Radio Agricultura

Radio Agricultura
City	Santiago, Chile
Frequency	92.1 MHz (Santiago)
Slogan	Opinión en vivo
Ownership
Owner	Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura
History
First air date	October 15, 1936
Technical information
Transmitter coordinates	33.42904°S 70.62115°W
Links
Website	radioagricultura.cl

Radio Agricultura (originally Radio Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura) is a Chilean radio broadcasting network belonging to the association of landowners, Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura (SNA). It is run by Publicaciones y Difusión SA (which is owned by the SNA), the studios are at Edificio Pamplona.

It was founded in 1935 in Valparaíso and inaugurated on October 30, 1936 in Santiago de Chile. Its concession goes back to Decree No. 3633 of August 30, 1935, subsequently published in the Diario Oficial on September 11, 1935. It takes a conservative editorial line.[1]

History

The SNA decided to create a means of making its activities known to the public. Beginning the project in Valparaiso in 1935, on October 15, 1936, in Santiago, radio transmissions began at a frequency of 570 kHz on the Medium wave band.

Radio Agricultura was influential in making Mexican music popular in rural areas of Chile.[2] Radio Agricultura won notoriety and influence because, along with the Chilena, Cooperativa and Minería radio networks, it opposed the government of Salvador Allende and supported the military coup and later military regime of Augusto Pinochet. Its transmissions were famous for their coverage of the coup of September 11, 1973 and its military bands that were heard on national radio and television throughout Chile. Also in the 1970s the dictatorship shut down smaller radio stations thought to be sympathetic with the former Allende administration.[2]

At the end of the 1990s, Radio Agricultura began broadcasting at 92.1 MHz in the FM band, the frequency of its sister radio station Radio San Cristóbal.

As the only station with which provincial radio stations can affiliate, Radio Agricultura uses agreements with other radio stations, in addition to a network of transmitters throughout Chile, to broadcast across the country. Other, larger radio stations (such as Radio Bío-Bío, Radio Cooperativa, ADN Radio Chile and Tele13 Radio) have national channels with their own stations.

Radio Agricultura has among its ranks several public figures, including Alejandro de la Carrera (press director until March 2014), Joaquín Lavín, Fernando Villegas, Cecilia Pérez, Sergio "Checho" Hirane, and Eli de Caso among others.

gollark: Politicians are somewhat bad, but if people weren't blindly anti-nuclear we probably would end up with more nuclear power.

gollark: Also problematic regulatory stuff apparently makes it hard for new designs to be tried.

gollark: I think the main issue with nuclear is just that people are foolish and dislike it.

gollark: The zero-growth people are very annoying, space mining is much better.

gollark: That seems somewhat based.

References

Sunkel, Guillermo; Geoffroy, Esteban. Concentración económica de los medios de comunicación (in Spanish). ISBN 9789562824156.
Montoya Arias, Luis Omar; Díaz Güemez, Marco Aurelio (September 12, 2017). "Etnografía de la música mexicana en Chile: Estudio de caso". Revista Electrónica de Divulgación de la Investigación (in Spanish). 14: 1–20.

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[1] Sunkel, Guillermo; Geoffroy, Esteban. Concentración económica de los medios de comunicación (in Spanish). ISBN 9789562824156.

[OmarMarco2017-2] Montoya Arias, Luis Omar; Díaz Güemez, Marco Aurelio (September 12, 2017). "Etnografía de la música mexicana en Chile: Estudio de caso". Revista Electrónica de Divulgación de la Investigación (in Spanish). 14: 1–20.