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{{Infobox radio station
| name               = Radio 101.2 <br /> ({{langx|be|Радыё 101,2}})
| logo               = [[File:Fm_radio101 2.png|180px|Radio 101,2 logo]]
| city               = [[Minsk]], [[Belarus]]
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| frequency          = {{Frequency|101.2|[[Minsk]] FM}}
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| airdate            = {{Start date|1995|7|21}}
| last_airdate       = August 31, 1996
| format             = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Popular music|Popular]]
| language           = [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]]
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| owner              = [[Open Society Foundations]]
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'''Radio 101.2''' was a radio station in the [[Belarus]]ian capital of [[Minsk]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://radio.tut.by/articles/art/1012fm.shtml|title=Радыё 101 і 2, Гарадскі канал|last=Мінскевіч|first=Серж|date=|website=|publisher=[[TUT.BY]]|language=be|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308183857/http://radio.tut.by/articles/art/1012fm.shtml|archivedate=2005-03-08|accessdate=2020-04-03}}</ref> In 1995 and 1996 the radio station, which is at the frequency 101.2, was broadcasting news and was not affiliated with the [[Government of Belarus|national government]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://baj.by/m-p-viewpub-tid-1-pid-8800.html|title=15 гадоў таму ўпершыню выйшла ў эфір Радыё 101.2 (Дадалося аўдыё)|last=Прэс-служба ГА «Беларуская асацыяцыя журналістаў»|date=2010-07-21|website=|publisher=[[Belarusian Association of Journalists]]|language=be|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003062013/http://baj.by/m-p-viewpub-tid-1-pid-8800.html|archivedate=2011-10-03|accessdate=2020-04-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> The editorial staff was assembled mostly by hiring the journalists of the closed station {{langx|be|Беларуская маладзёжная}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.tut.by/society/248188.html|title=15 гадоў таму было зачынена незалежнае Радыё 101,2|last1=Дзюба|first1=Дзяніс|last2=Адзінец|first2=Сьвятлана|date=2011-08-31|publisher=[[TUT.BY]]|language=be|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403065000/https://news.tut.by/society/248188.html|archivedate=2020-04-03|accessdate=2020-04-03|work=[[European Radio for Belarus]]|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[Open Society Foundations|Soros Foundation]] helped to buy the equipment for newly started radio in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.evrel.ewf.uni-erlangen.de/pesc/peaceradio-BLR.html|title=Radio for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights|last=Biener|first=Hansjörg|authorlink=:de:Hansjörg Biener |year=2009|publisher=[[University of Erlangen–Nuremberg]]|language=en|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909103534/http://www.evrel.ewf.uni-erlangen.de/pesc/peaceradio-BLR.html|archivedate=2017-09-09|accessdate=2020-04-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> The station was closed on formally technical reasons and was transferred over to the [[Belarusian Republican Youth Union]], who still uses the radio today. The government has claimed that the station, and its frequency, was interfering with the radio communications of the Minsk police force. Independent groups claimed that this was another method by the government of [[Alexander Lukashenko]] to suppress the [[freedom of the press]] inside Belarus.{{sfn|Jones|2001|p=207}}
The technical problems that were claimed to be the reason to close the broadcast never happened again. On July 9, 1997, Lukashenko authorized giving 101.2 frequency to the state-controlled Radio Style.{{sfn|Jones|2001|p=207}}
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== Broadcast ==
Radio 101.2 was commercially successful, it had a wide audience{{sfn|Tereschenko|Tereschenko|2020|p=171}} and attracted big sponsors. Its analytical programmes criticized the authorities, the news blocks published information about the demonstrations, names of the detained. However, the media strived to be objective, it published governmental releases and invited the state officials to comment the actual issues.{{sfn|Jones|2001|p=207}}
== Reception==
Music journalist Źmicier Padbiareski said in 2000 that the example of Radio 101.2 showed the public that the Belarusian can be profitable, since “the matter is in the quality of music and professionalism of [[Disc jockey|DJs]].”<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2000-12-14|title=Сьнежань - час падвядзеньня вынікаў музычнага году. Сьнежань у беларускае папулярнае музыцы пазначаны шэрагам імпрэзаў і прэзэнтацыяў. Вынікі музычнага году абмяркоўваюць карэспандэнт "РР" Севярын Квяткоўскі й Зьміцер Падбярэзскі|url=https://news.tut.by/society/1604.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718095657/https://news.tut.by/society/1604.html|archivedate=2014-07-18|accessdate=2021-01-08|publisher=[[TUT.BY]]|work=[[Radio Racyja]]|language=be|url-status=live}}</ref>
Many experts described Radio as the only independent broadcast in Belarus of that time.<ref>{{cite web
|author=
|language      = ru
|url         = https://day.kyiv.ua/ru/article/den-planety/anatoliy-moskalenko-chtoby-zhurnalistika-deystvitelno-stala-psom-demokratii
|title       =Анатолий МОСКАЛЕНКО: «Чтобы журналистика действительно стала псом демократии...»
|trans-title       = Anatoly Moskalenko: ‘Journalism Should Really Become Democracy’s Dog’
|publisher   = Day.Kyiv.Ua
|date        = 1998-09-17
|accessdate  = 2022-01-07
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|language      = ru
|url         = https://charter97.org/ru/news/2018/11/10/312254/
|title       =Именно Беларусь станет камнем преткновения для Путина
|trans-title       = Belarus Becomes Stumbling Rock for Putin
|publisher   = Charter97
|date        = 2018-11-10
|access-date  = 2022-01-07
}}</ref> When the news about closure came out, the listeners brought flowers to the Radio’s office and cars honked around all Minsk as a sign of support. Its closure marked the beginning of a crackdown on the media in the country.{{sfn|Jones|2001|p=207}}
== See also ==
* [[Autoradio (Belarus)]]
== References ==
<references/>
== Sources ==
*{{cite book
|last=Jones
|first=Derek
|year=2001
|title=Censorship: A World Encyclopedia
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDqsCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BE+101.2%22+1996&pg=PA207
|location=NY
|publisher=Routledge
|page= 207
|isbn=978-1-57958-135-0
}}
*{{cite journal
| last1       = Tereschenko
| first1      = O. V.
| last2      = Tereschenko
| first2     = M. V.
| date       = 2020
| title      = Measurements of Media Audience: Formation History
| url        = https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=44442849&
| journal    = Sociologic Almanac
| volume     = 11
| language     =ru
| pages      = 163–175| access-date = 2022-01-07
}}
==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101107042138/http://baj.by/m-p-viewpub-tid-1-pid-8800.html 15 гадоў таму ўпершыню выйшла ў эфір Радыё 101.2] {{in lang|be}}
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