Rádio Renascença

Rádio Renascença (RR) [ ʁadiu ʁɯnɐʃsẽsɐ ] (German Radio rebirth ) is a private radio station in Portugal. Owner of Renascença is the Catholic Church in Portugal. The transmitter's program is based primarily on information programs, but also to music with emphasis on the sixties and seventies. The transmitter takes the conservative political direction in Portugal. Musically, however, he offered again and again also a space for innovative or daring DJs, especially in the evening and night program. The well-known radio host António Sérgio began in 1968 at Rádio Renascença, where he in 1976 with his program Rotação (German: rotation) was a pioneer of rock, punk and metal scene in Portugal. And in 1963, the Sheiks had their inspiration from the evening's music program 23a hora ( dt: 23th hour) relative before they became the main beat band in the country.

History

The Portuguese Catholic Church established Rádio Renascença in 1934 to reach the Catholic faithful better and to transmit the first time services. In June 1936, Renascença first went on the air, first broadcast by a simple transmission tower in the Lisbon area. A month later, the radio stations move into the newly furnished studio rooms in Rua Capello, which are used to today.

Rádio Renascença had during the Carnation Revolution in 1974, a more important because at 0:21 clock on April 25, the first verse of the banned by the dictatorship song Grândola, Vila Morena ( Grândola, suntanned city) was read over him by night moderator, the had immediately solidarity with the soldiers who had taken the station a few minutes earlier. Then came the song itself, sung by the anti-fascist protest singer Zeca Afonso. For the Portuguese population, it was a signal - if not yet determine was what. For the various units of the rebel army, the Movimento the forcas Armadas (English: Armed Forces Movement ), however, it was agreed the news slogan that all starting positions could be purchased as planned, and the coup was now to be addressed. Rádio Renascença thus transmitted the signal from the point of no return for the revolution that the authoritarian Estado Novo regime ended after more than 40 years.

After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the radio station was nationalized in the wake of new economic and regulatory policy at first, but shortly afterwards went back under the leadership of the Catholic Church. 1986 Rádio Renascença began under the name of RFM to send a second channel, which should appeal to the younger audience and continues to play mainly songs from the eighties. In 1997, the station took another channel called MEGA FM in operation that takes as RFM especially music, but it is primarily focused on the current charts. About Renascença and RFM partially specially tailored local broadcasts are transmitted, plus there are editors in Évora, Braga, Lisbon, Chaves, Porto, Viseu, Leiria and Elvas.

The most powerful transmitter of Rádio Renascença located near Muge, Salvaterra de Magos circle in 39.119939N 8.711472W transmitting on 594 kHz with 100 kW output power. The antenna a 259 meters high, even radiant transmission tower is used, which is the tallest structure in Portugal.