Vatican Radio
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| First air date | 12 February 1931 (86 years ago) |
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| Format | News, religious celebrations, in-depth programs, and music |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°54′14″N 012°27′00″E / 41.90389°N 12.45000°ECoordinates: 41°54′14″N 012°27′00″E / 41.90389°N 12.45000°E |
| Affiliations | World Radio Network |
| Owner | Secretariat for Communications of the Roman Curia |
| Website | www |
Vatican Radio (Italian: Radio Vaticana) is the official broadcasting service of the Vatican.
Set up in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi, today its programs are offered in 47 languages, and are sent out on short wave (also DRM), medium wave, FM, satellite and the Internet. Since its inception, Vatican Radio has been maintained by the Jesuit Order. During World War II and the rise of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Vatican Radio served as a source for news for the Allies as well as broadcasting pro-Allied propaganda. A week after Pope Pius XII ordered the programming, Vatican Radio broadcast to an incredulous world that Poles and Jews were being rounded up and forced into ghettos.
Today, programming is produced by over two hundred journalists located in 61 different countries. Vatican Radio produces more than 42,000 hours of simultaneous broadcasting covering international news, religious celebrations, in-depth programs, and music. The current general director is Father Federico Lombardi, S.J.
On Saturday 27 June 2015 Pope Francis, in a motu proprio ("on his own initiative") apostolic letter, established the Secretariat for Communications in the Roman Curia, which absorbed Vatican Radio effective 1 January 2017 ending the organization's 85 years of independent operation.
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