Radio Nacional is a Spanish
free-to-air
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radio station owned and operated by
Radio Nacional de España
Radio Nacional de España (acronym RNE, branded rne, "National Radio of Spain") is the national state-owned public service radio broadcaster in Spain.
RNE is the radio division and Televisión Española (TVE) is the television division of R ...
(RNE), the radio division of state-owned
public broadcaster
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Radiotelevisión Española
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(RTVE). It is the corporation's
flagship
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radio station, and is known for broadcasting mainstream and
generalist
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Occupations
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programming, including news bulletins, current affairs, sports and entertainment.
It was launched on 19 January 1937 as
Franco
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Name
* Franco (name)
* Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975
* Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître"
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's official radio under the department of propaganda during the
Spanish Civil War
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. The station was initially simply referred to as "Radio Nacional de España". It received other names, such as "RNE 1" from 1988 until 1999 and "Radio 1" from 1999 until 2008 when it adopted its current name "Radio Nacional".
Its headquarters and main production center is in Casa de la Radio at
Prado del Rey
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History
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in
Pozuelo de Alarcón
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. Although almost all its programming is in Spanish and is the same for all of Spain, RNE has territorial centers in every
autonomous community
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and produces and broadcasts some local programming in
regional variation
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s in each of them, such as
local news bulletins, in the corresponding
co-official language.
Selected frequencies
Logos and identities
Image:RNE 1 Spain (1988-2008).png, 1988–1989, 1991–1999
File:Logo_RNE_1_(1989-1991).png, 1989–1991
File:RNE_1_1991.png, 1991
Image:Radio 1 RNE Spain (1999-2008).svg, 1999–2008
Image:Logo RNE.svg, 2008–present
See also
*
Radio Nacional de España
Radio Nacional de España (acronym RNE, branded rne, "National Radio of Spain") is the national state-owned public service radio broadcaster in Spain.
RNE is the radio division and Televisión Española (TVE) is the television division of R ...
*
List of radio stations in Spain
This is a list of radio stations broadcast in Spain.
National public radio service
RNE is Spain's national public radio broadcaster and operates six stations:
* Radio Nacional - General service of mostly speech-based programming
*Radio Clásica ...
External links
Official Website
{{coord missing, Spain
Radio stations established in 1937
Radio stations in Spain
RTVE
News and talk radio stations