Radio Reloj
Radio Reloj (Spanish for clock radio or radio clock ) is a Spanish-speaking radio station from Cuba . Radio Reloj is purely a news channel , although short documentary articles and "timeless" information from all areas of daily life are also broadcast.
The ticking of a second hand in the background is striking. Every full minute a beep sounds, the announcement of the current time and the Morse code for RR. If a message is being read at the time of the minute beep, the time will be announced immediately after this message. Most messages are less than a minute. In the case of longer reports and document contributions, these are then broken down into minute intervals. T. sent by the minute offset. The current times in twenty capitals around the world are announced at 12 noon and midnight.
On the air since July 1, 1947, Radio Reloj claims to be the oldest 24-hour news broadcaster in the world. The station was founded by the brothers Abel and Goar Mestre, who had owned half of the shares in CMQ Radio, the second largest nationwide broadcasting network, since 1943. During the unrest that led to the Cuban Revolution , Radio Reloj was the target of a group of fighters from the Directorio Revolucionario (DR) on March 13, 1957 : The attempt by the predominantly student group to gain control of the station and call the nation to rebellion also failed like the attempted assassination attempt on Fulgencio Batista in the stormed presidential palace. While retreating from the transmitter building to the university campus, DR leader José Antonio Echevarría was stopped by the police and killed in a firefight. After Fidel Castro came to power in January 1959 and in the course of the gradual abolition of freedom of the press in Cuba, Radio Reloj was forcibly nationalized in September 1960. The Mestre brothers had fled abroad in March and April 1960 after being attacked as counter-revolutionaries for critical content broadcast on their stations and seeing their lives in danger.
In addition to the Internet stream , the station can also be received via 22 medium wave and 16 FM stations (especially in larger cities).
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Individual evidence
- ^ Chronology of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution (PDF), excerpt from the book »Fidel Castro. Mein Leben «, p. 6, accessed on January 20, 2017
- ^ Pablo Sirvén: El rey de la TV. Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2013 (Spanish)
- ↑ Pablo Sirvén: Goar Mestre y sus historias con déjà-vu, in: La Nación of September 27, 2009, accessed on January 20, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ Michael B. Salwen and Bruce Garrison: Latin American Journalism. Routledge, New York and London 1991 (English)