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Au revoir to French radio in Sussex

5:05am Friday 6th April 2007

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A French radio station that developed a massive cult following in Sussex has been taken off the air after being raided by communications watchdogs.

Paris-based station Fip built up a massively dedicated and diverse range of listeners in Brighton through the last decade after a mystery male fan grew so smitten with it he set up his own antenna to broadcast the station for the city from his home in Hanover.

Listeners ranging from politicians to shopkeepers grew fond of the station's quirky range of music and lack of adverts or chat, which was broadcast on 98.5FM and 91FM.

Its popularity grew to such an extent that a special night was set up in homage and people began moving houses just so they could live in an area which could receive the broadcasts, resulting in a boom in property prices in certain areas.

But The Argus can reveal that following a complaint, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) raided the premises in Hanover and confiscated the transmitter, taking Fip off the airwaves in Sussex.

The mystery man behind Fip's broadcasts in Brighton, believed to be a former radio engineer, could now face prosecution although Ofcom last night refused to comment on the legal status of the case.

A spokesman said: "We raided the station but we cannot go into the reasons why we did that. They were known to us before the raid. We also seized equipment but again we cannot go into what was taken."

It is understood the raid took place because Ofcom wanted to investigate whether a breach of broadcasting regulations had taken place.

The move has sparked outrage and disappointment among the station's legion of fans in Brighton, many of whom have written to The Argus in an attempt to discover what had happened to the radio station.

Susan Bentley, from Compton Avenue, Brighton, said: "This station is sorely missed - it brought a fresh musical perspective to our city."

Jacquetta Benjamin, from St Michael's Place, Brighton, said: "I am a pensioner living on my own and Fip was one of my few comforts."

Brighton and Hove city councillor Bill Randall said: "I've been listening to Fip for around ten years now - it's one of the perks of living here."

Last night sources close to the man who set up the transmitter hoped that the radio station would be back on the air sooner rather than later.

They also claimed that talks were ongoing between the mystery transmitter and Ofcom to try to resolve the situation amicably.

The source said: "He's hoping all of this dies down very soon so he can get it back on the airwaves. It's hugely popular."

Fip can still be listened to through its internet site radiofrance.fr/chaines/fip/endirect.

What do you think? How will the loss of Fip affect you? Add your comments below.

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Reg Moores, says...
8:08am Fri 6 Apr 07

It was first class. A lot of so called "Radio Stations" could learn a lot from its, no "Blah Blah" good music from Arte I think? Hope it returms soon.

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CS, says...
8:54am Fri 6 Apr 07

Are you kidding me? Moving house because of a radio station? Boom in property prices? Is it the 1st of April today?

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NP, Hove says...
10:41am Fri 6 Apr 07

Maybe Ofcom should take note of the popularity of Fip and investigate some of the other radio stations around here and the way the run.
I will miss Fip, but hope to hear it back soon. I put my money on some of the other stations complaining because Fip was getting more listeners than them!

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Terry, Brighton says...
11:06am Fri 6 Apr 07

FIP has done what UK radio (nationally and locally) seems unable to - showed it is possible to mix musical genres and get away from ghettoising listeners into 'urban' v. pop v. oldie

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Terry, Brighton says...
11:07am Fri 6 Apr 07

FIP has done what UK radio (nationally and locally) seems unable to - showed it is possible to mix musical genres and get away from ghettoising listeners into 'urban' v. pop v. oldie

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DC, Hove says...
1:56pm Fri 6 Apr 07

We will miss it very much - the perfect 'driving to' or 'falling asleep to' radio station. We hope that it returns very soon.

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Steve, Seven Dials says...
4:41pm Fri 6 Apr 07

I love(d) FIP but only discovered it around a year ago.

How about a whip round to pay towards any costs the diamond geezer from Hanover gets lumbered with?

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Darren, Bournemouth says...
4:54pm Fri 6 Apr 07

FIP can be received in digital quality via the Astra satellite at 19.2E.

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iain smith, uk says...
4:56pm Fri 6 Apr 07

I'm sorry to have to admit that I may have been responsible for the station being taken off air as I did register a complaint to the licensing people not realising hoe popular the station was.I hope it wasnt raided because of what I saids though as I would never have wanted to deprive people of a much loved station.I'm sure this can be sorted out soon and th station back on air with a proper license.However as im sure you realise it is important that everyone plays fairly by the rules of the game and so they should have a proper license to broadcast.

