ČRo Plus is a radio station of the

Czech Radio Czech Radio (, ČRo) is the public radio broadcaster of the Czech Republic operating continuously since 1923. It is the oldest national radio broadcaster in continental Europe and the second-oldest in Europe after the BBC. Czech Radio was esta ...

in the

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. It is full-screen

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station, focused on analytical

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. It was founded in 2013, when it replaced the trio of stations ČRo 6, and . Czech Radio claims that the station is aimed towards listeners over the age of 35. For its nature, the radio station bears similarities with its foreign counterparts;

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and B5 aktuell. As of the first quarter of 2023, 144,000 listeners listened to the station daily.

History

The station started broadcasting on 1 March 2013. On 27 March 2013 (less than a month after the start of the broadcast), the Czech Radio Council recommended to

to extend the station's broadcasting hours from the current 4pm to

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. From 3 June 2013, Plus started broadcasting digitally, 24 hours a day. Until then, it shared the position with ČRo Jazz. From 2 November 2015, ČRo Plus began broadcasting live on VHF frequencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with news every 30 minutes. On 31 December 2021, broadcasting of the Plus station on medium waves was terminated, along with

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and Radiožurnál stations.

Programming

The station has four thematic areas of analysis -

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and

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. The station also broadcasts

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. Reporters use primary sources (such as call-ins), and content from foreign press such as

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. News bulletins are often short, with big news blocks coming in at noon and 6pm. Modeled on

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and

Radio Prague International Radio Prague International () is the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic. Broadcasting first began on 31 August 1936 near the spa town of Poděbrady. Radio Prague broadcasts in six languages: English, German, Frenc ...

, the station also broadcasts short five-minute long news bulletins in English after 1am. Despite the Leonardo station closing down in 2013, the station's content has been remodelled into a 26-minute

magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

of the same name which is essentially a summary of events in the field of science.

Broadcasting

The platforms on which the station broadcasts are VHF,

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, digital networks (

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), digital radio

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and mobile phone applications. Since November 2015, the station has been broadcasting an extended programme on VHF.

References

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:CRo Plus Radio stations in the Czech Republic Mass media in Prague Radio stations established in 2013