How we checked sensuelle radio
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 5 things about this entry. We also found 11 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Sensuelle Radio 80 presents itself as the only all-1980s station in La Réunion, a vinyl webradio running the decade's legendary hits and forgotten gems around the clock, free and without advertising. Its own pages say it was created in 2004 by its founder CapitaineJoe and call it "la seule radio 100% années 80 à La Réunion". A second landing page on the same site positions the same stream as a night service built on slow numbers, silky boogie, Italo-disco and romantic new wave. The site is a WordPress install on the Pro.Radio theme, and a great deal of that theme's demo content has never been replaced.
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Artists
The stream was playing Kasso "I Love The Piano" when checked; its own chart, player and show pages name Pet Shop Boys, Break Machine, Hithouse, Gerry Rafferty, Baltimora, Madonna, Prince & The Revolution, Philip Bailey & Phil Collins, Sade, Spandau Ballet, Gazebo, Rufus & Chaka Khan, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Kassav', Zouk Machine, Oliver N'Goma, Ziskakan and Luc Léandry.
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Contact route
A contact form on its own contact page; a dedications and messages page whose entries appear live in the site sidebar; a public listener forum on one of its own landing pages; an email address on its own domain; and profiles on Facebook, Spotify, SoundCloud and Mixcloud.
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Contact page
https://www.sensuelleradio.com/contacts-radio-80/
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Era
The 1980s almost exclusively, which is the whole premise; one weekly show covers the 1990s, and the stream's declared genre also claims the 1970s.
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Music
1980s pop, disco and funk, with Italo-disco, boogie, quiet storm and romantic new wave; a Sunday show adds séga, zouk, salsa and latino. The stream declares its own genre as "70s 80s disco funk".
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Language
French, checked on every page read; all programme titles, editorial prose and listener messages are French, with Réunion Creole turning up in listener nicknames and greetings on the messages wall.
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Kind
Automated round-the-clock playout with pre-recorded DJ mix shows scheduled over it; the operator publishes his own technical guide to setting the RadioDJ playout compressor, and nothing on the site describes a live studio or a live desk.
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Worth knowing
The founder collects more than 3,000 vinyl records and plays 12-inch maxi single versions on air, and the station says its listeners reach beyond Réunion to Maurice, Mayotte and Madagascar.
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Where
La Réunion (overseas France), in the Indian Ocean; the station names Saint-Denis, Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul as its listening area, describes itself throughout as a webradio, and publishes no frequency.
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On air
CapitaineJoe, the founder, who began on Réunion Sud Radio in 1982 and started this station in 2004; Olivia, who presents "90 à l'Heure"; Valéria, listed on the team page.
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Programmes
"FiestaMix" Sundays 10h-12h (séga, zouk, salsa, latino; episodes #114 to #116 published); "Funky Town Express" Sundays 18h-19h (rare 80s funk); "Planète dance 80", also billed as "Danser la Planète", Saturdays 20h to minuit; "90 à l'Heure" (1990s hits); "Zouk time"; "Boogie Night Fever – Le son qui a fait danser vos parents"; and a five-part daypart grid of Réveil Velours 07h-11h, Sieste Boogie 11h-15h, Drive Time Sensuel 15h-20h, Nuits Électriques 20h-00h and After Dark 00h-07h.
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What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| country code | TF → cleared | Cleared rather than replaced, because the operator's own site could not be read and nothing else is admissible. sensuelleradio.com resolves to 54.38.113.221 and an nginx front end answers on both ports, but every path returns HTTP 502 Bad Gateway with a 150-byte nginx error body: the root, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, sitemap_index.xml, favicon.ico, wp-login.php and feed/. The alternate sensuelleradio.re, still carried in search indexes with the title 'sensuelle radio - Numero 1 sur les annees 80', no longer resolves at all (NXDOMAIN on both the bare name and www). The stored TF cannot be right: the French Southern and Antarctic Lands have no permanent civilian population and no commercial radio, so the code is of the same class as a station filed under the US Minor Outlying Islands. The only material placing the station in Reunion is radio-directory copy and a dead domain suffix, neither of which this catalogue accepts, so the field is cleared instead of moved to RE. Worth revisiting when the origin server is back up: the findings entry carries RETRY: yes. |
| country code |
RE
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Not restored from the directories that were withdrawn, and not inferred from the .com domain or from the OVH address the host resolves to. It comes from the operator's own prose on his own pages. The home page title and hero text read 'Numéro un sur les années 80 à la Réunion' and 'La seule radio 100% années 80 à La Réunion'. The about page at /a-propos-de-sensuelle-radio-80/ is titled 'Radio 80 - Webradio Vinyle Années 80 à La Réunion' and says 'Écoutez Radio 80 à tout moment depuis La Réunion' and 'Depuis La Réunion, nous vous faisons revivre l'âge d'or'. The chart page at /chart/radio-annees-80-hits-et-tubes-en-continu/ says 'en tant que radio réunionnaise' and names Saint-Denis, Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul as the places its listeners are. The team page at /equipe/ says the founder debuted on Réunion Sud Radio in 1982, that he settled in La Réunion, and that his listeners also reach Maurice, Mayotte and Madagascar. There is a standalone page whose slug is literally /radio-annee-80-reunion-france/. The station publishes no legal notice, company name or postal address anywhere, so this rests on the operator's repeated first-person claim rather than on a registration document, but it is his claim on his own site and nothing on the site contradicts it. The old sensuelleradio.re domain is indeed dead and was not used. |
