Talk about LU4 is to refer to a company of the lonely rural settlement through the messenger; the sound of the Falklands War: the communications, the sirens and even the special envoys; It is also the pleasure of imagining a story told with the passion of a live radio theater, sports broadcasts with representatives of the city competing for the country.
Today on its 87th anniversary, the radio team survives a season of difficulties such as the rest of the 49 stations that belong to the State. This May 3, there is no local programming at the station and A year ago on weekends and holidays do not even have the basic and essential service of the messenger to the rural settler. A year ago the modulated amplitude guarantees the air of the environment since the modulated frequency was not restored. As in the rest of the country, the order to issue programs from Buenos Aires reduced programming less than 5 hours of local information.
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Today the interaction with the audience is also limited by disposition of the Federal Administration, Since the beginning of Javier Milei’s government, the radio does not have its social networks, or its website, The landline and 2975396343 are the only lines of exchange and demand.
The work team has a historical minimum that today guarantees its operation in the areas of phrase (Daniel Lay, Carolina Paredes, Daniel Juárez and José Luis Bahamonde), Informative Service (Alberto Dias, Jaime González, Lydia Cocha and Natalia Castro), Technical Operation (Horacio Solís, Enrique Mansilla, Pablo Amado and Leonardo Valderrama, Jorge Iturra and Horacio Miranda), Administration (Sonia Hernádez), Technical Service (Daniel Miranda) and Maestranza (Gloria Barrientos). Privatization sirens continue to sound and the answer sounds shout in defense of public radio,
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LU4, the first private station of AM (modulated amplitude) of Chubut, one of the emblems of the country’s radios, celebrated its number 85 on May 3. The story recounts that, in April 1936, the General Directorate of Post Office and Telegraphs of the Nation called for public tender to grant broadcasting licenses for zones 68 and 78 that corresponded to Comodoro Rivadavia and Rio Gallegos and on August 28, the installation of the first stations in both locations was authorized.
In 1938, the importing and explorer society of Patagonia, through the Broadcasting company of Patagonia, began its activities linked to radiotelephony in the south of our country, through Lu12 Radio Río Gallegos and Lu4 Radio Comodoro Rivadavia, to which Lu8 de Bariloche and Lu5 of Neuquén would be added, with the intention of covering a total of 700,000 Km. Of territory with its transmissions.
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The installation of the radio in the oil city aroused disbelief at the beginning and a lot of expectation later, because in those years the few existing receptors could only listen to stations from Buenos Aires when the propagation allowed it.
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The company starts the activity with a capital of $ 400,000 of that time and puts in the air the two twin stations equipped with RCA Víctor 1.5 kW in the middle wave with the possibility of expanding the power up to 5 kW. The transmission frequency was, according to the official story, the 680 KHz, however some foreign sources of world -based world broadcasting place the initial frequency of LU4 in the 640 kHz.
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On the site known as “Camp 99” on Route 3 to the south of the city, the mast was installed through which its emissions would be radiated, which began, as a test, a day not determined at the beginning of the year 1938.
The antenna mast was provided and installed by the Vistarini firm of Buenos Aires with a total height of 114 meters and four faces, surprisingly it is the one that currently continues to emit and is possibly the irradiant mast that remains in the oldest operations in Argentina. According to the history, the transport of the study-plating program was carried out by means of equalized copper lines. Lu4 also generated its own electricity through a 16 HP 16 kW generator.
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In the studies, the best microphone of the moment, the acquaintances and heavy RCA, the control room included valvular mixer for three microphones, two turned trays or pick-ups with glass capsule and three telephone lines for exterior transmissions were highlighted. All these facilities were shown to an interested and astonished public.
The chain transmissions were carried out receiving the short wave signals of the head station in Buenos Aires, which was difficult on wind days due to the static wind load in the antennas, already at that time it was tried to solve the propagation problems with the reception by the technique called Diversity or the use of more than one frequency simultaneously.
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The program was basically musical but the first voices could already be heard, at that time those of Messrs. José Santiago and Arturo Davies announcing: “This is Lu4 Radio Comodoro Rivadavia in experimental transmission.”
The first director of the broadcaster was Mr. Alfredo Andujar, a professional of recognized experience from Buenos Aires who had to build the radio team from scratch: teach professions, discover voices, vocations and talents, assign responsibilities and improve technical resources according to the needs of each moment.
