Rádio Nacional

Rádio Nacional

Type	Public broadcasting
Country	Brazil
Founded	1936
Headquarters	Brasília and Rio de Janeiro
Owner	Brazilian federal government
Parent	Empresa Brasil de Comunicação
Official website	http://radios.ebc.com.br/

Rádio Nacional (National Radio) is a Brazilian radio network belonging to the government-owned corporation EBC (Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, Brazil Communication Company), formerly known as Radiobrás.

The Brazilian system of public radio began to be assembled from the incorporation into state assets of the Rádio Nacional, a Rio de Janeiro-based station in 1936, by President Getúlio Vargas. In 1958, two years before the inauguration of new capital Brasília, Rádio Nacional Brasília was founded and in 1976 the FM version, Nacional FM was assembled in the same city. In 1977, the shortwave Rádio Nacional da Amazônia was created, covering much of Brazil with the aim of showing the Amazon culture to the rest of the country. In 2006, Nacional launched the Radio Nacional do Alto Solimões, covering municipalities of the Alto Solimões region of Amazonas state. The Rádio Nacional owns five radio stations and retransmit their programming to hundreds of broadcasters around the Brazil.

In 1936 the Rádio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro was donated to the Brazilian government and renamed Rádio Ministério da Educação e Cultura (Ministry of Education and Culture Radio) or simply Rádio MEC. Later, the acronym was changed to Rádio Música, Educação e Cultura (Music, Education and Culture Radio). In 2008 the three stations of Rádio MEC was incorporated to the EBC radio networks, along with Rádio Nacional stations.