Radio Maryja
Radio Maria is a Catholic nationalkonservativerer embossed radio station in Poland, based in Toruń.
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History and distribution
The station was founded on 8 December 1991 by the Polish Redemptorist priest and media mogul Tadeusz Rydzyk. First broadcasts were held in spring 1992. The transmitter responds with the words: "This is Radio Maria, the Catholic voice in your house. Praised be Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. " According to self-reported data, the program of six priests, three nuns and 200 lay helpers is produced and funded by donations and sponsors. The program consists mainly of prayers such as the rosary and hymns, which are supplemented by reports, commentary and listener hours. In the talks will be discussed with representatives of the church, politics, economy and culture.
Via satellite is Radio Maria to receive in other European countries and the USA. On the official website there is a link to live streaming, which makes it possible to listen to the station via the Internet.
Radio Maria is not a member of the global conveyor Association of Radio Maria family of channels, which currently consists of about 50 stations in 40 countries.
2005, the market share of the transmitter in Poland stood at 2.34 percent and fell to 2008 to 1.78 per cent. In 2011, the market share of the transmitter at 2.15 percent, which is about 830,000 daily listeners was. This Radio Maria came to 5th place in the Polish radio landscape. The proportion of listeners between 60 and 75 years in 2011 was 48.26 percent, followed by the group of 40 to 49 year olds with 36.04 percent. Young people aged 15-24 years have a share of only about 4.59 percent.
Criticism of Radio Maria
Political Influence
The broadcaster is accused that he sided and partisan meddling in politics. The Polish conservative Catholic parties, such as Law and Justice ( PiS) and the League of Polish Families (LPR ) were supported in the election campaign. Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, the " College of Social and Media Culture " ( Wyższa SzkoĹ Kultury Społecznej i Medialnej ) in Toruń ( Thorn ), whose rector he is, as well as the television channel TV Trwam passes and the Nasz Dziennik founded, are accused of partisanship.
The criticism of the transmitter is aimed primarily against the fact that program content have a Eurosceptic, anti-Semitic and xenophobic character. Overall, for the National Land Broadcasting a nearly 40 complaints against Radio Maria.
Anti-Semitism
According to information provided by the Polish Media Ethics Council, the transmitter had claimed for the umpteenth time, the Jews would hit a financial advantage from the Holocaust. Marek Edelman, who had organized the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Polish government to intervene against the channel asked:
In one printed in the news magazine Wprost tape recording of a lecture, the transmitter Rydzyk founder Lech Kaczyński referred to as " cheaters, the fits of the Jewish lobby ."
In May 2011, Radio Maria was reprimanded again by the State Broadcasting because of two implicitly anti-Semitic posts.
Misappropriation of donations
In the years 1997 and 1998 several million zloty were collected in donations without the appropriate permission of the Interior Ministry, which were intended for saving the shipyard of Gdansk. Father Tadeusz Rydzyk but the money speculating in the stock market, as the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported. The opposition in Parliament demanded an investigation.
Surreptitious
After several warnings for surreptitious advertising, which is prohibited as a non-profit station Radio Maria, the Polish CSsR was assigned as the owner of the broadcasting license in March 2011 and in July 2012, twice with fines. In December 2011, the station had broadcast advertising of a bank and its own mobile network.
Relationship with the Vatican
After multiple complaints which had not led to a decisive action of the Catholic Church in Poland, it said in a letter from the Vatican to the Polish bishops " The Holy See asks the Polish bishops urgently, the difficulties caused by some programs and activities of the radio to overcome ". The Catholic church in the country must take action against the station, demanded the papal nuncio.
After the intervention of the Vatican and the call of a "decisive action " should get a Catholic program advisory board of the transmitter, the " control and prevent political propaganda," according to the Polish bishops should. The half each occupied by the episcopate and the Redemptorist program committee has now been set up.
The Archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, called on the Polish Bishops' Conference on 25 August 2007, a renewal of the directors of the controlled Rydzyk Radio Maria and the television station Trwam. Rydzyk threatens the unity of the Polish Church.
In December 2011, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone congratulated on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI. the transmitter for "20 years of self-sacrificing evangelization " and declared, Radio Maria strength of the Catholic faith and enable the encounter with God.