Rádio Comercial

Rádio Comercial is a commercial radio station in Portugal aimed at young people and adults. It has a broad format including contemporary, pop and rock music. It is among the most listened to radio stations in the country.

Rádio Comercial

Broadcast area	Portugal - National FM
Frequency	several frequencies, change from geographical side to side See: Frequency
Slogan	Em casa, no carro, em todo o lado (English: At home, in the car, everywhere)
Programming
Language(s)	Portuguese
Format	News, entertainment, hit music.
Ownership
Owner	Media Capital / PRISA
History
First air date	March 12, 1979
Links
Website	www.radiocomercial.pt

History

Rádio Comercial was born on March 12, 1979, as a subsidiary of Rádiodifusão Portuguesa. The name was chosen because it was the only RDP station to allow adverts at the time. However, the station can trace its roots to Rádio Clube Português (RCP), a very important and influential station founded in 1930. RCP existed until 1975, when it was nationalized as part of the Carnation revolution. Then, the channel was swallowed into RDP, and was later privatized on March 31, 1993 to the Correio da Manhã newspaper, and later sold to Media Capital and PRISA. From that time until 2003, the station focused on rock music.

So Get Up and Rádio Comercial

During a one-year period from late 1992 to late 1993, the Greek-Californian artist Ithaka Darin Pappas, who lived in Lisbon for a six-year duration, hosted a small English-language segment on Rádio Comercial called Lounge Lizard Larry within the daily afternoon show, Quarto Bairro.[1][2]

Quarto Bairro was produced by Eduardo Guerra and recorded by Pedro Costa (currently a DJ at Antena 3 (Portugal)), with news by Sílvia Souto Cunha (present day editor of Visão Magazine). For the Lounge Lizard Larry sequences Ithaka would, for the most part, read his own poems, written specifically for the show, on top on B-side instrumental hip-hop tracks.[3][4][5][6]

On one day in late 1992 at a café outside of the Rádio Comercial studios in the neighborhood called Amoreiras, Ithaka wrote a poem called, The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us and some minutes after completion read it live on top of a Naughty By Nature instrumental. A couple of months later, he recorded a demo of the song in Manchester, England with original music. And about eight months after that, the electronic music group Underground Sound of Lisbon, who had been hearing him read his writings on-air, invited him to rerecord The End Of The Earth Is Upon Us with their music for the B-side of a 12" vinyl single they were recording. Thru the decades the song, retitled So Get Up, has achieved a wide range of releases and remixes by international artists, but the original recording of the vocal-poem took place at Rádio Comercial in Amoreiras.[7][8][9][1]

Team

Presenters

• Pedro Ribeiro
• Vanda Miranda
• Vasco Palmeirim
• Nuno Markl
• Ricardo Araújo Pereira
• Catarina Miranda
• João Vaz
• Rita Rugeroni
• Ana Isabel Arroja
• Marta Santos
• Wilson Honrado
• Ithaka Darin Pappas 4th Bairro "Lounge Lizard Larry"(1992-1993)

Staff

• João Pedro Sousa
• Nuno Luz
• Mário Rui
• Nuno Gonçalo
• Ana Margarida
• Ana Martins
• Margarida Moura
• Patrícia Pereira
• António Dias
• Cláudia Macedo
• Paulo Miranda
• Inês Cordeiro
• Margarida Gonçalves
• Joana Azevedo

Current presenters and shows

From Monday till Friday

Time	Show	Presenter
7:00	Programa da Manhã	Pedro Ribeiro, Vera Fernandes, Nuno Markl e Vasco Palmeirim
11:00		Wilson Honrado
14:00	À Tarde é que é Bom	João Vaz
17:00	Regresso a Casa	Catarina Miranda
20:00	TNT - Todos no Top	Ana Isabel Arroja
22:00		Ana Isabel Arroja.

Saturday

Time	Show	Presenter
7:00		Sofia Morais
10:00	Barulho das Luzes	Catarina Miranda
12:00	PRIMO - Programa Realmente Incrível Mas Obtuso	Nuno Markl e Vasco Palmeirim
13:00		Vanda Miranda
16:00	TNT - Todos no Top	Pedro Ribeiro
18:00		Ana Isabel Arroja

Sunday

Time	Show	Presenter
7:00		Sofia Morais
10:00		Marta Santos
14:00		João Vaz
18:00	TNT - Todos no Top (rep)	Pedro Ribeiro
20:00		Vasco Palmeirim
22:00	PRIMO - Programa Realmente Incrível Mas Obtuso (rep)	Nuno Markl e Vasco Palmeirim

Frequency (Rede Nacional de Emissores)

• Alcácer do Sal: 97.4 FM / 96.8 FM
• Aveiro: 90.8 FM
• Braga: 99.2 FM
• Bragança: 93.9 FM / 91.9 FM
• Beja: 92.0 FM / 88.1 FM
• Castelo Branco: 98.2 FM
• Coimbra: 90.8 FM
• Évora: 92.0 FM
• Faro: 96.1 FM / 88.1 FM
• Guarda: 96.1 FM
• Guimarães: 99.2 FM
• Leiria: 89.0 FM / 90.8 FM / 99.8 FM
• Lisboa: 97.4 FM
• Portalegre: 98.9 FM
• Porto: 97.7 FM
• Santarém: 99.8 FM / 97.4 FM
• Setúbal: 97.4 FM /96.8 FM
• Valença do Minho: 99.0 FM
• Vila Real: 88.9 FM
• Viseu: 88.7 FM / 90.8 FM

See also

• Cidade
• M80 Radio

References

1. "Lolo Lyrics".
2. "UP Magazine".
3. "Discoteca 1".
4. "Visão".
5. "Gira Discos".
6. "A Apropriacao-Cultural Como".
7. "UP Magazine".
8. "So Get Up Lyrics".
9. "Red Bull".

External links

• Official site