Palestine Broadcasting Service

PBS broadcasting Hebrew children's hour, 1934
Broadcast from PBS studio in Jerusalem, Menahem Pressler's performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto, July 1947

The Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS) was the state-owned radio broadcasting station that operated from Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel and Palestinian territories) with the main transmitter in Ramallah.

History

The service operated from March 1936 until the end of the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948. It broadcast programs in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, with broadcasting time allotted in that order.

Its Hebrew service, Kol Yerushalayim, which was inaugurated on March 30, 1936, played an important role in the emergence of Hebrew as a national language.

While news broadcasts and political commentary were heavily censored, PBS programs such as live music broadcasts were important in the development of cultural and national identity.

References

  1. ↑ "FROM THE ARCHIVES - A BRIEF HISTORY OF RADIO IN THE COUNTRY", Israelradio.org, "History of Radio in the Country". Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2012-11-08. (accessed May 2, 2012)
  2. 1 2 Tamar Liebes and Zohar Kampf, "“Hello! This is Jerusalem calling”: The revival of spoken Hebrew on the Mandatory radio (1936–1948)", Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2010, 137-158
  3. ↑ Andrea Stanton, "Jerusalem Calling: The Birth of the Palestine Broadcasting Service", "Jerusalem Quarterly", Volume 50, Summer 2012, 6-22
  4. ↑ Situating Radio in the Soundscape of Mandate Jerusalem

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