Broadcasting for the Masses: Developing Polish Radio in the 1930s

• In Event: Tuning in to Eastern Europe: Radio, Broadcasting, and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century

Abstract

By the end of the 1920s, radio was well established in Poland with transmitters in Warsaw and several provincial cities. During the 1930s, Polskie Radio expanded both programming and its listener base, becoming a mass phenomenon by the eve of WWII. This paper will discuss programming, the creation and expansion of stations, efforts to popularize radio, and programs to make radio receivers that were practical and inexpensive.

Author

• Theodore R Weeks, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale