The Emissora Nacional Radio as a support for a new Portuguese identity between 1933 and 1945

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Communications - Mass Media, grade: 67 , University of London (Goldsmiths College), course: MA Radio, language: English, abstract: The 16 years of the first Republic in Portugal was an era of political instability. In 1926 the political scenario of the country completely changed. Due to the 28th May Revolution, a military government of nationalist nature and anti-parliamentary was established. So it started a National Dictatorship, later known as the New State (Estado Novo). This dictatorship only came to an end on the 25th April 1974, when a military coup overthrew the government. The Radio would then play an important role in giving light to the revolutionary act and ending that period of 48 years of dictatorship.

This essay will attempt to find out how National Radio, the very first Portuguese national broadcasting radio, was serving the political regime as an ideological channel of the New State between 1933 (when it was first created) and 1945 (by the end of Second World War).