Vatican Radio Celebrates 90 Years
Yes, Vatican Radio is still here, and today it is celebrating the 90th anniversary of its inauguration way back last century in 1931, eight
Vatican Radio can be heard on the internet or via short-wave radio, and since 1995, it has been broadcast by satellite. Its programmes are retransmitted by a myriad of local Catholic radio stations, reaching unexpected places.
Vatican Radio and CTV began their own YouTube channel in 2010, operating in four languages, and operates six Twitter accounts. In May 2009 it was announced that Vatican Radio would begin broadcasting commercial advertisements for the first time in July. The decision was made to meet the radio's rising costs, namely 21.4m euros a year.
With its absorption into the Curia's Secretariat for Communications on 1 January 2017 Vatican Radio director Msgr. Dario Viganò has indicated that he plans to pare down short-wave radio operations and institute cost control measures in the service's other broadcast operations.
Established in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi, today its programs are offered in 47 languages, and are sent out on short wave, DRM, medium wave, FM, satellite and the Internet. Since its inception, Vatican Radio has been maintained by the Jesuit Order. Vatican Radio preserved its independence during the rise of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
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