Legay, Richard2020-08-242020-08-242017-05-01https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15712Commercial radio stations RTL and Europe n°1 played an important role during the events of May 1968 in Paris by maintaining the news coverage of the protests, the riots and the strikes. By analyzing the entanglements of the various audiovisual media and surviving audio material,this article defends the idea that a vacuum created by the crisis that affected the French public broadcasting agency is one of the main reasons that brought the commercial radio stations at the centre of the events.engFernsehenEuropeentanglementsRTLmedia studiesradio studiesbroadcast journalismradioORTFEurope 1French RepublicLuxembourgFrance1960s196807079110.18146/2213-0969.2017.jethc13610.25969/mediarep/147352213-0969