[1] The main Hungarian-language radio station can be heard all over Europe and the Middle East, as it broadcasts with 2 MW of transmission power on 540 kHz AM from transmitter Solt (the most powerful medium wave transmitter in the world)[2] and several FM stations, covering Hungary and the neighbouring countries.
New shows and programmes were launched continuously, the most popular was the Hungarian folk music in Gypsy style, heard after the noon bell.
At the end of the World War II all Hungarian radio towers were exploded by the German army.
Transmitter Solt was finished in 1977 with 2000 kW as a high priority project with the cooperation of the Soviet Union.
Subsidiaries of Magyar Rádió (MR) report from Bratislava, Uzhhorod, Arad, Târgu Mureș, Miercurea Ciuc, Oradea, Timișoara, Novi Sad, Subotica, Cluj-Napoca and Komárno.
There are several shows of ethnicity groups and religious communities of the country, including a Roman Catholic (Tanúim lesztek), Calvinist (Tebenned bíztunk eleitől fogva), Lutheran (Erős vár a mi Istenünk), Greek Catholic (Krisztus közöttünk), Methodist (Örüljetek az Úrban mindenkor), Baptist (Az Úr közel), Pentecostal (Békesség néktek), Unitarian (Egy az Isten), Jewish (Halljad Izrael) and a Romani (Jelenlét) programme.