Radio Bulgaria celebrates in 89th Anniversary
On February 16, Radio Bulgaria celebrates its 89th anniversary. Radio Bulgaria is active on social media in 11 languages and connect with listeners through modern digital platforms.
It all began on a Sunday in February when Bulgarian Radio, then called Radio Sofia, began broadcasting its first foreign language programmes to Europe, North Africa and North America. The first programmes were in Esperanto. A few months later, broadcasts in French, German, English and Italian were introduced.
After 9 September 1944, broadcasts in Bulgarian for foreign audiences were discontinued. They were not resumed until the late 1950s.
In 1992, the foreign language programmes of Bulgarian National Radio were renamed Radio Bulgaria. In the following years, some language sections were closed, including Italian, Portuguese and Arabic.
Radio Bulgaria's first website was launched in 2004, offering content in 11 languages to reach an even wider audience. Today Radio Bulgaria offers content in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Romanian and Bulgarian, through sound, text and images.
(Source : Radio Bulgaria)
https://bnr.bg/en
