A radiodifusão em Moçambique: o caso do Rádio Clube de Moçambique, 1932-1974

Abstract

The Rádio Clube de Moçambique - RCM was created in 1932, under the initial name of Grêmio dos Radiofílos da Colônia de Moçambique. It was the first Mozambican broadcasting station and, by far, also the most important, as it was a powerful instrument of political and economic propaganda in favor of the colonial government. Although it was a private institution of an associative nature, its faithful alignment with the interests of the State led the RCM to assume itself, in practice, as the official broadcasting station, to hold the hegemony over broadcasting in Mozambique and to monopolize the capture of revenue. external radio advertising. The decisive start for the development of the RCM took place between 1936 and 1939, when it became a commercial radio, with a view to penetrating the South African advertising market, which was always its main financial support. With the end of the Second World War, a new cycle of development opened up for the RCM, which the outbreak of the colonial war came to accelerate as this broadcasting station was called upon to serve as technical support for the psychosocial effort (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)