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Stuart, says...
6:17pm Fri 6 Apr 07

There is always a prat who pokes there nose into things that are not their business and ruins the enjoyment of others.There are no rules to the game.Try getting a licence in this country is a joke so please don't quote that sort of nonsense.

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Gary, Brighton says...
6:44pm Fri 6 Apr 07

Stuart wrote:
There is always a prat who pokes there nose into things that are not their business and ruins the enjoyment of others.There are no rules to the game.Try getting a licence in this country is a joke so please don\'t quote that sort of nonsense.
I totally agree, it's very hard to get a license and usually requires a huge amount of money, if it was causing no harm to anyone, why interfere with the community's listening enjoyment?

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iain smith, uk says...
6:44pm Fri 6 Apr 07

There's no need to be personally abusive Stuart.I apologise to anyone who miss listening to this station but you can stil hear it on the internet so its not that bad is it?

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Liam, Brighton says...
9:43pm Fri 6 Apr 07

All pirate radio harms someone. A lot of people's livelihoods depend on licenced broadcasting. Want to hear a French radio station? Use the internet...

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MW, Brighton says...
1:38am Sat 7 Apr 07

Gary wrote:
Stuart wrote: There is always a prat who pokes there nose into things that are not their business and ruins the enjoyment of others.There are no rules to the game.Try getting a licence in this country is a joke so please don\'t quote that sort of nonsense.
I totally agree, it's very hard to get a license and usually requires a huge amount of money, if it was causing no harm to anyone, why interfere with the community's listening enjoyment?
Trying to get a licence these days is a piece of ****. But for some reason no one wants to get off their arse and get one - there was only ONE applicant for the Brighton Community Radio licence when it was advertised and so by default we now have to put up with the pretentious arty claptrap that's now being aired on 97.2FM.

Fip / Radio4a / anyone with an ounce of sense could have applied for this licence AND got a handout from Ofcom to help run it.

Iain, I think it's fair to say that it's not your fault that FIP has gone, and it's more to do with Ofcom clearing the airwaves for this new "community" station.

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Ian Hickling, Newbury says...
3:03pm Sat 7 Apr 07

There can be no question as to the legality of rebroadcasting another station's output.
The person in question did not have, and could not have been awarded a licence to do so under HM Government's regulations, so it was obviously contrary to the current legislation.

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Jay, Brighton says...
4:10pm Sat 7 Apr 07

There could be loads of FM stations. The addition of Reverb is great - at last somewhere you can actually hear local bands etc. But I still want FIP, I still want Radio 4A and there's nobody who should be stopping that. Nobody owns the air even if they say they do.

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Zoe, brighton says...
10:23pm Sat 7 Apr 07

I'm really disappointed FIP has been taken off the airways. I don't know why someone complained, but it wasn't doing anyone any harm and is enjoyed by thousands of people. I find it mean spirited. Hope it's back soon.

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Sam, Brighton says...
11:16am Sun 8 Apr 07

Ofcom did not have to look far to find that FiP was being broadcast in the Brighton area as there is a consultation document on their own website attributed to a J.Warmington which quite clearly states that, sorry Mr Smith to steal your thunder. Vive le FiP

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Ian, Brighton says...
12:02pm Sun 8 Apr 07

Curiously, although I live in Brighton, I had originally been listening to it online (I had been looking for something else on the Radio France website when I got a pleasant surprise). It was only when someone pointed out that it was available over the airwaves that I was able to listen to it in the bath, kitchen garden, taxis, shops etc. Ofcom, you have a lot to answer for: not for raiding the rebroadcasters, but for permitting British airwaves to be filled with mindless pap.

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Ian, Brighton says...
12:15pm Sun 8 Apr 07

Steve wrote:
I love(d) FIP but only discovered it around a year ago.

