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The Sorbischer Rundfunk ( Lower Sorbian : Serbski rozgłos [ˈsɛrpskʲi ˈrɔzɡwɔs] , Upper Sorbian : Serbski rozhłós [ˈsɛʁpskʲi ˈʁɔzhwɔs] ) is the Sorbian language program of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) , both of which are regional public broadcaster in Germany. It is the only broadcast in a national minority language in Germany.

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31-695: During the years 1946/47 the Czechoslovak Radio in Prague produced various Sorbian shows that were initiated by the Sorbian National Council. The Czechoslovak Radio already had some recordings of Sorbian music and poetry in its archives. The first radio program in Sorbian language to be produced in Germany appeared on October 14, 1948, following the demands of then Domowina leader Pawoł Nedo . The program had

62-517: A cost of 1.35 billion Czech koruna , was sold after the construction phrase in 1996 as it was deemed too big for the station's requirements. In 2002, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty station stopped broadcasting in the Czech Republic , with the broadcast rebranded as Czech Radio 6 under the Czech Radio group. In October 2005, digital television broadcasting was launched on DVB-T , with some of

93-691: A duration of 15 minutes and was available on a two-weekly basis on Sender Dresden (sometimes Sender Leipzig). Since 1953, irregular program in Lower Sorbian followed in Sender Potsdam. The time slots and channels kept swichting for some time. Again on the demand of the Domowina, on March 22, 1953, the public broadcasting committee of the East Germany (GDR) founded a Sorbian Studio, located in Görlitz. Although this

124-483: A maximum of 5 minutes per day for local stations. Commercial messages may not be included in news, journalistic and educational programmes, with the exception of cultural and sports broadcasts, if advertising is part of them in terms of the conditions of the broadcasting rights. The original logo of Czech Radio was used in 1992-1995. Since 1996, the radio has had a logo created by the Men On The Moon agency, which won

155-523: A week. The program of RBB is called Bramborske Serbske Radijo (English Sorbian Radio of Brandenburg ) and broadcast from Cottbus in Lower Sorbian language . (It can be accessed online at www.rbb-online.de/radio/sorbisches_programm/sorbisches_programm.html for a whole day after emission.) The Upper Sorbian program of MDR Serbski Rozhłós (English Sorbian broadcast ) is produced in Bautzen (accessible on

186-557: Is German only. This means that Sorbian speakers still have to use German even when consuming their broadcasters and have to consume other media in German. There are complaints that the program in Upper Sorbian is of greater variety and higher quality than the Lower Sorbian one. The respective programs are both said to be short on entertainment. While there are radio shows geared to a younger audience, they are said to be lackluster and not match

217-483: Is broadcast when typically there is not much take-up. Furthermore, the program offered is far from complete. The type information provided is largely local or cultural news. In order to be up to date on national or international matters, media in another language has to be consumed. Additionally, when accessing the Sorbischer Rundfunk online, German knowledge is essential, as the interface of the streaming platform

248-453: Is outside the contemporary Sorbian settlement area , it was well-equipped. The program was 70 minutes a week during the first years. The studio director, Klaus Hammo from Krauschwitz , was the only Sorbian journalist in the GDR's public broadcast. His staff had no formal training. An archive of music or other input was nonexistent and had to be created along the way. The program of Görlitzer Studios

279-624: Is protected by state law in both Brandenburg and Saxony. On April 19, 1992, the ORB broadcast the Lower Sorbian edition Łužyca for the first time. The Upper Sorbian edition of MDR Wuhladko followed in 2001. Since 1996, the Sandmännchen is available in Sorbian too. From January 6, 2020, the Sorbische Rundfunk of MDR broadcasts 27.5 hours a week (unlike the 21.5 hours it produced before), while Bramborske serbske radijo broadcasts 11,5 hours of program

310-565: Is the name of a half-hour television programme in Upper Sorbian language . It has been broadcast every month since 2001 by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), and is presented by Bogna Koreng . The programme mainly deals with Sorbian topics from Upper Lusatia , but also deals with politics from Saxony and Germany , which affect the Sorbs throughout Lusatia . The Sorbian people's contributions to culture, everyday life, politics, and traditions are

341-590: 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 . Český rozhlas was established in 1992 by the Czech Radio Act, which sets out the framework for its operation and financing. It acts as the successor to the previous state-owned Czechoslovak Radio which ceased to exist by 1992. The service broadcasts throughout

