| City of license | Lisbon, Portugal |
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| Slogan | Dilatação auditiva, expansão mental (English: Auditory dilatation, mind expansion) (unofficial) |
| First air date | April 26, 2004 (as RIIST); March 6, 2006 (as Rádio Zero) |
| Format | Campus radio, Community radio, Experimental, Free, Online |
| Language | Portuguese (de facto) |
| Owner | Associação dos Estudantes do Instituto Superior Técnico |
| Webcast | radiozero.pt/ouvir |
| Website | radiozero.pt |
Rádio Zero (also called Zero) is an non profit webradio with an academic origin and nature, based at the Instituto Superior Técnico campus in Lisbon. Its stated mission is to serve as a free access to production and broadcast of radio programs by society in general. Its programming is filled with author programmes, ranging from the conventional or informative, to the more experimental where radio is considered an artwork. Zero broadcasts online continuously. It also does temporary FM events.
Rádio Zero is a founding member of Radia, an international radio network of independent radio stations.
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Rádio Zero is governed by the following Manifesto:
A radio is a creative medium witch fosters experimentalism and the development of artworks in sound format
Radio itself should be involved with society through social contents and the promotion of cultural activities.
A radio should be a free access medium to broadcast of radio programs by any individual. As a defender of liberty and creativity radio should give total priority to author format.
In the 50s there was a section dedicated to classical music broadcasting through the speakers of AEIST building. In his speech at the formal sitting celebrating the centenary of AEIST, Mário Lino, the Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Communication in the 17th Constitutional Government of Portugal, mentioned that he had taken part in activities of this section while a student in Instituto Superior Técnico.
The Rádio Universidade Tejo (RUT) was a pirate station starting in 1986, that initially broadcasted from the AEIST building in 99.5 MHz, and afterwards in 100.7 MHz. It was closed in 1988.
In 1995 a group of students at the AEIST, freated a new campus radio, named of Rádio Interna do IST/RIIST (IST Internal Radio), transmitting only through speakers installed in the campus. By the academic season of 1999 / 2000 it became an internet stream as well. This group disappeared in 2000.
In May 2002, a group of students of IST (among whose were André Santos, André Canto e Castro and David Santos) decided to reactivate the extinct RIIST. They ran for the administration of the AEIST (cultural and creative section), and despite not being elected, decided in that same September to start the procedures to reopen the RIIST. In 2003 several students recovered the radio section. The broadcast restarted in the 26th of April 2004. In 2005, during the Transmediale in Berlim, the RIIST co-ound and present together with some other nine radios (Resonance FM form UK; Bootlab, Germany; Tilos Radio, Hungary; Radio Campus, Belgium; Kunstradio, Austria; Orange, Austria; Radio Cult, Bulgaria; Kanal103, Macedania; and Oxygen, Albania), the radio network Radia.
By decision of its members, the RIIST name was changed to Rádio Zero, effective on March 6, 2006.