RNE celebrates 75 years in top form

This season will coincide with the 75th anniversary of Radio Nacional, which will be celebrated with different actions throughout Spain. In its new season, public radio enhances information, analysis and debate, recovers the contest and reinforces comedy radio drama.

A new course begins on RNE and on all its stations: Radio 1, Radio 5, Radio 3, Radio Clásica, Ràdio 4 and Radio Exterior. The public channel faces the new 2011-2012 season by promoting the renewal of the content, formats and managers incorporated last season and which have been so well received by the audience. In this way, in the new stage the main bets are maintained, with some significant changes: programs such as On days like today; Special attention will be paid to electoral information; new additions and collaborators; Radio 5's weekend offering is expanded; and the websites of the various stations are enhanced.

During the presentation of the new season, the director of RNE, Benigno Moreno, expressed the intention of the public channel to “make a radio station even better and closer to citizens, according to the objectives of independence and public service of the RTVE Corporation.”

Moreno has highlighted the consolidation of the RNE model, which can be seen "in the numbers", but also "in the assessment made by citizens." “From a quantitative and qualitative point of view, the position and route are appropriate.”

Furthermore, the new season coincides with RNE's 75th anniversary, in January 2012, which will be celebrated with actions throughout Spain to publicize the internal work of a radio station that "has traveled the history of the country alongside the citizens, in good and bad times," as Benigno Moreno has pointed out. The challenge now is “to look to the future and continue accompanying citizens.”

Information, a fundamental pillar

Information will continue to be one of the pillars of the public chain. Radio Nacional maintains those responsible for its two major daily newspapers: 14 Hours, directed by Rafael Bermejo and presented by Ana Sterling, and 24 Hours, directed and presented by Íñigo Alfonso. This last space has a large group of collaborators, including José Antonio Zarzalejos and Ernesto Ekaizer who will reflect each night the various visions on the main news of each day.

On Radio 5, the formulas of last season are maintained, after the success they have achieved. RNE's “All News” station combines up-to-the-minute information and more calm analysis. The news arrives on the weekend, which reinforces its programming with formats similar to the rest of the days. The hours of live broadcast are completed with reports, interviews and the vision of specialists. Radio 5 maintains its philosophy of public service.

El afán por acercar a los oyentes las noticias de todo el mundo ha llevado a RNE a abrir una nueva corresponsalía en Pekín al frente de la cual estará Francisco Forjas. Su trabajo en la corresponsalía de Jerusalén será cubierto por Miguel Molleda, del área de Internacional.

El entramado informativo se completa con la red de centros territoriales de RNE, 63 emisoras que aportan noticias de toda España y mantienen sus ventanas de información local y regional.

La oferta más completa, en Radio Nacional

Radio Nacional, la emisora generalista de RNE, cerró su temporada 2010-2011 con sus objetivos cumplidos: afianzamiento de sus magacines y desarrollo activo de su política cultural y social, líneas que continúan en el nuevo curso.

El director de cine José Luis Cuerda será uno de los nuevos colaboradores de la radio pública junto a Diego Galán.

Por las mañanas, de lunes a viernes, Juan Ramón Lucas sigue al frente de On days like today, with a renewed team that bets, from first thing in the morning, on balanced and accessible information. The general elections on November 20 will become the most important challenge from an information point of view. In its efforts to make known the candidates' proposals so that citizens can decide with all the keys at their disposal, On days like today will launch an 'Electoral Cabinet'. Starting in October, political parties will respond to citizens' demands. Social movements and organizations, journalists, experts and citizens themselves will ask politicians to define their proposals and models regarding issues such as the economy, employment, family models, education, the political class, administrations, social services, justice,...
On days like today It will also feature two well-known bloggers: Judith Torrea, who will speak from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, from where she writes the blog 'Ciudad Juárez in the shadow of drug trafficking', and Yoani Sánchez, from Cuba, who can be followed on her blog 'From Cuba. Generation Y'.

The veteran space The critical eye, emblem of cultural radio, is renewed to analyze every afternoon the cultural offers that cross all of Spain, led by its protagonists, the artists and creators. All under the direction of Laura Barrachina.

And at night, the programming is unified into a new affections in the night, with Silvia Tarragona, from 00:00 hours, making room in this space for matters of social interest.

The Radio Nacional grid maintains its richness and diversity with the irony of This sounds familiar to me, con Citizen Garcia; the peculiar points of view that are reflected in the Own affairs, by Toni Garrido; the focus of news from around the country Spain Direct, with Mamen Asencio; the cultural monitoring of The Blue Station, Movie o Silhouette; and the social concern of In first person, together step by step o Open future.

It's not just any day It will continue to offer different, educational and social interest content on weekends to liven up weekend mornings. Pepa Fernández's veteran program faces its 13th season with new collaborators, among them Diego Galán, film critic and former director of the San Sebastián Film Festival.

New offers and formats

The new season launches a game show, Tangled, presented and directed by Arturo Martín. RNE recovers the disappeared genre of the contest, with a cultural, entertaining, and educational space, around the cultural, gastronomic, and sports wealth of our country.

Another of RNE's hallmarks, radio fiction, continues for another season in collaboration with The house lit but with a thematic change: if until now it has focused on scary stories, now it gives way to comedy. Short works will also be adapted to promote the work of Spanish theater creators of the moment.
Within the cultural commitment, the fourth edition of the Young Poetry, Stories for Adults and Film Shorts awards is being held. All of them, calls that have had an important response in terms of number of participants and quality of the works presented.

The three large sports spaces of Radio Nacional open a new course with the ambition of transferring all the excitement of sport to the fans.

Every night, from Monday to Friday, José Luis Toral displays his Sports Radio Gazette to report on all the news of the day, with analysis and interviews with its protagonists.

