Hungarian Radio
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[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. Magyar Rádió was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union on January 1, 1993. 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, and is the flagship channel of the Hungarian Radio. Transmissions commence on weekdays at 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 scheduled 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 stops transmissions on the AM band at ten minutes after midnight, following the news and the national anthem.
- Rádió Petőfi, named after the poet 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, pop music and radio soap operas.
- Rádió Bartók, named after the composer 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 terminate 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.
[edit] Radio Budapest output (1950-1996)
For a comparison of RB to other broadcasters see
