Re: CHAT: Names of radiostations (was: Re: The young Tolkien)

En réponse à Daniel Andreasson <daniel_noldo@...>:

>
> Lars Henrik Mathiesen:
>
> >It took me a while to find out that NRJ is supposed to stand for
> >energy. I'm guessing that it started in Sweden, where the name of <j>
> is
> >/j\i/ (or something like that). <NRJ> = /enER"j\i/ =
> ><energi>.
>
> Actually, that's a French station, so <j> should be
> pronounced [Z]. In Sweden we say "energy". I guess
> that makes a lot of Swedish teens think that English
> <j> is pronounced [dZi]. The way we pronounce it, it
> should be named "NRG". Or, of course, teach people that
> it's a French station.
>
I was about to answer that when I thought that it would be strange for a French
station to be received in Scandinavia. But since it seems so... (well, then you
could have got something better than that one, NRJ is so awful I never listen to
it). In French, the pronunciation of the three letters match very well the
French word "énergie", but to sound "in", the speakers usually call it "energy"
(the English word, but with a strong French accent). And it's not the most
ridiculous part of this station...

> of the Swedish national radiostation SR, and not been
> able to find any info on callsigns whatsoever.
>
I've never heard of callsigns for French stations either. I didn't even know
such thing existed.

> Oh, and in Stockholm we have a bunch of radiostations
> and none of them are called either the call sign or
> the frequency. Off the top of my head we have SR P1,
> SR P2, SR P3, SR P4, NRJ/Energy, Power Hit Radio,
> Mix Megapol, Lugna Favoriter ("Slow Favourites"),
> Vinyl 107 (actually, that one's on 107.1), WOW!,
> Easy, Radio City and Radio Stockholm, plus a load of local
> stations, which are called Radio + the area in which it's
> broadcast (like Radio Botkyrka and Radio Nacka).
>
I won't list all the radios you can find in France (with all the local radios, I
just couldn't), but what I know is that none of them is called after something
like a callsign, while a few are called after the frequency. But most of them
simply have a name, like TV channels.

> I only listen to P3.
>
The only P3 I ever heard of is the discotheque of the Haliwell sisters :)))
(sorry, watching too much Charmed :) ).

Christophe.

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