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Radio Študent (RŠ) is a Slovenian radio station that broadcasts student non-profit radio programs. RŠ was created as a direct consequence of student demonstrations from 1968, and on the 9th of May 1969 it was founded by the Association of the Student Community of Slovenia. Like local stations, it was completely independent of Radio Ljubljana and the first student radio station in Europe.

Today, Zavod Radio Študent is a non-profit civil-social and cultural-educational organization based in Ljubljana. RŠ combines the basic features of community radio and public service. In addition to creating and broadcasting educational, artistic, informative and musical programs, the educational role of Radio Študent is equally important, training young people for journalism and other radio work, and at the same time he educating the audience by devoting time to more demanding and neglected topics. Recently, Radio Študent has also focused more intensively on cultural and music production and publishing activities.

History

Radio Študent was established as a result of the pan-European student movements of 1968 and began broadcasting on 9 May 1969 [2][3] from the basement of Doma VIII in the Rožna dolina student settlement. The center of the movements in Slovenia was the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, where the extra-parliamentary opposition of the so-called new left was spreading, and similar democratic processes were taking place in the student dormitory. [4]

The radio was originally established to inform the then student population about all current events and problems for students and to quell student protests[4], but soon became an important companion of new social movements, which theoretically began bring many issues to the forefront, including university reform.[5] It was primarily a response to the marginal reporting of the official state media of student movements, thus becoming an autonomous information source and a space of increased freedom of expression. Rastko Močnik, among others, were able to broadcast their views on Radio Študent, as were Rado Riha and Slavoj Žižek [4]. At that time, scientists from other fields and many later artists also worked at Radio Študent. [7]

Part of the necessary equipment for broadcasting the program was bought by Radio Študent, and some was donated by RTV. The radio initially broadcast only three hours a day, and radio personnel were paid very little. The lack of money was mainly an obstacle to setting up a sound library and the operating the music department which, from its inception, focused mainly on alternative and progressive music, for which there was no room on other radio stations at the time. [4]

Radio Študent's music library. Photo by wikipedia user Pofuran

The radio acquired its legal formal recognition in 1974. For its first nine years, Radio Študent broadcast a three-hour program on the medium wave of a local transmitter in the VIII. block of the Student Settlement, so it could only be heard in individual parts of Ljubljana. In May 1978, after nine years of operation, Radio Študent started broadcasting on a new FM stereo transmitter, and at the same time RŠ also expanded its programming time to four hours a day and four hours in the evenings on weekends.

In the 1980s, RŠ was at the forefront of (mostly youth) newspapers, which gradually opened up to taboo topics at the time. The music played was especially provocative. Radio Študent, contributed to the outbreak of punk [8] as a mass phenomenon and decisively helped shape its plural and do-it-yourself phase. During this period, the Novi rock festival was also very influential and popular. [6]

References

  1. "Annual Report 2016" (PDF) .
  2. Bakše, Ingrid (1989). Compendium for past and future politicians or Journey from Krško to Portorož . RK ZSMS. p. 166. COBISS http://cobiss4.izum.si/scripts/cobiss?command=DISPLAY&base=99999&rid=14949632&fmt=11&lani=si .
  3. "Media Watch # 17-18, October 2003 | Media Watch" . mediawatch.mirovni-institut.si . Retrieved on 2017-04-05 .
  4. "Let him be a student! | MLADINA.si" . Mladina.si . Retrieved on 2017-04-05 .
  5. "History of Student Organization 68 '| Radio Student" . Radio Student . 2013-11-07 . Retrieved on 2017-04-05 .
  6. "A medium with a voice that has been heard and is still loud" . www.delo.si . Retrieved on 2017-04-05 .
  7. "Radio Študent: 1969–2014 - what now? | MLADINA.si" . Mladina.si . Retrieved on 2017-04-05 .
  8. Oshlak-Gerasimov, Simon. Total Revolution? ": The struggle of Slovene punk under the communist regime of Yugoslavia . Maribor: Kulturni center, 2016. ISBN 978-961-6620-93-2.

External links (in Slovene)

Text adapted from the Slovenian Wikipedia

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