National Radio Festival celebrates CMKC aniversary

Last Tuesday, March 23rd CMKC radio station from Santiago de Cuba celebrates its 80th anniversary and it is also represented in the XXXII National Radio Festival which opened yesterday in the Athens of Cuba with the arrival of delegates and guests at the greatest event of the radio in Cuba.

Joel Macias, CMKC’s director and who also participates as guest of National Radio Festival expressed to the Portal of the Cuban Radio “CMKC’s staff is proud to reach this anniversary with a programming which takes in all tastes, our staff rises for years, proof of this is the that in 1959 after the triumph of the Revolution this radio station only broadcast 1 hour, at present it has a 24-hour programming of AM and FM frequencies”.

Our radio station, Macias stated, has earned its own right an important space in the history of Radio, from its airwaves Commander in Chief Fidel Castro spoke for the first time to the Cuban people on January 1st, 1959, to call a revolutionary general strike following the flight of dictator Fulgencio Batista and thus consolidate the victory of the Rebel Army was also CMKC school of several personalities who have contributed to the Cuban broadcasting your personal creativity such as Felix B Caignet, a must for all those who have left a drama school, likewise it also has increased in other stations that provide an approach to our rural and mountainous communities such as: Radio Triple M Radio in the Third Front, Radio Siboney, Radio del Segundo Frente Oriental Frank País.

Just as the taste of Santiago de Cuba opened its sessions on the Radio Festival in Matanzas, which on this occasion paid tribute to our national hero José Martí and facilitated the reunion of the creators of the radio from the central, western and eastern part of Cuba.

Starting Tuesday theoretical sessions, while the program of activities including a gala awards highlighted the individuality of this XXXII Festival, the opening of the Press Room, and an exchange with personalities and leaders of the province.

The radial system in Matanzas consists on provincial radio station Radio 26, and five municipal plants Radio Ciudad Bandera, Radio Llanura from Colon, radio Victoria de Giron, Radio Varadero and from La Cienaga de Zapata, radio Voz de la Victoria.

About 600 works were presented at the XXXII National Festival of the Cuban Radio and now the winners were published in the top three seats for each category and awards for individuals, accessible on the web site www.radiocubana.cu

From 50 works that were awarded, which are nominees to the Great Awards, 42 are from municipal radio stations which shows that radio is opening participation spaces in their communities.

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