Rádio MEC
{{Infobox radio station
| name = Rádio MEC
| logo = Rádio_MEC_logo_2023.svg
| country = Brazil
| frequency = {{Frequency|800|kHz}} (Rio de Janeiro)
{{Frequency|800|kHz}} (Brasília)
| language = Portuguese
| format = Public
| owner = Empresa Brasil de Comunicação
| founded = April 20, 1923
| website = {{URL|https://radios.ebc.com.br/mecamrio}}
}}
Rádio MEC ("MEC" is an acronym for "Música, Educação, Cultura") is a Brazilian radio station based in Rio de Janeiro, owned by Empresa Brasil de Comunicação.{{Cite web |title=EBC Rádios |url=https://radios.ebc.com.br/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=radios.ebc.com.br}} Founded on April 20, 1923 under the name Rádio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro, is the first radio station in Brazil.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-07 |title=Primeira rádio do Brasil, MEC AM completa 98 anos de história |url=https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/radioagencia-nacional/cultura/audio/2021-09/primeira-radio-do-brasil-mec-am-completa-98-anos-de-historia |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Agência Brasil |language=pt-br}} Its programming focuses on MPB music.
History
Rádio MEC was created in 1923 under the name Rádio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro, by Edgar Roquette-Pinto, {{Interlanguage link|Henrique Charles Morize|pt}} and other members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and society at the time. The purpose was to create an educational radio station, focusing on poetry, literature, science and classical music.{{cite journal|date=September 2009 |first=Lilian |journal=Recine: revista do Festival Internacional de Cinema de Arquivo |last=Zaremba |number=6 |pages=46–57 |title=Ecos da Rádio Sociedade numa FM do século XXI |volume=6}} In 1936, ruling out the possibility of seeking capital and becoming a communications entrepreneur, Roquette-Pinto donated the station to the Ministry of Education and Culture, however, he imposed conditions that the radio station would only broadcast educational/cultural programming and would not engage in commercial, political or religious proselytism.{{Cite web |title=MEC AM Rio |url=https://radios.ebc.com.br/mecamrio |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=radios.ebc.com.br}}
The radio station remained linked to the ministry until 1995, when it came under the control of the Communications Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic and, in 2007, with the creation of Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, the radio station became linked to it together with {{Interlanguage link|MEC FM|pt}} and Rádio Nacional.{{Cite web |date=2016-02-02 |title=Conheça a EBC |url=https://www.ebc.com.br/governanca-corporativa/conheca-a-ebc |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Empresa Brasil de Comunicação |language=pt-br}}
Many renowned Brazilian producers, musicians, writers, radio actors, poets and journalists have contributed to the radio station throughout its history, such as Cecília Meireles, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Manuel Bandeira, Fernanda Montenegro and Fernando Torres, Sergio Viotti, Otto Maria Carpeaux, {{Interlanguage link|Edna Savaget|pt}}, {{Interlanguage link|Nestor de Holanda|pt}}, Francisco Mignone, {{Interlanguage link|Alceo Bocchino|pt}}, Edino Krieger, Marlos Nobre, {{Interlanguage link|Carlos Eduardo Prates|pt}}, Paulo Santos, among many others.{{Cite web |last=Medeiros |first=Luciana |title=Rádio MEC completa 100 anos com programação especial de aniversário |url=https://concerto.com.br/noticias/politica-cultural/radio-mec-completa-100-anos-com-programacao-especial-de-aniversario |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=CONCERTO |language=pt-br}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://radios.ebc.com.br/mecamrio}}
{{Portal bar|Brazil|Radio}}
Category:Radio stations established in 1923
Category:Radio stations in Brazil