Radio Mayak (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radio Mayak is a radio broadcasting company and nationwide radio station in Russia owned by VGTRK. It can roughly be translated as "Radio Lighthouse" or "Radio Beacon." Radio Mayak broadcasts news, talk shows and popular music. The radio station was established in August 1964 as a major all-Union radio station dedicated to news, music and literature. The unitary enterprise All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (Russian:, Vserossiyskaya gosudarstvennaya televizionnaya i radioveshchatelnaya kompaniya, abbr. VGTRK) is a state-owned Russian television and radio company which owns several television and radio station. It was founded in 1990 in an effort to give the president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, its own voice, independent of the Soviet channels.