Magyar Rádió

The Magyar Rádió zrt. ( MR for short , Hungarian Radio Corporation ) was a public radio company in Hungary , it was integrated into the Duna Média Group on July 1, 2015 following changes to the Hungarian media law .

Radio station

The basic pillars are the transmitters MR1-Kossuth Rádió , MR2-Petőfi Rádió and MR3-Bartók Rádió , which can be received nationwide and broadcast around the clock. The three stations also formed state radio long before the political upheaval in 1989. They are named after important figures in Hungarian history in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

MR1-Kossuth Rádió

Kossuth Rádió is the information and news broadcaster in the family of the Magyar Rádió, with two million listeners a week according to his own statements. Its namesake Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) was the 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” and mainly pop and rock music, including alternative and indie music , is played, although Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) is known as a poet. As an 1848 fighter, like Kossuth, he is considered the country's “national hero”.

MR3-Bartók Rádió

The station, named after the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881–1945), plays mainly classical music, sometimes also jazz, with a relatively small proportion of words.

MR4 Nemzetiségi adások (minorities)

The national minorities living in Hungary are offered a radio program in their respective mother tongue via MR4 . So the regional studio in Pécs (German: Fünfkirchen ) produces a two-hour program for the Hungarian Germans every day . MR4 also broadcasts in Armenian, Bulgarian, Greek, Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian and Ukrainian as well as Romani . Repetitions are broadcast between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.

MR 5 Parlamenti adások

MR 5 broadcasts sessions of the Hungarian Parliament . The station can be heard via satellite and at certain times also on MR1-Kossuth Rádió.

MR 6 Régió radio

MR6 was a regional broadcaster with five studios in Pécs , Debrecen , Győr , Szeged and Miskolc . The station was broadcast over three medium wave stations. On December 22, 2012, the station was discontinued for cost reasons and replaced by Dankó Rádió, which broadcasts nationwide and offers no regional program.

Dankó Rádió

Dankó Rádió started on December 22nd, 2012 and is broadcast via the medium wave stations of the former regional station MR 6 Régió Radio. It mainly plays Hungarian folk music.

history

Hungarian Broadcasting Headquarters in Budapest

Radio in Hungary began broadcasting its radio program on December 1, 1925, about two years after regular radio operations in Germany began . Shortly before that, Magyar Telefonhírmondó Rt. Was given the right to broadcast radio, which then operated the first radio program from Budapest as Magyar Telefonhírmondó és Rádió Rt . In 1932 Budapest II was started as an entertainment channel, while the first program was intended to provide information.

As a result of its political importance as the first electronic mass medium, Hungarian radio has been the scene of dramatic events in modern Hungarian history on several occasions . The inclusion of the Wehrmacht and Hungarian troops by the Red Army at the turn of the year 1944/45 went hand in hand with the confiscation or destruction of the radio systems by the Germans.

During the unrest of 1956 , the radio building was contested as an important center of the revolution and communist propaganda.

The then 3rd program of the Hungarian radio was launched in 1973 and was given its current name Bartók Rádió in May 1987. The older two stations were named after Kossuth and Petőfi on February 1, 1949.

After the end of communism in Hungary , Hungarian radio joined the European Broadcasting Union in 1991 . Radio Budapest's international broadcasts in foreign languages were discontinued in 2007.

reception

Terrestrial

• MR1 , MR2 and MR3 can be received nationwide via FM. MR1 also broadcasts on medium wave at certain times.
• MR4's minority broadcasts are broadcast over four medium wave channels.
• MR6 broadcasts its regional program over local FM frequencies (Studio Raab, however, only over medium wave).

Satellite radio and internet

All programs can be heard on the Internet and via satellite, with the exception of the folk music station MR7 as a pure internet station. In some cases, past programs can also be listened to via Magyar Rádió's website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Web presence of MR1-Kossuth Rádió. http://www.mr1-kossuth.hu/magunkrol.html (accessed on August 18, 2010).
2. ^ Website of MR2-Petőfi Rádió. http://www.mr2.hu (accessed on August 18, 2010).
3. ↑ MR4 website. Archived copy ( memento of June 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Magyar Rádió's website. http://www.radio.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=38 .
5. ↑ Tertinszky Edit, A Magyar Rádió hőskora (1925-1932) , in: István Kollega Tarsoly (ed.), Magyarország a XX. században, vol. 3, Kultúra, művészet, sport és szórakozás, Szekszárd 1998, p. 345ff. http://mek.niif.hu/02100/02185/html/497.html (accessed on August 18, 2010).
6. ↑ http://mek.niif.hu/02100/02185/html/499.html (accessed on August 18, 2010).
7. ↑ György Dalos, 1956. The uprising in Hungary , Munich 2006, p. 52ff. In the remaining parts of the book, too, many quotes from various radio speeches at the time of the popular uprising.
8. ↑ Bieliczkyné Buzás Éva, A Magyar Rádió zenei élete . http://mek.niif.hu/02100/02185/html/504.html#III-442 .
9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of February 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).