Radio Prague International () is the official
international broadcasting station of 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 ...
. Broadcasting first began on 31 August 1936 near the spa town of
Poděbrady. Radio Prague broadcasts in six languages:
English,
German,
French,
Spanish,
Czech and
Russian. It broadcasts programmes about the Czech Republic on satellite and on the Internet.
In 2021,
Rospotrebnadzor blocked the website of Radio Prague International in Russia due to a report about
Jan Palach from 2001.
See also
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Battle for Czech Radio
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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 ...
, the Czech publicly funded radio broadcaster
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Czech Television, the Czech publicly funded television broadcaster
References
External links
* – Radio Prague
Radio Prague International stream (all languages)Network Europe Magazine(archived 21 September 2006)
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International broadcasters
Publicly funded broadcasters
Radio stations in the Czech Republic
Radio stations established in 1936
1936 establishments in Czechoslovakia
State media
Czech Radio