| homepage url | https://sensuelleradio.com/ → https://www.sensuelleradio.com/ | The stored value https://sensuelleradio.com/ redirects with a 301 to the www host, and the page itself declares <link rel=canonical href=https://www.sensuelleradio.com/> and og:url of the same. The stream's own icy-url header also gives https://www.sensuelleradio.com/. Minor, but it stops the row disagreeing with the site's own canonical. |
| audience country code
refused
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RE
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Same pages. The chart page addresses listeners driving in Saint-Denis, sitting out in Saint-Pierre and relaxing in Saint-Paul, and the team page says the audience reaches beyond Réunion to Maurice, Mayotte and Madagascar, which puts Réunion as the primary audience and the rest as spill. The about page also offers the stream worldwide, which is normal for a webradio and does not move the primary audience. || refused: the same country as its origin (RE); this field is for a station made in one place for listeners in another |
| language code
confirmed
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fr → fr | Confirmation, not a change. I checked rather than assumed. Every page read is written in French, the show titles are French, the operator's editorial prose is French, and the listener messages on the dedications wall are French with Réunion Creole nicknames and greetings mixed in. There is no second broadcast language claimed anywhere and no hosting-platform language field was used. || the field already held this value |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| The Réunion identification | A search engine summary attributes the station to Réunion, names a founder and a founding year, names a Saturday evening show and its host, and describes the format. Every one of those would have filled this block nicely. None of it came from the operator: the sources behind it are radio directories of exactly the kind this catalogue has withdrawn facts from, plus a .re domain that no longer exists. I have not used any of it, and specifically I have not moved the country to RE on the strength of a domain suffix in a stale search index.
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| A country code | The stored TF is certainly wrong: the French Southern and Antarctic Lands have no permanent civilian population and no commercial radio. But the operator's site is unreadable, so I cannot replace it with an established value. I have cleared the field rather than substitute a guess, which is what the brief asked for when the operator never says. The correction carries that reasoning and asks for a retry.
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| A frequency for the Saint-Denis area | the only sentence on the site that would carry one is an unfilled template placeholder reading "Région de Saint-Denis : [Indiquer la fréquence ici, ex: 99.8 FM]", so that number is the template's example, not the station's.
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| The weekly grid published at /shows-schedule/, with TranceAmerica, House Of Fashion, Good Morning London, Classy Generation, Pop'n Roll, Frequency One, Sins At The Mic, Art Of Gossip, ChillBeats, Dance Hits, Hipster Morning, Sick Beats, Sound Seduction and Club Night | these are the Pro.Radio theme's demo shows, their artwork is the theme's own pr-show-NN uploads while the station's real shows carry its own 2015 uploads, and the grid contradicts the station's own prose about when its real shows air.
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| Presenter credits for Thomas Grey, Veronica, Nina, Jerome Blues, Dj Martin, Tom Cuffia, Dj Monster, Monica Deep, Wilhelmina Red, Jessie Black, Rebecca Lost, Malika, Jack M., Dj Ross, Dj Smash, Marika Love, Crystal White, Cindy, Brandon and Richie T. B. | the same theme demo data, and one of them, Richie T. B., has been left attached to the station's own show "90 à l'heure avec Olivia", which its team page credits to Olivia.
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| An "Emission en cours" block announcing TranceAmerica 17:00-21:00 | it is static, printing the same show at the same time on the home page, the contact page and the privacy page within the same minute.
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| Team members Lauren Starr and Tammy Curezd, and the member categories Look Designer, Sound Designer and Talent Scout | their biographies are untouched Lorem ipsum from the theme.
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| Chart placings for Deborah Kinley, Sam Akash, Kyle Rose, Tim Lex, Robert Milton and a track titled "cognac" | theme demo chart rows sitting in the same list as the station's genuine 1980s entries.
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| A telephone number and an email address printed on the contact page | both are the theme's untouched placeholders, a "+55" number and an address at contact.me, not the station's own.
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| Social accounts at facebook.com/johntuft, twitter.com/johntuft and pinterest.com/johntuft | the theme author's demo accounts left in the footer; the station's own Facebook page is facebook.com/radiosensuelle.
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| A Paris postal address | it sits on the site's own /infos-pratiques/ page, which is unrelated search-engine filler about French health insurance claims and is not the station's address.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
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This entry began as: sensuelle radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://sensuelleradio.com/