Media Châteaux de la Loire

Since 2006, the PROG! diary has listed all the events in Touraine (exhibitions, culture, young audiences, sports) and their practical information. It's the ideal tool for making sure you don't miss a single opportunity! Every month, the magazine is distributed free of charge throughout the department. There's also a digital version, and since 2022, PROG! has had a website with an optimized search engine that lets you find current events in just a few clicks. There are also interviews and other features to help you find out more about our local artists!

Since 2006, TV Tours has become a benchmark in local news. With a strong local presence, the channel relies on young, dynamic teams, in addition to the solid structure of the Nouvelle République group to which it belongs. With an overall audience of 238,600 viewers, TV Tours has found its target. A key appointment is "Local génial", a culture and society program broadcast Monday to Friday at 6pm. And you won't want to miss the news several times a day, the game show "Qui veut gagner des rillons?", or the weekend diary!

RTL 2 is THE pop-rock radio station, but not only! This national radio station, with its local offshoot in Touraine, offers a fine musical program that will appeal to music lovers past and present. On the local side, there's local news, with weather and traffic updates between 6:30 and 9 a.m., then at midday with journalist Laurine Guilhen. Host Sébastien Renaud presents his musical discoveries between 12 and 4pm every day of the week. Add to this national programs for the rest of the day.

TMV is a free weekly magazine distributed all over the city. It brings you the local news in a dynamic and fun way. Each week, you'll find a feature story, a portrait, local, national and international news, and a cultural agenda so you don't miss out on anything going on in the city... With a lively and alert tone, often tinged with humor, the weekly magazine, which has already published more than 400 issues, keeps you informed so that you can live in Tours at the right pace. And among our favorite pages, there is of course the TMV horoscope, as offbeat as possible and always funny. The magazine in PDF and the articles are available on the website, in case you didn't find the newspaper in your favorite shops.

The Info Tours website is local information in a nutshell: fast, clear and efficient! You can read the news of Tours and its surroundings in various themes. Culture, news, world news, local politics, sports, employment: there is everything, in the form of articles that are often brief and factual, or sometimes with a slightly offbeat tone, depending on the subject and the writer. The Info Tours Facebook page relays most of the site's publications, which allows the most connected to follow the news closely. Since its association with the webzine 37 degrés in 2017, InfoTours continues on the same line: a day-to-day news and without fuss, closer to the daily life of Tourangeaux.

La NR, or Nounou to its friends, is one of the major titles in the PQR, with an average circulation exceeding 135,000 copies in 2022, according to figures from the Observatoire de la Presse. From its headquarters in Tours, it covers two regions (Centre and Poitou-Charentes) and five départements (Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Indre, Vienne and Deux-Sèvres). Every month, more than 4.5 million Internet users follow the news from their region via the constantly evolving website and mobile applications that make NR accessible everywhere.

From Orleans to New Orleans and from the Loire to the Mississippi: "a return to the roots to settle in peace". Behind this proverb, a mission for the web-radio created by Bernard Bouret, former director of RCF Loiret, passionate about jazz: to make people happy with it, on a grid that is enriched with thematic programs, in public, and new chronicles every year. A real musical nugget for the city, listened to throughout the French-speaking world.

Fun Radio is a radio radio channel in the French private dancefloor format held by RTL group. Created in 1985 and after having seen some famous animators such as Dj Didier Sinclair, Jean-Luc Reichmann, Julien Courbet or Bernard Montiel, Fun Radio is now focused on dance-floor. After Manu, the most famous of his facilitators in 2011, the 6/9 tranche was taken up by Bruno Guillon, Florian Gazan and Christina Guilloton. The following year, in 2012, the radio joined Hired FM, an important Spanish network, to launch Hired Fun Radio on the other side of the Pyrenees. Similarly, a new website funradio. fr was launched in early November 2012, with the promise to be «more readable, richer and 100% social». Finally, on the regions, every day Aurélien is live from Nantes on Fun Radio Atlantic from 12 am to 16 pm.

Virgin Radio is a private French radio radio. His former name was Europe 2. Virgin Radio was launched on January 1, 2008. Radio broadcasts in real time singles and songs from the best known artists during Peak Hours. It also provides flash news for a news reminder in 5 minutes. Virgin Radio has its regional branch in Angers, and disseminates local information every morning between and, local weather in the morning, and regional programming with the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire antenna in the afternoon. A radio faithful to the rock spirit, which is not avare with tubes all day long.