How about a whip round to pay towards any costs the diamond geezer from Hanover gets lumbered with?
Good idea. Maybe we could also contact whoever wrote an article about FIP (or Fip, or FiP, or fip) 2 or 3 years ago. I think it was in the Guardian, though possibly in the Independent. I can't seem to find it online. It was in the inner G2-type section, and was called something like "How Brighton fell in love with a French radio station." Can anyone else remember it?

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BRIDGET, says...
9:21pm Sun 8 Apr 07

fip is an established paris station, and it seems crazy that narrow minded quangos and jobs worths like mr smith spoil what thousands of people enjoy thanks to someone being community spirited enough to help us discover this great station. Happy to contribute to the costs of the poor guy who's got potentially prosecuted for this, presumably as a result of his ignorance of bureacracy.

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PR, netland says...
11:40am Mon 9 Apr 07

a sad sad loss, the best vibes on the fm dial in btn:(

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shiny bug, brighton says...
1:30pm Mon 9 Apr 07

All 'legitimate' radio stations have to cover their running costs and they have to jump through Ofcom's hoops. It's just a shame that they Don't meet our needs. We just want FIP. 98 minutes of music per hour and 2 mins of news please! Perhaps if Reverb used Fip for their output the community would be happy and their job would be done. And wouldn't it make great PR?!

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Jay J, sussex says...
2:32pm Mon 9 Apr 07

R.I.P F.I.P. Lets hope your be back soon. FIP is about the only station you can have on for more then an hour. lets hope you come back soon

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Kris M, Swansea says...
11:30am Tue 10 Apr 07

One of the nice things about trips to Brighton was having FIP playing - a quirky soundtrack for the area. The many years FIP has been on in Brighton - at least 10 years - made it seem immune from action in that more civilizsed Bohemian place. I did wonder if the arrival of community radio would spell the end for FIP in Brighton but perhaps the new station could take FIP as an over night sustaining service? The high technical quality of illegal relay was a credit to the operator, the use of two frequencies with RDS was perhaps an extravagance but the station was a joy. It is what BBC 6Music could have been but with a flavour of our cross-channel neighbours.
FIP is still available in high quality for a small outlay via satellite, not Sky's, but easy enough to install. Or connect one of the now legal FM gadgets to a computer tuned to the web stream and restore FIP to the airwaves of your own home at least.
A community radio group could apply to produce a similar format to FIP for local francophones, jazz and world music fans. FIP could even be carried at times but for the time being RIP FIP Brighton, let's hope for a resurrection by next Easter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1521557,00.html

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Kris M, Swansea says...
11:48am Tue 10 Apr 07

The best quality FIP internet stream is at:

http://viphttp.yacast.net/V4/radiofrance/fip_hd.m3u

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james bartley, brighton says...
4:04pm Tue 10 Apr 07

fip is possibly the most wonderful radio station around at the moment. if anything,it should be broadcast in more cities, not stolen from our airwaves. as i understand it, fip themselves were happy to be broadcast and even sent guest djs to the fip homage night mentioned in the article.as for our mystery pirate dj, i'd give the guy a grant so he could buy even more powerful equipment to bring this unique station to the masses.

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mg, brighton says...
7:11pm Tue 10 Apr 07

I have enjoyed fip for many years in the car, on my phone radio, on a beat old radio at work, on the internet and in many shops and businesses in brighton. As several people have said fip was one of the perks of living in brighton. It is very sad we cannot listen to it anymore, except in front of the computer. I would be happy to contribute to the mystery dj's funds if it help put right this narrow mindedness.

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marcello, elm grove says...
10:46pm Tue 10 Apr 07

get fib back now, it felt like i was living in a real continental city.

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Outlaw, London & Brighton says...
12:49am Wed 11 Apr 07

Liam , You dont no what your talking about!

I think you need to move back to surrey!

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Tatiana, Btn says...
10:36am Wed 11 Apr 07

I am missing FiP. There is a big hole where once it was. I've looked up and down the dial, in the car, the various radios and found it ...all zipped up against the cold on the internet --but as someone said.....where's the fun in that? FiP transformed Brighton for me -- a great town but something so much more with FiP's continental flavour. It spoke to what Brightonians are most proud of --this city wears its open mindedness on its sleeve --its a melting pot. From it, there is so much cultural richness. I used to think it iconographic that we as a city loved and valued so actively this radio station--this link to our continental neighbours....with its "something for everyone" playlist --airing the bee gees next to Salif Keita next to Rachmaninoff. I find it doubly sad that, at a time when we most need to encourage neighbourliness and appreciate the history and culture of other places, possibly our most accessible source of this has vanished.

