Radio Mil Diez

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Radio Mil Diez
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Programming
Language(s)Spanish
Ownership
OwnerPopular Socialist Party
History
First air date
April 1, 1943 (1943-04-01)
meaningCMX, COCX

Radio Mil Diez (or Radio 1010) was a radio station broadcasting from Havana, Cuba, owned by the Popular Socialist Party (PSP).[1][2][3] Radio Mil Diez broadcast for five years, between 1943-1948, and played an important role in shaping contemporary Cuban music.

Emergence

Following the entry of the Soviet Union in the war against Germany the Cuban communists re-emerged as a legal political party, the PSP. The party purchased Radio Lavín and converted it into Radio Mil Diez in 1943.[4][5][6] The first broadcast was made on April 1, 1943.[7] The name reflected the dial sign (1010).[5]

Radio Mil Diez became an important propaganda weapon of the party, and one of the foremost communist media outlets in the Caribbean at the time.[1][8] The slogans of the radio station were La emisora del pueblo ('The Broadcaster of the People') and Todo lo bueno al servicio del pueblo ('All the Best to Serve the People').[7]

Frequency

Radio Mil Diez had the most powerful shortwave radio transmitter in Havana.[3] It broadcast on the frequency 1010 kHz on longwave, with the call sign CMX.[4][9] On shortwave it used a 32-metre band and the callsign COCX.[9] It was the sole international broadcaster in Cuba at the time.[9]

Music

Arsenio Rodriguez.[5] Enrique González Mantici directed the orchestra of Radio Mil Diez.[11] Celia Cruz featured as a singer of the Radio Diez Mil orchestra, whilst Mongo Santamaría was part of its rhythm section.[5][11] The radio station sponsored several tours of Cruz, then a young rising singer, across the country.[5]

Adolfo Guzmán was the musical director of Radio Mil Diez.[11] Other musicians that worked at Radio Diez Mil included Elena Burke, Olga Guillot and Bebo Valdés.[5][12]

Through its cultural profile Radio Mil Diez gained a wide audience amongst the black working class.[7]

Truce with Trujillo

Like the PSP party newspaper Hoy Radio Mil Diez voiced vehement criticisms of the rule of dictator

Dominican sister party to operate openly. The deal between Trujillo and the Cuban PSP initiated a short period of political liberalization in the Dominican Republic.[1][13]

Closure

In May 1948 Radio Mil Diez was closed down by the Ramón Grau government.[14][15]

Revolution

From January 1959 Radio Mil Diez reappeared and voiced enthusiastic support for the

Cuban revolution, whilst remaining close to the PSP party line of reaffirming support for the communist 'old guard' in the labour movement.[16]

References
  1. ^
    ISBN 0-271-04218-4
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  2. ISBN 978-2-7475-6743-5
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  3. ^ a b Daniel James (1961). Cuba: The First Soviet Satellite in the Americas. Avon Book Division, Hearst Corporation. p. 87.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-84-490-2499-3
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  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-520-93944-8
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  6. ISBN 978-1-85973-837-5
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  7. ^
    ISBN 978-1-59213-387-1
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  8. ^ Stefan Baciu (1961). Cortina de hierro sobre Cuba. Ed. San Isidro. p. 26.
  9. ^ a b c Jorge García Montes; Antonio Alonso Avila (1970). Historia del Partido Comunista de Cuba. Ediciones Universal. p. 304.
  10. ISBN 978-0-8264-7436-0
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  11. ^
    ISBN 0-8223-3212-4
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  12. ^ El Caribe. Cuba pierde al laureado pianista Bebo Valdés
  13. ISBN 978-2-7384-6866-6
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  14. ^ Ramón Eduardo Ruiz (1972). Cuba: Génesis de una revolución. Editorial Noguer. p. 165.
  15. ISBN 978-0-8130-3393-8
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  16. ISBN 978-0-8191-5952-6
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