Pierre Christian Bellanger (; born 14 December 1958) is a French businessman who is founder and CEO of radio station
Skyrock, and founder of
Skyrock.com (French-language social network).
Biography
Bellanger created Skyrock in 1985 as a national FM station in France. Today, it ranks as the country's most popular radio station among 13- to 24-year-olds, with four million listeners each day.
As a biology student in late 1970s Paris, Bellanger participated in the
free radio movement that helped to topple the state's monopoly on broadcasting. Since then, as an entrepreneur in media and Internet, he has created a TV station, several radio stations, as well as numerous cable and satellite services. His interactive experience began in the mid-1980s with the
Minitel
The Minitel, officially known as TELETEL, was an interactive videotex online service accessible through telephone lines. It was the world's first and most successful mass-market online service prior to the World Wide Web. It was developed in Ces ...
and phone services. His first Internet company was created in 1994 as a joint venture with France Telecom.
Bellanger is the author of two books: ''The Future of Radio'' (1992) and ''La convergence, c'est le code''
(2003). In 2006, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication named him to the Counsel for Strategic Analysis of Cultural and Communications Industries.
In 2004, Bellanger helped to spearhead the French government's introduction of the Dispositif Alerte-Enlèvement, modeled on the North American
AMBER Alert systems.
Bibliography
* Pierre Bellanger : ''La radio du futur : Les sept défis de la radio commerciale en France'',
Armand Colin
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, (1992)
* Pierre Bellanger : ''Ils ont pensé le futur : web social, marketing, e-commerce...'', KAWA
* Pierre Bellanger :
La Souveraineté numérique', Éditions Stock
References
External links
Pierre Bellanger on Social Networks
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1958 births
French businesspeople
French people of Polish descent
French people of Hungarian descent
Living people