Who owns Rire & Chansons?
Rire & Chansons is owned by NRJ Group (France, EPA: NRG).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: NRJ Group — Document d'enregistrement universel 2025, NRJ Group SA, 31 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- NRJ Group SA reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇷 France, Paris
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- Founded
- 1990
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Radio & audio › Radio networks
- Parent ticker
- EPA: NRG
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Rire & Chansons
Rire & Chansons is a French radio network that mixes comedy with music, created by NRJ Group in 1990. Unlike the group's other three networks it holds only national broadcasting authorisations, which means it carries a single national programme and no local ones. It is sold to advertisers by the group's own sales houses.
Ownership timeline of Rire & Chansons
Where Rire & Chansons sits in NRJ Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by NRJ Group
NRJ Group controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
Other brands in radio networks, and who owns them
The 26 brands in radio networks on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is NZME, with 5; NRJ Group has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Coast | NZME | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| ERA | Astro | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Europe 1 | Lagardère | 🇫🇷 France |
| La 100 | Grupo Clarín | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Hit Network | Southern Cross Media Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Radio One | Urban One | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Westwood One | Cumulus Media | 🇺🇸 United States |
| iHeartRadio | iHeartMedia | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: NRJ Group
NRJ Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1981. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: NRG.
NRJ Group is a French media company that grew out of the radio station NRJ, which Jean-Paul Baudecroux started in Paris in 1981. It runs four national radio networks in France, NRJ, Chérie FM, Nostalgie and Rire & Chansons, which together reached 9.4 million listeners a day in 2025, along with about 270 digital radio stations and the pay-television music channel NRJ Hits. Its subsidiary TowerCast is the second-largest broadcast transmission operator in France. In 2025 the group left free-to-air television: NRJ 12 stopped broadcasting on 1 March and Chérie 25 was sold on 30 September. Its shares are listed on Euronext Paris.
🇫🇷 Rire & Chansons and other French brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 318 brands that began in France. 99 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Rire & Chansons is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Rire & Chansons?
The parent company of Rire & Chansons is NRJ Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Rire & Chansons French?
Yes. Rire & Chansons originated in France in 1990 and its owner, NRJ Group, is also headquartered in France.
Is Rire & Chansons still owned by NRJ Group?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Rire & Chansons is still owned by NRJ Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] NRJ Group — Document d'enregistrement universel 2025 — NRJ Group SA, Annual report, published 31 March 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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