Radio

You can receive the BBC World Service on short wave, while the main BBC stations and other English-language radio can be received via many satellite TV installations. Click here for West and South West Europe's frequency chart, or here for the listing of frequencies - note that all times given are GMT, so you must add an hour during winter and two hours during summer for local time (CET).

Voice of America is also available on short wave, with NewsNow. 

• For a frequency and programme guide: Click here

Radio in the French Alps

• Radio 74 opened 1982 and at the time was the only (and first) English-language radio station broadcasting in France. It operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is essentially a bilingual English-French educational radio station, oriented towards news and serious topics.
  • Radio 74 website 
  • For Radio 74 frequencies: Click here 
• Campus Grenoble: English language broadcast for news and chat on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings.
  • Campus Grenoble website (in French) 
• Radio Courchevel: News, weather and skiing information in English during the ski season. On 93.2.
• Radio France / SANEF: Traffic reports are broadcast in English throughout the day. On 107.7 FM
• Radio Tignes: During the ski season international news, weather forecasts and ski information are forecast in English. Tune into 98.9.
• Radio Meribel: During the winter season, R'Meribel presents news, weather reports and ski information in English. 98.9 at Meribel and 97.9 in Moûtiers

Radio on the Internet

Increasingly, radio stations are "streaming" their broadcasts on the Internet. You typically need RealPlayer (Real Player Basic, the free version, is rather hidden away on the real.com page, but it does exist) although sometimes a feed is available in Windows Media format, compatible with the players that have shipped with recent versions of Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer. 

Expats Radio: English language Internet radio focusing on topics concerned with living abroad, including administrative and legal issues.

• For a fairly comprehensive list of the many stations who provide this service, click here.

Alternatively, select one of the stations below for (relatively) instant access to live radio!

• The BBC World Service (RealPlayer) (Windows Media)
• Voice of America
• CNN
• BBC Radio 1  
• BBC Radio 2  
• BBC Radio 3  
• BBC Radio 4  
• BBC Radio 5  

Television

Canal Satellite and TPS are the two main (digital) satellite providers in France. Both have many channels, with a reasonable number of English-language programmes available on the French-language channels - including feature films, comedy, TV dramas, and documentaries - together with some English news feeds (from sources such as CNN, BBC World, Sky News and CNBC). TV series and films are frequently show in digital VM version multilangue which allows you to receive the programme in English if that is the original language.

Alternatively, it is possible to access UK-based free-to-air (FTA) programming on the same satellite that broadcasts Sky Digital. Please note, however, that there is no legal way to access encrypted programming on that satellite while in France (such as Sky Digital's premium channels accessible only through a Sky subscription package, or those channels that may only be watched in the UK using a satellite receiver with a free-to-view - FTV - card installed).

For a good (if not entirely comprehensive) list of what's on TV across Europe, check out this site.

Print

The International Herald Tribune, edited in Paris, is the only English-language daily newspaper to hit the area reliably on its day of publication.

Other newspapers are available at many newsstands, usually on the day following publication.

International News Links

AngloINFO delivers an extensive English-language news service, drawn from sources around the world.

• Visit the AngloINFO Newsroom!

Also you can often read your favourite newspaper online:

UK

• The Belfast Telegraph
• The Daily Express
• The Daily/Sunday Telegraph
• The Financial Times
• The Guardian
• The Independent
• The Mirror
• The Sun
• The Scotsman
• The Times
• And many more, listed here.

Ireland

• The Irish Independent
• The Irish News
• The Irish Times
• And many more, listed here.

USA

• The Chicago Sun-Times
• The Los Angeles Times
• The New York Times
• The New York Post
• The San Francisco Chronicle
• The San Francisco Examiner
• The Seattle Times
• USA Today
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post
• And many more, listed here.

Canada

• The Montreal Gazette
• The Toronto Star
• The Vancouver Sun
• The Globe and Mail
• And more, listed here.

Australia

• The Sydney Morning Herald
• The Melbourne Age
• And many more, listed here.

New Zealand

• The New Zealand Herald
• And many more, listed here.

South Africa

• Business Day
• Die Burger (in Afrikaans)
• Independent Newspapers (The Star, The Cape Argus, etc.)
• The Sunday Times
• The Weekly Mail & Guardian

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