R. Educacion celebrates centenary in 2024.
Translated from Spanish:
In 2024, Radio Educación, an institution of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, will celebrate the centenary of its foundation, as a key piece of cultural dissemination and the first public medium in the country.
The station will celebrate the 100 years of its founding in 1924, as CYE (Culture and Education), which had the purpose of being: “A great spoken library”, as projected by José Vasconcelos from the Ministry of Public Education, considering the scope and possibilities of the newly discovered radio.
As part of the celebration, the first cultural and educational station in Latin America will offer a series of cultural events for its audiences, such as exhibitions, concerts, capsule series on its history, forums, colloquiums, listening sessions, the unveiling of a lottery ticket commemorative, the production of a radio documentary and an audiovisual documentary with the support of @Prende.mx, a public medium of the Ministry of Public Education that is dedicated to the design and production of educational materials, in addition to documentary and iconographic research in collaboration with Memónica (www.memoricamexico.gob.mx) which is a public service and open access repository, whose main objective is to make digital files related to the history and cultural expressions of Mexico available to the public. Radio Educación will report on these and other activities through its official broadcast channels and on its signals.
The centenary will be an occasion to celebrate, reflect and prospect the transformations necessary for Radio Educación to continue as the most important producer of radio content, since it delivers an average of 30 thousand programs annually to more than 150 stations and institutions throughout the country, increase its coverage, grow its audience and place itself at the forefront of public communication due to the quality of its services and innovation.
Likewise, the radio station will produce and broadcast various special content, including a new series on theater; programs around the life and work of Felipe Carrillo Puerto and the launch of the podcast series “Communities in Movement”, in co-production with the National Population Council (CONAPO) to offer guidance on health care, and human rights. sexual and reproductive in young people.
Noticiarios Pulso, for its part, is preparing to cover the federal electoral process with the journalistic rigor that characterizes it and the responsibility of bringing solid information to the citizens who tune in through more than 50 stations that are linked in the country. and about 30 that broadcast it in the United States, through Radio Bilingüe.
Additionally, Mexico’s cultural radio will officially launch its new signal, Cultura Michoacán, which is in the testing stage and strengthens the transformation of the former 1060 AM into a radio group that today has six signals in four places of the Mexican Republic.
Radio Educación broadcasts in Mexico City through 1060 AM and 96.5 FM; Signal Cultura Sonora, on 104.3 FM, in Hermosillo (1 hour less); in Mérida, Yucatán, on the Kukulkan Signal, on 107.9 FM; in Culture México International Signal (6185 Short Wave on the 49 meter International band); for everyone, through www.radioeducacion.edu.mx
Social networks: Facebook: /radioeducacion, X (formerly Twitter): @RadioEducacion, Instagram: @radioeducacionmx, and YouTube: @radioeducacion1060am.
Pedro Sedano, AER 04/01/2024 to WOR iog (2024-01-09)