Vatican Radio celebrates 75th

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Vatican Radio´s anniversary on Sunday by reminding those who attended the papal audience in St. Peter´s Square that the international radio station has helped the message of the Gospel “reach all peoples more rapidly.”

It was 75 years ago when Pope Pius XI asked communications pioneer Guglielmo Marconi to build a radio station for Vatican State. Today, Vatican Radio broadcasts in 40 different languages on shortwave, satellite, local medium wave and FM to and in different countries around the world.

There is a complete history of the station, including excepts of news reports taken when Pope Pius XI made the first historical transmission, at Vatican Radio.