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China National Radio (CNR; simplified Chinese: 中央人民广播电台; traditional Chinese: 中央人民廣播電台; pinyin: Zhōngyāng Rénmín Guǎngbō Diàntái) is the national radio station of the People's Republic of China. Its headquarters are in Beijing.
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History
The infrastructure began with a transmitter from Moscow to set up its first station in Yan'an (延安). It used the call sign XNCR for broadcasts, and is the first radio station set up by the Communist Party of China in 1940[1].
In the west, it was known as the Yan'an New China Radio Station broadcasting 2 hours daily[1]. In China, it was called the Yan'an Xinhua Broadcasting Station, which was established on December 30, 1940[2].
On March 25, 1949, it was renamed Shanbei Xinhua Broadcasting Station after it departed from Yan'an. It began to broadcast in Peiping under the name of Peiping Xinhua Broadcasting Station. On December 5, 1949, it was officially named to Central People's Broadcasting Station, two months after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The station offering 15.5 hours of service daily[1].
Mao Zedong emphasized that all citizens should listen to the station on May 5, 1941. The "Central Press and Broadcasting Bureau" was the driver in pushing all schools, army units, and public organizations of all levels to install loud public speakers and radio reception base[1]. By the 1960s, 70 million speakers were installed reaching the rural population of 400 million[1].
They innovated wired transmission, which were linked to the commonly found telephone poles hanging with loud speakers. It was part of Mao's ideology of delivering "Politics on Demand". The station served as the headquarter for propaganda during the Cultural Revolution[1].
The station was later renamed to China National Radio[2]. It would move to a new building in 1998.
Present
CNR currently has ten channels, with 198 hours of daily broadcasting through satellite. Channel one mainly broadcasts news in Mandarin to a national audience. Channel two, Business Radio, broadcasts economic, scientific and technological information and service programs in Mandarin throughout China. Channel three, Music Radio, is an FM stereo music channel. Channel four, Metro Radio, provides life programs exclusively to the listeners in Beijing. Channel five and Channel six, Cross-straits Radio, broadcast programs for the listeners in Taiwan. Channel seven, Huaxia Radio, broadcasts programs for the listeners in Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta. Channel eight, Nationality Radio, broadcasts programs for the minority ethnic groups in Mongolian, Tibetan, Uigur, Kazak and Korean. Channel nine, Story Radio, broadcasts entertainment programs, including comic crosstalk and storytelling series programs, etc. After the recent reform, CNR's programming and production processes are increasingly specified, targeted and personalized. CNR has 40 correspondent branches in major cities including Hong Kong and Macau, and dispatched correspondents in Taiwan.
Channels
Programme Chinese Description Freq The Sounds of China (中国之声) (The First Programme, a national service, mainly news and commentaries, 24 hours a day) on MW 540, 639, 945, 981, 1035, 1053, 1116 etc., on SW 4460, 6030, 9645, 9680 etc., and on FM 106.1 in Beijing (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities) Business Radio (经济之声) (The Second Programme, a national service, mainly business news, broadcasting during GMT+8 5-24) on MW 630, 720, 855, on SW 6175, 7245, 9620, 11665 etc., and on FM 96.6 in Beijing (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities) Music Radio (音乐之声) (The Third Programme, broadcasting Chinese and world pop music on FM in many main cities in China, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-24) on FM 90.0 in Beijing (Frequencies on FM may vary in different cities) Metro Channel (都市之声) (The Fourth Programme, broadcasting in Beijing only, mainly entertainment and talk, broadcasting during GMT+8 5-1) on FM 101.8 in Beijing The Sounds of the Chinese (中华之声) (The First Taiwan Service, broadcasting in Mandarin, mainly news, entertainment, talk, broadcasting during GMT+8 8:55-14:15, 17:55-8:05) on MW 549, 765, 837, 1116 and SW 5925, 7620, 9685, 11620, 11935 in Taiwan Area Sound of the Divine Land (神州之声) (The Second Taiwan Service, broadcasting in dialects including Amoy, Hakka and entertainment in Mandarin, broadcasting during GMT+8 4:55-9:05, 11:55-2:05) on MW 684, 909, 1089 and SW 6165, 9170, 11905, 15710 in Taiwan Area Huaxia Mandarin (华夏普通) (The Zhujiang delta, Hong Kong and Macao Service, broadcasting in Mandarin only, broadcasting during GMT+8 5-2) on FM 87.8 in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau Huaxia Bilingual (华夏双语) (The Zhujiang delta, Hong Kong and Macao Service, broadcasting in Mandarin and Cantonese, broadcasting during GMT+8 5-2) on MW 1215 and FM 104.9 in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau Sounds of the Nationalities (民族之声) (The Minorities Service, divided into Tibetan Service and Service in Korean, Mongolian, Uygur and Kazakh since 2009. It is said that the Uygur Service will be launched at the end of 2010) Transmitted on AM and FM in radio stations of minority ethnics' areas, such as Jilin, Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan etc. Tibetan Service on AM 1098 in Beijing, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-24 Other languages on AM 1143 in Beijing, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-1 Korean at 6-7, 12-13, 18-19; Mongolian at 7-8, 11-12, 20-21, 21-22(for Xinjiang only); Uygur at 8-10, 14-16, 16-18, 23-1; Kazakh at 10-11, 13-14, 19-20, 22-23 (All above are Beijing Time)
Sounds of the Literary (文艺之声) (Broadcasting in Beijing only, all literature and entertainment programmes, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-2) on FM 106.6 in Beijing Sounds of the elderly (老年之声) (Broadcasting in Beijing only, for the elderly, including entertainment, health programmes etc., broadcasting during GMT+8 4:00-1:30) on AM 1053 in Beijing Entertainment Radio (娱乐广播 -) (Broadcasting in Beijing only, mainly entertainment, broadcasting during GMT+8 6-2) All the programmes are available to listen online and on demand on the CNR website See also
- Broadcasting Corporation of China (First Nationalist Party Radio)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Miller, Toby (2003). Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Routledge Publishing. ISBN 0415255023
- ^ a b CNR website. "CNR website." CNR introduction. Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
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