Radio 5 (Spanish radio station)
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| Broadcast area | Spain – nationwide |
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| Frequency | AM: various FM: various DAB DVB-T Satellite |
| First air date | 19 April 1994 |
| Format | All news |
| Owner | RTVE |
| Sister stations | RNE Radio Nacional RNE Radio Clásica RNE Radio 3 |
| Website | rtve.es/radio/ |
Radio 5 is an "all news" radio station operated by Radio Nacional de España, part of Spain's state-owned public broadcasting organization, Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (RTVE). It began broadcasting in 1994, following a reorganization of public radio services in that year.
Its format is similar to that of the French rolling-news service France Info (founded in 1987), with news bulletins on the hour and half-hour and summaries at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour, largely interspersed with short features covering a wide variety of topics, including science, health, culture, economics, and history as well as analysis of matters currently in the news.
Overnight, between 0.00 and 8.00, Radio 5 carries the programmes of RNE Radio Nacional; it also relays all or part of Radio Nacional's main news broadcasts: Las mañanas de RNE (Mon-Fri at 8.00); Diario de las 2 (at 14.00); and 24 horas (at 20.00). The station's schedule includes "regional disconnections" at various points in the day for local news bulletins, with longer regional programmes being broadcast at 13.10–14.00 (13.30–14.00 at weekends) and 19.30–20.00 (Mon-Fri).
Radio 5 inherited most of the AM and FM transmitter network which had until 1988 carried the programmes of the state-owned but commercially financed Radio Cadena Española; today, however, the station – like all of RTVE's radio and television channels – is commercial-free.
Selected frequencies
| City | AM (kHz) | FM (MHz) |
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| A Coruña | 558 | 95.8 |
| Alicante | 936 | 103.6 |
| Barcelona | 576 | 99.0 |
| Bilbao | 1305 | 96.3 |
| Córdoba | 531 | 99.8 |
| Las Palmas | 747 | 88.6 |
| Logroño | 1107 | 103.3 |
| Madrid | 657 | 90.3 |
| Málaga | 1152 | 92.5 |
| Murcia | 567 | 92.1 |
| Oviedo | 531 | 99.6 |
| Palma de Mallorca | 909 | 104.5 |
| Pamplona | 531 | 95.7 |
| Santander | 1107 | 105.0 |
| Seville | 603 | 90.0 |
| Valencia | 558 | 88.2 |
| Valladolid | 936 | 95.1 |
| Vigo | 1413 | 96.0 |
| Vitoria-Gasteiz | 1125 | 89.4 |
| Zaragoza | 936 | 100.0 |
Former logos
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| 1994–1999 | 1999–2008 | 2008-present |
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