February 1st, 2025, marked a centenary of Polish radio broadcasting

February 1st, 2025, marked a centenary of Polish radio broadcasting - and Polish Radio's archives are teeming with recordings from across its hundred-year long history...

A 1926 photo-shoot of the Polish Radio-Technical Society Test Station, celebrating its 100th broadcast

Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

"This is the test radio transmitting station of the Polish Radio Technical Society in Warsaw, wavelength 385 meters" - these words (albeit in Polish) were the first official non-military radio broadcast in Poland, transmitted on February 1st, 1925.

Click on the player icon above for an audio report by Marcin Matuszewski.

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Source: IAR, PAP