Radio Nacional del Paraguay

Radio Nacional del Paraguay (National Radio of Paraguay) is the public radio broadcaster of Paraguay.[1] It is a division of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication (Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación) alongside national public TV channel Paraguay TV. Programs are in Spanish and in the Guarani language.

In Asunción, it has two stations, the 100,000-watt 920 AM (call sign ZP1) and ZPV1 on 95.1 FM, with separate programming.[2][3] RNP also operates services in Pilar (ZP12, 700 AM) and San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú (105.9 FM).

History

RNP was established on 2 September 1942.[4] It came to occupy a major role in the military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner; Judith María Vera, who served as director general of RNP in the late 2000s, called it "an efficient tool of disinformation".[5] It was known for the program La voz del coloradismo and also originated the other two daily required broadcasts of all radio stations as cadenas nacionales.[6]

By the mid-2000s, the shortwave service had been discontinued.[5]

In 2001, the Paraguayan government took over the Pilar station, which had previously been the private Radio Carlos Antonio López; it became a budget item in 2004. A 2005 column in ABC Color argued that the ownership of the Pilar and Asunción AM stations was illegal, given that law reserved for the government one national AM frequency and FM frequencies in each department.[7] The San Pedro FM outlet began broadcasting on 8 August 2013.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Paraguay country profile". BBC. Archived from the original on 19 September 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2007.
  2. ^ "Registro Nacional de Servicios de Telecomunicaciones: FM Comercial" (PDF). Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones. 11 February 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Registro Nacional de Servicios de Telecomunicaciones: AM Comercial" (PDF). Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones. 23 July 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Radio Nacional del Paraguay cumple hoy 78 años de servicio informativo". Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (in Spanish). 1 September 2020. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b Vera, Judith María (4 October 2009). "De la Radio oficialista a la Radio Pública" [From the Official Radio Station to the Public Radio Station] (in Spanish). Radio Nacional del Paraguay. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010.
  6. ^ "Hace 30 años también terminaba "La Voz del Coloradismo"". Extra (in European Spanish). 2 February 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  7. ^ "Por ley, el Estado no puede contar con dos AM" [By law, the State cannot have two AM frequencies]. ABC (in Spanish). 31 January 2005.
  8. ^ "Radio Nacional San Pedro celebra 8º aniversario de creación" [Radio Nacional San Pedro celebrates 8th anniversary of creation]. Agencia de Información Paraguaya (in Spanish). 8 August 2021.

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