Magyar Rádió
The Magyar Rádió Zrt. (short MR, German Hungarian Radio Aktiengesellschaft) is the public radio company in Hungary and operates six channels.
- 3.1 Terrestrial
- 3.2 Satellite Radio and Internet
Radio stations
The pillars form the transmitter MR1 - Kossuth Rádió, MR2 - Petőfi Rádió and MR3 - Bartók Rádió that are to receive nationwide and send round the clock. The three stations were also long before the political changes of 1989 the state radio. Characteristic is their designation after important figures of Hungarian history of the 19th and early 20th century.
MR1 - Kossuth Rádió
Kossuth Rádió is the information and news channel in the family of Magyar Rádió with claims to week two million listeners. His namesake Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) was a protagonist of the revolution of 1848/ 49 and fought for the independence of Hungary from Austria.
MR2 - Petőfi Rádió
The second program is aimed at " young adults", it is mainly pop and rock music, even from the alternative or indie area, played, although Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849) is known as a poet. As of 1848 fighters, he is like Kossuth as a " national hero " of the country.
MR3 - Bartók Rádió
The after the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) named station plays mainly classical music, some jazz, with a relatively small proportion of text.
MR4 Nemzetiségi adások ( minorities)
The national minorities living in Hungary is offered on MR4 a radio program in their native language. Thus, the regional studio in Pécs ( Pécs dt ) produces a daily two -hour program for the Germans in Hungary. MR4 sends an ancillary matter in Armenian, Bulgarian, Greek, Croatian, Polish, Romanian, russinischer, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian languages , as well as Romani. Between 20 and 8 clock clock repetitions are sent.
MR 5 Parlamenti adások
MR 5 transfers meetings of the Hungarian Parliament. The transmitter can also be heard on MR1 - Kossuth Rádió via satellite and at certain times.
MR 6 Régió Radio
MR6 was a regional station with five studios in Pécs, Debrecen, Győr, Szeged and Miskolc. The station aired over three medium-wave transmitter. On 22 December 2012, the station has been set for reasons of cost and replaced by Dankó Rádió that sends nationwide and no regional program offers.
Dankó Rádió
Dankó Rádió launched on 22 December 2012 and will be disseminated through the medium wave transmitter of the former regional station MR 6 Régió radio. It plays mainly Hungarian folk music.
History
The broadcasting in Hungary began on December 1, 1925, the broadcast of his radio program, which is about two years after the recording of regular radio operation in Germany. Shortly before the Magyar Telefonhírmondó Rt was awarded the hosting rights for the radio, then as Telefonhírmondó Magyar és Rádió Rt ran the first radio program from Budapest. 1932 Budapest II was launched as an entertainment channel, while the first program should inform.
As a result, its political significance as the first electronic mass medium, the Hungarian radio was repeatedly the scene of dramatic events in modern Hungarian history. The inclusion of the Wehrmacht and Hungarian troops by the Red Army at the turn of 1944/45, was accompanied by the Germans with the confiscation or destruction of the broadcasting assets.
During the riots of 1956, the radio building was fought as an important center of the revolution and communist propaganda.
The then third program of the Hungarian Radio was launched in 1973 and got its present name Bartók Rádió in May 1987. The older two stations were named after Kossuth or Petőfi already on 1 February 1949.
After the end of communism in Hungary the Hungarian radio of the European Broadcasting Union occurred in 1991. The foreign language, international broadcasts of Radio Budapest were discontinued in 2007.
Reception
Terrestrial
- MR1, MR2 and MR3 can be received via VHF nationwide. MR1 sends in certain periods also on medium wave.
- The minority shipments of MR4 are transmitted over four medium-wave transmitter.
- MR6 sends its regional program on local FM frequencies ( the studio Raab but only on medium wave ).
Satellite Radio and Internet
All programs can be heard on the Internet and via satellite exception of folk music station MR7 as a pure Internet stations. Partial past broadcasts can be reheared also on the website of Magyar Rádió.