Hungary to launch new jazz radio station this week
Hungary’s public media is set to mark International Jazz Day on 30 April with the launch of Szakcsi Rádió, a new online jazz radio station.
The non-stop radio station will launch a test broadcast on March 15. “Embracing and presenting Hungarian jazz on a wider scale is a true public-service function,” Anita Altorjai, the head of public media service provider Duna Médiaszolgáltató, told a press conference at the Budapest Music Centre on Tuesday.
Dániel Papp, the head of Hungary’s Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund (MTVA), said it “didn’t take long to decide” that the radio station should be named after pianist and composer Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, “one of the finest figures in the history of Hungarian jazz”, who died in 2022.
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A jazz radio station that broadcasts mostly Hungarian jazz? How provincial. Is this part of the government’s nationalistic program to keep Hungary “pure” and devoid of outside influences? In the various lists of famous jazz compositions, I have never seen anything listed by a Hungarian jazz composer. How long will it be before we learn that Hungary invented jazz?