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The first great challenge of the radio station was completed on March 13, 1938, when the third stage of the Southern Grand Prix was completed that linked Esquel with Colonia Sarmiento. There was Lu4 transmitting the alternatives of the event for his audience. By demonstrating technical and operational solvency in these sporting events, on May 3, 1938, LU4 began its regular transmissions without previous ads, or speeches or ceremonies.
A characteristic that always distinguished LU4 since its inception is the large number of local production programs and contents, both originated by the same radio and advertising agencies that formed their own casts of producers, broadcasters, operators and radio artists.
Historical programs were ENOSIS (about music), between mate and mate we relived tradition (initiated in the 1940s and transmitted for decades), by the paths of the homeland (sponsored by YPF), as the peoples sing (music of the countries of origin of the immigrants of the city), Radioteatros of Buenos Aires and Juan Pons (a family comedy transmitted between 1958 and 1960).
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In 1947, Lu4 was integrated into the LR4 Radio Splendid chain of Buenos Aires. In 1953 the radio station became integrating the Belgrano Radio chain of Buenos Aires as the property of the State. In 1954 the “Messenger of Lu4” appears in the first time in the listeners for the listeners highly valued throughout the province of Chubut and Norte de Santa Cruz and that remains on the air daily until now.
In 1957 it appears as the property of Editorial Haynes, being part of the blue and white network of Argentine stations, led by LR1, Radio El Mundo de Buenos Aires. In 1959, it becomes administered by the National State again. From 1966, LU4 is called Lu4 Radio Patagonia Argentina. With Jorge Show and Fernando Montellano, the radio got into homes. And from the tissue of “Lita” Cartens -o Laura Durand- the first female voice, people ended up completely seduced.
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The warm voices of Elena Ada, María Magdalena; Iris Morgan, Linda Christi and Elsa Zarcos, authentic ladies of the microphone. And the names follow: Juan Carlos Negri, the champion reciter Carlos Campos; the endearing Alfredo Sahdi and his characters; Ricardo Jorge Haedo, Hugo Washington Jara; Jorge Canel, Ricardo Astete; Omar Posadas, Aníbal Forcada- decader and unique poet; Héctor Ferro and Francisco Luis Croce, pioneer of sports journalism.
The big shops sponsored their own spaces in special segments; including question and answering contests, singing or beauty and outdoor shows. The radio was always there, accompanying the social impact of a community who was looking for its own voices and genuine expressions. “The alarm” with Felix Diantina, took everyone out of bed; Pampeano Carlos Omar Bareilles later imposed his “happy mornings” and Domingo “Tito” Herrero, fan of River, asked every noon “caution” to the drivers in “El Tour News.”
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In the afternoon “Beto” Oyarzún monopolized the youth audience with the “here is your album” while Roberto Marín greeted the “three youth” in one and a thousand productions. The music of all styles always accompanied starting with live artists in the studio. In Lu4 they played among other Atahualpa Yupanqui, Edmundo Rivero, Aníbal “Pichuco” Troilo, Los Chalchaleros; Los Plateros, Jorge Cafrune, Mercedes Sosa and Sandro. Major words, unrepeatable.
There were also innovative productions such as “Musical Steps” with Mario José Bladilo and “La VITROLA”, a hit devised by Luis Eduardo Capovilla from “The Earth of the Winds.” O Tangueras overdose through “JC”, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, one of the largest collectors in the city and “Juan Porteño” another passionate about cigarette and bohemia. Lu4 was the “university” of many, a strange master between the art of the word and the real world, described with the simplicity of the neighborhood. Radial mention was equivalent to a return of gentleness, an accomplice gesture and allowed each one to “sound” with professional airs. The public understood the radial “game”; He was seduced by a subject and a well read prose; “I bought” what was suggested without more and believed that those clean and serious voices that came out of the receiver, had no face or appearance. And they did not exist physically.
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Those who transmit from another sky are there. The miraculous “yuyos” that tempered the vocal cords of the great bahiense rapportery Alberto Sedán; The eternal patience against the vertigo of the “Tata”, Roberto Salinas and the “magical” fingers of Alejandro Amado, Daniel Chaura and Julio Rodríguez from a celestial cabin. LU4 RADIO PATAGONIA ARGENTINA, today called LU4 Nacional Patagonia, is part of the group of stations administered by the National State.
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