In April 1966, Czechoslovakia won its first Oscar for the best foreign language film. The winning movie was - The Shop on Main Street and the Slovak co-director of this film, Ján Kadár, accepted the award. ...
Bojnice Castle is one of the oldest and most important monuments in Slovakia. It stands on a travertine mound above the city. The first written record of the castle dates back to 1113 – the deed of the ...
The years 2021 and 2022 were years of the Olympic Games. At both, the summer event in Tokyo and the winter in Beijing, the Slovak team represented the country not only in sports but also on a catwalk, ...
Actor, entertainer, singer, theatre director. For 20 years, Ivan Krajicek was producing three radio programs broadcast in the entertainment prime time of the socialist country’s media – Sunday morning. ...
In 1990, Vladimir Stefko's idea as a newly appointed director general was to rebuild Slovak Radio into an institution that would be independent of the government and any political party.
The 1980’s in the Slovak part of Czechoslovak radio, as well as television, recorded a gradual penetration of satire in its broadcasting. Pod Pyramidou and Humorikon are some of them.
In 1970’s, the texts of radio as well as TV shows were not controlled but the final program. If it did not fit with the ideology, it was not the author who was sacked but those who let the program on air. ...
Television starts broadcasting in the territory of what is now the Slovak Republic on 3rd November 1956. In 1962, it becomes more popular than radio broadcasting. This competition leads to the huge development ...
Born in Trnava, he was an alumni at the Academy of Music in Bratislava with a degree in music composition and conducting. First an accompanist in the Czech town of Opava, he was later appointed the co-conductor ...
At the beginning of 1960's there are 500 thousand of licensed radio listeners in the Slovak part of the Czechoslovak Republic. The history of media in Slovakia is changed on 3rd November 1956 when Bratislava ...
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