Basic facts on Radio Proglas

Location: Back part of the building of Bishop’s grammar school, address: Radio Proglas, Barvičova 85, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic;

250 sq m - studios, 400 sq m editors’ office.

Other regional studios: Prague (Kristián), Olomouc (Radim), Ostrava (Hedvika), Hradec Kralove (Adalbert), Litomerice (Stepan), Ceske Budejovice (Jan Neumann).

Workers:40 altogether, co-operatives (voluntary): permanently 40, casually next 200.

Director: P. Martin Holík, Dipl. Ing., Chief editor: Pavel Mikšů.

Support of broadcasting: The Friends Club Of Radio Proglas: 22, 000 members, i.e. 47,000 persons, addition 50 members a month. Next 6,500 contributory non-members.

Donated amount:22,000,000 CZK per year, i.e. about 1000 CZK per member. (Amount voluntary, rule: 1,50 CZK per day and a member = 2 of heads).

Target group of listeners: Broadcasting is set for all age categories, for all the people of good will without the difference of belief (a few Christian churches participate in broadcasting). Rate of spoken word - music: spoken word 45%, music 55%.

Market Research: Media Projekt: Listeners the last 7 days 101,000; the most listened to station 41,000. A half of our listeners live in the towns with about 5000 citizens.

Rate of types of programs: Praying 6,3%, information and news 9,4 %, programmes for children 4,1 %, culture 7,5 %, education 8,7 %, classical and spiritual music 14,9%, popular music 43,5%, folklore 5,6%.

Making of programs: 94% of our own, then 5 hours a week TWR, 3 hours a week Radio Vaticana. Repeats altogether about 5%.

Interesting: Set of programs for children (8%): Fairy Tale, Broadcasting Little Town, Barvínek, Proglaso. Cultural: Poetry, Reading of books. Information and news. Music: Classical music, Oktáva, Hudební siesta, Concerts, Broadcasting for mothers. For Seniors. Jak se vám líbí, Slyšte, lidé!,  Countdown Kolem se toc, Folklorní okénko etc.

Contact with listeners: outside broadcasting: 2times a year bulletin , 1 times a year Magazin “Vlneni” (50 000), once a year pilgrimage (1,000 persons in the day of world prayers for media), once a year ‘visiting day’ (300 - 500 visitors). Internet. Personal visits. Distrib.of bulletins: 950co-operatives (‘KaPr’), technical help (‘Sumec’), letters: 15,000 a year.

in programs: ‘Vzkazy’, Countdown, ‘Proglaso’, ‘Magdazín’, Midnight line, Congratulations, ‘Listarna’, ‘Barvinek’, etc. ‘

What next: Into offering of CATV (nowadays in about 500,000 connections), Effort to broadcast in DAB+ and  DVB-H systems.