Czech Radio - founded originally as Czechoslovak Radio -  is celebrating 100 years since the start of regular broadcasting.

How it started around the world:

1910 – the first radio broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York
1920 - radio broadcast the results of the US presidential election
1922 – regular BBC radio broadcasts begin in England
1923 – Czech radio station Radiojournal began broadcasting in Kbely on May 18, the first on the European continent

Radio broadcasting in Czechoslovakia was heard for the first time on May 18, 1923, when radio workers gathered in a tent at the airport in Prague's Kbely, and the famous "Haló, haló" was heard for the first time.
A tent borrowed from scouts, inside a piano and a few chairs - this is what the first broadcast studio in Czechoslovakia looked like.

The recordings from that time have not survived. However, their reconstructions became part of later annual broadcasts. Although in a much better sound design. Recording equipment in 1923 was much more primitive. "It was the lower part of a telephone handset, a so-called carbon microphone," explains Czech Radio historian Tomáš Pánek.

The first broadcast in May 1923 was heard by only a few dozen people. At the beginning of June, the company Radiojournal was founded and started organizing mass listening demonstrations. For example, loudspeakers were installed on Wenceslas Square, they were called speakers at the time, and people passing by stopped there in amazement.

The Czech word "rozhlas" was created in 1924 on the basis of a competition to name a new means of communication, which was launched by Radiojournal. The word ROZHLAS is composed like this: hlas = voice, the prefix "roz" means the spreading. So in Czech the name of this instituion is Český rozhlas.

The oldest preserved speech of the first Czechoslovak president is Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk's speech to children on October 27, 1928. "All of us who work honestly are equal at work. A good worker is no less worthy than a good president," said Masaryk.

     Radio around 1938

Currently, Czech Radio broadcasts on four nationwide and four special stations and operates a network of regional broadcasts in all regions of the Czech Republic. Broadcasting abroad in six world languages is an integral part. But content does not only spread over radio waves. Convenient listening to news from home and around the world, journalism, music and much more is also possible through websites and mobile applications.

        Thanks for reading

                                               Margaret

Source:  CS.Wikipedia

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