Fourth Round of Danube Region Networking Celebrating 25 years on air is not something to be taken for granted. To mark Radio FRO’s anniversary, we look beyond Austria’s borders and discuss the challenges and prospects of community media in Europe with our colleagues. In Hungary in particular, you can see […]
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Fourth Round of Danube Region Networking Like planets drifting apart, it seems, the Eastern European countries are increasingly isolating themselves from the values of a united Europe. Media pluralism, which is important for democratic stability, has been badly restricted in the Eastern countries in recent years. This affects above all […]
Civil Radio will be 30 years old in 2024. A referendum was held in Hungary on Saturday, April 12, 2003, which was successful with a participation percentage of 45.62, and 83.76% of the voters supported Hungary to join the EU. Accession finally took place on May 1, 2004, together with […]
Talking with Tamás Jamriskó, Editor-in-Chief of the small community radio EPER (Első Pesti Egyetemi Rádió) – the first university radio of the city of Pest in Hungary, the question is challenging, but easy: a child of the 90s he realized that the ‘community radio’ that the older generation of the […]
What use and value do free radio stations have for society? The participants of the discussion round will ask themselves this question on stage: Ákos Cserháti von Civil Radio, Budapest Erwin Köhler, MdL Grüne Sabine Fratzke, BfR, AFF Vladimir Radinović, Vorstand CMFE Katharina Biringer, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften chat with […]
At present, it is becoming clear in Europe how great the dependence on monopolistic U.S. providers is. These do not see themselves as media publishers and, in this sense, do not want to take responsibility for their role in a democratic discourse process. The predominant business model is the trade […]
Radio and Social Activism A synonym for radio in Serbia is radio station B92 – it is even today, six years after it has been shut down. During the 1990s war in Yugoslavia and Serbia, this radio station played a key role in informing the citizens of Serbia, being the […]
The usual question “How are you?” in Serbia is not just a formality. It happens rather often within daily communication to receive in response a detailed “report” from the interlocutor.These days, that answer in Belgrade often sounds like this: “I feel like we are back the 90s. It is as […]
Hungary, Budapest. In the early 2010s we were afraid that the Media Council would regulate the media with fines, which would have evoked a classic censorship, but it soon became clear that more attention should be paid to the transformation of ownership. In a survey conducted by Mérték (Measure) Media […]
When someone asked me to introduce and say a few sentences about Hungary’s media landscape and about the state of free media, I lost my bearings. I could recite the government’s or the National Media Authority’s statements about Hungary’s media – “it is diverse, free, media pluralism was never so […]
The Orban government has revoked the license of the Hungarian citizen radio station “Civil Radio” after 24 years. The free radios in Baden-Württemberg are also threatened with being deported to the Internet if they are switched off in the future. What does this mean for the European civil society in […]