National Radio Day: 98 years since the first words broadcast on the radio in Romaniatranslated

"Hello, hello, here is Radio Bucharest!" were the first words transmitted on the air by the president of the Romanian Radiotelephone Broadcasting Society, professor Dragomir Hurmuzescu, on November 1, 1928. The moment marked the debut of National Radio in our country.

The first broadcast was transmitted from the Company's headquarters, located on General Berthelot street no. 60 from Bucharest, with the help of a temporary 400-watt transmitter, lent by the British company Marconi.

The inaugural program ran from 17:00 to 24:00, with a two-hour intermission, and included an opening speech, a poetry recital, a news bulletin, weather information, music and a conference on Romanian folk poetry.

During the show, the poet Horia Furtună recited the poem "A new soul", dedicated to the beginning of this new form of communication.

Beginnings At the beginning, Radioul Românesc had 17 employees and broadcast several hours a day, the program consisting of news, dance and classical music, weather reports and conferences. Margareta Marinescu was the first public radio announcer.

In the years that followed, Romanian Broadcasting developed...