RADIO BROADCASTING IN TURKEY FROM 1927 TO MULTI -PARTY PERIOD

• Main Author: Hale YAYLALI
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: İstanbul Aydin University 2018-01-01
• Series: İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Dergisi
• Subjects: Radio; Turkish Radio History; Broadcasting; Ankara; Multi -Party
• Online Access: http://iaud.aydin.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/iaud_v10i1003.pdf

Radio, which can provide mass transmission of the message in mass communication, is the first mass media tool whose power equalizes that of printed press. Moreover, because of its ability to establish this with voice, it has surpassed “the literacy” prereq uisite in terms of its audience. Starting with its invention, different countries and forms of governments who have discovered that the radio can reach communities effectively, used it as a medium for news, entertainment, education or propaganda throughout its transformation as a mass media tool. It is observed that the Republican administration of Turkey has grasped the effective potential of radio at an early stage. Radio broadcasting, which started in 1927 through a government supported private enterprise and continues under the management of different government-affiliated institutions, has become an important tool in the establishment of the regime and in educating the nation. In this study, radio broadcasting in Turkey, which has a 90 year old past, is examined in its technical, content and listening aspects in light of political, economic and social events from 1927 up to Turkey’s transition to the multi party period.