The Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS) was the state-owned radio broadcasting station that operated from

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) with the main transmitter in

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. It operated from March 1936 until the end of the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948.Tamar Liebes and Zohar Kampf, "“Hello! This is Jerusalem calling”: The revival of spoken Hebrew on the Mandatory radio (1936–1948)", ''Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture'', Volume 29, Issue 2, 2010, 137-158 It broadcast programs in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, with broadcasting time allotted in that order.Andrea Stanton, "Jerusalem Calling: The Birth of the Palestine Broadcasting Service", "Jerusalem Quarterly", Volume 50, Summer 2012, 6-22 Its

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service, Kol Yerushalayim, which was inaugurated on March 30, 1936, played an important role in the development of Hebrew as a national language for the founders of Israel. While news broadcasts and political commentary was heavily censored, the PBS' cultural programs - including its live music broadcasts - played an important role in the development of interwar Palestinian and Zionist (later Israeli) national identities.

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