Administration building and radio masts at Vatican City

Vatican Radio is the official broadcasting service of the Vatican. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1500x1500, 495 KB) Summary Photo taken by Frederik Ramm on 2002-03-17 from the roof of St Peters Basilica using a Ricoh RDC-7 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Vatican Radio Metadata This file... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1500x1500, 495 KB) Summary Photo taken by Frederik Ramm on 2002-03-17 from the roof of St Peters Basilica using a Ricoh RDC-7 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Vatican Radio Metadata This file... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number of recipients (listeners or viewers) that belong to a large group. ...

Set up in 1931 by Guglielmo Marconi, today its programs are offered in 40 languages, and are sent out on short wave (also DRM), medium wave, FM, satellite and the Internet. The Jesuit Order has been charged with the management of Vatican Radio since its inception. During World War II and the rise of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Vatican Radio served as a source for news for the Allies as well as broadcasting pro-Ally propaganda. [1] A week after Pius XII ordered the programming, Vatican Radio broadcasted to an unbelieving world that Poles and Jews were being round up and forced into ghettos. Programming is produced by over two hundred journalists located in 61 different countries. Vatican Radio produces more than 42,000 hours of simultaneous broadcasting covering international news, religious celebrations, in-depth programs and music. 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi, GCVO (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system commonly known as the radio. Marconi was President of the Accademia dItalia and a member of the Fascist Grand Council... Shortwave radio operates between the frequencies of 3,000 kHz and 30 MHz (30,000 kHz) and came to be referred to as such in the early days of radio because the wavelengths associated with this frequency range were shorter than those commonly in use at that time. ... Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) is an international non-profit consortium committed to designing and implementing an open-source platform for digital radio broadcasting around the world, especially on shortwave. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ... FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity broadcast radio sound. ... A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). ... The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu/Jesu (S.J.) in Latin) is a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in direct service to the Pope. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... The Venerable Pius XII, born Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Eugenio Pacelli (Rome, March 2, 1876 - October 9, 1958) served as the Pope from March 2, 1939 to 1958. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ...

See also

• L'Osservatore Romano
• International broadcasting

Masthead LOsservatore Romano is the Vaticans newspaper. ... International broadcasting is broadcasting deliberately aimed at a foreign, rather than a domestic, audience. ...

External links

• Official website
• Founding of Vatican Radio