RNE's Radio House celebrates its 50th anniversary

The program production center RNE in Prado del Rey (Madrid), La Casa de la Radio, celebrates 50 years at the head of the state public radio service.

He October 20, 1972 Prince Juan Carlos inaugurated the Casa de la Radio, a space that had 30.000 m2 of modern architecture on the outskirts of Madrid, with all the technical advances. Those responsible for the architectural project of the Radio House were Ernesto Fernandez Marrero, chief engineer of the projects and facilities department, and the architect Emilio Fernández Martínez de Velasco, who previously also directed the construction of the Noblejas shortwave broadcasting center building in Toledo.

Fernández Marrero and Fernández Martínez de Velasco designed a space that integrated all the types of radio services in the same building. This space also hosted TVE's news services from July 1975 to November 1983. The facilities have since gone periodically renewed with new production technologies, digital radio solutions or even cameras and screens to begin to embrace the proposal of radio visual.

RNE wanted to commemorate the anniversary by offering a special Mid morning hosted by Samanta Villar and Carlos Santos, and with the participation of Pepa Hernández, Nieves Herrero, Andrés Aberasturi, Fran Sevilla, Magín Revillo and all the directors of Radio Nacional, Radio Exterior, Radio Clásica, Radio 5 and Radio 3. The special will have several microphones that will tour the Radio House to see every corner of this place and connections from different points of the building: central control, the sound fiction study, the sound archive, etc. The end of the party will come with the musical performance of Ginevras.