This Sunday I enjoyed the opportunity to direct the radio program Acompáñame, by producing the script and selecting the songs, I went back to the years of the station’s birth, when that space for instrumental music of all time had a daily place in its programming design and gave continuity to the second opening of the station, in the 70s of the last century, where its strength was instrumental melodies.

As the 18th anniversary of the current Radio Camagüey approaches, it seems fair to review the history it keeps and thank all its predecessors; who contributed with their experience to what today stands as “the elegant Dial”.

The origins

Radio Camagüey had a glorious past, the implication of its predecessor, the former Suarito-Radio Camagüey, in the strike call of April 9th, 1958, was an honor for that generation of radio people and still is, for the current ones, who try to remember it from their daily work.

But that daring action by young people from the July 26th movement led to the closure of the station, which had a new awakening in the 1970s, on that occasion as an instrumental music station.

The third and current Radio Camagüey integrated a bit of the previous two into its programming design, since from the first it took the patriotic meaning and from the second, the taste for good music from all eras.

The current one made the difference and soon made itself felt with its first program Entre Tinajones, a variety magazine, that each morning brought timely information, music from the patio, in addition to paying homage to personalities from Camagüey.

Those of us left to tell

Of those of us who started the third season of Radio Camagüey, still with tape recorders and typewriters, we only remain with the station: Lizandra Góngora (announcer), Lucrecia de Miranda (marketing specialist), Niaska González (music specialist) and me. Having attended the begginnig of the station and continuing to pay tribute to the safeguarding of its original values ​​is a real pleasure.

The new generations of union workers set their current pace and join this feeling of honoring those who started, with creative proposals, to enrich the radio and add followers, without losing the essence that defines it… fresh as water from a waterpot.

Our best wishes

Congratulations for all my colleagues from Radio Camagüey, who this February 2nd, we celebrate together with the birthday of the city, 18 years creating; like the music we say to you: Join me!

Translated by: Aileen Álvarez Garía