Kossuth Rádió
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| Broadcast area | Central Europe |
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| Frequencies | |
| Programming | |
| Language | Hungarian |
| Format | News, speech |
| Affiliations | EBU |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Duna Média (MTVA) |
| M1 | |
| History | |
First air date | 1 December 1925 |
Former names |
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Former frequencies | 67.4 MHz |
| Technical information | |
| Power | AM: 2000 kW |
| Repeater | 47 FM transmitters |
| Links | |
| Website | Official website |
Kossuth Rádió (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkoʃut ˈraːdijoː], formerly known as MR1-Kossuth Rádió, Rádió Budapest and Budapest I.) is a public-broadcasting radio station in Hungary, concentrating on news and current affairs. It is one of the seven national radio channels produced by MTVA. It was established in 1925 as Rádió Budapest and named after Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian national hero, in 1949.
The main Hungarian-language radio station can be heard all over Europe and the Middle East, as it broadcasts with 2 MW of transmission power on 540 kHz AM from transmitter Solt (the most powerful medium wave transmitter in the world) and several FM stations, covering Hungary and the neighbouring countries.
It is the second most popular radio station in Hungary (as 2013) with 1.38 million listeners (14% of the total population) daily.