I am wondering who to write to -- I hope other lovers of FiP will also write and that the quiet strength of FiP will be voiced in the reaction to this silence on the air.

If FiP doesn't come back...... I will have to tell my cousin to strike his thought to move to Brighton from his current home in Australia -- having heard (and fallen in love with) FiP whilst driving around our city visiting us.


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Kris M, Swansea says...
2:06pm Wed 11 Apr 07

Is there anyone from Vive la Fip who can comment please? Brighton can't be exempt from the (radio) laws of the land but there must be a way to work around this. A community radio station taking mainly FIP would need at least two sources of funding and a defined community of interest. Are there any other stumbling blocks? Not so difficult is it? You want it, you make it happen.

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Rex, Brighton says...
8:26pm Wed 11 Apr 07

So sadly the FIP relay has disappeared. Shouldn't we be asking why the BBC couldn't have provided the same style of station that FIP is? It is the sort of programing that the BBC is eminently placed to provide. A commercial free, mixed eclectic music station funded by the license fee. But no, since the demise of offshore Pirate Radio the BBC has been obsessed with competing with the monoculture that commercial radio is. Thank goodness for the internet and well done to the mystery person in Hanover who brought us FIP on our radios for so long.

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simon wilson, Uckfield says...
4:07pm Thu 12 Apr 07

I became aware of FIP many years ago initially on medium wave where it can still be heard throughout Sussex on 585 khz.

I loved it so much that I invested in the necessary satellite equipment to hear it in full digital quality at home rather than put up with all the other so called (less interesting and varied) music stations with all their adverts and talking in many cases.

When driving into Brighton I used to enjoy listening to it on the FM frequencies and it is a shame these have now gone. I hope someone does have the initiative and ability to get this going again.

But in the meantime all is not lost for quality car hearing since it is possible to invest in a CD recorder and record its output onto an 80 minute audio CD either from the Internet or in my case the digital satellite signal. This I did to get round the listening quality problems in my and other areas. I have built up a library of 20 rerecordable CDs which allow me to listen to FIP as much as I like and still enjoy the total spontaneity and variety of its output.In case anyone is worried now though about what I am doing I would emphasise that I don't keep these CDs to build up a music library (although of course one could). Once I've heard one once I just rerecord over it.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if one of the BBC digital stations could be given over to a music service like FIPs!

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Mark Dezzani, Seborga, Italy says...
5:29pm Thu 12 Apr 07

Sorry to hear that FIP Brighton has been rumbled. I have family in Brighton and used to enjoy hearing it on FM radio on my frequent visits. I used to be able to hear it from just over the border in France in the Italian village that I live in, but alas Radio France took it off its Cote d'Azur FM frequencies some years ago, so it is Internet or Astra satellite for me too. FIP Brighton must have been one of the most successful landbased 'pirates' ever, lets hope that there is some way it can return legally or can return and that the authorities can turn a blind eye for another 10 years.

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Nick, Shoreham says...
7:32pm Thu 12 Apr 07

simon wilson wrote:
I became aware of FIP many years ago initially on medium wave where it can still be heard throughout Sussex on 585 khz. I loved it so much that I invested in the necessary satellite equipment to hear it in full digital quality at home rather than put up with all the other so called (less interesting and varied) music stations with all their adverts and talking in many cases. When driving into Brighton I used to enjoy listening to it on the FM frequencies and it is a shame these have now gone. I hope someone does have the initiative and ability to get this going again. But in the meantime all is not lost for quality car hearing since it is possible to invest in a CD recorder and record its output onto an 80 minute audio CD either from the Internet or in my case the digital satellite signal. This I did to get round the listening quality problems in my and other areas. I have built up a library of 20 rerecordable CDs which allow me to listen to FIP as much as I like and still enjoy the total spontaneity and variety of its output.In case anyone is worried now though about what I am doing I would emphasise that I don't keep these CDs to build up a music library (although of course one could). Once I've heard one once I just rerecord over it. Wouldn't it be wonderful if one of the BBC digital stations could be given over to a music service like FIPs!
Fantastic, I didn't realise it was on AM as well.