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372-595: The Czech Republic nationally and locally. Its four national services are Radiožurnál , Dvojka , Vltava and Plus . Czech Radio operates 12 nationwide stations and another 14 regional stations. All ČRo stations broadcast via internet stream, digital via DAB+ and DVB , and part analog via terrestrial transmitters. It is based in Prague in a building in Vinohradská třída. Český rozhlas , then Československý rozhlas

403-535: The Czech radio group changed its status and became an independent organisation, although as of 2008 was still publicly funded. Czech Radio (ČRo) was established by Act of the Czech National Council (No. 484/1991 Coll.) on Czech Radio. On 1 January 1992, Ceský Rozhlas was established as a public radio with property transferred from Czechoslovak Radio. The headquarters were setup at Vinohradská 12 in Prague, where

434-511: The Logo of the Year award in 1997. Since 2013, Czech Radio has used the logo designed by Studio Marvil. Content in this edit is translated from the existing Czech Misplaced Pages article at cs:Český rozhlas ; see its history for attribution. 50°04′43″N 14°26′04″E  /  50.07861°N 14.43444°E  / 50.07861; 14.43444 Wuhladko Wuhladko ( Upper Sorbian for "prospect")

465-496: The Sorbian Studio Bautzen in Upper Sorbian and the one of Sender Cottbus in Lower Sorbian were broadcast via Sender Hoyerswerda/Zeißig. This came at a time of conflict between the Sorbian minority and the GDR government. It was not until fall 1988 that religious shows became available. They were initiated by the studio director of Bautzen, Helmut Richter (Sorbian: Helmut Rychtaŕ), who got transferred there from Cottbus. In

496-481: The Sorbian journalists to cater to the audience or introduce innovations into their shows. The children's program aired by Sorbischer Rundfunk is synchronized version of the Sandmännchen. This is taken as an example for the lack of program rooted in Sorbian culture, as it is not based on Sorbian mythology or tradition. Czech Radio Český rozhlas (ČRo Lit.: Czech Radio) is the public radio broadcaster of

527-518: The aftermath of the Peaceful Revolution , the GDR's broadcasting system was revised. The newly created regional broadcaster took over the Sorbian program beginning in 1990. On January 1, 1992, the new public broadcasters came into operation. From then on the Upper Sorbian editorial office belongs to the MDR and the Lower Sorbian one to ORB which became a part of RBB. The existence of content in Sorbian

558-530: The evening and at night, the programmes of the Central Bohemian ČRo Střední Čechy are broadcast nationwide. Broadcast of Radio 6, Leonardo and Radio Cesko all ended in 2013. The majority of Czech Radio's income comes from radio licence fees, which have been set at CZK 45 per month since 2005. ČRo's annual income from these fees in 2019 amounted to CZK 2.09 billion, or 91% of Czech Radio's total income of CZK 2.29 billion that year. The remaining few percent of

589-488: The income is made up of revenues from Czech Radio's own business activities, which include, for example, the sale of limited advertising time, sponsorship revenues and licensing of recordings. According to Act No. 231/2001 Coll., on the Operation of Radio and Television Broadcasting and on Amendments to Other Acts, the time reserved for advertising and teleshopping may not exceed 3 minutes per day on each Czech Radio station, and

620-829: The internet via livestream only at www.mdr.de/serbski-program/rundfunk). The Sorbian program is not broadcast the whole day through, but only some hours of the day. The rest of the time, some other programs in German will be available on those channels. The time slots are: Hoyerswerda Leipzig/Messegrund Oschatz/Collmberg Görlitz/Fichtenhöhe Löbau/Schafberg Dresden-Wachwitz Neustadt (Sachsen)/Unger Freiberg Ost Zittau Chemnitz-Reichenhain Chemnitz/Geyer Schöneck (Vogtland) 0 8.5 kW 10 ,0 kW 0 9.3 kW 0 2 ,0 kW 0 7 ,0 kW 10 ,0 kW 10 ,0 kW 0 1 ,0 kW 0 2 ,0 kW 10 ,0 kW 10 ,0 kW 10 ,0 kW MDR and RBB are both broadcasting TV program in Sorbian via SES Astra satellites . Therefore,

