Radio Vaticana

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Vatican Radio Radio Vaticana

First air date	1931
Format	News, religious celebrations, in-depth programs, and music
Owner	Vatican City
Website	www.radiovaticana.org

Administration building and radio masts at Vatican City

Radio Vaticana (Vatican Radio) is the official broadcasting service of the Vatican.

Set up in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi, today its programs are offered in 47 languages, and are sent out on short wave (also DRM), medium wave, FM, satellite and the Internet. The Jesuit Order has been charged with the management of Vatican Radio since its inception. During World War II and the rise of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Vatican Radio served as a source for news for the Allies as well as broadcasting pro-Allied (or simply Neutral) propaganda. [1] A week after Pius XII ordered the programming, Vatican Radio broadcast to an unbelieving world that Poles and Jews were being round up and forced into ghettos. Today, programming is produced by over two hundred journalists located in 61 different countries. Vatican Radio produces more than 42,000 hours of simultaneous broadcasting covering international news, religious celebrations, in-depth programs, and music. Current general director is Father Federico Lombardi SJ.

Radio Vaticana was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.

1 Television
2 Transmittors
3 See also
4 External links
5 External links

[edit] Television

During the 1930s the station made experimental television broadcasts. However, it wasn't until the 1990s that a regular (satellite) television service began.

[edit] Transmittors

The signals are transmitted from a large shortwave and medium-wave transmission facility for Radio Vatican. The Santa Maria di Galeria Transmitter was established in 1957 and it is an extraterritorial area in Italy belonging to the Vatican City.

The most interesting aerial is the one for the medium wave frequency 1530 kHz, which consists of four 94 metre high grounded free standing towers arranged in a square, which carry wires for a medium wave aerial on horizontal crossbars. The direction of this aerial can be changed.