Český rozhlas 6 (abbreviated as ČRo 6; in 1995-2002 Český rozhlas 6/Rádio Svobodná Evropa) was the

Czech Radio Czech Radio (, ČRo) is the public radio broadcaster of the Czech Republic operating continuously since 1923. It is the oldest national radio broadcaster in continental Europe and the second-oldest in Europe after the BBC. Czech Radio was esta ...

's full-channel analytical-publicist station that broadcast from 1995-2013. Until 2002, it was a joint project of Czech Radio and Radio Free Europe, whose Czech broadcasts it continued. The successor to ČRo 6 became Český rozhlas Plus in 2013. The station focused on commenting on political events, developments and the life of civil society in the Czech Republic and European countries. It broadcast programmes focusing on politics, culture, economy, historical events, religious life, ecology and interviews. It also dealt with the issue of national minorities.

History

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The history of

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began in 1949 with the decision of the

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to create a radio station whose signal was to reach behind the

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. Its regular broadcasts began on 1 May 1951 from

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, where it was also based for the next forty years. The first line of the broadcast was "The voice of free Czechoslovakia is calling, Radio Free Europe." After the

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in 1989, from 1 July 1994,

began broadcasting from Prague. In the autumn of 1995, the original Czech editorial office of

joined

, forming Czech Radio 6/Radio Free Europe, which began broadcasting on 6 November 1995. In 2002, the

cut off funding for

, bringing the joint broadcast to an end. From 1 October 2002, the station continued to operate as Czech Radio 6. The station ceased to exist on 28 February 2013 together with Rádio Česko and Leonardo and was replaced by the spoken word station Český rozhlas Plus on 1 March 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:CRo 6 Radio stations in the Czech Republic Mass media in Prague Radio stations established in 1936