OHCC RTV

A brief history of Hungarian radio broadcasts in Ottawa

Between 1999 and 2001, through the continuous intervention and significant support of President Lajos Győrffy and Secretary Károly Dombi of OHCC, it became possible for a Hungarian-language program to be created through the CHIN Ottawa’s Multicultural Radio Station.
Starting in June 2002, the CHIN radio network invited the leadership of the OHCC to participate in the CRTC hearings for the new multicultural broadcast in Ottawa, as a result of which the Hungarian Radio broadcast began in December 2003, led by Éva Hadházy.
From 2006, the program editing was taken over by Károly Dombi, who held this role until the end of May 2015. In recognition of his successful work over nine years, Károly Dombi was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit of Hungary.
You can search for programs broadcast between 2004 and 2015 on this website.

Program guide and audio library

OHCC RTV program on 28 May, 2021

Content

  • Spring in Ottawa

The accompanying music of the video is two Grieg pieces: For Spring, Arietta (Gábor Finta’s own recordings)

(The video was produced by Gábor Finta)

OHCC RTV program on 11 May, 2021

Tartalom

  • Interview with the directors of the Ottawa Hungarian Community Center (host: Magdolna Tóth, host and editor: Gábor Finta)
    • Rudolf Bánsági (president)
    • Béla Szeri (vice president)
    • Edit Palencsár (treasurer)
    • Béla Szabó (member of BOD)

 

(The video was produced by Gábor Finta)

OHCC RTV program on 9 May, 2021

Mother’s Day virtual program of the Ottawa Hungarian Community Centre. The show features sixteen Hungarian young Canadians and adults who recite poems and play the piano and violin for their mothers.

(The video was produced by Gábor Finta)

OHCC RTV program on 15 Apr, 2021

Content

  • Introduction to the show (Finta Gábor)
  • Poetry Day
    • Selection from poems of Sándor Weöres (Mese TV)
    • Introduction (Magdolna Tóth)
    • Poetry of Lőrinc Szabó (Béla Köntés)
    • Sándor Weöres: Öregek (in a musical version)
    • The show of Béla Szeri
  • A walk in Budapest (video of Gábor Finta)

(The video was produced by Gábor Finta)

Commemoration – 1848, March 15

The Ottawa Hungarian Community Centre has compiled a video program this year to commemorate the Revolution of 1848. We used materials made several years ago and recordings recently prepared.
Dr. Vass-Salazar Mária, Ambassador of Hungary addresses  Hungarian Canadians and the programme contains poems by Sándor Petőfi and Piroska Kárpáti, recordings of the Youth and Tulipán Dance Groups as well as compositions by Joseph Haydn, W. A. Mozart, Béla Bartók and Gábor Finta.

(Video production by Gábor Finta)