[h5]Home - Radio Ici & Maintenant[/h5] Here and Now is a pioneer of free French radio. It broadcast for the first time on June 21, 1980 at 10 p.m., from an apartment in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Pirate radio at the time, it was seized twice before the famous release of the airwaves in 1982, when it could legally broadcast. From this time, the radio practiced the "free antennas", that is to say that it offered its listeners the possibility of telephoning and passing the message of their choice to the antenna, including the FM transmitter is directly connected to an answering machine. A host is there to ensure a certain moderation and to avoid slippages, even if the radio adopts at the end of 1980 an even more radical form of freedom, removing the host from the equation. This disturbing approach at the time will be worth to Here and Now a non-renewal of its license to transmit, which will lead its founders Didier de Plaige and Guy Skornik to start 2 hunger strikes. In the 1990s, listeners would join radio staff squarely in a 40-day hunger strike outside CSA headquarters. The radio was finally authorized to broadcast again in May 2001. Since 1997, it had already been broadcasting worldwide thanks to the Internet, a technology then still in its infancy. Since 2014, it has been broadcasting on FM 24 hours a day, in the Ile-de-France region. [hr] [h5]Categories[/h5][size 16]Ethnic, Local[/size][h5]Social Media[/h5][link http://icietmaintenant.com/][img]https://onair.click/theme/icon/btn-website.png[/img][/link][link https://twitter.com/RIM952][img]https://onair.click/theme/icon/btn-twitter.png[/img][/link][link https://fr-fr.facebook.com/RadioIciMaintenant][img]https://onair.click/theme/icon/btn-facebook.png[/img][/link]