PNG's Radio Fly on Shortwave Tabubil, Papua New Guinea

Posted Thu, 05/27/2010 - 13:22 by zahoor

Listeners in countries such as Japan and New Zealand have been reporting reception of new shortwave broadcaster Radio Fly in recent days.
Radio Fly is a community radio station operated by the Ok Tedi Mine management in the isolated Western Province of Papua New Guinea, about 800km west of the capital Port Moresby.
According to Jobby Paiva, who hosts the evening show on Radio Fly, the station operates from two FM transmitters [95.3 at the port town of Kiunga and 103.8 in the main company town of Tabubil about 90km inland] and recently started shortwave relays on 3915kHz and 5960kHz.
English news is scheduled 7am-7.30am Tue-Sat and again at 7.30pm-7.45pm Mon-Fri [local times] and the 6am-10pm [2000-1200 UTC] broadcast day is divided into the Breakfast Shift 6am-10am, Mid Morning/Mid Afternoon Shift 10am-2pm, Afternoon Drive 2pm-6pm and the Night Shift 6pm-10pm
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Radio Sweden closing shortwave and mediumwave

Posted Tue, 05/25/2010 - 22:30 by zahoor

Radio Sweden is joining many other European broadcasters by closing down its transmissions on the mediumwave and shortwave bands. Broadcasts will end on October 31, 2010, and instead, Radio Sweden will continue to operate on the Internet. English-language service will continue to serve the domestic audience also on the FM band. Russian broadcasts will be available on the Internet just like German programs already are. Among the immigrant languages, Albanian, Assyrian-Syriac and Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian are to be terminated in the end of October. Meanwhile, Arabic and Somali - the largest immigrant language groups in Sweden - are to be boosted. The same applies to Romani, which is one of Sweden's five official minority languages. The Persian service is to include also Dari spoken by the rapidly increasing number of Afghan refugees coming to Sweden. Kurdish broadcasts remain unchanged. Swedish Radio's output in immigrant languages will be available on the web and nationwide on the FM band.

Thanks DXing.info

Deutsche Welle

Posted Tue, 03/30/2010 - 10:54 by zahoor

Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international broadcaster: online, on-screen and over the air. It provides a European perspective to audiences around the world and promotes intercultural dialogue.

According to its statutory mission, Deutsche Welle will “promote understanding of Germany as an independent nation with its roots in European culture and as a liberal, democratic, constitutional state based on the rule of law.” It is also meant to "provide a forum in Europe and on other continents to German and other points of view on important issues, with the aim of fostering understanding and exchange between cultures and people.” In addition, it will contribute to promoting the German language.

Deutsche Welle fulfills this mission with a journalistic portfolio that includes DW-RADIO and the multimedia Internet portal DW-WORLD.DE in 30 languages and with DW-TV in German, English, Arabic and Spanish. It also runs the DW-AKADEMIE, where radio professionals from developing and transition countries receive further training. This will also be developed into a Master’s program in the future. The DW-AKADEMIE also offers “Intercultural Media Training” for German executives and institutions looking to go abroad.

The international broadcaster’s services are targeted to people around the world who are interested in Germany and Europe, particularly to current and future opinion leaders and decision makers. German programming is directed at those learning German and other individuals with German language skills. It reaches nearly 90 million listeners and viewers worldwide every week. It receives well over half a million responses to its programming and online services every year and is respected as a credible source of information.

Voice of Russia

Posted Wed, 03/24/2010 - 13:29 by zahoor

The “Voice of Russia” – is the veteran of radio broadcasters. On air since October 29th 1929, “Voice of Russia” shapes Russia’s image worldwide and introduces the world community to Russia and its opinions on global events.


“Voice of Russia” today broadcasts to 160 countries in 38 languages 151 hours per day on short and medium waves, in FM band, via satellite and through mobile link. In 2003 “Voice of Russia” was among the major international radio broadcasters to launch daily broadcasts to Europe in Digital Radio Mondiale.

“Voice of Russia” programs are broadcast in the USA through satellite channels of the global network, by cable, in FM band, and through mobile link in 16 states. “Voice of Russia” is among the top five radio broadcasters which include the BBC, “Voice of America”, “Deutsche Welle”, and Radio France International. According to a survey carried out by International Media Help (Switzerland) among radio listeners in 50 countries, “Voice of Russia” comes third after BBC and “Voice of America” in popularity ratings. 

“Voice of Russia” broadcasts in Internet in 33 languages and on its Website which boasts over 500 sections. It is visited by people from 140 countries. Visitors can chose from on-line reports, audio, video and multimedia material.  

“Voice of Russia” has 109 million listeners in 160 countries, In their opinion “Voice of Russia” provides a convenient and democratic channel to obtain information about Russia. People aged between 30 and 55 make up 60% of “Voice of Russia’s” audience while 25% are under 30. 80% listen to “Voice of Russia” programs 2 or 3 times a week or every day. 25% of all listeners have tuned into “Voice of Russia” for their first time over the past 5 years.  

“Voice of Russia” is a member of the National Association of Television and Radio Broadcasters, the European Broadcasting Union, Digital Radio Mondiale, the Conference of International Broadcasters’ Audience Research. Many “Voice of Russia” programs have won the “Radiomania” national award. In 2008 “Voice of Russia” won the Runet Prize in the “Runet outside RU” category.

The English service at RFI

Posted Wed, 03/24/2010 - 11:36 by zahoor

French international radio first broadcast in English on the shortwave Poste Coloniale station in the early 1930s. English-language broadcasting from France then existed in different organisations before becoming part of RFI when it was created in 1975.

RFI is part of a group with other overseas broadcasters like TV5Monde and France 24 and RFI's English-language service has over 40 journalists and producers in its Paris office with a network of over 50 correspondents around the world.

It broadcasts 33.5 hours of programmes each week and is funded partly by the French government and partly by audiovisual licence fees.

African news is the focus of our morning (4.00 UT on) and evening broadcasts (16.00 UT / 17.00 UT). At the weekend we present a weekly look at the media in Africa (African Media) and also review the week's news in Spotlight on Africa.

World news is in all our programmes but is the focus at 12.00 UT, while the 14.00 UT broadcast concentrates on Asian news. In our weekend programme Asia Pacific, we look back at the week's news in Asia.

Our sports coverage includes daily news and the weekly magazine Sports Insight which takes a look at anything from European football to French pétanque or Polish waterpolo.

Every day we bring our listeners a story that's making the news in France (Focus on France) and each weekend we look at what's happening in the world of French culture (Culture in France).

Our longer 20-minute features run every day and cover a wide range of subjects such as French culture, the African diaspora and world music.

We also work with partner stations Radio Netherlands and Deutsche Welle and are part of the Euranet partnership.

The English service is just one of RFI's language services, we also broadcast in Spanish, Portugese, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. Radio France Internationale as a whole has over 1,000 employees, of which 465 are journalists, with a global network of 600 correspondents.

Our postal address is: 116 Ave du Président Kennedy, BP 9516, Paris Cedex 16, France

Our email is: english.service@rfi.fr

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