Radio Impuls is a private radio station founded in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

in 1999 when it replaced the nationwide station Rádio Alfa, which lost its license.. It is the most popular radio station in the country by number of listeners (as of late 2014). Since 2014, it has been owned by

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group, a company owned by

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, the second richest man and former

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. The station broadcasts mostly Czech music, news, traffic information, and entertainment. In 2014, the company launched a second station called Czech Impuls, which mainly plays Czech songs, mostly from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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