China National Radio
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China National Radio is the national radio station
of the People's Republic of China
. Its headquarters are in Beijing
.
to set up its first station in Yan'an
(延安). It used the call sign
XNCR for broadcasts, and is the first radio station set up by the Communist Party of China
in 1940.
In the west, it was known as the Yan'an New China Radio Station broadcasting 2 hours daily. In China, it was called the Yan'an Xinhua Broadcasting Station, which was established on December 30, 1940.
On March 25, 1949, it was renamed Shanbei Xinhua Broadcasting Station after it departed from Yan'an. It began to broadcast in Peiping under the name of Peiping Xinhua Broadcasting Station. On December 5, 1949, it was officially named to Central People's Broadcasting Station, two months after the establishment of the People's Republic of China
. The station offering 15.5 hours of service daily.
Mao Zedong
emphasized that all citizens should listen to the station on May 5, 1941. The "Central Press and Broadcasting Bureau" was the driver in pushing all schools, army units, and public organizations of all levels to install loud public speakers and radio reception base. By the 1960s, 70 million speakers were installed reaching the rural population of 400 million.
They innovated wired transmission, which were linked to the commonly found telephone poles hanging with loud speakers. It was part of Mao's ideology of delivering "Politics on Demand". The station served as the headquarter for propaganda
during the Cultural Revolution
.
The station was later renamed to China National Radio. It would move to a new building in 1998.
. Channel five and Channel six, Cross-straits Radio, broadcast programs for the listeners in Taiwan
. Channel seven, Huaxia Radio, broadcasts programs for the listeners in Hong Kong
, Macau
and the Pearl River Delta
. Channel eight, Nationality Radio, broadcasts programs for the minority ethnic groups in Mongolian
, Tibetan
, Uigur, Kazak and Korean
. Channel nine, Story Radio, broadcasts entertainment programs, including comic crosstalk and storytelling series programs, etc. After the recent reform, CNR's programming and production processes are increasingly specified, targeted and personalized. CNR has 40 correspondent branches in major cities including Hong Kong and Macau, and dispatched correspondents in Taiwan.
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
. Its headquarters are in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
.
History
The infrastructure began with a transmitter from MoscowMoscow
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to set up its first station in Yan'an
Yan'an
Yan'an , is a prefecture-level city in the Shanbei region of Shaanxi province in China, administering several counties, including Zhidan County , which served as the Chinese communist capital before the city of Yan'an proper took that role....
(延安). It used the call sign
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...
XNCR for broadcasts, and is the first radio station set up by the Communist Party of China
Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...
in 1940.
In the west, it was known as the Yan'an New China Radio Station broadcasting 2 hours daily. In China, it was called the Yan'an Xinhua Broadcasting Station, which was established on December 30, 1940.
On March 25, 1949, it was renamed Shanbei Xinhua Broadcasting Station after it departed from Yan'an. It began to broadcast in Peiping under the name of Peiping Xinhua Broadcasting Station. On December 5, 1949, it was officially named to Central People's Broadcasting Station, two months after the establishment of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
. The station offering 15.5 hours of service daily.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
emphasized that all citizens should listen to the station on May 5, 1941. The "Central Press and Broadcasting Bureau" was the driver in pushing all schools, army units, and public organizations of all levels to install loud public speakers and radio reception base. By the 1960s, 70 million speakers were installed reaching the rural population of 400 million.
They innovated wired transmission, which were linked to the commonly found telephone poles hanging with loud speakers. It was part of Mao's ideology of delivering "Politics on Demand". The station served as the headquarter for propaganda
Propaganda
Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group....
during the Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...
.
The station was later renamed to China National Radio. It would move to a new building in 1998.
Present
CNR currently has ten channels, with 198 hours of daily broadcasting through satellite. Channel one mainly broadcasts news in Mandarin to a national audience. Channel two, Business Radio, broadcasts economic, scientific and technological information and service programs in Mandarin throughout China. Channel three, Music Radio, is an FM stereo music channel. Channel four, Metro Radio, provides life programs exclusively to the listeners in BeijingBeijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
. Channel five and Channel six, Cross-straits Radio, broadcast programs for the listeners in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. Channel seven, Huaxia Radio, broadcasts programs for the listeners in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, Macau
Macau
Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
and the Pearl River Delta
Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta , Zhujiang Delta or Zhusanjiao in Guangdong province, People's Republic of China is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea...
