Showing posts with label czech republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label czech republic. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

Český Rozhlas







Český Rozhlas (Czech Radio) is the publicly funded radio network of the Czech Republic based in Prague. They went on the air in 1923 making Czechoslovakia only the second country (after England) to make regular broadcasts in Europe.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Kiss Radio

Kiss Radio is a network of Contemporary Hit stations in the Czech Republic.

Kiss 90 FM Proton covers the area of western Bohemia.


Kiss 88.3 FM Hády is based in the city of Brno.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Radio Prague / Radio Praha

I've been listening to my CDs in alphabetical order over the past few months while making my 50 mile round trip commute to work every day. I'm now in the letter O which includes Scottish post-punk band Orange Juice, California indie-pop band The Orange Peels and UK electronica from Orbital.
Next came Dazzle Ships by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, an experimental synthpop and sound collage album from 1983. The first track is called "Radio Prague" and simply consists of the opening bars of the Communist anthem Forward Left which was used as the interval signal from (what was then) Czechoslovakia's international broadcast station. An interval signal is just a short musical call sign indicating that a station's broadcast is about to begin.
Here's the track set to some eastern bloc imagery sure to cause cold war flashbacks.






Radio Prague began broadcasting in 1936 and has programming on satellite and internet in six different languages. They ceased most shortwave broadcasts in 2011 although they can still be heard in North America via Radio Miami International in English and Spanish.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Radio Blanik


Radio Blanik broadcasts on 17 different frequencies throughout the Czech Republic.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Radio FM Plus

Radio FM Plus plays the "Greatest hits of the 80 years to the present," according to Google Translate's version of their website (I'm guessing "80 years" is actually "the 1980s.") They broadcast on 10 frequencies throughout the western part of the Czech Republic aka Bohemia.