Jul 17 2008
Radio 1
Radio 1
Radio 1 based in Prague is an alternative radio broadcasting company. You can listen to this channel at 91.9 FM in and around Prague. Radio 1 has distinct musical style that makes it unique for Czech radio stations.
Radio 1 doesn’t focus on pop-style music but instead chooses serious work, namely on alternative and independent music of all genres (metal, hip-hop, pop, electronic, rock, jazz, reggae, ambient, etc.).. Officially established in the spring of 1991, RADIO 1 is the oldest private radio station broadcasting in the Czech Republic; however as a pirate radio station RADIO 1 began broadcasting in the autumn of 1990. Originally the radio station was located inside the pedestal of the former Stalin Monument as a part of the Totalitarian Zone exhibition.
Broadcasted information against State’s monopoly of radio and television on broadcasting and that’s why several days after the government confiscated broadcasting equipment. However public responded with an enthusiasm and 30.000 people signed the document against confiscation. That’s why later in February 1991 the broadcasting equipment was returned and RADIO 1 got its current name. Radio 1 became the first privately owned independent radio station in Czech Republic.
Radio 1 is a unique radio station in the whole Central Europe, not only in Czech Republic, and it has 30 special shows (shows about films, books, new music, forgotten music, foreign and Czech and Slovak Radio 1 chart, etc.) which inform about the alternative side of culture (not show business).