under construction in
Chișinău in 1937 The first radio transmission in Moldova was broadcast on November 1, 1928 by the
Radiotelephonic Broadcasting Company in
Bucharest. On 30 October 1930, in
Tiraspol started broadcasting a
Soviet radio station of 4
kW whose main purpose was the anti-Romanian propaganda to Moldova between
Prut and
Dniester. A new radio mast, M. Gorky, built in 1936 in Tiraspol, allowed a greater coverage of the territory of
Bessarabia. In that context, in 1937,
Chişinău City Hall gave the
Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company a building to open the first radio station in Chişinău, to counter
Soviet propaganda. Experimental programs began in the early days of June 1939. The transmitter installed by
Marconi Company in Chişinău was the best in
Romania. The first radio station in
Chişinău was "twice stronger than that of Bucharest or that one in Tiraspol" wrote
Gazeta Basarabiei in July 1939. A religious service was broadcast from the
Nativity Cathedral at the launching of the first radio station in Chişinău. Emission power could be increased from 20 kW to 200 kW and the reception was possible in
Moscow or
Leningrad due to direct wave propagation. There were three studios, the biggest for symphony orchestras, choirs and opera band, the middle for chamber music and
soloists, and the third allocated to lecturers and announcer, equipped with the most modern equipment. Radio Bessarabia had six services: the Secretariat, Technical Service, Service Programs, Administrative Service, Litigation department, and Commercial department. With the
Soviet occupation in June 1940 most of the backup material, personnel and the archive were withdrawn at
Huși, but not the transmitter. The
Red Army blew up the building and the bodies of those who remained to work for the radio were found in a
water well. In 1958,
Nicolae Lupan became Teleradio-Moldova's first editor in chief. ==Services==