ČRo Dvojka

ČRo Dvojka

Prague
Broadcast area	Czech Republic
Programming
Language(s)	Czech
Format	Talk
Ownership
Owner	Český rozhlas
History
First air date	1993
Links
Website	dvojka.rozhlas.cz

ČRo Dvojka (Czech Radio 2 - Prague in 1992-2011/2013) is a full-format Czech Radio station. It was founded in 1952 and operated by Czechoslovak Radio until the end of 1991.

The station broadcasts practically all types of programmes - entertainment, educational, historical, music, as well as programmes about science, readings for continuation and radio plays. The station broadcasts news programmes throughout the hour which include home and world news and traffic information.

As of the first quarter of 2023, 377,000 listeners listened to the station daily.

History

The broadcasting of the Prague station (today's CRo Dvojka) began on 10 March 1952, when the National Prague Circuit was established. Later, the radio station was called Prague I for a short time.

From 31 January 2011, the station under the management of Jaromír Ostrý presented itself under the brand name Český rozhlas Dvojka, while a new broadcasting scheme was deployed. This caused a wave of discontent among the regular listeners. Complaints reached the management and the Council of the Czech Radio. The name Czech Radio 2 Prague was officially dropped on 31 December 2013.

On 2 January 2014, some transmitters of Dvojka were changed. The transmitter Prague (Cukrák) - 100.7 MHz started broadcasting the programme ČRo Region, Central Bohemia Region, while Dvojka acquired the transmitter Beroun (Záhrabská) - 88.4 MHz and Mělník (město) - 87.6 MHz. On 15 September 2014, Dvojka started to use new positioning "Together is nice for us", which replaced the original slogan "On the wave of well-being". New sound idents were introduced.

Since the spring of 2019, a major programme overhaul has begun, including the new slogan of "Radio that entertains you" being introduced. Most of the remaining editors and presenters from the Prague days (Svetla Magni, Svetlana Lavičková, Tomáš Černý and others) disappeared from the station.

On 31 December 2021, the medium-wave broadcast was discontinued, along with the Plus and Radiožurnál stations.

Programming and broadcasting

The station broadcasts both analogue and digital. Analogue on very short waves, digitally in DAB+ networks, by satellite via Astra 3A satellite (position 23,5° East) in DVB-S2 and on the Internet.

In the 1990s, the stations most popular talk show programme Tobogan was launched. Tomáš Sláma began to host it, with 563 broadcasts to his credit. After his death, Petr Jančařík took over as moderator, followed by Jaroslav Dušek and then Aleš Cibulka.

See also

• Czech Radio

External links

• (in Czech) CRo Dvojka official website