Radio Onda Rossa

Radio Onda Rossa 
Broadcast area
Provinces of Rome, Terni and Perugia
Frequencies
BrandingOnda Rossa 
Programming
LanguageItalian 
Format
 
Ownership
Ownerself-managed, Cooperativa Laboratorio 2001[1]
History
First air date
1977 (1977)[2]
Technical information
Licensing authority
Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy[3] 
Links
WebcastListen live 
Websitewww.ondarossa.info

Radio Onda Rossa is an independent, self-managed, listener-supported community radio station in Rome.[4] It broadcasts daily press reviews, in-depth programmes, interviews, open microphones both produced by and featuring people directly participating in local collectives and committees, social movements, rank-and-file and grassroots unions.[5]

Founded by people who had been for years involved in some of the autonomist collectives historically bound to the neighborhood of San Lorenzo, it quickly became one of the leading "free"[6] radio stations of the '77 Movement.[7][8] It rejected, though, this label; instead, it defined itself as "militant", "revolutionary", or "the movement's radio".

References

  1. ↑ "Radio comunitarie. Graduatoria definitiva 17 settembre 2025" (PDF). Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. p. 6. Retrieved 30 April 2026.
  2. ↑ "L'archivio di Radio Onda Rossa. Fonti digitali per la storia dell'Italia repubblicana" [The Radio Onda Rossa archive: digital sources for the history of the Italian Republic]. Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi (ICAR). Retrieved 30 April 2026.
  3. ↑ Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. "Tabella di attribuzione del Piano Nazionale di Ripartizione delle Frequenze" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "L'archivio di Radio Onda Rossa. Fonti digitali per la storia dell'Italia repubblicana" [The Radio Onda Rossa archive: digital sources for the history of the Italian Republic]. Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi (ICAR). Retrieved 30 April 2026. […] a community radio […] one of the longest-running and most significant examples of so-called "free radio" stations. […] an independent radio station […]
  5. ↑ La red/azione di Radio Onda Rossa (August 2008). "Radio Onda Rossa". [...] over the past thirty years [...] thousands of people have passed through its ranks — comrades (revolutionaries, activists, rebels, communists, anarchists, feminists) – who have made radio in the most varied ways, both reclaiming their voice and at the same time opening up spaces of debate and self-expression to those who did not have it: broadcasting texts and music, producing programs on the most different topics, prioritizing current events and social and political conflict "from below", often through the use of "open microphones.". All of this was achieved without neglecting culture, art, irony, imagination, dreams, curiosity, or even "madness", as well as by keeping in mind that radio is a medium that must be and always remain open and responsive to the needs of the social reality it serves - meaning the movement - ready to reinvent itself whenever necessary. An immense, generous, priceless effort — and, in fact, an unpaid one. An exchange that took place, as it still does, in the spirit of reciprocity, in stark contradiction to a prevailing culture that unambiguously binds together technology and the market, and views information solely as a "consumer choice". Reciprocity in the sense of a constant give-and-take with the radio, which serves as a place for encounter, dialogue, learning, growth, freedom, and evolving collective political engagement, as evidenced by the chronology of the major events that have marked its history.
  6. ↑ Padovani, Cinzia (2011), "Free Radio Movement (Italy)", in Downing, John D. H. (ed.), Encyclopedia of social movement media, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, pp. 205–207, ISBN 978-0-7619-2688-7, p. 205: In a climate of intense cultural, social, and political change, when even the public broadcaster, [...] (RAI), was breaking away from the decades-long control of the Christian Democratic Party, the free radio ("Libertà d'antenna") movement in Italy was the expression of the desire for more freedom of communication coming from expanding sectors of civil society. The [...] movement had deep roots in the country's history of rebellious, anti-government, and anti-establishment communication: from partisan radio stations during the antifascist resistance period, to pirate stations, to local and community radio. The [...] movement, which began in the early 1970s, soon [...] mushroomed across the peninsula [...]. It is difficult to gauge how many stations there were, as most of them had a very short life, ranging from a few days to a few months. Some, however, [...] became viable operations and were still on the air in the late 2000s. The Legislative Context: State broadcasting monopoly, first established in 1952, was placed under review by the Constitutional Court in 1974. Two years later, its decree ended that monopoly over local broadcasting.
  7. ↑ "L'archivio di Radio Onda Rossa. Fonti digitali per la storia dell'Italia repubblicana" [The Radio Onda Rossa archive: digital sources for the history of the Italian Republic]. Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi (ICAR). Retrieved 30 April 2026. Since its founding [...] Radio Onda Rossa has, in fact, served as the primary source of information and communication for numerous political groups in Rome and across Italy within the extra-parliamentary movement. Through its broadcasts, it has covered—often live from the scene—crucial moments in the recent history of the Republic [...]
  8. ↑ "L'archivio di Radio Onda Rossa. Fonti digitali per la storia dell'Italia repubblicana" [The Radio Onda Rossa archive: digital sources for the history of the Italian Republic]. Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi (ICAR). Retrieved 30 April 2026. The broadcasts — initially transmitted [...] were mostly live and covered debates, demonstrations, rallies, street clashes, and protest actions in neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, and universities.

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