Magyar Rádió

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hungarian Radio
Magyar Rádió's fourth logo from 2007 to 2012
Headquarters in Budapest (2016)
TypeRadio network
Country
Hungary
Headquarters5-7 Bródy Sándor Str., Budapest, H-1088
Ownership
ParentDuna Media Service
Key people
István Jónás (CEO)
History
Launch date1 December 1925; 98 years ago (1925-12-01)
Closed1 July 2015; 8 years ago (2015-07-01)
Replaced byDuna Media Service
Coverage
AvailabilityHungary and neighbouring countries
Links
Websitewww.radio.hu

Magyar Rádió (MR, The Hungarian Radio Corporation, also known as the Radio Budapest) was Hungary's publicly funded radio broadcasting organisation until 2015. It was also the country's official international broadcasting station.

Since 2011, MR was managed and primarily funded by the Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (Hungarian: Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap, abbreviated MTVA).[1] This government organization also managed the public service broadcasters Magyar Televízió and Duna Televízió, as well as the Hungarian news agency Magyar Távirati Iroda.[2]

On 1 July 2015, Magyar Rádió and the three other public media organisations managed by the MTVA were merged into a single organisation called Duna Media Service (Hungarian: Duna Médiaszolgáltató).[3] This organization is the legal successor to Magyar Rádió and is an active member of the European Broadcasting Union.[4][5]

Domestic networks[edit]

With its headquarters in Budapest and regional offices around the country, MR was responsible for public service broadcasting throughout the Hungarian Republic. As well as maintaining regional studios, the corporation produced multiple different Hungarian-language radio channels (Kossuth, Petőfi, and Bartók) covering the full range of public-service radio provision, and a fourth channel (MR4) aimed at the country's linguistic minorities.

Kossuth Rádió[edit]

Main article: Kossuth Rádió

Created in 1925, and named after Lajos Kossuth, the channel is the official radio station of Hungary. It is the main channel of Hungarian Radio. It primarily broadcasts news, including interviews, discussions, reports, and other speech-based programmes.

Petőfi Rádió[edit]

Named after the poet Sándor Petőfi, the station is aimed at younger generations and broadcasts pop music.

Bartók Rádió[edit]

Named after the composer Béla Bartók, this is a dedicated classical music station. It hosts high-cultured talk programes in addition to orchestral and opera music. Supposedly, only a few thousand people listen to this station and proposals to terminate Rádió Bartók have been made several times, but never enacted.[citation needed]

Nemzetiségi Rádió[edit]

This radio channel airs programmes in languages of the national minorities of Hungary.

Parlamenti Adások[edit]

Parliamentarian broadcasts.

Dankó Rádió[edit]

Named after Pista Dankó, this radio station airs regional content throughout Hungary, plays folk music, and broadcasts operetta shows. It claims to be available 24/7 on the internet and FM. Also broadcasting on weekdays via medium wave. Then the station's frequencies are handed over to Kossuth Rádió for the rest of the night.

History and profile[edit]

Ever since its foundation, the Hungarian Radio P.L.C. has been a "citadel"[citation needed] of domestic information, and cultural life. Since December 1, 1925, the institution has had a decisive role in forming Hungarian public opinion and general taste, even as regular television broadcasts were launched in Hungary in 1958.

Hungarian Radio is a partner to its domestic audience and a point of connection with the Hungarian diaspora. Hungarian Radio uses the slogan often heard in radio commercials: "From clear source only".[clarification needed] The buildings and studios of the Radio are located in Budapest, in the block between Bródy Sándor Street and Pollack Mihály Square. There are also two beautiful palaces in this area, one of them was owned earlier by the Eszterházys and the other one by the Károlyi family. The construction of Studio No. 6, the big orchestra studio, is linked with Georg von Békésy’s name, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his acoustic researches in 1961.

On July 1, 2007, Radio Budapest cancelled programming in foreign languages.[citation needed]

On December 22, 2012, all regional public service radio programs were cancelled[6][7] and regional studios closed permanently.[8]

On June 30, 2011, Magyar Radio closed its Radio Theatre Office and dismissed all dramaturgy staff.[9]

Digital Radio Broadcasting (DAB+) experiments, which carried all public service stations and were never licensed commercially, was terminated on September 5, 2020.[10]

In popular culture[edit]

In 1974, Locomotiv GT's Locomotiv GT (Dunhill Records 811) was released with a bumper sticker with the slogan "Radio Budapest Loves You!"

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Media Law in Hungary". Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS). Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  2. ^ "ABOUT MTVA - MTVA". Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA). Archived from the original on 25 August 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Hungarian public service media companies merge - MTVA". Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA). Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  4. ^ Polyák, Gábor (2015). "Hungary : New Amendment to the Media Act". IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory (2). Strasbourg, France: European Audiovisual Observatory. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  5. ^ "EBU - Active Members". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Szabadbölcsészet". mmi.elte.hu. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  7. ^ The Palgrave handbook of global radio. Hendricks, John Allen. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. ISBN 978-0-230-29307-6. OCLC 757147196.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ^ Kft, Equator Média. "A körzeti tévé után megszűnik a közszolgálati rádió pécsi stúdiója is - csak pár tudósító marad". Pécsi Újság (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  9. ^ "Játszani is engedd! – Rádiójátékok tegnap és ma". magyarnarancs.hu (in Hungarian). 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  10. ^ "Lekapcsoltatta a magyarországi digitális rádiózást a nemzeti médiahatóság". Media1 (in Hungarian). 2020-09-06.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Magyar Rádió székháza (Budapest).

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magyar_Rádió&oldid=1219515975"