Énergie is a Canadian

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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

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and

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

CKMF-FM CKMF-FM (94.3 MHz) is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, owned and operated by Bell Media. The station airs a mainstream rock format and is the flagship station of the "Énergie" network, which operates acr ...

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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 Rouge FM is a network of French-language adult contemporary radio stations broadcasting throughout Quebec, Canada. Established in 1990 as RockDétente, they are owned by Bell Media. All "Rouge FM" stations broadcast in the same markets as Bell's ...

History

In December 1988, "Énergie" was created. In 2006,

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programmed a

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channel, branded as Énergie², for broadcast on

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and

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, 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

acquired the channel, dropped the

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artists and renamed it as Latitude Franco. On 6 July 2009,

and European

NRJ Group The NRJ Group (NRJ is an acronym read as ''énergie'' in French, pronounced ) () is a French multimedia group based in Paris. Its founders are Jean-Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini. Since its foundation in 1981 as a French pop music radio ...

announced a deal to rebrand the Énergie network as

NRJ NRJ (NRJ is an acronym read as Nouvelle Radio Jeune, or ''énergie'' in French, pronounced , literally "energy") is a private French radio station created by Jean-Paul Baudecroux and Max Guazzini in June 1981, and was widely popularized th ...

, 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 CIBK-FM (''98.5 Virgin Radio'') is a Top 40/CHR radio station based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Bell Media outlet operates at 98.5 FM with an effective radiated power of 100 kW from a transmitter located at the intersection of Old Ba ...

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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

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. 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-

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: Monte le son *

–2011: Méchante radio (primary) *

–2011: Des hits qui arrachent (secondary) *

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–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