CMQ (Cuba)

Pre-1959 Cuban radio and television station

CMQ Televisión (CMQ)

* La Habana Province
* Cuba

City| Havana
Channels|

* Analog: 6 (VHF)

Programming
Language(s)| Spanish
Affiliations| NBC
History
Founded| December 18, 1950 (1950-12-18)

First air date

| March 11, 1951; 74 years ago (1951-03-11)

Last air date

| 1960; 65 years ago (1960)

CMQ (640 kHz) was a commercial radio station in Havana, Cuba. It had a large audience in the 1940s and 1950s, attracting listeners with programs that included music, sports, talk and news. It later expanded into a television station and network.

The radio station was heard on the clear channel frequency of 640 kHz, with a power of 50,000 watts, making it audible around the Caribbean and Southern United States at night. The TV station broadcast on Channel 6 in Havana, later expanding to seven stations around the island.

## History

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### Radio

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The company was founded on March 12, 1933, by Miguel Gabriel and Ángel Cambó. Ten years later, on August 1, 1943, half of it was acquired by the business group of Goar Mestre.[1] In the beginning, CMQ Radio transmitted only in the capital. But broadcasts later were expanded to the rest of the country using broadcast relay stations.

The CMQ 640 radio studios were initially located on Calle Monte, on the corner of Paseo del Prado. On March 12, 1948, the studios and offices were moved to the Radiocentro Building on La Rampa and Calle L in El Vedado.[citation needed]

### Television

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Pre-revolutionary Cuba was an early adopter of new technology, including TV. Cuba was the first Latin American country to have television. In December 1946, station CM-21P conducted an experimental multi-point live broadcast.

Regular commercial broadcasting began in October 1950 with Gaspar Pumarejo's Unión Radio TV. This was followed by Goar Mestre Espinosa's CMQ-TV. It was founded on December 18, 1950, and began experimental broadcasts. CMQ-TV officially signed on the air on March 11, 1951; 74 years ago (1951-03-11). It became a network affiliate of NBC for news and sports, which was translated into Spanish.

### CMQ Network

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By 1954, CMQ-TV had expanded into a seven-station network. Cuba became the second country in the world, only after the United States, to have a national TV network.[2][3]

At the beginning of the 1950s, the transmission of the telenovela El Derecho de Nacer, by Felix B. Caignet, proved popular with audiences. CMQ-TV displaced the competing station, RHC Cadena Azul, as the top television network.

After the revolution, CMQ-AM-TV, as other privately owned broadcast operations, were taken over by the Cuban government. In 1960, AM 640 no longer used the CMQ call sign, its pre-revolutionary identity. It became the flagship station of the Radio Liberacion network.[4]

## Timeline

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Source: [5]

* 1952: Video network linking the provincial capitals established
* 1952: regular use of the kinescope
* 1954: CMQ-TV transmits the World Series between the U.S. and Cuba using an airplane as a relay
* 1957: direct transmission of regular, live signal between the U.S. and Cuba, using the "Over the Horizon" system

## References

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1. ^ Michael Salwen "Radio and Television in Cuba: The Pre-Castro Era" isbn: 0813821800 publisher: Iowa State University Press, 1994
2. ^ Encyclopedia of Television, Volume 1, Horace Newcomb, p.636
3. ^ "Cuba Baseball & TV- 1955 World Series", Cuba 1952-1959, February 2007
4. ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-256. Retrieved Oct. 7, 2024
5. ^ Encyclopedia of Television, Volume 1, Horace Newcomb, p.636

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Defunct|

* CMCY Radio Periódico La Calle (AM 550)
* CMW RHC-Cadena Azul (AM 590)
* CMW Circuito Nacional Cubano (AM 590)
* CMW Radio Rebelde (AM 590)
* CMQ (AM 630)
* CMCU Radio Garcia-Serra (AM 660)
* CMBC Radio Progreso (AM 690)
* CMxx Radio Free Dixie (AM 690)
* CMCA Radio Mambí (AM 730)
* CMBL Radio Suaritos (AM 750)
* CMCD Radio Voz (AM 760)
* CMCH Radio Cadena Habana (AM 790)
* CMBL Radio Suaritos (AM 860)
* CMBZ Radio Salas (AM 830)
* CMBL Radio Suaritos (AM 860)
* CMBL Radio Aeropuerto Internacional (AM 860)
* CMCF Unión Radio (AM 910)
* CMBF Onda Musical del Circuito CMQ (AM 950)
* CMCK COCO El Periódico del Aire (AM 980)
* CMX Radio Mil Diez (AM 1010)
* CMZ Ministerio de Educación (AM 1010)
* CMCX Radi-Hora (AM 1060)
* CMBS Radio Capital Artalejo (AM 1090)
* CMBY La Casa de las Medias (AM 1120)
* CMBQ Radio Continental La Voz del INRA (AM 1150)
* CMK Circuito CMK (AM 1200)
* CMCO Radio Caribe (AM 1230)
* CMBJ Cadena Oriental de Radio (AM 1260)
* CMCW Radio Lavín (AM 1290)
* CMCB Radio Reloj (AM 1330)
* CMBG Radio Musical (AM 1360)
* CMBX Radio Álvarez (AM 1390)
* CMCQ Onda Musical del Oyente (AM 1420)
* CMCM Radio Éxitos (AM 1460)
* CMOX Cubana Americana de Radio (AM 1490)
* CMBD Radio Kramer (AM 1520)
* CMCG Radio Codazos (AM 1550)
* CMGB Radio Nuevos Rumbos (AM 1590)

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Bahamas
Cayman Islands
Jamaica
U.S.
Florida Keys

See also
Mass media in Cuba § Radio

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Notes
1\. Unofficial clear-channel station with extended nighttime coverage.
2\. Clear-channel station with extended nighttime coverage.

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