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Live from the Studio of Telefon Hírmondó, the 125-year-old “radio” station

EPER, Budapest — Telefon Hirmondó was the first radio station about 30 years before the first commercial broadcasts went on air in the USA. Telefon Hirmondó transmitted  live programming though dedicated telephone wires in Budapest, Hungary. During its ca. 30 years of operation, before it merged with the new Radio Budapest, it broadcast the latest news from 9AM till 8PM each day.  News included local, international, business, royal court, weather, sports (horse race) and feuilletons read from the latest daily newspapers. From 8PM it carried live performances from the Opera House or other theaters. Additionally, it broadcast the exact time three times a day, signalling the top of the hour with a special buzzing sound.

Except for a one-minute musical recording, no sound recording or program script is known to exist from its 32 years of operation.

On this 125th anniversary, we have attempted to create a reconstruction on how Telefon Hirmondó may have sounded. We collected previously unknown program elements that includes actual news items and the full program of a “literary concert” from 1897 and peppered it with news from local newspapers.

We will broadcast this reconstruction LIVE on February 15, 2018, 6.30PM to 9PM (Central European Time) from the original studio room of the Telefon Hirmondó, where it operated from 1894 till 1925. 

The live broadcast will be transmitted through telephone wires to the studio of the University Radio EPER97, where it will be relayed onlineand on 97 MHz FM in downtown Budapest.

On February 16 we will add additional elements and broadcast a full-day reconstruction from 9AM to 11PM.

Of course, the program will be in Hungarian.

Citera, the traditional Hungarian instrument

Lakatos Barbara, Csigó Regina, Raffai Kata, Sarah Jones

The interview is about how the Hungarian instrument called citera looks like and sounds like, and getting an insight into how the members of a citera band think to their instrument. (The music is supplied by the interviewed group.)

Foreign countries from Hungarian perspective

Markovics Dóra – editor

Márton Georgina -guest

Bánóczki Gergely -guest

Background music:
Paolo Nutini – These Streets
The National – England
One Republic – Good Life
Fun – Why Am I The One

Hungarian LGBT community

Editor: Villányi Eszter
Guest: Gergő
This program is about the work and the strugles of a Hungarian LGBT community.

This Year’s Hungarian Movies (2014)

Editor: Rosanics Petra

Interviewees:
Pintér Lilla (ELTE ÁJK)
Ipkovics Ágnes (BME GÉK)
Kálvin Viktória (ELTE BTK)

The topic is this year’s Hungarian movies and how the Hungarian film industry has improved during the last years. The radio show includes 3 short interviews with 3 average university students, 3 motion picture soundtracks and István Szabó’s acceptance speech at the Oscars in 1981. In the interviews the pupils talk about their experiences with this years’ Hungarian movies.

Soundtracks:

1. István Szabó’s Acceptance Speech  source: Oscars’ Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8BmzGGZB0s)
2. Mihály Víg: The Turin Horse (soundtrack)  source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUBoeyx-SzU
3. Amon Tobin: Taxidermia (soundtrack)  source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=254HV-dghws
4. Csorba Lóci, Reisz Gábor: Ez van: For Some Inexplicable Reason (soundtrack)  source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNU_F5y8lH8