651-601: The it is accessible almost everywhere in Europe. The first Saturday of the month, MDR is broadcasting from 11:45 am to 12:15 pm the show Wuhladko in the Saxonian program (in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, a different show will be broadcast at that time). It will be repeated the following Tuesday at 5:50 am and on RBB on the second Saturday of the month from 1:30 to 2:00 pm. The RBB broadcasts its Sorbian TV show Łužyca every third Saturday of

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682-411: The month from 2 to 2:30 pm. It is repeated the following Tuesday during the night and in MDR (Saxonian program) the forth Saturday of the month at 12:20 pm. A common point of criticism is that because of the importance of Sorbian language and culture in the media in the language's survival, the amount of broadcasting needs to be enlarged considerably. Apart from the breakfast edition, the Sorbian programm

713-498: The moves, Czech Radio is located in Prague in the building Vinohradská 12, continuously since 1933. The first regular announcer of the station, who prepared and presented the news from the daily papers, was Adolf Dobrovolný . He took up the position on 17 January 1924, becoming the station's first professional radio announcer and his position was made permanent on 1 January 1925. He held the position until his death in 1934. A message broadcast on Czech Radio on 5 May 1945 brought about

744-515: The needs of teenagers. The quality and design of the program is assessed by German speaking journalists making up the vast majority of the MDR/RBB employees. Therefore, it is hardly possible for the Sorbian Rundfunk to develop a uniquely Sorbian style/programs. In addition, as they MDR/RBB are providing the Sorbischer Rundfunk with certain timeslots dedicated to given programs or topics, it is hard for

775-406: The occasion with a 48-hour broadcast including 90 interviews interspersed with news reports every half-hour. The event, which took place on Wenceslas Square , set a new national record for the longest uninterrupted radio broadcast. In the same year, ČRo 6 , ČRo Radio Czech Republic and ČRo Leonardo were cancelled and replaced by the new station ČRo Plus . At the end of 2021, the broadcasting of

806-486: The old Czechoslovak Radio was based at. Operation of regional stations in the Czech Republic was also transferred. On 1 January 1993, Czech Radio became a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). In 1999, Czech Radio launched an experimental digital radio broadcast in Prague. An envisaged new premises for Czech Radio, a 30-storey building in the district of Pankrác which took 22 years to build at

837-503: The start of the Prague uprising . In the same year, regional studios in the cities of Plzeň , České Budějovice , Hradec Králové and Ústí nad Labem were launched. The station was taken over by Soviet forces, after short fighting with unarmed civilians , in August 1968, in the first day of the Soviet invasion , although broadcasting managed to continue from alternative locations. In 1991,

868-629: The stations Radiožurnál , Dvojka and Plus on the medium and long wave bands was terminated, and thus the broadcasting of Czech Radio via AM was terminated altogether. In 2024, the regional station Český rozhlas Region was renamed Český rozhlas Střední Čechy. Czech Radio operates 12 national stations and 14 regional stations. All ČRo stations broadcast via internet streaming, most of them digitally via DAB+ and DVB , some of them analogue via terrestrial transmitters. Regional stations broadcast daily from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. (ČRo Brno, Plzeň and Ostrava until 7.30 p.m.) with several breaks. In these breaks, in

899-495: The ČRo's circuits being included in the first multiplex. A large expansion of the number of ČRo stations took place in 2005. At that time, the D-dur, Rádio Česko and Leonardo circuits began broadcasting, and in 2006, ČRo Radio Wave station was added. Czech Radio launched a new logo in 2013, featuring the letter R with stripes, at a cost of 2.2 million Czech koruna. The organisation marked 90 years of existence in 2013, celebrating

930-592: Was established on 18 May 1923, making its first broadcast from a scout tent in the Kbely district of Prague , under the name Radiojournal . The premises of the station changed numerous times, firstly moving to the district of Hloubětín , before later using locations in the Poštovní nákupny building, the Orbis building and the Národní dům na Vinohradech building, all in Prague. Since

961-482: Was initially exclusively in Upper Sorbian. From 1955 on, there was sporadic input in Lower Sorbian. Since April 1, 1956, the Sorbian time slot got extended to 90 minutes a week, thereof 20 minutes were in Lower Sorbian. Effective December 31, 1956, the Sorbian Studio at the public broadcasting committee was dissolved. Its members were sent to the Sorbian editorial offices of Radio GDR 1 and Sender Cottbus. Program from

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