Kossuth Rádió
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MR1-Kossuth Rádió is a major radio station of Hungary and is produced by Magyar Rádió. Named after Lajos Kossuth
, a Hungarian revolutionary, the radio station has been in existence since 1925.
The station can be streamed online using Media player.
MR1-Kossuth Rádió is the news-talk station in Hungary with the greatest tradition and with the richest content. Well balanced, authentic news programmes, information in all the important topics, current affairs and national debate. MR1-Kossuth Rádió also offers science, radio plays, culture, service programmes, sports, children programs and cabaret.
MR1-Kossuth Rádió offers content to many people, helping them through their daily lives. The station pays attention to people in special situations, like those having small children; farmers and those interested in the lives of the main church denominations.
The new MR1-Kossuth Rádió was repositioned and reintroduced in 2007: it is not only fresher and more interesting but has also been made more intimate and friendly. MR1-Kossuth Rádió as a public service radio station offers high quality content for listeners when competing with other radio stations.
The credibility of the station is based upon its news programmes. Thanks to their accuracy and unbiased nature, MR1-Kossuth Rádió is the ”main national station” today. It makes the very best of radio: it informs about events that are currently happening.
The morning show called 180 minutes is a three-hour-long news programme, with issues of public concern news and live discussions, economic and political analyses, and reports of our foreign correspondents. This is the most popular news-talk morning radio programme, it is listened by 1 million people day by day.
The main news programme Chronicles is the most listened radio news programme of the country for years. The other “Chronicles” are refreshed editions. The hourly newscast blocks constitute the frame of the daily programme flow. The station broadcasts news in every half an hour during the morning and afternoon drive-time slots.
The afternoon drive-time programme Round the corner deals with the most important and interesting current stories – the issues are addressed from the points of view of those involved and concerned.
In 2008, a new children’s daily programme Vacka Rádió was introduced, carefully designed by specialists. The script is based on figures and situations in the fantasy world of a land called Snow Pile Couch created by Zsuzsa Gaál. The series is full of humour and vitality; it is entertaining, adventurous and without any violence. The children’s songs performed by Bori Rutkai and her group were published by MR, the Vacka CD was a success such as the “Vacka Days” programmes where children are entertained by life concerts and handicraft playhouses.
Since 2009, Vacka Rádió is part of a half-hour timeslot for children together with the evening tale and children’s music.
Programmes on Saturdays provide background information to the main issues of the week, while the Sunday programmes are dedicated to culture, art and heritage. In 2008 two external productions has been included into the programme flow: the “Folk music without frontiers” introducing Hungarian folk culture, Hungarian folk and world music to the listeners, and the new cultural debate programme “Pro-kontra”.
In Summer 2009 was launched the most recent daily report programme “The Place,” experimenting with the presentation of events, phenomenon, places and professions from a very insider perspective.
Over 200 new radio drama and literary adaptations have been made and broadcast by MR since 2006. Related to this activities MR was successful in buying the rights of rebroadcast numerous radio drama and as a result of this it launched the “Night Radio Theatre” programme.
The new on-line concept of the MR was launched in 2007, in which each of the MR stations were given an independent homepage. In 2009, MR decided for further modernisation of mr1.hu: the new platform focuses more on presenting sound material, pod casting MR content. The MR On-line Team works the most closely with MR1-Kossuth Rádió. The front page of mr1.hu has been extended up to 60-70 titles. There is a box for 5 top stories and a multifunctional flash-based player for sound materials, pictures, videos and articles. Users can follow the programme on twitter
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Airwaves service company Antenna Hungária broadcasts Kossuth Rádió with 2 MW power on 540 kHz AM from Transmitter Solt
, several FM stations in the eastern (OIRT) band as well as a recently added nation-wide network of western band (CCIR) FM relays. It is 107.8 MHz in and around Budapest
. The AM broadcast can be heard as far as Turin
in the south and Helsinki
in the north at night. There have been overturned proposals to save money by reducing Kossuth Rádió's AM-band power to 1 MW, which would deny access to the Hungarian minority abroad.
Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Regent-President of Hungary in 1849. He was widely honored during his lifetime, including in the United Kingdom and the United States, as a freedom fighter and bellwether of democracy in Europe.-Family:Lajos...
