NRJ 12 is a French private public-state general-interest television channel belonging to the

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 ...

, created on 31 March 2005 on DTT. The channel is available on DTT, cable,

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and ADSL.

History of the channel

Originally called NRJ TV, this television channel project had been on the NRJ Group's agenda for a very long time. The group did not despair of returning to

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following the failure of its first trial in 1986 when it joined forces with

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, the advertising agency Gilbert Gross, and Gaumont to create the music channel TV6 on the sixth analogue terrestrial network, which appeared in February 1986 and disappeared on Saturday 28 February 1987 at midnight after Jacques Chirac's government cancelled the concession contract signed between the State and the channel for M6. Finally, Jean-Paul Baudecroux (Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NRJ Group) and Marc Pallain (Chairman of NRJ 12) inaugurated NRJ 12 on 31 March 2005 at 7pm with the arrival of DTT in French households. The launch of this new channel, godchild of NRJ radio, which has existed since 1981, allowed Jean-Paul Beaudecroux to say that NRJ is taking "a revenge on time, a return to the future...". In its beginnings, in 2005, the channel broadcast many music-related shows (''La tête dans le clip, Hit NRJ 12, Hit Music Only, Dedicated Hit, Tout pour la musique'', etc.), series (''Couleur Pacifique'', '' Weird Science'', ''

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'', '' Time of Your Life'', ''Susan'', etc.) and anime ('' Gunslinger Girl'', '' Blue Gender''). From 2007, the channel retired anime and music programs in favor of magazine shows (''e.g. Tellement vrai, Tellement People, Tellement Chic'') and reality television (e.g. ''Les Anges, L'Île des vérités, Allô Nabilla, Friends Trip, Star Academy''). In 2015, NRJ 12 set out to become a more generalist channel. The channel cut much of its former

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and

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programming. Hosts like

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, Clara Morgane and Cauet were dismissed. New presenters like Benjamin Castaldi, Karima Charni and

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were introduced. At the end of 2015, NRJ 12's programme director was fired after failing to set up the new programmes: ''Talk Club, Unique au Monde, L'Académie des 9, Le Labo de Damidot, Face à France and Mission Plus-value''.

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took control and reinstated former successes like ''Les Anges,

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'' and ''Le Mad Mag''. Kévin Boucher,
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', on '' PureMédias'', 27

Former logos

File:NRJ12logo.png, Logo from 31 March 2005 to 1 September 2007 File:NRJ12 logo.png, Logo from 1 September 2007 to 31 August 2015

References

External links

NRJ 12's official website
{{French television stations Television stations in France Television channels and stations established in 2005 2005 establishments in France French-language television stations