Tilos Rádió

Tilos Rádió is the oldest independent radio station in Hungary and is based in Budapest.

In the transmitter around 200 people working on a voluntary basis. Tilos Rádió sends no advertising and is funded by donations and grants. The transmitter is characterized by a politically left setting.

The station was founded in 1991 as an alternative to state-run news monopoly of the opposition underground movement as a pirate radio station. Hence the name " tilos ", in German " prohibited". With the liberalization of the broadcasting market in 1995 Tilos Rádió received a broadcasting license and then sent 12 hours a day.

In November 1999, these license ran out and the station had to apply for a new broadcasting license which was denied to him by the former right-wing government under the leadership of Fidesz. It was not until after the elections in 2002, when the Socialists came back to the helm, the station was returned to the license. Since then, Tilos Rádió broadcasts 24 hours a day.

Broadcasting ban was the transmitter again by the media regulatory body ORTT for 30 days, as on Christmas Eve in 2003 spread a moderator of the transmitter in a drunken state and that he " would exterminate all Christians." In January 2004, then was a demonstration in front of the building of the radio hosts, kept at the hate speech and flags, including an Israeli flag was burned.

The station was the first institution against by the Media Authority Nemzeti Média - és Hírközlési Hatóság 2011, a process was initiated. Was objected to the playing of the song " It's On" by Ice - T because of the supposedly " harmful to minors " text.