Radio Budapest

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Hungarian Radio / Radio Budapest
Type	Radio network
Country	Hungary
Availability	International
Owner	Hungarian Radio P.L.C.
Launch date	December 1, 1925
Website	http://www.english.radio.hu/

Hungarian Radio / Radio Budapest (Hungarian: Magyar Rádió - Radio Budapest) is the official international broadcasting station of Hungary.

[edit] History and profile

Ever since its foundation, the Hungarian Radio P.L.C. has been a ”citadel” of domestic information, and cultural life. Since December 1, 1925, the institution has had a decisive role in forming the Hungarian public opinion, and general taste.

It is true in spite of the fact that regular television broadcasts were launched in Hungary in 1958. Forty years later, in 1998, the dual media system was formed. Owing to that a regular competition started between the different mass media channels. Since commercial television and radio stations flooded the market primarily with entertainment industry products, the value-centered approach and program structure of the public service radio makes it, if possible, even more important to preserve its culture creating and broadcasting functions.

Hungarian Radio P.L.C. has three nationwide radio channels and nine regional studios whose programs cover the total range of public service activity. Two of its channels broadcast news, political, economic and cultural programs round the clock. It is a partner to the domestic audience and a link with the Hungarians over the frontiers, a chance for them to retain their national identity. Hungarian Radio could use the slogan often heard in radio commercials: ”From clear source only”. The buildings and studios of the Radio are located in Budapest, in the block between Bródy Sándor Street and Pollack Mihály Square. There are also two beautiful palaces in this area, one of them was owned earlier by the Eszterházy’s and the other one by the Károlyi family. The construction of Studio No. 6, the big orchestra studio, is linked with György Békésy’s name, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his acoustic researches in 1961.

[edit] See also

• Hungarian Radio, the Hungarian publicly-funded radio broadcaster

[edit] External link

• Radio Budapest online (English) (German) (Spanish) (French) (Italian) (Russian)

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