This French private radio was created on March 21, 1986 in Paris by Pierre Bellanger, associated with Frank Ténot and Daniel Filipacchi. She succeeds the station La Voix du Lizard born in 1983. Radio quickly became the favourite radio of adolescents. Skyrock has a lot of rap, r'n'b and has more than 200 frequencies to date on French territory. Skyrock created an application for iPhone and for Androïd in 2010, and is the only radio in France to target listeners by carrying out regional drop-outs for the diffusion of ads. A very strong audience, despite the critics who do not support the radio making more and more detours towards electro-pop…

With several million listeners every day, NRJ is one of France's leading music radio stations. Present throughout the world, the NRJ group (NRJ, Rires et chansons, Chérie FM and Nostalgie) has also established itself locally. In Tours, it's Flo who's at the microphone, every day from 11am to 3pm live, and for the news it's Kevin who flashes all morning during the 6-9 of Manu! And all day long, of course, NRJ remains faithful to the tradition : it's Hit Music Only! By staying tuned and following the news on the Facebook page, you can also win tickets to concerts and shows to follow the great artists on tour.

From dawn, news and good humor are local with France Bleu Touraine, and televised on France 3 since September 2021. On the air and on its Facebook page, the radio station keeps us informed all day long of the political, economic or cultural news of Touraine. In connection with its listeners, the radio allows them to interact to make announcements, win gifts or question guests at 02 47 38 10 20. Hosts, journalists and technicians are on deck from morning to night to keep us informed and entertained!

To find out what's happening in the Centre Region, there's nothing like the news programme of the public channel France 3 Centre-Val de Loire. Several programs are also produced in the region (reports, interviews, documentaries, magazines...). The newscasts are also available in replay on the channel's website, as are other local programmes. Since September 2021 you can also watch the France Bleu Touraine radio morning show live. The public service thus promises you the news at your fingertips and close to home!

Director of publication: Philippe Roussy.

Editorial Director: Frédéric Bris.

The Touraine éco quarterly is the magazine of the Touraine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In its pages, it highlights local economic news through portraits of local companies as well as the actions of the ICC. Produced by professional journalists, we can count on the quality of the information and texts offered, which sometimes reveal issues of interest to professionals in the sector, but also to the general public. The publication is available free of charge (also online on the ICC website: www.touraine.cci.fr).

Tours Métropole le Mag is the institutional magazine distributed by Tours Métropole (since 2018). The principle remains the same as for its predecessor Tours Plus le Mag: a magazine written by a team of journalists and communicators, with a clear and direct tone, to highlight the actions of the Metropolis and inform the inhabitants. Reports, portraits, and graphics make it possible to tackle sometimes technical subjects in a varied way. It also includes practical news (calendar of events, works...). Published three times a year, it is complemented by the Tours Loire Valley magazines, which focus more on tourism and economic attractiveness.

It arrives in your mailbox, and since January 2022, the bi-monthly becomes monthly: Tours Magazine is the free magazine of the City of Tours. In a new 32-page format, the municipal team of Emmanuel Denis wants to give a voice to the residents of Tours and to participatory democracy. The magazine features a variety of articles on the life of the neighborhoods, works, cultural activities, portraits, reports and computer graphics to keep you informed about the city's news. And for those who prefer to browse the web, the magazine is available in PDF, and also offers on its website enriched content, in addition to the published articles.

Since 2023, Europe 2 has returned to its original name, after almost 15 years as Virgin Radio. This national radio station, one of the most popular in the region, has a regional offshoot covering Tours (96.1), Châteauroux (96.6), Châtellerault (96.2) and Bourges (99.6). The day gets off to a good start thanks to the sense of humor of the morning hosts. Then, local news, games and hits punctuate the day. The website lets you catch up on news you might have missed live. The radio philosophy: pop, rock, electro.

RCF, for Radio Chrétienne Francophone. 64 local radio stations, and Tours has its own. On the program: news, faith, but also more general information and programs on local culture and daily life. In the studio, hosts welcome guests from a wide variety of backgrounds in a friendly atmosphere. Employees and volunteers take turns at the microphone all week long, and offer their programs as podcasts on the radio's website. Smart show: Ce soir on improvise, live local cultural news every Friday.

Worthy heir to the free radio stations of the 1980s, of which it was a part, Radio Béton has kept the rebellious spirit that motivated its appearance in 1984. Almost forty years later, the hosts of all ages bring their energy and their passions to the microphone. The mix of generations and tastes gives an eclectic program, sometimes very sharp. Rock, punk, reggae, electro: all musical styles have their place. And with programs like "Des O et débats", "Bande d'annonces", or "Demain le grand soir", the radio explores comics, movies or politics, and much more. And the big Béton event is of course the unmissable Aucard festival in Tours!

Launched in December 1982 under the name of Radio Décibels, Radio Vag FM is the oldest associative antenna in the Orleans area. Located in Artenay, the grid offers a wide range of musical programs, from rock to jazz, enriched with cultural programs covering history, journalistic investigations, news of the 7th art, sports... From now on, the radio is available online and can be heard on FM at 90.2.