A century ago, on June 12, 1926, the radio broadcast “Alio alio, čia Lietuvos radijas, Kaunas” (Hello, hello, here is Lithuanian Radio, Kaunas) sounded. Thus began the history of Lithuanian radio and television. Tomas Vaitelė, editor of the archives of the national broadcaster LRT, admits that no recordings of the first radio broadcast or the beginning of television, which was born in April 1957, have survived.
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A century ago, on June 12, 1926, the radio broadcast “Alio alio, čia Lietuvos radijas, Kaunas” (Hello, hello, here is Lithuanian Radio, Kaunas) sounded. Thus began the history of Lithuanian radio and television. Tomas Vaitelė, editor of the archives of the national broadcaster LRT, admits that no recordings of the first radio broadcast or the beginning of television, which was born in April 1957, have survived.