, a Hungarian revolutionary, the radio station has been in existence since 1925.
The station can be streamed online using Media player.
MR1-Kossuth Rádió is the news-talk station in Hungary with the greatest tradition and with the richest content. Well balanced, authentic news programmes, information in all the important topics, current affairs and national debate. MR1-Kossuth Rádió also offers science, radio plays, culture, service programmes, sports, children programs and cabaret.
MR1-Kossuth Rádió offers content to many people, helping them through their daily lives. The station pays attention to people in special situations, like those having small children; farmers and those interested in the lives of the main church denominations.
The new MR1-Kossuth Rádió was repositioned and reintroduced in 2007: it is not only fresher and more interesting but has also been made more intimate and friendly. MR1-Kossuth Rádió as a public service radio station offers high quality content for listeners when competing with other radio stations.
The credibility of the station is based upon its news programmes. Thanks to their accuracy and unbiased nature, MR1-Kossuth Rádió is the ”main national station” today. It makes the very best of radio: it informs about events that are currently happening.
The morning show called 180 minutes is a three-hour-long news programme, with issues of public concern news and live discussions, economic and political analyses, and reports of our foreign correspondents. This is the most popular news-talk morning radio programme, it is listened by 1 million people day by day.
The main news programme Chronicles is the most listened radio news programme of the country for years. The other “Chronicles” are refreshed editions. The hourly newscast blocks constitute the frame of the daily programme flow. The station broadcasts news in every half an hour during the morning and afternoon drive-time slots.
The afternoon drive-time programme Round the corner deals with the most important and interesting current stories – the issues are addressed from the points of view of those involved and concerned.
In 2008, a new children’s daily programme Vacka Rádió was introduced, carefully designed by specialists. The script is based on figures and situations in the fantasy world of a land called Snow Pile Couch created by Zsuzsa Gaál. The series is full of humour and vitality; it is entertaining, adventurous and without any violence. The children’s songs performed by Bori Rutkai and her group were published by MR, the Vacka CD was a success such as the “Vacka Days” programmes where children are entertained by life concerts and handicraft playhouses.
Since 2009, Vacka Rádió is part of a half-hour timeslot for children together with the evening tale and children’s music.
Programmes on Saturdays provide background information to the main issues of the week, while the Sunday programmes are dedicated to culture, art and heritage. In 2008 two external productions has been included into the programme flow: the “Folk music without frontiers” introducing Hungarian folk culture, Hungarian folk and world music to the listeners, and the new cultural debate programme “Pro-kontra”.
In Summer 2009 was launched the most recent daily report programme “The Place,” experimenting with the presentation of events, phenomenon, places and professions from a very insider perspective.
Over 200 new radio drama and literary adaptations have been made and broadcast by MR since 2006. Related to this activities MR was successful in buying the rights of rebroadcast numerous radio drama and as a result of this it launched the “Night Radio Theatre” programme.
The new on-line concept of the MR was launched in 2007, in which each of the MR stations were given an independent homepage. In 2009, MR decided for further modernisation of mr1.hu: the new platform focuses more on presenting sound material, pod casting MR content. The MR On-line Team works the most closely with MR1-Kossuth Rádió. The front page of mr1.hu has been extended up to 60-70 titles. There is a box for 5 top stories and a multifunctional flash-based player for sound materials, pictures, videos and articles. Users can follow the programme on twitter
Twitter
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Airwaves service company Antenna Hungária broadcasts Kossuth Rádió with 2 MW power on 540 kHz AM from Transmitter Solt
Transmitter Solt
The Transmitter Solt is a transmission facility for 540 kHz MW near Solt, Hungary. It is designed for an output power of 2000 kilowatt and is therefore one of the most powerful broadcasting towers in the world...
, several FM stations in the eastern (OIRT) band as well as a recently added nation-wide network of western band (CCIR) FM relays. It is 107.8 MHz in and around Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
. The AM broadcast can be heard as far as Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
in the south and Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
in the north at night. There have been overturned proposals to save money by reducing Kossuth Rádió's AM-band power to 1 MW, which would deny access to the Hungarian minority abroad.
External links
- About MR1-Kossuth Rádió
- MR1-Kossuth Rádió at TwitterTwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...