RD (French radio station)

RD is a French privately owned radio station. Owned and operated by Groupe Radio Atlantique, it is one of the leading music stations in.

History
RD began in 1954 as Radio Danemark, the French-language radio service of the Danish public broadcaster. It was one of the earliest commercial radio stations broadcasting to France, transmitting from abroad as a "peripheral" network to circumvent the prohibition of commercial broadcasting in France after the Second World War. The station broadcast on longwave frequency 207 AM from the. Many programs were live presentations by the team of presenters at the studios in, while others were pre-recorded at the station's studios in the.

In 1987, Danmarks Radio sold the French service to Italian company, who moved the renamed RD to the French FM band.