Today, according to the Department of Telecommunications, there are 1780 radio enrolled, a figure that includes broadcasts AM and FM bands to commercial break and / or minimal coverage (1 Watt of power and community character, arising under the Telecommunications Law of 1994 and led by Alberto Cancino), as well as o- ; nda short. Most mainstream frequencies belong to foreign conglomerates of great economic power, as Iberoamerican Holding (owner of Rock & Pop, Imagine, Concert, Future, Heart, Hit FM, FM Two and Pudahuel) and CRC (owner of 40 major W, Active and Kiss). More national capital have their counterpart, as the group Bezanilla (which houses the radio Time, Infinite and Romantic), and Julian Garcia (who holds the titles of radio horizon and Oasis). But in addition to overcrowding and consolidation of radio, the nineties would make their greatest contribution by providing ubiquitous and equal basis through the Internet. So, community, multinationals and even totally virtual projects converge even as equals in the cyber space. Precisely the latter there are only about fifteen in Chilean territory (compared to three thousand in the U.S.), prominent among them "The Radionet" ... And is that as web radio, has been named "grows slowly but steadily, outlining the path of what will be the largest communication revolutions in history: the digital technology-based radio and satellite radio integrated, interdependent and globalized time, capable of transmitting voice, image and data simultaneously, noise-free sound transmission and reception without connectivity to the Internet, from anywhere in the country. So
however, radio has been and is the backbone of communication, a key player in emergency and critical part in shaping music markets, and is that bands and artists, despite the lack of current support to music and national culture-a lean 15.2%, well below the average in Europe or Chile itself in the 40 - the radio is the main tool for dissemination and public outreach, while for the average citizen means mainly an information and entertainment. But fortunately for all, the future will mean a lot more radio, more quality, more diverse and services that could never even imagine.
In Curanilahue, the station pioneered the integration of the Internet transmission is FM Radio Projection.
Long live radio.
The pioneers of broadcasting in Chile were Arturo Salazar and Enrique Sazie. Salazar was a professor at the School of Engineering, University of Chile and was in charge of the electronics lab. As a teenager in the late nineteenth century, followed in the footsteps of Edison built a phonograph, a recording machine and a speaker.