Public broadcaster of the Czech Republic
?esky rozhlas
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Entrance to the
?esky Rozhlas
headquarters in Prague
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Headquarters
| Vinohradska 12,
Prague
, Czech Republic
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Key people
| Rene Zavoral
[
cs
]
(CEO)
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Launch date
| 1923
; 101 years ago
(
1923
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Website
| www.rozhlas.cz
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?esky rozhlas
(CRo) is the
public
radio broadcaster of the
Czech Republic
operating continuously since 1923. It is the oldest radio broadcaster in
continental Europe
and the second oldest in
Europe
after the
BBC
. ?esky Rozhlas was established in 1992 by the Czech Radio Act, which sets out the framework for its operation and financing. It acts as the successor to the previous state-owned Czechoslovak Radio which ceased to exist by 1992.
The service broadcasts throughout the Czech Republic nationally and locally. Its four national services are Radio?urnal, Dvojka, Vltava and Plus. Czech Radio operates 12 nationwide stations and another 14 regional stations. All ?Ro stations broadcast via internet stream, digital via DAB+ and DVB, and part analog via terrestrial transmitters. It is based in Prague in a building in Vinohradska t?ida.
History
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Czechoslovak era
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?esky rozhlas
, then
?eskoslovensky rozhlas
was established on 18 May 1923, making its first broadcast from a
scout
tent in the
Kbely
district of
Prague
, under the name
Radiojournal
.
[1]
The premises of the station changed numerous times, firstly moving to the district of
Hloub?tin
, before later using locations in the
Po?tovni nakupny
building, the
Orbis
building and the
Narodni d?m na Vinohradech
building, all in Prague.
[1]
The first regular announcer of the station, who prepared and presented the news from the daily papers, was
Adolf Dobrovolny
. He took up the position on 17 January 1924, becoming the station's first professional radio announcer and his position was made permanent on 1 January 1925.
[1]
He held the position until his death in 1934.
A message broadcast on Czech Radio on 5 May 1945 brought about the start of the
Prague uprising
.
[2]
In the same year, regional studios in the cities of
Plze?
,
?eske Bud?jovice
,
Hradec Kralove
and
Usti nad Labem
were launched.
[3]
The station was taken over by Soviet forces, after
short fighting with unarmed civilians
, in August 1968, in the first day of the
Soviet invasion
, although broadcasting managed to continue from alternative locations.
[2]
Czech era
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In 1991, the Czech radio group changed its status and became an independent organisation, although as of 2008 was still publicly funded.
[3]
[4]
Czech Radio (?Ro) was established by Act of the Czech National Council (No. 484/1991 Coll.) on Czech Radio. On 1 January 1992, Cesky Rozhlas was established as a public radio with property transferred from Czechoslovak Radio.
The headquarters were setup at Vinohradska 12 in Prague, where the old Czechoslovak Radio was based at.
Operation of regional stations in the Czech Republic was also transferred. On 1 January 1993, Czech Radio became a member of the
European Broadcasting Union
(EBU).
In 1999, Czech Radio launched an experimental digital radio broadcast in Prague.
An envisaged new premises for Czech Radio, a 30-storey building in the district of
Pankrac
which took 22 years to build at a cost of 1.35 billion
Czech koruna
, was sold after the construction phrase in 1996 as it was deemed too big for the station's requirements.
[9]
In 2002 the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
station stopped broadcasting in the Czech Republic, with the broadcast rebranded as
Czech Radio 6
under the Czech Radio group.
[10]
Czech Radio launched a new logo in 2013, featuring the letter
R
with stripes, at a cost of 2.2 million Czech koruna.
[11]
The organisation marked 90 years of existence in 2013, celebrating the occasion with a 48-hour broadcast including 90 interviews interspersed with news reports every half-hour.
[2]
The event, which took place on
Wenceslas Square
, set a new national record for the longest uninterrupted radio broadcast.
[2]
Radio stations
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Digital stations
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Regional stations
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Regional stations broadcast daily from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. (?Ro Brno, Plze? and Ostrava until 7.30 p.m.) with several breaks. In these breaks, in the evening and at night, the programmes of the Central Bohemian ?Ro Region are broadcast nationwide.
Logo
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Station
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?Ro Brno
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?Ro ?eske Bud?jovice
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?Ro Hradec Kralove
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?Ro Karlovy Vary
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?Ro Liberec
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?Ro Olomouc
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?Ro Ostrava
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?Ro Pardubice
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?Ro Plze?
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?Ro Radio Praha
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?Ro Region
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?Ro Sever
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?Ro Vyso?ina
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?Ro Zlin
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Former stations
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Broadcast of Radio 6, Leonardo and Radio Cesko all ended in 2013.
[15]
See also
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References
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Bibliography
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External links
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participants
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