Slovenský rozhlas (; "Slovak Radio") or SRo was a
state-owned
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nationwide
public-service radio broadcaster in
Slovakia. It was headquartered in
Bratislava
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in a building shaped like an inverted
pyramid.
History
SRo began broadcasting from Bratislava, then in
Czechoslovakia, twice per week on 3 August 1926 and then daily from 2 October 1926.
The broadcaster also managed the Slovak Radio Children's Choir, founded in
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
, and the
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra ( sk, Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu, link=no), previously known as Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and CSR Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony radio orchestra based in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Fo ...
(SOSR), founded in
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
as the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
As a means to improve the finances of the state-owned public television broadcaster
Slovenská televízia ''(Slovak Television)'', on 1 January 2011 SRo merged with Slovenská televízia to create
Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska ''(Radio and Television of Slovakia)''.
SRo was a full member of the
European Broadcasting Union
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between 1993 and 2011.
Channels
When merged with Slovenská televízia in 2011, SRo operated nine radio channels, all of which were continued as a part of Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska.
*SRo 1:
*SRo 2:
*SRo 3:
*SRo 4:
Rádio FM
*SRo 5:
*SRo 6:
Radio Slovakia International
The following were digital-only channels:
*SRo 7: (classical music)
*SRo 8: (drama)
*SRo 9: (for children up to age 10)
See also
*
Radio and Television Slovakia, SRo's successor
*
List of radio stations in Slovakia
*
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra ( sk, Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu, link=no), previously known as Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and CSR Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony radio orchestra based in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Fo ...
References
External links
About the Slovak Radio Building
European Broadcasting Union members
Publicly funded broadcasters
Radio stations in Slovakia
Radio stations established in 1926
Mass media in Bratislava
1926 establishments in Slovakia
Companies disestablished in 2011
State media
2011 disestablishments in Slovakia
Defunct mass media in Slovakia
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