Bulgarian National Radio

Bulgarian National Radio (, Bâlgarsko natsionalno radio; abbreviated to БНР, BNR) is Bulgaria's national radio broadcasting organization. It operates two national and seven regional channels, as well as an international service – Radio Bulgaria – which broadcasts in 11 languages.

Domestic channels

National

• Horizont: BNR's most listened-to channel, with round-the-clock news, comment, and music (with the emphasis on modern popular music genres).
• Hristo Botev: covering science and the arts, documentaries and discussions on cultural and social questions, drama, classical music, jazz, and programming for children.

Regional

• Radio Blagoevgrad
• Radio Plovdiv
• Radio Shumen
• Radio Sofiya
• Radio Stara Zagora
• Radio Varna
• Radio Vidin

International

Radio Bulgaria broadcasts in Bulgarian and also in Albanian, Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Transmission

The domestic channels are broadcast on FM and AM frequencies. Radio Bulgaria broadcasts principally on shortwave plus one medium-wave frequency. All stations are also available online.

On 26 May 2008 RPTS of Kostinbrod in Bulgaria started the country's first regular broadcasts in digital format, using Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). This signal is also used as the audio channel accompanying BNT's testcard.

History

Listening to radio broadcasts from other countries having became popular in Bulgaria by the late 1920s, a group of engineers and intellectuals founded......
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