[3] With the help of Soviet spare parts in 1946/1947, the first experimental transmissions of the so-called "Sofia II transmitter" were constructed by a technical brigade under the leadership of Eng.

[citation needed] On 18 January 1960, by order of the Minister of Education and Culture Nacho Papazov, instructions were given that all the activities of radio and television should be in the spirit of the decisions of the congresses and plenums of the Communist Party.

This marked the beginning of Bulgarian Radio in its modern form, including a common system of national, regional and foreign programmes.

In the 1980s, for the first time the programmes "Before Everyone", "Good Day", "Sunday 150", "People, Roads, Cars", "Sport and Music", which became emblematic of the Bulgarian National Radio, went on air.

With the merger of EBU and OIRT on 1 January 1993, BNR was admitted to full active membership of the European Broadcasting Union.

On 6 February 2001, the regulatory body NSRT elected poet and translator Ivan Borislavov as the new Director General of BNR.

The license of the radio, issued by the CEM, is for a program serving the population of the districts of Vidin, Vratsa and Montana.

[4] Radio Bulgaria provides news in Bulgarian and also in Albanian, Romanian, English, French, German, Greek, Russian, Spanish, Serbian and Turkish.