Kossuth Rádió
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Kossuth Rádió, also known as Rádió Kossuth, is a major radio station of Hungary and is produced by Magyar Rádió. Named after Kossuth Lajos, a Hungarian freedom fighter, the radio station has been in existence since 1925.[1]
The station can be streamed online using RealPlayer.[2]
Transmissions begin on weekdays at 04.30AM local time by playing "Rákóczi March" by Berlioz. Five-minute news updates are read at every hour. The "Krónika" (Chronicle) news program is scheduled from 06:00 to 08:00, 12:00 to 12:30, 18:00 to 18:30 and 22:00 to 22:30. Most of the other program consists of politics, high culture, science and airtime for ethnic minority program. Kossuth Rádió stops transmissions on the AM band ten minutes after midnight, following the news and the national anthem.
Airwaves service company Antenna Hungária broadcasts Kossuth Rádió 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 at night. There have been overturned proposals to save money by reducing Kossuth Rádió's AM-band power to 1MW, which would deny access to the Hungarian minority abroad.
[edit] External links
- About Kossuth Rádió (English)
