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Founded: 1994
Ownership
Radio Ognjišče is owned and was founded by the Catholic press society Tiskovno društvo Ognjišče, which has published the monthly magazine Ognjišče since 1965. The radio station began regular broadcasting on 28 November 1994 from a Ljubljana studio at the St. Stanislav Institute, an initiative led by msgr. Franc Bole and backed by the Ljubljana Archdiocese (Archbishop Alojzij Šuštar). It is effectively a Slovenian Roman Catholic Church radio station operating as a non-profit.
Funding
As a church/non-profit station it is financed by advertising and listener support/donations together with backing from its Catholic-association owner and the broader church community, rather than by a state licence fee. It also draws on the Ognjišče publishing house's wider Catholic media operation.
Affiliation & stance
Radio Ognjišče is editorially a Catholic station owned by a church press association and tied to the Slovenian Roman Catholic Church, giving its programming a religious, socially conservative (centre-right) orientation. Because it is controlled by a church body rather than being a neutral commercial or state public broadcaster, it is correctly classed DEPENDENT (church-controlled).
Editorial lean
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