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Current AffairsCzech Radio History Part VII - Czech Radio stations
After 1989, Czechoslovak Radio, just like almost every other institution in
this country had to find a new identity. Almost overnight, it ceased to be
the voice of the state and changed into a broadcaster whose goal was to
provide unbiased information, education and entertainment to listeners in
an increasingly competitive environment. In 1991, Czechoslovak Radio
became a public-service institution, independent of the state and funded
by subscription fees. 1993 was another milestone for the broadcaster - the
split of Czechoslovakia gave birth to Czech Radio with its six different
stations.
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Current AffairsCzech Radio History Part VI - November 17th, 1989
In this week's edition of our special on the history of Czech Radio,
marking the station's 80th anniversary, Jan Velinger looks at the role of
the station during the fall of Communism in 1989.
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Current AffairsCzech Radio History Part V - The Prague Spring
In this week's edition of our weekly special on the history of Czech Radio
- marking the station's 80th anniversary - Martin Hrobsky looks at the
role radio played during the Prague Spring. It was 1968 in Czechoslovakia
and optimism was in the air: students, workers, and intellectuals alike
were calling for change in a political and economic system that was no
longer meeting the needs of the people. The Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia knew this, and once a number of innocent reforms were
carried out, the winds of change could not be stopped.
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Current AffairsCzech Radio History Part IV: 1948 - 1968
In this week's edition of our special series on the history of Czech Radio
to mark the station's eightieth anniversary, Dita Asiedu looks at the
period between the Communist takeover in 1948 and the Prague Spring that
was crushed with the Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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Current AffairsCzech Radio History Part III: "Calling all Czechs"
In this week's edition of our special history of Czech Radio to mark the
station's 80th anniversary, Rob Cameron looks at the station's unique role
in the Second World War. Broadcasts from that time bear witness to
Czechoslovakia's painful wartime experience: from early Radio Prague
reports countering hostile Nazi propaganda, to the Nazi-run "Bohmen
und Mahren" station announcing the names of Czechs executed in
reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, to the famous
"Revolutionary Radio" of May 1945 calling on Czechs to rise up
against their Nazi occupiers - the start of the Prague Uprising.
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SpotlightThe Czech Radio building on Prague's Vinohradska Street
Czech Radio, or Cesky Rozhlas, has been at its current location at 12
Vinohradska Street (known in those days as Foch Street) since 1933, ten
years after the station was launched. In those days it was known as
Radiojournal, which is now the name of it's flagship station here in the
Czech Republic. Oldrich Cip is a world renowned expert on short-wave radio
and has been working here at Czech Radio for around 40 years. When we
toured the station he told me a little bit about the building's history.
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Current AffairsCzech Radio History Part II: Day One
This year Czech Radio celebrates its eightieth anniversary and Radio
Prague, which is part of the public-service broadcaster, is dedicating a
short series to the eight decades of radio broadcasting in this country.
May 18, 1923 was the day when the few dozen listeners there were in
Czechoslovakia could hear the programme broadcast live from a tent at the
Kbely military base outside Prague. After Great Britain, Czechoslovakia
became the second European country to launch regular radio broadcasting.
In today's episode, we look at the very beginnings of the revolutionary
invention in Czechoslovakia.
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Current AffairsCzech Radio History Part I: Do we need a public service broadcaster?
This year, the public broadcaster Czech Radio celebrates its eightieth
anniversary. Throughout history, its meaning and role have changed from a
revolutionary invention to an everyday companion, from a source of
entertainment to a trumpet calling on Czechs to fight invaders, from a
mouthpiece of communist propaganda to the voice of democracy. Radio Prague
has prepared a series of reports to illustrate the eighty-year history of
Czech Radio, and from now you can hear them in our programme or find them
on our website every Friday. In the first part, we look at the role Czech
Radio has played as a public service broadcaster, and whether it still has
something to offer among the multitude of commercial radio stations now
available in the Czech Republic.
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Current AffairsThe Battle of the Airwaves: the extraordinary story of Czechoslovak Radio and the 1945 Prague Uprising
Welcome to a special programme to mark the 58th anniversary of the end of
the Second World War, a national holiday in the Czech Republic. The
anniversary has a special significance in Prague, because it was here that
some of the last shots of the war in Europe were fired, long after most
European cities had been freed. The liberation of Prague by the Red Army
on the 9th May 1945 was preceded by three days of fierce fighting in the
streets of the city, and over 3000 people lost their lives fighting for
Prague's freedom. In the uprising, the radio and the very building from
which we are now broadcasting, was right at the heart of events.
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