Radio Rossii (russian: Радио России, ''Radio of Russia'') is the primary public radio station in
Russia
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.
History
Radio Rossii began broadcasting on December 10, 1990. The radio station is part of the state-owned
unitary enterprise
A unitary enterprise (russian: унитарное предприятие) is a government-owned corporation in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. Unitary enterprises are business entities that have no ownership rights to the assets that th ...
VGTRK, which also includes television channels
Russia-1
Russia-1 (russian: Россия-1) is a state-owned Russian television channel, first aired on 14 February 1956 as Programme Two in the Soviet Union. It was relaunched as RTR on 13 May 1991, and is known today as Russia-1. It is the flagship ch ...
,
Russia-2,
Russia-24,
Carousel, and
Russia-K
Russia-K (russian: Россия Культура, translit=Rossiya Kul'tura "Russia - Culture") is a Russian nationwide not-for-profit television channel that broadcasts shows regarding arts and culture. It belongs to the state-controlled VGTRK ...
, as well as radio stations
Yunost,
Mayak,
Kultura and
Vesti FM.
Broadcast
Radio Rossii is classified as an information and light entertainment station. It is one of the state's information channels, meant to appeal to a wide audience with varying tastes. It's included in the first multiplex of digital TV broadcasting
DVB-T2
DVB-T2 is an abbreviation for "Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial"; it is the extension of the television standard DVB-T, issued by the consortium DVB, devised for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial tele ...
. Local state affiliates (GTRKs) broadcast regional programs on Radio Rossii.
Distribution
With about 1,500 FM transmitters, Radio Rossii has the largest FM coverage in Russia. It remains the only station with widespread
OIRT-FM coverage on (65.9-74 MHz). The OIRT band is only used in the
CIS countries. In populated areas across Russia, Radio Rossii can be received both on OIRT and the standard FM band on (87.5-108 MHz), and streams are also available via satellite and the internet.
Since April 5, 2022 probably due to the conflicts, broadcasting started again on Medium Waves at 999 kHz, 24 hours a day via 1000 kW transmitter in Grigoriopol, Transnistria. This Transmitter is easily received in all of Europe and parts of Asia.
Switch-offs
Broadcasts in
shortwave were terminated in the 2010s, and
longwave
In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band. The term is historic, dating from the e ...
broadcasts were terminated on 9 January 2014.
References
External links
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Radio Rossii streams and regional stations (GTRK) on fmstream.org
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Radio stations established in 1990
Radio stations in Russia
Russian-language radio stations
Mass media in Moscow