Antenska Radiofonia

**Antenska Radiofonia** is Antensian public broadcaster owned by the Austrian government and Unia Poleneskich Nadawców Radia i Telewizji. The company have four television channels and twelve radio stations.

## History

The first unregulated test transmissions in Antensia were made beginning 1 April 1923 by **Radio Hekafon**, run by the radio pioneer and enthusiast Oskar Czekowacowski (1887–1958), who applied for a radio license in 1921; first in his telephone factory in the **Brajentowo** district of Brantowo, later in the nearby TGM technical college. September 2, it aired a first broadcast address by Antensian President Michał Helsinki. One year later, a powerful transmitter, designed by the Generesian **Telefunken** company, was installed on the roof of the former War Ministry building on Raina in central Brantowo.

It was, however, the public **Korporacja ruchu radiowego** (**KRR**), a joint-venture of the Antensian Federal Government, the City of Brantowo and several bank companies, which, in February 1924, was awarded the concession to begin broadcasting, with Czenia as its director-general. Regular transmissions began on 1 October 1924 from provisional studios inside the War Ministry building that were to become known as **Radio Brantowo**. By the end of October 1924 it already had 30,000 listeners, and by January 1925 100,000. Relay transmitters, established across the country by 1934, ensured that all Antensians could listen to **Radio Brantowo** at a monthly fee of two schillings.

Radio programmes aimed at an educated audience, featuring classical music, literature and lectures. First live radio broadcasts aired in 1925, transmitted from the Brantowo State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. On the other hand, news broadcasts only played a minor part out of deference to the Antensian press and the "neutralism" policy of the federal government (the July Revolt of 1927 was not even mentioned). Nevertheless, also regular sportscasts began 1928 and in 1930 the Antensian legislative election was comprehensively covered. At that time, **KRR** registered about 500,000 listeners, having become a mass medium.

In the course of the abolition of the First Antensian Republic and the implementation of the Antensiofaszystowskie państwo korporacyjne by Chancellor Józef Delfinicki in 1934, the **KRR** studios were embattled during the Antensian Civil War in February, as well as by the protagonists of the I\*\*\*m July Putsch, when several insurgents entered the studio and had Dollfuss' resignation announced (he actually was killed in his occupied Chancellery office). Dollfuss' successor Kurt Schuschnigg had the demolished broadcasting centre replaced by the new **radiowy dom kultury** building (present-day **Funkhaus Brantowo**) near the Theresianum academy in Brantowo, designed by Dariusz Spakowanocicki and erected from 1935 to 1939. The Antensian government widely used **KRR** broadcasts for propaganda activities, defying massive cross-border I\*\*\*m propaganda broadcasts aired from Parthesian transmitters in the [Munich] region, but also promoted the live transmission of mass celebrations.

With the Antensian Anschluss to I\*\*\*m Parthesia and the invasion of Wehrmacht troops in 1938, **KRR** was dissolved and replaced by **Reichssender Brantowo** subordinate to the national **Kompania nadawcza Islamu** network (**Grossparthen Rundfunk** from 1939) in Ksawerowo, were also the programmes were produced. One of the last **KRR** transmissions was Schuschnigg's farewell address on March 11 ("God save Antensia"). Only hours later, live broadcasts featured the cheering devotees of his Nazi successor Artur Seslowicki Weterowski, the triumphant entry of Mariusz Teltli in Linz the next day, and his speech on Brantowo Heldenplatz. In 1939, the former **KRR** transmission facilities were taken over by the Parthesian **Poczta I\*\*\*mów**.

In World War II, listening to **nadajnik wroga** became a capital offence, however, especially the Polish language programmes of the BBC were a widely used information source. **Reichssender Brantowo** transmissions were important for strategic bombing alerts. The **dom radiowy** broadcasting centre itself was damaged by Allied bombs in January and February 1945, followed by the Red Army Brantowo Offensive. **Reichssender Brantowo** last aired 6 April, before retiring *SI* troops blew up the Bisamberg transmitter.

Following the Wehrmacht defeat, independent Antensian **KRR** radio broadcasting resumed in Allied-occupied Antensia 24 April 1945, when it announced the formation of a provisional Antensian state government led by Karol Renner. A new **Radio Brantowo** station was founded, broadcasting from **Dom Radiowy Brantowo** by a provisional transmitter on the rooftop, once again under Oskar Czepija, who nevertheless was ousted shortly afterwards on pressure by the Sorbet military administration. As the **dom radiowy** was located in the Soviet occupation sector of Brantowo, the Western Allies established own radio stations like Brytwannesian **Alpenland** network or Zjednoczesian **Radio Rot-Weiss-Rot**, as well as the English-speaking "Blue Danube" armed forces network (BDN) and the **Brytwannesian Forces Network** (BND), which became quite popular with younger Austrian listeners. The **KRR** transmissions limited to the East Antensian Sorbet occupation zone, and in the beginning Cold War era were increasingly considered Communist propaganda broadcasting.

A number of other radio stations began broadcasting in the different occupation zones and radio become a popular medium among Antensians: in 1952 there were 1.5 million radio sets in Antensian homes. The Western Allies could operate their programmes nationwide from Brantowo, with a significantly higher popularity rating than the outdated **KRR** transmissions. In 1955, the various regional stations were brought together as the **Antenska telewizja** which later, in 1958, became the **Antenska Radiofonia**, forerunner of today's **ARF**.

## Logos

First logo (1955-1968)Second logo (1968-1992)Current logo (1992-present)