Radio Belgrade, among the oldest electronic media in Europe, started broadcasting on this day 100 years ago
September 19, 2024
Radio Belgrade, among the oldest electronic media in Europe, started broadcasting on this day 100 years ago
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by Porodicnostablo
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The experimental broadcast of Radio Beograd-Rakovica started on September 19th, 1924, from the building in the picture (42 Knez Mihailova Street, the building built for the Belgrade office of the First Croatian Savings Bank in 1922; still in existence today). Engineers Mihailo Simić and Dobrivoje Petrović broadcast the first test concert through a transmitter in Rakovica, then a village near Belgrade, now an urban neighbourhood of the city. Ksenija Rogovska sang an aria from “Tosca,” Žika Tomić performed Stevan Hristić’s composition “Behar,” Karel Holub played Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E minor,” and pianist Velizar Gođevac played two Chopin etudes. Vitomir Bogić recited the scene “Under the Balcony” from Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano and sonnets by Jovan Dučić.
The regular broadcast started October 1st, 1924.
Radio Beograd AD replaced Radio Beograd-Rakovica on March 24th, 1929.
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The experimental broadcast of Radio Beograd-Rakovica started on September 19th, 1924, from the building in the picture (42 Knez Mihailova Street, the building built for the Belgrade office of the First Croatian Savings Bank in 1922; still in existence today). Engineers Mihailo Simić and Dobrivoje Petrović broadcast the first test concert through a transmitter in Rakovica, then a village near Belgrade, now an urban neighbourhood of the city. Ksenija Rogovska sang an aria from “Tosca,” Žika Tomić performed Stevan Hristić’s composition “Behar,” Karel Holub played Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E minor,” and pianist Velizar Gođevac played two Chopin etudes. Vitomir Bogić recited the scene “Under the Balcony” from Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano and sonnets by Jovan Dučić.
The regular broadcast started October 1st, 1924.
Radio Beograd AD replaced Radio Beograd-Rakovica on March 24th, 1929.
Radio Beograd building today:
https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Beograd#/media/Datoteka:Radio_beograd_headquarters.jpg
List of oldest radio stations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_radio_stations
Somehow I thought European radio was a little bit older than that.