A Emissora Nacional: das emissões experimentais à oficialização (1933-1936)

In Portugal, the birth of public radio took place during the 30s, after a period in which all the initiatives concerning the development of radio had been led private groups. The first years of Emissora Nacional were coincident with the period in which the New State was consolidating its structure. For this reason, at the beginning there was an intense struggle for the control of the radio station. During the experimental period it was possible to identify inside Emissora Nacional several tendencies that, inside the political regime, tried to define which should be the role of radio broadcasting as a mean of promotion of the New State’s political ideology. These political tendencies are identified in the present article which furnishes also data concerning the several types of programming that were offered by the public radio station.