The years of silence: Radio in Venezuela from 1928 to 1930

Authors

  • Fidel Pérez Varela UCV

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62876/tc.vi46.6230

Keywords:

Radio, Radio broadcasting, History

Abstract

The author, based on the post-positivist approach of the Historia a Debate group, carries out a historical, exploratory and predominantly hemerographic investigation, with the objective of determining if regular and stable radio transmissions were carried out in Venezuela in the period between May 1928 and December 1930. It determined that in the period in question two home radio stations operated in Caracas. It provides unpublished information about a sound amplifier patented by a Venezuelan, and the announcement in 1930 of the inauguration of two stations in Caracas: a national and international station by the Philips company, and a shortwave station. In his analysis, he reconfigures the beginning of the Venezuelan radio process by developing a new periodization that starts from a first phase that contemplates intangible psychological elements, setting reasonably a new start date and including a new protagonist; identifies three functions fulfilled by home broadcasters; highlights home radios and the invention of the radio amplifier as examples of history made by common men, and values historically the importance of such experiences; and qualifies the Venezuelan radio process as atypical in Latin America for presenting three elements, which he explains. Among its conclusions, it ratifies the radio silence of the period, given the nature of the stations mentioned, and points out that the production of a history of radio in Venezuela is still a pending task.

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Author Biography

Fidel Pérez Varela, UCV

Fidel Pérez Varela es Psicólogo (1987), Magister Scientiarum en Comunicación Social (2008) y Doctor en Historia (2023)
Es Especialista en radiodifusión sonora, área a la que se ha dedicado desde 2004.
En 2010 obtuvo el Premio Bienal ININCO al mejor trabajo de Maestría de las universidades venezolanas en su primera edición,
y en 2013 obtuvo el Premio APUFAT de la Universidad Central de Venezuela a la mejor obra de investigación
De 2010 a 2017 trabajó como investigador del ININCO

References

Congreso Nacional (22-07-1927). Ley de Patentes de Invención. Gaceta Oficial 16.255

Ministerio de Fomento (25-09-1924). Resolución s/n, Caracas, Gaceta Oficial No. 15.398, p. 62.196. [Permiso especial a Arturo Santana para importar aparatos de radio-conciertos]

Ministerio de Fomento (20-04-1929). Resolución No. 41 del 04-04-1929 que concede Patente de invención a Rafael Cabrera por un aparato amplificador de sonido. En Gaceta Oficial de los Estados Unidos de Venezuela No.16.790, p. 73.311, Caracas, Imprenta Nacional.

Ministerio de Fomento (1931). Memoria presentada al Congreso de Los Estados Unidos de Venezuela. Tomo Primero. Caracas, Tipografía Central

Gobierno del Distrito Federal (27-10-1925). Gaceta Municipal No. 3323

Published

2023-07-06

How to Cite

Pérez Varela, F. . (2023). The years of silence: Radio in Venezuela from 1928 to 1930. Temas De Comunicación, (46), 132–172. https://doi.org/10.62876/tc.vi46.6230

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Artí­culos - Dossier Central