Czechoslovak Radio

Czechoslovak Radio

 

(Československý Rozhlas), a government organization of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Founded in 1923 in Prague, Czechoslovak Radio broadcasts in Czech and Slovak over five national networks (1980): Prague, Bratislava, Vltava, Děvín, and Hvězda. In some parts of Slovakia and in the northern Czech Socialist Republic programs are offered in Hungarian, Polish, and Ukrainian. Foreign broadcasts are made in Czech, Slovak, English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic. In 1979 the organization operated 93 studios throughout the country.