Énergie is a Canadian

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of French-language mainstream rock outlets broadcasting throughout the province of

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and portions of eastern

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, in Eastern

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. They offer a personality-driven mix of

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and anglophone

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and

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songs, catering to a young adult audience. Although the flagship station is CKMF-FM

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, the 10 stations in the network usually have their own talent and format for each of their own markets. They are owned by

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. Most "Énergie" stations broadcast in the same markets as Bell's

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network Rouge FM.

History

In December 1988, "Énergie" was created. In 2006, Astral Media programmed a

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channel, branded as Énergie², for broadcast on Sirius Canada and Sirius Satellite Radio, on channel 89. This channel offered essentially the same format as the terrestrial network, and was hosted by Richard Fortin and Nicolas Wilson. However, the Énergie brand was entirely discarded in September

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, as Sirius Canada acquired the channel, dropped the English artists and renamed it as Latitude Franco. On 6 July 2009, Astral Media and European NRJ Group announced a deal to rebrand the Énergie network as NRJ, effective 24 August. (The French pronunciations of "NRJ" and "énergie" are nearly identical.) Astral retained full ownership of the stations. For the network, the Astral Media IDs usually used Astral's rock jingles from rock stations rather than Astral's jingle packages used on the CHR stations such as CIBK-FM in

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or CHSU-FM in

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. On 17 August 2015, the network announced that it would rebrand itself back as Énergie, starting on 24 August.NRJ devient Énergie
''Infopresse'', 17 August 2015.

Identity

Logos

File:Energie2 logo.png, Old Énergie² logo from 2006 until 2010. Before available on Sirius. File:Energie radio logo.svg, Previous logo of énergie from 2001 until 2009. File:NRJ (Québec).jpg, Previous logo of NRJ from 2009 until 2010.

Slogans

*Pre-

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

: Monte le son *

–2011: Méchante radio (primary) *

–2011: Des hits qui arrachent (secondary) *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

–2012: La radio des hits * 2012–2015 : La radio de tous les hits * 2015–2017 : Toujours en tête * 2017–present : Les + gros hits

Stations

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Energie Bell Media Radio stations in Quebec Contemporary hit radio stations in Canada Radio formats Canadian radio networks French-language radio in Canada