Radio Blues
On October 11, the last signals slowly faded from radio sets tuned into Radio Blue FM, a small local station which broadcasted in the Kraków area. For the past eight years, the station had served up its loyal group of listeners a mixture of music, local news and events, only to see the KRRiT pull the plug on its broadcasting licence in April this year. KRRiT claimed there were irregularities in the funding of the station.
Radio Blue appealed against the decision, but despite petitions from the United Nations Human Rights Commission, listeners, leading actors, musicians and the mayor of Kraków, the appeal fell on deaf ears, and in June KRRiT produced a definitive ruling that Radio Blue would not receive a new licence and that its frequency would be passed on to Radio Eska.
In a last-ditch publicity stunt, Andrzej Lenart, chairman of Radio Blue, decided to register a new company under the name of Włodek III, which is to operate Radio Red, a pun on the name and political affiliation of KRRiT member Włodzimierz Czarzasty who was appointed by President Aleksander Kwaniewski and voted against the renewal of Radio Blue's licence.
Radio Blue appealed against the decision, but despite petitions from the United Nations Human Rights Commission, listeners, leading actors, musicians and the mayor of Kraków, the appeal fell on deaf ears, and in June KRRiT produced a definitive ruling that Radio Blue would not receive a new licence and that its frequency would be passed on to Radio Eska.
In a last-ditch publicity stunt, Andrzej Lenart, chairman of Radio Blue, decided to register a new company under the name of Włodek III, which is to operate Radio Red, a pun on the name and political affiliation of KRRiT member Włodzimierz Czarzasty who was appointed by President Aleksander Kwaniewski and voted against the renewal of Radio Blue's licence.
