100% Radio Souvenirs streams a single, focused promise around the clock: French and international hits from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, with nothing from the current charts to interrupt the trip backward. It is a web-only spinoff of a much bigger regional operation, one that started as a small local station in southern France and grew into a network reaching across thirteen departments.
Two Tarnais and a Station Built From Scratch
The parent station behind Radio Souvenirs traces back to 2000, when it was founded by Olivier Fabre and Jacques Iribarren, two natives of the Tarn department in what is now the Occitanie region. What began as a local FM project based in Aussillon grew steadily over the following two decades, eventually becoming the group behind several themed web radio spinoffs, including the Souvenirs channel dedicated purely to older hits.
From Local Signal to Regional Leader
The group's expansion got a significant boost in December 2017, when France's broadcasting regulator, the CSA, awarded it the 90.5 MHz frequency in Toulouse, a slot previously held by France Bleu Occitanie, following a call for candidacies launched across the Midi-Pyrénées region earlier that year. That frequency win helped push the network into its current position as the leading general-music regional radio group in Occitanie, broadcasting from four regional studios and reaching listeners across thirteen departments in the south of France.
Part of a National Network of Local Voices
The station also belongs to Les Indés Radios, a grouping originally formed in 1992 that now brings together well over a hundred independent local, regional and thematic stations across France under one advertising and audience-measurement banner. Being part of that network gives a regional group built from a Tarn FM signal access to the kind of national visibility usually reserved for the big Paris-based broadcasters, without giving up the local identity that built its audience in the first place.
A Themed Channel for a Specific Kind of Listener
Radio Souvenirs itself sits alongside sibling web channels built around other decades and moods, a common strategy for regional French groups looking to serve narrower tastes than a flagship FM signal can accommodate. For listeners who want the station's regional roots without the current playlist, Souvenirs offers exactly that: the same operation, aimed squarely at the decades many of its original 2000-era listeners grew up on.