Hromadske Radio

Hromadske Radio (Ukrainian for "Public Radio") is a Ukrainian non-governmental and nonprofit media organization, which aims to create an independent radio broadcasting in Ukraine. Its predecessor, also called Hromadske Radio, was created in 2002 by journalist Olexander Kryvenko (1963-2003). Despite the popularity of the website, the project was closed in 2005, as it failed to receive a government license for broadcasting. Hromadske Radio was considered as one of the first independent and objective platforms in Ukraine, where representatives of different political forces can share their opinions without censorship.

In 2013 a new initiative group of professional journalists recreated Hromadske Radio with the same name and the same goals. Hromadske Radio was started as a podcast-project and transformed into a web-radio. In July 2015 Hromadske Radio won the competition of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, giving the station an ability to broadcast in some cities in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and in Kyiv.

Big part of the radio content (talk shows, programs, news) was spread on the Internet as podcasts. From autumn 2004 to February 2005 Hromadske Radio broadcast for 1 hour per week in Kyiv and regional centers using the transmitters of Radio Era FM.

In February 2005 Hromadske Radio closed the project because of the lack of funding. The website of the first Hromadske Radio radio.org.ua is still workings in memory of Olexander Kryvenko.

Among the journalists who worked at Hromadske Radio in 2002-2005 were: Olexander Kryvenko, Sergiy Rakhmanin, Roman Skrypin, Zurab Alasania, Danylo Yanevsky, Mykola Veresen, Roman Vybranovskyy, Dmytro Krykun, Olexander Chernenko, Taras Kuzmov, Myhaylo Shamanov, Natalia Riaba, Maria Vasilyeva, Ihor Soldatenko, Eugene Hlibovytsky, Angela Rudenko, Myhaylo Barbara, Olga Pyrozhko, Dmytro Drabyk and Natalia Ivchenko.

The new online project of Hromadske Radio was announced in July 2013. On August 21 of 2013 some members of the initiative group launched the first podcast, where they explained why they decided to re-organize Hromadske Radio. The first broadcast was on December 1, 2013 at the waves of Europa Plus Ukraine. In this program journalists Julia Burkovska, Denis Kubryak and Andriy Kulykov led the marathon "Euromaidan on-line".

In 2013 Olexander Buzyuk was a Chairman of Hromadske Radio. On 14 September 2015 he was replaced by Andriy Kulykov.

The project currently uses the logo of the first Hromadske Radio with the permission of the International Fund ‘Renaissance’, which is the main donor of the project. Hromadske Radio also uses a part of the equipment, which remained after the first project of Hromadske Radio.

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