Rádio Nacional
Brazilian public radio network
Rádio Nacional (National Radio) is a Brazilian radio network belonging to the government-owned corporation EBC (Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, Brazil Communication Company), formerly known as Radiobrás.
History
The Brazilian system of public radio began to be assembled from the nationalization of the Rádio Nacional, a Rio de Janeiro-based station in 1936, by President Getúlio Vargas. In 1958, two years before the inauguration of new capital Brasília, Rádio Nacional Brasília was founded, and in 1976 the FM version, Nacional FM was assembled in the same city. In 1977, the shortwave service Rádio Nacional da Amazônia was created, covering much of Brazil with the aim of showing the Amazon culture to the rest of the country. In 2006, Nacional launched the Radio Nacional do Alto Solimões, covering municipalities of the Alto Solimões region of Amazonas state.
For a long time, football matches were primarily broadcast on Rádio Nacional. The station was dominant at a time when there were no range restrictions for medium-wave broadcasts. Today, medium-wave transmitters are limited to a radius of 400 kilometers. In its heyday, Rádio Nacional reached 40 percent of Brazilian territory. Rádio Nacional was so influential that there are still many fans of football clubs from Rio de Janeiro in northeastern Brazil.
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