Kossuth Rádió (formerly known as ''MR1-Kossuth Rádió'', ''Radio Budapest'' and ''Budapest I.'') is the national radio station of

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. It was established in 1925 as Budapest I. and named after

Lajos Kossuth Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (, hu, udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos, sk, Ľudovít Košút, anglicised as Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, poli ...

, a Hungarian national hero, in 1949.Fucskó Lajos: A magyar középhullámú műsorszórás (History of the Hungarian medium wave broadcasting, 1924-1975), Híradástechnika, 1975 (Hungarian)
/ref> The main Hungarian-language radio station can be heard all over

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; Antenna Hungária broadcasts it with 2 MW power on 540 kHz AM from transmitter Solt (the most powerful medium wave transmitter in the world)List of medium wave transmitters worldwide, MWLIST - longwave, mediumwave, tropical bands and shortwave radio database (English)
/ref> and several FM stations, covering Hungary and the neighbouring countries. It is the second most popular radio station in Hungary (as 2013) with 1.38 million listeners (14% of the total population) daily.

History

It was established in 1925 as ''Budapest I.'' and broadcast from

Csepel Csepel (german: Tschepele) is the 21st district and a neighbourhood in Budapest, Hungary. Csepel officially became part of Budapest on 1 January 1950. Location Csepel is located at the northern end of Csepel Island in the Danube, and covers ...

(then suburb of

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

, now part of the city) with a 2 kW

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-made transmitter on 565 metres AM. The first experimental programme began with this sentence: "Halló-halló! Itt a magyarországi rádióhírmondó 2 kW-os leadó állomása az 565 méteres hullámhosszon." ("Hallo-hallo! Here's the transmitter of the Hungarian radio broadcasting with 2 kW on 565 metres AM."). The first headquarters were built at

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and a new 3 kW tower was installed in 1926. At that time the radio was available only in and around Budapest. National broadcasting started in 1928, when Csepel transmitter was replaced with the 20 kW-strong

Lakihegy Tower The Lakihegy Tower is a 314-metre-high (1,031 ft) radio mast at Szigetszentmiklós-Lakihegy in Hungary. The Blaw-Knox type tower was built in 1933 and was one of Europe's tallest structures at the time of construction. It was designed to ...

.A Magyar Rádió, a magyar kultúra szolgálatában (Hungarian radio between 1933 and 1938), Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár (Hungarian Digital Library, Hungarian)
/ref> In the 1930s several new towers were built;

Mosonmagyaróvár Mosonmagyaróvár (; german: Wieselburg-Ungarisch Altenburg; also known by other alternative names) is a town in Győr-Moson-Sopron County in northwestern Hungary. It lies close to both the Austrian and Slovakian borders and has a populatio ...

Miskolc Miskolc ( , , ; Czech and sk, Miškovec; german: Mischkolz; yi, script=Latn, Mishkoltz; ro, Mișcolț) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 (1 Jan 2014) Miskolc is the fourth larges ...

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in 1932 and the new Lakihegy Tower with 120 kW (then the most powerful transmitter in the world) in 1933. New shows and programmes were launched continuously, the most popular was the

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, heard after the

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. The radio station reached 300,000 listeners in 1933. At the end of the

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all Hungarian radio towers were exploded by the German army. Reconstruction finished in 1948 and ''Budapest I.'' was renamed to ''Kossuth Rádió'' after

in 1949, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution of 1848-1849. Lakihegy Tower was rebuilt again in 1968 with a new 300 kW transmitter, but it was getting out of date, so the government decided to build a much powerful tower. Transmitter Solt was finished in 1977 with 2000 kW as a high priority project with the cooperation of the

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. Nationwide FM transmitters built up in the 2000s and 2010s.

Shows

The morning show called ''180 perc'' ("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. The main news programme ''Krónika'' ("Chronicles") is the most listened radio news programme in 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. In summer 2009 the most recent daily report programme ''A hely'' ("The Place") was launched, experimenting with the presentation of events, phenomenon, places and professions from a very insider perspective. The programme ''Határok nélkül'' ("Without borders") was established after the

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, focusing on the

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living outside the present-day borders of Hungary due to the

Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It formal ...

. Subsidiaries of

Magyar Rádió Magyar Rádió (MR, ''The Hungarian Radio Corporation'', also known internationally as ''Radio Budapest'') is Hungary's publicly funded radio broadcasting organisation. It is also the country's official international broadcasting station. Dome ...

(MR) report from

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, Arad,

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and

Komárno Komárno, ( hu, Komárom, german: Komorn, sr, Коморан, translit=Komoran), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian; is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. ...

. There are several shows of ethnicity groups and religious communities of the country, including a

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(''Tanúim lesztek''),

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(''Tebenned bíztunk eleitől fogva''),

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(''Erős vár a mi Istenünk''),

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(''Krisztus közöttünk''),

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(''Örüljetek az Úrban mindenkor''),

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(''Az Úr közel''),

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(''Békesség néktek''),

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(''Egy az Isten''),

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(''Halljad Izrael'') and a

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(''Jelenlét'') programme.

Broadcasting

* Transmitter Solt (540 kHz, 2000 kW); the most powerful medium wave transmitter in the world. Kossuth Rádió can be heard all over

and all over

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in the evening, as far as

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(~2,200 km). *47 FM transmitters nationwide, covering Hungary and the neighbouring territories. *

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and

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for

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s and Hungarian Australians.Frequencies; AM, FM and satellite, homepage of Kossuth Rádió (Hungarian)
/ref> *The station can be streamed online using Media player or web browser o
MR1 Kossuth Radio Online

References

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History

Shows

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See also

References