Radio Radicale is the official radio station of Partito Radicale (Radical Party) in Italy. It was founded in the seventies, along with the "Radio libere".
It is completely free of commercial advertising and is mostly funded by the party, however a small portion comes from the Italian government.
Despite being an official political party organ a large portion of its airtime is devoted to broadcasting parliamentary live debates from the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Italian Senate as well as important court cases.
Another large portion of airtime is also used to broadcast Italian political party conventions of all political spectrums from far right to the far left.
The remaining airtime is used for the party's own political beliefs.
Sometimes they leave their airtime open to all callers who each have around 45 seconds to say anything they want. These calls are not censored.
The party sold a portion of the radio station in 1999 to fund their campaign election to the European parliament.
It has a huge archive of registration of the last 30 years of Italian politics.
Famous quotes containing the word radio:
“The radio ... goes on early in the morning and is listened to at all hours of the day, until nine, ten and often eleven o’clock in the evening. This is certainly a sign that the grown-ups have infinite patience, but it also means that the power of absorption of their brains is pretty limited, with exceptions, of course—I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. One or two news bulletins would be ample per day! But the old geese, well—I’ve said my piece!”
—Anne Frank (1929–1945)