China National Radio

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China National Radio, or CNR (Chinese: 中央人民广播电台) is the national radio station of the People's Republic of China. Its headquarters are in Beijing.

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[edit] History

The infrastructure began with a transmitter from Moscow to set up its first station in Yan'an (延安). It used the call sign XNCR for broadcasts, and is the first radio station set up by the Communist Party of China in 1940[1].

In the west, it was known as the Yan'an New China Radio Station broadcasting 2 hours daily[1]. In China, it was called the Yan'an Xinhua Broadcasting Station, which was established on December 30, 1940[2].

On March 25, 1949, it was renamed Shanbei Xinhua Broadcasting Station after it departed from Yan'an. It began to broadcast in Peiping under the name of Peiping Xinhua Broadcasting Station. On December 5, 1949, it was officially named to Central People's Broadcasting Station, two months after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The station offering 15.5 hours of service daily[1].

Mao Zedong emphasized that all citizens should listen to the station on May 5, 1941. The "Central Press and Broadcasting Bureau" was the driver in pushing all schools, army units, and public organizations of all levels to install loud public speakers and radio reception base[1]. By the 1960s, 70 million speakers were installed reaching the rural population of 400 million[1].

They innovated wired transmission, which were linked to the commonly found telephone poles hanging with loud speakers. It was part of Mao's ideology of delivering "Politics on Demand". The station served as the headquarter for propaganda during the Cultural Revolution[1].

The station was later renamed to China National Radio[2]. It would move to a new building in 1998.

[edit] Present

CNR currently has nine channels, with 198 hours of daily broadcasting through satellite. Channel one mainly broadcasts news in Mandarin to a national audience. Channel two, Business Radio, broadcasts economic, scientific and technological information and service programs in Mandarin throughout China. Channel three, Music Radio, is an FM stereo music channel. Channel four, Metro Radio, provides life programs exclusively to the listeners in Beijing. Channel five and Channel six, Cross-straits Radio, broadcast programs for the listeners in Taiwan. Channel seven, Huaxia Radio, broadcasts programs for the listeners in Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta. Channel eight, Nationality Radio, broadcasts programs for the minority ethnic groups in Mongolian, Tibetan, Uigur, Kazak, Korean and Mandarin. Channel nine, Story Radio, broadcasts entertainment programs, including comic crosstalk and storytelling series programs, etc. After the recent reform, CNR's programming and production processes are increasingly specified, targeted and personalized. CNR has forty correspondent branches in major cities including Hong Kong and Macao, and dispatched correspondents in Taiwan.

[edit] Channels

  • 中国之声 - The Sounds of China
  • 经济之声 - Business Radio
  • 音乐之声 - Music Radio
  • 都市之声 - Metro Channel
  • 中华之声 - The Sounds of the Chinese
  • 神州之声 - Sound of the Divine Land
  • 华夏普通 - China Ordinary
  • 华夏双语 - China Bilingual
  • 民族之声 - Sounds of the National
  • 文艺之声 - Sounds of the Literary

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Miller, Toby. [2003] (2003). Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Routledge Publishing. ISBN 0415255023
  2. ^ a b CNR website. "CNR website." CNR introduction. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.

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