Rtve - Radio Nacional de Espa a (Paperback)

Chapters: Radio Nacional de Espa a. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: (RNE) (Spanish National Radio) is Spain's national public radio service. Since 1973 it has formed, together with (TVE), a part of (RTVE), the corporation responsible for managing national public-service broadcasting in Spain. officially came into existence in Salamanca on 19 January 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War (19361939), and was dependent on the recently created (State Delegation for Press and Propaganda). The station's studios were in Palacio de Anaya, the headquarters of the (Office for Press and Propaganda) whose first directors were also those of RNE. The first transmitter, made by Telefunken and having a broadcasting power of 20 kW, was a gift from Nazi Germany to the Francoist . It was then that the immense propaganda potential of radio became apparent, and beginning 14 June 1937 RNE became the nationalists radio masthead. Until then, this distinction had been held by, which produced the information and propaganda that all of the radio stations that had fallen into the hands of the nationalist forces had been obliged to transmit. During this era and the early years of the Second World War, until the arrival of the Allies in Italy in 1943 and the German retreat from Stalingrad, RNE collaborated with the Axis powers to retransmit in Spanish news from the official radio stations of Germany and Italy. Once the Spanish Civil War had ended, the leader of the victorious Nationalist forces General Francisco Franco passed an order on 6 October 1939 which subjected private radio broadcasts to censorship by the official political party of the state, , and which furthermore granted RNE exclusive rights to the news bulletin service. As a consequence of this order, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5270967