Hungarian Radio

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1 Domestic Radio Networks
2 Programming Transmission FAQ
3 Radio Budapest output (1950-1996)
4 External links

[edit] Domestic Radio Networks

Magyar Rádió (Hungarian Radio) company, headquartered at Budapest with several offices in the countryside, runs the state-sponsored radio stations of the Hungarian Republic. Currently it consists of three stations, all broadcasting in Hungarian language:
Rádió Kossuth, named after Lajos Kossuth, is the official radio station of the Republic of Hungary. It starts at weekdays 04.30AM local time by playing the Rákóczi's Hungarian March by Berlioz. Five minute news are read at every full hour. The "Chronicle" news programme are broadcast from 06.00-08.00AM, 12.00-12.30PM, 18.00-18.30PM and 22.00-22.30PM. Most of the other programme consists of politics talk, high culture, science and airtime for ethnic minority programme. Rádió Kossuth quits the AM band every midnight after ten minute news and playing the national anthem.
Rádió Petőfi, named after Sándor Petőfi is available nationwide in the western FM band. It is aimed at the younger generation and hosts most of the sports programme available through Magyar Rádió. Other focus areas include popular science and radio soap operas.
Rádió Bartók, named after Béla Bartók is a dedicated classical music station that airs on a nationwide basis in the western FM band in stereo. It hosts some high culture talk programme in addition to a lot of orchestra and opera music. Supposedly, only a few thousand people listen to this station and proposals to quit Rádió Bartók have been made several times, but never enacted.

[edit] Programming Transmission FAQ

Airwaves service company Antenna Hungária broadcasts Rádió Kossuth with 2MW power on 540kHz AM, several FM stations in the eastern (OIRT) band as well as a recently added nation-wide network of western band (CCIR) FM relays. It is 107.8MHz in and around Budapest. The AM broadcast can be heard as far as Turin in the south and Helsinki in the north during the night-time. There have been overturned proposals to save money by reducing Rádió Kossuth's AM-band power to 1MW, but this move would deny access to the Hungarian minority abroad.