As for the CD collection, I'm slowly doing that now, for when I'm in the car. At home I'm listening via the 'net.


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Manksman, says...
9:11pm Fri 13 Apr 07

FIP is available with a wifi radio for those who have broardband but don't want to be tied to the PC for listening. FIP is very popular on www.reciva.com

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Tim Small, Hove says...
4:07pm Sat 14 Apr 07

Why not tell Ofcom that you'd like them to go easy on the rebroadcaster?

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/contactus/

FIP is available in high quality via three different satellites in Brighton for free.

It looks like the Hotbird, and Atlantic Bird transmissions could be got with a Sky Minidish, if it is pointed in the right direction...

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Tim Small, Hove says...
4:08pm Sat 14 Apr 07

Oops. Fip via Satellite:

http://www.lyngsat-address.com/df/FIP.html

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Dave Vive la Fip, Lewes says...
12:17am Sun 15 Apr 07

Dear All, Your comments , kind and insightful, have all been greatly appreciated and inwardly digested by those who should most be seeing them. At the moment, nothing can be promised, but who knows what the future will bring. meantime, pop along to Vive La Fip on the 26th April at The hope in Queens Road and show your support. It's free, but we are collecting money and personal statements of support for any legal/practical costs that may need to be met... All the best, Dave La Fip

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James, Brighton says...
8:12pm Sun 15 Apr 07

FIP enhanced our cosmopolitan city with an inspirational class of music. It truly appealed to a wide range of people. FIP's bohemian variety gave its Brightonian audience music of the world which English stations just do not provide. I am sick of wise-cracking, rambling DJ’s, their boring jokes and annoying adverts – is it so difficult to just play good music? Where is Brighton’s radio culture heading?
WE WANT FIP BACK!

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fran sandham, Brighton says...
2:54pm Mon 16 Apr 07

Fip is a fantastic station, sorely missed. Good luck to the the guy who set up the transmitter in Brighton, and I really hope the authorities see sense on this issue.

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jon, brighton says...
4:44pm Mon 16 Apr 07

Its simple. The laws are wrong. We break the laws to get them changed as has always been the way.Ive got an Fm transmitter on order. If you liked FIP do the same. The government is there to serve us , lets not forget that! I uppose this will be to controversial for the Argus to Show.

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Chris James, Edmonton says...
8:54am Wed 18 Apr 07

Bring Back FIP! It is`SO Brighton. I'm moving here from London and this jazzy, funky, folky, punky, classical station is one of the reasons! Who benefits in taking this great station away?

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andrew, seven dials says...
4:50pm Thu 19 Apr 07

I've been listening to FIP for the past 6 years. It's one of the things that has made brighton seem like a european city, and not a commuter dormitory. Very sad they've decided to take it off air. Brighton won't be the same!

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Ann, Fiveways says...
6:59pm Thu 19 Apr 07

Oh how we miss FIP. My husband is away from Brighton during the week, and used to tune in around Shoreham on his way back from Southampton. A couple of weeks ago I got a distress call from him asking where it was. I do hope it will be back - a small taste of the France I have loved for so long.

Ann

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Helen, Toronto Terrace says...
1:12pm Fri 20 Apr 07

The fabulous FIP is sorely missed in my household. We search up and down the airwaves in vain for a station with eclectic, quirky tastes, discreet DJs with sexy french accents and a total absence of commercials. Silence will reign until FIP returns. Nothing compares to you.

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Peter, Lewes says...
1:17pm Fri 20 Apr 07

Does anyone know what power the FM relay was running ?

I would be willing to put FIP back on ... perhaps those who know can advise the power they were previously using and suggest a Tx site.

Did the signal cover all the city ?

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Campbell, Brighton says...
2:40pm Mon 23 Apr 07

For weeks I have been trying to find FIP thinking that Radio 1 had just boosted their signal or FIP reducing theirs, I am gutted that we can't get it on normal radio now it is much better than anything we have here.

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Merlin Meyer, Brightpn says...
10:07pm Mon 23 Apr 07

Loved it, bring it back.

