{"id":5922,"date":"2025-02-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2025-02-25T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:10:12","slug":"partial-history-of-the-beginnings-of-radio-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/partial-history-of-the-beginnings-of-radio-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial history of the beginnings of radio in Ha\u00efti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While recently listening to a video clip which recalled a sad page in the history of the press in Ha\u00efti, I heard the presenter say this when speaking of Radio Ha\u00efti-Inter: \u201c\u2026Radio ki t\u00e9 pi ancien nan p\u00e9yi a\u201d, meaning \u201c\u2026the oldest radio in Ha\u00efti\u201d.This caught my attention. For the sake of truth and history it is necessary to remember the following: 

On September 17, 1935, Ricardo Widmaier created the first commercial radio station in Ha\u00efti at Bois Vernas, HH3W<\/span>, which would become, a few years later, Radio Ha\u00efti (source: Alterradio Facebook). It is therefore Radio Ha\u00efti by Ricardo Widmaier which is the oldest commercial radio station in Ha\u00efti, contrary to the information circulating on the Web.

According to ayibopost, \u201cfrom 1941 to 1945, there were 3 radio stations in Port-au-Prince: HH2S<\/span>, HH3W<\/span> and HHBM<\/span> which would later be called MBC<\/span>\u201d. In 1949, Radio Cara\u00efbes was founded, with its studios at Ruelle Chavannes. 

Subsequently, during the 1950s, other radio stations emerged, such as Antoine Rodolphe H\u00e9rard\u2019s Radio Port-au-Prince, whose studios were at one time under the stands of the Stade Sylvio Cator, Radio Tropique which was previously called Radio Fides which Raymond Dambreville bought from the Catholic Church in 1953 and which established its studios in Lalue, Radio Commerce which was created in the early 1950s under the government of General Paul Eug\u00e8ne Magloire whose studios were in Sarthe, Radio Cacique of Jean-Claude Carri\u00e9 (HH2JC<\/span>) which had its studios first in Rue Traversi\u00e8re then in Pacot, Radio Lumi\u00e8re of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Ha\u00efti, founded in Les Cayes in 1958 etc. According to Alterpresse, there were around twenty radio stations across the country in the 1950s.

According to information collected on the site www\u200b.Un\u200b.Org<\/a>, at the end of the 1960s, Jean Dominique worked at Radio Haiti as a reporter. At that time, the station\u2019s studios were located on Grand-Rue upstairs from the Step-Over store and the Pharmacie Bleue, not far from Rue des Miracles. In 1971, Jean Dominique bought Radio Ha\u00efti which he renamed Radio Ha\u00efti-Inter. Subsequently, he transferred the station\u2019s studios to 105 Rue du Quai, upstairs from Trans World Trading then to the upper part of Delmas.

On March 8, 1970, Herby Widmaier (HH2W<\/span>), son of Ricardo Widmaier and Roland Dupoux (HH2RX<\/span>) created Radio M\u00e9tropole. They were later joined by Bob Lemoine (HH2BV<\/span>). The Radio M\u00e9tropole studios were then located at the lower part of Rue Pav\u00e9e. They were subsequently transferred to Delmas 52.

All these stations broadcast on the mid-band in Amplitude Modulation (AM<\/span>). Around 1972, 73 Radio M\u00e9tropole revolutionized radio in Haiti by being the first commercial station to broadcast in Frequency Modulation (FM<\/span>) and stereo. 

G\u00e9rard Luc Jean-Baptiste (HH2GB<\/span>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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73
Jean-Robert Gaillard
President
Radio Club D\u2019Ha\u00efti 
P.O.Box 1484 
Port-au-Prince, 
Ha\u00efti
EMail: hh2rch@\u200byahoo.\u200bcom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While recently listening to a video clip which recalled a sad page in the history of the press in Ha\u00efti, I heard the presenter say this when speaking of Radio Ha\u00efti-Inter: \u201c\u2026Radio ki t\u00e9 pi ancien nan p\u00e9yi a\u201d, meaning \u201c\u2026the oldest radio in Ha\u00efti\u201d.This caught my attention. For the sake of truth and history it is necessary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-smallimage-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}