Radio Tel Aviv (1932)

This article looks at the first licensed broadcaster in what is now Israel . Information about the radio station that is active under the same name can be found at Radio Tel Aviv .

Levante Fair Tel Aviv 1932

Radio Tel Aviv was the first broadcaster to serve under the British Mandate for Palestine . It was run by Mendel Abramovitch with a special permit from the mandate administration. The broadcast began on April 7, 1932 at the Levante Fair in Tel Aviv . At that time only 675 radio receivers were registered. At the start of the broadcast, speeches by Mendel Abramovitch and the then mayor of Tel Aviv Meir Dizengoff were broadcast. The latter hoped for the station to grow to reach Jewish audiences around the world. Radio Tel Aviv broadcast until April 1935. Approval for continued operation was refused by the British mandate administration. This wanted to install a transmitter under its own control, the later Palestine Broadcasting Service .

Since 1996 a commercial radio station has been broadcasting under the name Radio Tel Aviv on the frequency 102.0 MHz for the city. Both have nothing to do with each other except for the name.

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Kol Israel - On the development of broadcasting in Israel. In: haGalil. March 6, 2016, accessed on August 10, 2020 (German). 
3. ^ A Brief History of the Country. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on August 10, 2020 (English). 
4. ↑ Andrea L. Stanton: "This Is Jerusalem Calling": State Radio in Mandate Palestine . University of Texas Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-292-74751-7 ( google.de [accessed August 10, 2020]).