Radio Ragtime profile
slovenska verzia
Radio Ragtime is a private radio station. We started
broadcasting May 1, 1993 on the frequency 100,3 MHz for
Bratislava and vicinity. The owner of the license for
maintenance of the radio station is Ragtime Ltd. Radio
Ragtime broadcasts every day from 6.00 am to 3.00 am. The
broadcasting schedule consists of blocks of music,
literature, information and call in shows. The audience of
Radio Ragtime is mostly students of Universities, high
schools and people involved in the field of culture. Radio
Ragtime is maintained in cooperation with the Department of
Journalism, Faculty of Philosophy of
Comenius University,
Bratislava.
RADIO FOR CULTURE INSTEAD OF THE CULTURE IN RADIO
One of the most important tasks of our radio station is
continuous information about the cultural activities in
Bratislava and taking care of the completeness of this
information, especially if it will concern the cultural
activities that are interesting for young people. It means
that we must always be in contact with editing houses,
theatres, galleries, art agencies, etc. Our radio station
wants to promote mainly a modern culture, a living one,
which has no chance to get publicity in the big commercial
mass media, it wants to function as a cultural service, to
read from the new books, to call attention to the concerts and
exhibitions, to review theatrical performances and films and to
talk with the authors.
Our station tries to do it all in a slighth different way as the
state radio stations have been doing it for a long time. It will
not create some special rubrics for the culture, it wants to
take it as it is, to put it into the air as a normal part
of our life. We want to do all possible in order to prevent
the limiting of culture into some serious framework labelled in
advance, we want to present it in such a way that will attract
not only university students but other young people as well.
RADIO OF YOUNG AND NEW MUSIC
Our generation lives in harmony with music as did the
generations before us. So it is obvious that music is the
large part of our radio transmissions. It takes up most of the
broadcasting time - but does not consist only of the top ten
hits from the charts as is currently in the popular
commercial radio stations. We want to broadcast all
interesting music, not only with regard to its commercial
value, we want to inform our listeners about the brand new
trends in the world of music and to tell them something
about its backround. There is space in our broadcasting
offered to newly formed musical groups and interpreters.We do
not want to be limited by one musical style or to live in a one
music world, we will not be a radio station for the hard fans
of something or someone, we want to broadcast all interesting
and good music.
The music broadcasting consists of profiles, intorductions of
new recordings, music news and blocks dedicated
specifically to jazz, oldies, house music, world music and
other genres. The music is choosen by music journalists and by
people that work in the club scene.
RADIO AND LITERATURE
Our broadcasting consists not only of music and information. An
essential part of it is dedicated to literature. In
addition to the interviews and talks about literature we
want to do something, which is practically unique among the
commercial radio stations in our country - it is the
presentation of the literature alone. There are various
possible forms of it: dramatization, reading from books
poetry or prose, inform about trends in music and
literature and about Slovak and Czech literary journals.
The literature studio of Radio Ragtime is created by
students of Universities in Bratislava. Literature is
presented in different ways and the choosen literature
covers a wide spectrum. We also work with actors form the
theaters, with editorial officies and with writers and
journalists.
INFORMATION BLOCKS AND CALL IN SHOWS
Radio Ragtime is trying to cover current events of the
social and culture life of Bratislava in the maximum
possible way. This is reflected in the amount and quality of the
information as well as in the selection of the guests and
topics that we discuss with the audience. We are in close
cooperation with different book stores, publishing houses
and with film clubs. Radio Ragtime assists in
organisation and promotion of some culture and social
events.
R A D I O * R A G T I M E * 100,3 MHz