!!!RAVAG

RAVAG, abbreviation for Oesterreichische 
Radio-Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (Austrian radio transmission 
company), which was established on September 30, 1924 and started 
to broadcast on October 1, 1924. Its studio and first radio 
station were located in the buildings of the Heeresministerium 
(Ministry of Armed Forces) at Stubenring in Vienna. Its initiator and 
first president was O.  Czeija. The Rosenhuegel station was opened in 
1926 and the 100-kW station on Bisamberg in 1933, both in Vienna. 
Relay stations were opened in the provinces: Graz (Styria) in 1925, 
Klagenfurt (Carinthia) and Innsbruck (Tirol) in 1927, Linz (Upper 
Austria) in 1928, the city of Salzburg (Salzburg) in 1930 and Dornbirn 
(Vorarlberg) in 1934. As a medium committed to political neutrality it 
had to rely on news supplied by the Amtliche Nachrichtenstelle 
(official news agency). The radio station in Johannesgasse in Vienna 
was seized by the National Socialists in the course of the  July 
Putsch of 1934. In March 1938 RAVAG was subordinated to the German 
Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft broadcasting company, which bought up the 
shares of RAVAG. The German Reich Post Office acquired its technical 
equipment, and the company was deleted from the company register in 
August 1939. After World War II all radio stations and their equipment 
were considered German property under the NS regime and put under 
public administration (Radio).

!Literature
V. Ergert, 50 Jahre Rundfunk in Oesterreich, vol. 1, 
1974.


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