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Radio Mayak
Radio Mayak (Russian: Радио Маяк) is a radio broadcasting company in Russia, owned by VGTRK. Mayak is the Russian word for "lighthouse" or "beacon". As well as Radio Mayak proper (which broadcasts news, talk shows, and popular music), the company is also responsible for the youth music channel Radio Yunost. Radio Mayak was established on 1 August 1964 as a major All-Union Radio station dedicated to news and light music. Its name and format were probably inspired by the BBC Light Programme. Until recently it was transmitted on long wave, medium wave and shortwave. Advertising was introduced in the 1980s. The station's trademark "Moscow Nights" tuning signal is played every 30 minutes.
Radio Mayak was formally established in accordance with a resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union issued on 24 June 1964. The founder of Mayak is considered to be one of the future ideologists of perestroika, Alexander Yakovlev. Its first editor-in-chief, as well as the entire Main Information Editorial Board (Poslednie Izvestiya - Mayak), was Vladimir Dmitrievich Tregubov. An excerpt from the memoirs of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya about her work at Poslednie Izvestiya:
Our chief, Vladimir Tregubov, a handsome man, married many times, completely gray, tanned, whistling through the corridors like a torpedo, Volodya, who spoke abruptly, was always in a hurry and looked over people's heads, he did not delve into details, did not get under people's skin, like many of my later bosses; but at one key moment Tregubov put a final end to his life: at a party meeting, so to speak, he committed suicide by refusing to vote for the introduction of troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968. Then he was gradually driven out...
Since 1966, the outstanding Soviet journalist Yuri Letunov was appointed editor-in-chief, under whom the radio station acquired its characteristic image.
The station began broadcasting on August 1, 1964 from the studio on 25 Pyatnitskaya str. From 1964 to 1983 it adhered to the "5/25" format - five minutes of news and 25 minutes of a music program. Created on the technical basis of the former Second Program of All-Union Radio as an information and music program.
The melody "Moscow Nights" was chosen as a call sign, which is used to this day. Today, few people remember that the first two "minor" bars of this song ("Not even a rustle in the garden is heard...") in the 1960s sounded only in multiples of one hour (9:00, 13:00, 18:00, etc.). At half-hour intervals (9:30, 13:30, 18:30, etc.) the third and fourth, "major" bars were heard ("Everything here froze until the morning"), which made it easy to determine the time by ear with an accuracy of up to half an hour. Later, the call signs were unified (only "Moscow Nights" were heard).
The signal power of the radio station in the AM range was at its best in the Soviet years: radio amateurs of those years had an excellent opportunity to check and calibrate a newly assembled radio receiver, because the call signs of "Mayak" were well received by both large crystal receivers and tiny receivers inside a matchbox on several transistors.
In the late 1980s, the radio station launched a four-hour "Panorama of Mayak". It was hosted by Nikolai Neich, Vladimir Bezyaev, Pavel Kasparov (later he worked for ORT and TVC), Lyudmila Syomina and many other famous radio hosts of those years. On the air of the radio station, one could hear announcers who, in addition to "Panorama", hosted the news and the popular "Concerts on Letters".
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Radio Mayak
Radio Mayak (Russian: Радио Маяк) is a radio broadcasting company in Russia, owned by VGTRK. Mayak is the Russian word for "lighthouse" or "beacon". As well as Radio Mayak proper (which broadcasts news, talk shows, and popular music), the company is also responsible for the youth music channel Radio Yunost. Radio Mayak was established on 1 August 1964 as a major All-Union Radio station dedicated to news and light music. Its name and format were probably inspired by the BBC Light Programme. Until recently it was transmitted on long wave, medium wave and shortwave. Advertising was introduced in the 1980s. The station's trademark "Moscow Nights" tuning signal is played every 30 minutes.
Radio Mayak was formally established in accordance with a resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union issued on 24 June 1964. The founder of Mayak is considered to be one of the future ideologists of perestroika, Alexander Yakovlev. Its first editor-in-chief, as well as the entire Main Information Editorial Board (Poslednie Izvestiya - Mayak), was Vladimir Dmitrievich Tregubov. An excerpt from the memoirs of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya about her work at Poslednie Izvestiya:
Our chief, Vladimir Tregubov, a handsome man, married many times, completely gray, tanned, whistling through the corridors like a torpedo, Volodya, who spoke abruptly, was always in a hurry and looked over people's heads, he did not delve into details, did not get under people's skin, like many of my later bosses; but at one key moment Tregubov put a final end to his life: at a party meeting, so to speak, he committed suicide by refusing to vote for the introduction of troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968. Then he was gradually driven out...
Since 1966, the outstanding Soviet journalist Yuri Letunov was appointed editor-in-chief, under whom the radio station acquired its characteristic image.
The station began broadcasting on August 1, 1964 from the studio on 25 Pyatnitskaya str. From 1964 to 1983 it adhered to the "5/25" format - five minutes of news and 25 minutes of a music program. Created on the technical basis of the former Second Program of All-Union Radio as an information and music program.
The melody "Moscow Nights" was chosen as a call sign, which is used to this day. Today, few people remember that the first two "minor" bars of this song ("Not even a rustle in the garden is heard...") in the 1960s sounded only in multiples of one hour (9:00, 13:00, 18:00, etc.). At half-hour intervals (9:30, 13:30, 18:30, etc.) the third and fourth, "major" bars were heard ("Everything here froze until the morning"), which made it easy to determine the time by ear with an accuracy of up to half an hour. Later, the call signs were unified (only "Moscow Nights" were heard).
The signal power of the radio station in the AM range was at its best in the Soviet years: radio amateurs of those years had an excellent opportunity to check and calibrate a newly assembled radio receiver, because the call signs of "Mayak" were well received by both large crystal receivers and tiny receivers inside a matchbox on several transistors.
In the late 1980s, the radio station launched a four-hour "Panorama of Mayak". It was hosted by Nikolai Neich, Vladimir Bezyaev, Pavel Kasparov (later he worked for ORT and TVC), Lyudmila Syomina and many other famous radio hosts of those years. On the air of the radio station, one could hear announcers who, in addition to "Panorama", hosted the news and the popular "Concerts on Letters".