On Saturdays and Sundays, the sports days par excellence, Natalia Ayala offers an aperitif to fans and warms up for an exciting afternoon in Sports advancement. Then it comes sports board, with Chema Abad. Hours and hours of live broadcasting for sports fans looking for fun, balanced radio without avoiding controversy and with the voices of renowned specialists, who are joined by new figures such as Asensi, a Barcelona fan.

Radio 3: youth culture

Radio 3 maintains the line defended by the cultural station of public radio in recent years. The grid is structured with the classic names of the station, such as Discogrande, 21st Century, Discopolis, Babel World y all jazz; and with younger bets already consolidated (Today it all starts), cultural magazines (in the cloud) and countercultural (Raw meat), and author programs (The basement, as you hear it, 180 degrees). On Fridays, at 1:00 p.m., Radio 3 includes a review of fusion sounds in Harpooner.

The weekend programming will also offer two new features: the space the flight of the phoenix It is divided into two hours on Saturday nights, from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. For its part, Sounds, dedicated to the sounds of the world, will be hosted by one of the most emblematic female voices of cultural radio: Marta Etxevarría. You will receive in the studio and live the musical findings and proposals of five critics and DJs: DJ Floro, DJ Bombín, Luis Lapuente, Rodolfo Poveda and Javier de Cambra. It will be the perfect replica of football for Sunday afternoons.

Radio 3 has a new image at www.rtve.es/radio3, where all the acoustic performances of the programs can be followed live and delayed. The website has reinforced sections such as The radio that is seen and The radio that is read, with news, reflection and opinion spaces.

In addition, the young station renews the set of Radio 3 concerts and continues its relationship with La 2 de TVE, as it has demonstrated by offering both on radio and television the best images of the summer musical events: Primavera sound, FIB, Vigo transforms,….

Classical Radio, the most specialized

The specialized station seeks to increase its presence in society and interact with it. To achieve this, it renews its language without losing its hallmarks that have made it a quality reference in Spanish cultural life, with a notable international presence.

Programs dedicated especially to youth and children audiences continue at this stage, as well as educational and research and dissemination programs, which will have a particularly prominent presence on the station's website under the heading Music Class. Concerts have always been another of the station's main offerings, which increases its collaboration with the main Spanish and international institutions. The station has an important international presence through the EBU, a work recognized with the election of the representation of Radio Clásica on the steering committee of the Euroradioclassics group.

The main classical programs are maintained, as well as a large group of thematic programs, and also the support for the avant-garde that marks the commitment to new musical creation and sound art, a section in which Radio Clásica is one of the main driving forces in the country. And to continue advancing in all these aspects, a renewed website will be presented that seeks greater participation and interactivity with the public, with the new ways of listening and the wide possibilities offered by on-demand radio.

Radio 4, anniversary

Ràdio 4, RNE's Catalan station, which this year also celebrates its 5th anniversary, almost completely renews its programming and expands it by more than 40 hours a week, with the incorporation of new programs and the reduction of musical broadcasts. He continues to focus on music in Catalan, with 'Catalunya-Exprés', but expands his horizons to all Catalan music, not only in Catalan, with a new project: Made in Cat, every night and on weekends.
Xantal Llavina, who has hosted the summer afternoons, will continue to do so in the new season with the program 'Directe 4.0'. In the mornings, the magazine 'Matí a 4 Bandes' continues, presented by Toni Marín, awarded this year with the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize. The weekend is the time of the program 'El millor de cada casa', with Miquel Murga.
All Ràdio 4 programs will have new technologies and social networks, to interact with listeners, through a more powerful website.

REE, the radio for Spaniards who live abroad

Radio Exterior de España continues to focus on public service. The dissemination of culture in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute and the international projection of flamenco will be some of the goals of programs such as singing alley y A language without borders.

The station is launching a new broadcast and information program about Europe, which will be hosted by José María Forte and which aims to analyze the changes that European society is experiencing. In the programming, another window opens to project the image of Spain with a space on travel to encourage the tourist attraction of our country, in addition to the already consolidated Landscapes and Flavors.

Sport continues to be one of the main programming offerings on Radio Exterior with the broadcasts of 'Locker Room', 'Radiogaceta de los Deportes' and 'Tablero Deportivo'.

Radio on the Internet

The page www.rtve.es/radio offers the possibility of listening to the entire RNE offering and downloading the podcasts of the programs to listen to them wherever and whenever you prefer.
During the month of September RNE will renew the designs of the Radio 5 and Radio Clásica websites. The Radio 5 page will better reflect the station's programming, expert analysis and thematic supplements, and will be more participatory. In Classic Radio there will be new sections, such as Music Class, which will group the most didactic sections; or the Concerts area, which will allow listeners to enjoy a large part of the station's concerts live. The website will open to current information and will include an archive section.

Radio 3 also launches new sections on the website, promoting “radio that is read”, with music reviews, news and recommendations from Radio 3 announcers and guest firms. Various initiatives related to “seen radio” will also be reinforced, to enjoy acoustic concerts on video and live on the web.

The Radio Nacional website will launch new websites for some of its programs: On days like today, Nomads o From a movie.

RNE continues to multiply its offer for mobile devices. The new version of its mobile portal (www.rtve.es/movil) is accessible from a large number of terminals and allows you to listen to RNE live and all programming “on demand”. Specific applications have also been launched for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. The iPhone application also has an alarm clock option so that users can wake up every morning with their favorite station.

So far, more than 250,000 downloads of the new RNE application have been recorded on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. It is the radio application in Spain best rated by iPhone users, with the maximum score.

Thanks to these technological bets, RNE added more than 25% of users to its website in the last year. Radio 3 experienced an annual growth of 55%, with summer festivals among the most listened to content in the last month.