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The Bulgarian National Radio (Bulgarian: Българско национално радио, Balgarsko natsionalno radio; abbreviated БНР, BNR) is the national radio network of Bulgaria. It was founded on 30 March 1930 as Rodno radio ("Native radio") by a group of intellectuals. Broadcasting began in June the same year. On January 1, 1993, BNR was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union.
BNR has two radio stations in Bulgarian, Horizon Radio and Hristo Botev, as well as a world service called Radio Bulgaria broadcasting in 11 languages: Bulgarian, Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Serbian, Greek, Albanian, Turkish and Arabic). All stations are also available online. There are five more local radiostations in the BNR structure: Radio Plovdiv [1], Radio Varna[2], Radio Shumen [3], Radio Stara Zagora [4] and Radio Blagoevgrad [5]. On May 26, 2008 RPTS of Kostinbrod in Bulgaria started the first regular broadcasts in digital format DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale)
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