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| Broadcast area | Central Europe |
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| Frequency | 540kHz (AM) (In Budapest) 107.8MHz (FM) (Ex. 67.4) |
| Programming | |
| Language | Hungarian |
| Format | News,speech |
| Affiliations | EBU |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Duna Média (MTVA) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1925 |
First air date | 1 December 1925; 99 years ago (1925-12-01) |
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| Technical information | |
| Power | 2000 kW |
| Repeater | 47 FM transmitters |
| Links | |
| Website | Official website |
Kossuth Rádió (Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈkoʃutˈraːdijoː], formerly known asMR1-Kossuth Rádió,Rádió Budapest andBudapest I.) is apublic-broadcasting radio station in Hungary, concentrating on news and current affairs. It is one of the seven national radio channels produced byMTVA. It was established in 1925 as Rádió Budapest and named afterLajos Kossuth, a Hungarian national hero, in 1949.[1]
The mainHungarian-language radio station can be heard all overEurope and theMiddle East, as it broadcasts with 2 MW of transmission power on 540 kHz AM fromtransmitter Solt (the most powerful medium wave transmitter in the world)[2] and several FM stations, covering Hungary and the neighbouring countries.
It is the second most popular radio station in Hungary (as 2013) with 1.38 million listeners (14% of the total population) daily.[3]
It was established in 1925 asRadio Budapest and broadcast fromCsepel (then suburb ofBudapest, now part of the city) with a 2 kWTelefunken-made transmitter on 565 metres AM.[1] The first experimental programme began with this sentence: "Halló-halló! Itt a magyarországi rádióhírmondó 2 kW-os leadó állomása az 565 méteres hullámhosszon." ("Hallo-hallo! Here's the transmitter of the Hungarian radio broadcasting with 2 kW on 565 metres AM."). The first headquarters were built atRákóczi Avenue and a new 3 kW tower was installed in 1926. At that time the radio was available only in and around Budapest.
National broadcasting started in 1928, when Csepel transmitter was replaced with the 20 kW-strongLakihegy Tower.[4] In the 1930s several new towers were built;Mosonmagyaróvár,Miskolc,Pécs,Nyíregyháza in 1932 and the new Lakihegy Tower with 120 kW (then the most powerful transmitter in the world) in 1933. New shows and programmes were launched continuously, the most popular was theHungarian folk music inGypsy style, heard after thenoon bell. The radio station reached 300,000 listeners in 1933.
At the end of theWorld War II all Hungarian radio towers were exploded by theGerman army. Reconstruction finished in 1948 andBudapest I. was renamed toKossuth Rádió afterLajos Kossuth in 1949, commemorating the 100th anniversary of theHungarian revolution of 1848-1849. Lakihegy Tower was rebuilt again in 1968 with a new 300 kW transmitter, but it was getting out of date, so the government decided to build a much powerful tower.Transmitter Solt was finished in 1977 with 2000 kW as a high priority project with the cooperation of theSoviet Union. Nationwide FM transmitters built up in the 2000s and 2010s.
The morning show called180 perc ("180 minutes") is a three-hour-long news programme, with issues of public concern news and live discussions, economic and political analyses, and reports of our foreign correspondents.
The main news programmeKrónika ("Chronicles") is the most listened radio news programme in the country for years. The other Chronicles are refreshed editions. The hourly newscast blocks constitute the frame of the daily programme flow. The station broadcasts news in every half an hour during the morning and afternoon drive-time slots.
In summer 2009 the most recent daily report programmeA hely ("The Place") was launched, experimenting with the presentation of events, phenomenon, places and professions from a very insider perspective.
The programmeHatárok nélkül ("Without borders") was established after thefall of the Communism, focusing on theHungarian diaspora living outside the present-day borders of Hungary due to theTreaty of Trianon. Subsidiaries ofMagyar Rádió (MR) report fromBratislava,Uzhhorod,Arad,Târgu Mureș,Miercurea Ciuc,Oradea,Timișoara,Novi Sad,Subotica,Cluj-Napoca andKomárno.
There are several shows of ethnicity groups and religious communities of the country, including aRoman Catholic (Tanúim lesztek),Calvinist (Tebenned bíztunk eleitől fogva),Lutheran (Erős vár a mi Istenünk),Greek Catholic (Krisztus közöttünk),Methodist (Örüljetek az Úrban mindenkor),Baptist (Az Úr közel),Pentecostal (Békesség néktek),Unitarian (Egy az Isten),Jewish (Halljad Izrael) and aRomani (Jelenlét) programme.[5]
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