France (history of Pirate Radio)
In 1955, in order to circumvent the prohibition of commercial broadcasting that had been imposed in France after the Second World War, the French-language Europe 1 station was first established in the Saarland, a German state that borders France and Luxembourg. Transmissions were not legally authorised, however, until France's post-war administration of the Saarland ceased and sovereignty was returned to West Germany in 1957; so, during its first two years of operation (1955–1957), under the direction of Louis Merlin, who had defected from Radio Luxembourg, Europe n° 1 was a pirate radio station.
In France, a truly strong pirate radio movement emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in two waves.
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