The central city of Bonao, located an hour north of Santo Domingo, has a new attraction commemorating the history of radio and television in the Dominican Republic.
History lovers can learn about how radio got its start in 1943 in the Dominican Republic. A working replica of the station that would be 73 years old today, La Voz del Yuna has been set up as well as a museum that commemorates the first radio station. The station is broadcasting cultural programming at 1670 AM.
See the station as it was set up by Jose Arismendy (alias Petan) Trujillo Molina during the era of his brother, Dictator Rafael Trujillo Molina.
The radio station would later be relocated to Santo Domingo in 1947. In 1951 a new building was prepared for the radio station and the first Dominican TV station would be added at the same location at Dr. Tejada Florentino 8 street in Villa Consuelo. Today the radio station and TV station operate as Corporacion Estatal de Radio y Television (CERTV).
Historic records indicate that the first Dominican TV telecast was on 1 August 1952. At the time the DR became only the third country in Latin America to have TV, after Mexico and Cuba. In 1953 the name was changed from La Voz del Yuna to that of La Voz Dominicana.
President Danilo Medina himself was in Bonao on Sunday, 2 August to Bonao for the official opening of the replica and the museum.
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