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The Radiocentro CMQ Building complex is a former radio and television production facility and office building at the intersection of Calle L and La Rampa in El Vedado, Cuba. It was modeled after Raymond Hood 's 1933 Rockefeller Center in New York City . [ 1 ]
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 ...
Radio Musical Nacional (English: Musical National Radio), call sign CMBF, is a national classical music radio station in Cuba.It is heard on 590 kHz AM and 95.1 and 99.1 MHz FM in Havana and on FM transmitters nationwide.
Morro Santiago de Cuba Lighthouse: Image Archived 2016-10-10 at the Wayback Machine: 1923: Santiago de Cuba Province: Fl (2) W 10s. 82 metres (269 ft) 13112: J5046: 27 Playa Giron Lighthouse: n/a: Matanzas Province
Radio's primary purpose in Cuba was to enhance the "high culture" education of the Cuban citizen. Radio stations and networks included: [7] Cadena Oriental de Radio; Circuito Nacional Cubano (1954-1959) CMBF; COCQ [8] COCX [8] Radio Mil Diez; PWX (later CMQ) Radio Habana Cuba (RHC) Radio Progreso; Radio Reloj (est. 1947) Sabates; Union Radio ...
Telecommunications in Cuba consists mainly of NTSC analog television, analog radio, telephony, AMPS, D-AMPS, and GSM mobile telephony, and the Internet.Telephone service is provided through ETECSA (Telecommunications Company of Cuba), mobile telephone service is provided through the Cellular Telephone Company of Cuba (CUBACEL) and, previously, Caribbean Cellular (Celulares del Caribe, C-COM ...
The fort played a role in the decisive Battle of Santiago de Cuba in 1898, in which the United States Navy destroyed a Spanish fleet sheltering there. The image was painted after the event received much publicity in 1901 as a court of enquiry strove to apportion credit to the American commanders involved.
Situated on Calle Pío Rosada, between Calles Heredia and Aguilera, it is Santiago de Cuba's oldest museum. [2] Emilio Bacardí and his wife, Elvira Cape, embarked on a significant journey overseas in 1912. Their trip yielded an impressive collection of antiquities and art, as well as Cuba's first genuine mummy and sarcophagus from Egypt. [3]