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Rob, Brading Rd, brighton says...
11:14am Wed 25 Apr 07

Come Back FIP!!! I only just found out what I was listening to. I thought I'd found my own secret radio station.

LET MY FIP GO!!!

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Brian, Cambridge says...
1:40am today Fri 27 Apr 07

Perhaps the only good thing thing to come out of the self-righteous act that caused Fip's downfall in Brighton is that the news coverage has made the whole country aware of it's existance and I, for one, am now enjoying a really good station over the internet rather than suffering mindless drivel via our so-called "radio entertainment"! So spread the word everyone, meantime, I hope that Brighton finds a way to resume it's long-enjoyed listening pleasure over analogue.

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Rich, Southampton says...
6:35pm Sun 29 Apr 07

Can anyone pick this up on the south coast from France? Maybe they could increase the power from a north-coast transmitter for their English fans.

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krisM, Swansea says...
10:01am Mon 30 Apr 07

How did the Vive la FIP night go? Any news?

Both Astra and HotBird satellite of feeds were off Sunday night 29 Apr. Had to move to 5° West Atlantic Bird. Are the other feeds back?

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Jolly Roger, North Sea says...
2:21pm Fri 11 May 07

Yeah yeah..ALL pirate radio is such a menace. We couldn't have it in the 60's cos there were no frequencies. What a bloody lie that was Mr Benn. Wake up everybody!..what next will it interfere with next, Scotty's Transporter? Absolute claptrap. Radio in Britain is the domain of greedy fatcats who play classic hit drivel all day. OFCOM and the RA before it have much to answer for. The airwaves are a mess and need a vital injection of fresh ideas. Well done the so called 'mystery' engineer. Best, Ross R.

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Aust, Brighton says...
6:05pm Mon 4 Jun 07

I was aware of this station a while back although the name remained a mystery to me, listening on journeys etc. Just read the article above and have since chooned in over the net. Very diverse and relaxing, I can see why people choose it over other stations broadcasting the same over and over and crammed with adverts, and I'd agree that it would b nice to continue listening away from a computer and hope to hear it on the air again soon!

Cheers to Kris M for the link - http://viphttp.yacas


t.net/V4/radiofrance


/fip_hd.m3u

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Vic Smith, Brighton says...
11:57pm Wed 6 Jun 07

How is it that this station existed for many years without ofalcom taking any action?There are loads of Pirates in the area that are always targetted tme and time again why FIP now?

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Bob, Brighton says...
6:47am Thu 28 Jun 07

Keep checking the dial, i hear it might come back.

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Steve, NZ says...
2:11am Wed 29 Aug 07

Is it back on air yet? If it's not back when I return to Brighton in a few months time, tempted to set up a repeater myself! Always thought it came en-direct from Paris via freak 'atmospherics', stunned to hear it was via repeater all along; huge,huge thank you to the team that relayed it; you brought immense listening pleasure to me for 4 years (I was hooked at first listen) and what a perfect 'soundtrack' to Brighton life! Interweb steaming is great but may those broadcast ethereal 'atmospherics' be returned.

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Miles French, says...
1:32pm Tue 4 Sep 07

When I left France for Brighton 10 years ago I thought about throwing away my radio, until I discovered I could still get FIP. Should I give up and throw it away now?

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Lesley Anne Brown, Hollingdean Brighton says...
4:08pm Tue 13 Nov 07

Ian wrote:
Steve wrote: I love(d) FIP but only discovered it around a year ago. How about a whip round to pay towards any costs the diamond geezer from Hanover gets lumbered with?
Good idea. Maybe we could also contact whoever wrote an article about FIP (or Fip, or FiP, or fip) 2 or 3 years ago. I think it was in the Guardian, though possibly in the Independent. I can't seem to find it online. It was in the inner G2-type section, and was called something like "How Brighton fell in love with a French radio station." Can anyone else remember it?
Hi Ian,
Yes, I remember the article. It was in the locally-published 'Insight'. I endorse everything Fip's many local fans have said. I'm listening to Fip right now on my radio, so it's back, clearer than ever Does anyone know the current situation - has there been some sort of agreement with Ofcom?

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