably in professional exhibition area” . We should point guaranteeing an optimal experience for FRENCH FLAVOUR TO out that Radiodays Europe really demands this, participants who either don’t understand English RADIODAYS EUROPE with 1,300 participants from 60 different or only understand it poorly." countries and 120 speakers addressing 55 Anders Held emphasises: "Nowhere else will sessions and workshops… Anders Held takes you find such great combined knowledge and As a partner to the event, the team of La advantage of the opportunity to note that it is news about radio as at Radiodays Europe. You’ll Lettre Pro de la Radio will welcome you to its "the biggest international conference in the draw inspiration from the advice and tips of stand, in the colours of Radiodays Europe, on directors of successful programmes and those of 13, 14 and 15 March. The stand will be world of radio”. producers and public figures… new ways of equipped with a MultiCAM system, making In radio, every good professional knows that working in the digital sphere, new ideas for it possible to produce video interviews with you don’t wait for the future to knock at the the big names of international radio, which studio door. You go and seek it out and you developing a radio’s business”. As we’ve already will then immediately be put online on our look ahead to the radio of tomorrow. This will mentioned to you: this Radiodays Europe show site. n in fact be the theme of these French Radiodays in Paris is definitely inspired and inspiring! .2 #76 - March 13th 2016 La Lettre.Pro RAD& mIéOdias Dj Talk Can you laugh about anything on the radio? By François Quairel @fquairel FOUR GREAT STARS OF MUSIC RADIO CAME TOGETHER FOR THE CLOSING DEBATE AT THE SALON DE LA RADIO IN PARIS: CAUET (NRJ), MANU LEVY (NRJ), BRUNO GUILLON (FUN RADIO) AND PASCAL GIGOT (RIRE ET CHANSONS) DEBATED THE TOPIC OF LAUGHTER ON THE RADIO. MAINTAINING A CERTAIN HUMOUR At NRJ, Broadcasting Director Gaël Sanquer showed his faith in his teams, says Manu Levy: "We all did what felt right. Gaël said to me ‘Do what you feel is right’. We arrived in the morning and half of the team were in shock. The 4 radio show hosts talked about the path Has the context created following the We switched on the microphone. Nobody felt that led them here and their role: "giving their lis - attacks of January and November 2015 like cracking jokes. Then we took calls from teners a good laugh". © Serge Surpin changed the way entertainment people and in the end we put out a programme PARALLEL PATHS programmes are produced on the radio? about love." At Fun Radio, Bruno Guillon was "No", reply the great stars of the FM keen to throw out any kind of censorship: Manu Levy, 45, has presented "Manu dans music shows, together in unison. The "That would have looked like a kind of victory for le 6/9" [Manu in the 6/9 slot] on NRJ every state of shock led to some rather out of the people who did this. They’re fighting against morning since Autumn 2011. He began his the ordinary programmes in the everything that we’re defending. We didn’t hold career in 1991 at Fun Radio, where he was immediate aftermath of the tragic back from joking about things, we tried to the director of Arthur. He also spent time at events. Cauet, Manu, Bruno and Pascal maintain a certain humour, because that’s what Europe 1, Europe 1, Skyrock and Europe 2, Gigot look back on these events from the listeners come to us for!" Human decency was consecutively. music radio point of view. at the heart of thinking for Cauet and his Sébastien Cauet, known as Cauet, 44, has team: "We’re there to do our job. It’s for the been the host of "C’Cauet" , an "I think you have to go on joking about, news people to deal with the news. We’re there entertainment and phone-in programme on otherwise it’s like giving in to them." Fun Radio to give the listeners a good laugh – and if there’s NRJ at 1900 every evening, since 2010. He morning show host Bruno Guillon’s comment a moment when you need to put a brake on it, began his career at M40, before becoming has everyone agreeing with him. It’s true that then you do. Even though I hope it will be as far Arthur’s assistant on Fun Radio. He later in the immediate aftermath of the wave of off as possible, you know there will be other moved on to Skyrock, NRJ, Rire & Chansons attacks in the Paris region in 2015, while the attacks around the world." and Europe 2. He went on to present Fun news radio stations mobilised and did their Radio’s Morning Show, then Virgin Radio’s. job, the radio entertainment programme A CIVIC ROLE Bruno Guillon, 45, has presented "Bruno teams were faced with questions. Once the dans la radio" on Fun Radio every morning period of stunned shock was over : "We all have The presenter of the NRJ evening shows also since 2011. He joined NRJ in 1996 and was to mates who were affected, directly or indirectly feels that the hosts of music radio shows spend a decade there.