Polish Radio Lwów ( pl, Polskie Radio Lwów) was a station of the

Polish Radio Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna (PR S.A.; English: Polish Radio) is Poland's national public-service radio broadcasting organization owned by the State Treasury of Poland. History Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making ...

, located in the city of Lwów (now

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), which in the interbellum period belonged to the

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. It was regarded as the second most popular station of the Polish Radio, behind Radio Warsaw.

History

The station was opened on January 13, 1930, during the Eastern Trade Fair. Its frequency was 795 kHz and range - 100 kilometers. Its office was located in a building at Batory 6 Street, and a Marconi transmitter, purchased in

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, was placed in the complex of the Eastern Trade Fair. At first, broadcasts were daily between 17:45 and 20:00. Broadcasts of the station were very popular across Poland, and the Wesoła Lwowska Fala, whose actors used

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, was among top shows among Polish listeners. Polish Radio Lwow also played classical music, news, lectures and liturgical services. Among those employed at the station, there were several Polish Jews, with composer

Henryk Wars Henryk Wars (born Henryk Warszawski, after 1947 Henry Vars; 29 December 1902 – 1 September 1977) was a Polish composer. He composed scores for 50 films during the interwar period in Poland and 60 more in the United States. He composed dozen ...

and songwriter

Emanuel Szlechter Emanuel Schlechter (pseudonyms Eman, Olgierd Lech) (Emanuel Szlechter) (9 October 1904 – 1943) was born and died in Lwów. He was a Polish-Jewish artist, lyricist, screenwriter, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director. H ...

as the most prominent. Lwów was the city with most radio owners in Poland, in mid-1939 there were around 45,000 radios, owned by its inhabitants. In the summer of 1938, construction of new office began, it was planned to be completed in mid-1940. Following the outbreak of the

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, the campus of the radio was bombed by the

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on September 16, 1939 European Radio History, year 1939
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, another Polish-language radio station began its broadcasts in the now-Ukrainian city of Lviv. It uses equipment of a private Ukrainian station Radio Nezaleznost and its range is 1.

Employees

* Witold Scazighino - director, *

Juliusz Petry Juliusz Petry (1890–1961) - was a Polish writer, and radio director; he was the first director of Polish Radio in Lwów and Wilno and, after World War II, in Wrocław. He co-organized the re-launch of Polish Television Telewizja Polska S.A ...

- program director, * Witold Korecki - technical director, * Adam Soltys - music director, * Ada Artzt - children broadcasts director, * rev. Michal Rekas - religious broadcasts director, * prof. Rudolf Wacek - sports broadcasts director,

Announcers

* Bohdan Sadowski, * Celina Nahlik, * Jerzy Tepa, * Wiktor Budzynski, * Czeslaw Halski, * Kazimierz Wajda.

Programs

* ''Nasze Oczko'' (''Our Eye''), * ''Wesole Niedziele'' (''Funny Sundays''), * ''Wesola Lwowska Fala'' (''Merry Lwow Wave''), * ''Ta-joj'', * ''Gospoda pod Lwowem'' (''A chop-house near Lwow''), * ''Rozmowa z lwami pod ratuszem'' (''Conversation with lions at the town hall''), * ''Wesoly tygodnik dzwiekowy'' (''Merry sound weekly''), * ''Radio Chorym'' (''Radio for the sick''), first Polish broadcast for the sick, created in 1931, * Broadcasts of Sunday services from Roman Catholic, Armenian and Greek-Catholic cathedrals, * ''Teatr Wyobrazni'' (''Theatre of Imagination''), * ''Kronika naukowa'' (''Scientific chronicle''), created by

Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (12 December 1890 – 12 April 1963) was a Polish philosopher and logician, a prominent figure in the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic. He originated many novel ideas in semantics. Among these was categorial grammar, a highly ...

, Stanislaw Lempicki, and

Leon Chwistek Leon Chwistek (Kraków, Austria-Hungary, 13 June 1884 – Barvikha near Moscow, Russia, 20 August 1944) was a Polish avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician. Career and philosophy ...

, * ''Lwowska Warta'' - a program for the countryside, * ''Dni Regionalne'' (''Regional Days''), broadcasts from towns and cities of the area, including

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, Stanislawow and Przemysl.

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