. Channel eight, Nationality Radio, broadcasts programs for the minority ethnic groups in Mongolian
Mongolian language
The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner...
, Tibetan
Tibetan language
The Tibetan languages are a cluster of mutually-unintelligible Tibeto-Burman languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the northern Indian subcontinent in Baltistan, Ladakh,...
, Uigur, Kazak and Korean
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
. Channel nine, Story Radio, broadcasts entertainment programs, including comic crosstalk and storytelling series programs, etc. After the recent reform, CNR's programming and production processes are increasingly specified, targeted and personalized. CNR has 40 correspondent branches in major cities including Hong Kong and Macau, and dispatched correspondents in Taiwan.
Channels
| Programme | Chinese | Description | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sounds of China | (中国之声) | (The First Programme, a national service, mainly news and commentaries, 24 hours a day) | on MW 540, 639, 945, 981, 1035, 1053, 1116 etc., on SW 4460, 6030, 9645, 9680 etc., and on FM 106.1 in Beijing (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities) |
| Business Radio | (经济之声) | (The Second Programme, a national service, mainly business news, broadcasting during GMT+8 5-24) | on MW 630, 720, 855, on SW 6175, 7245, 9620, 11665 etc., and on FM 96.6 in Beijing (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities) |
| Music Radio | (音乐之声) | (The Third Programme, broadcasting Chinese and world pop music on FM in many main cities in China, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-24) | on FM 90.0 in Beijing (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities) |
| Metro Channel | (都市之声) | (The Fourth Programme, broadcasting in Beijing only, mainly entertainment and talk, broadcasting during GMT+8 5-1) | on FM 101.8 in Beijing |
| The Sounds of the Chinese | (中华之声) | (The First Taiwan Service, broadcasting in Mandarin, mainly news, entertainment, talk, broadcasting during GMT+8 8:55-14:15, 17:55-8:05) | on MW 549, 765, 837, 1116 and SW 5925, 7620, 9685, 11620, 11935 in Taiwan Area |
| Sound of the Divine Land | (神州之声) | (The Second Taiwan Service, broadcasting in dialects including Amoy, Hakka and entertainment in Mandarin, broadcasting during GMT+8 4:55-9:05, 11:55-2:05) | on MW 684, 909, 1089 and SW 6165, 9170, 11905, 15710 in Taiwan Area |
| Huaxia Mandarin | (华夏普通) | (The Zhujiang delta, Hong Kong and Macao Service, broadcasting in Mandarin only, broadcasting during GMT+8 5-2) | on FM 87.8 in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau |
| Huaxia Bilingual | (华夏双语) | (The Zhujiang delta, Hong Kong and Macao Service, broadcasting in Mandarin and Cantonese, broadcasting during GMT+8 5-2) | on MW 1215 and FM 104.9 in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau |
| Sounds of the Nationalities | (民族之声) | (The Minorities Service, divided into Tibetan Service and Service in Korean, Mongolian, Uygur and Kazakh since 2009. It is said that the Uygur Service will be launched at the end of 2010) | Transmitted on AM and FM in radio stations of minority ethnics' areas, such as Jilin, Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan etc. Tibetan Service on AM 1098 in Beijing, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-24 Other languages on AM 1143 in Beijing, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-1 Korean at 6-7, 12-13, 18-19; Mongolian at 7-8, 11-12, 20-21, 21-22(for Xinjiang only); Uygur at 8-10, 14-16, 16-18, 23-1; Kazakh at 10-11, 13-14, 19-20, 22-23 (All above are Beijing Time) |
| Sounds of the Literary | (文艺之声) | (Broadcasting in Beijing only, all literature and entertainment programmes, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-2) | on FM 106.6 in Beijing |
| Sounds of the elderly | (老年之声) | (Broadcasting in Beijing only, for the elderly, including entertainment, health programmes etc., broadcasting during GMT+8 4:00-1:30) | on AM 1053 in Beijing |
| Entertainment Radio | (娱乐广播 -) | (Broadcasting in Beijing only, mainly entertainment, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-2) | All the programmes are available to listen online and on demand on the CNR website |