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VOA Increases coverage of crucial Ethiopian election
Posted: 19 May 2010 06:54 PM PDT
Washington, D.C., May 19, 2010 – The Voice of America is expanding coverage of Sunday’s Ethiopian parliamentary elections with special daily radio programs in English, enhanced multi-media efforts, and additional live broadcast hours on election-day in Amharic, Tigrigna, and Afaan Oromoo.
A 10-minute daily English-language program, titled Ethiopian Elections in Focus, is now airing evenings with the latest on the issues and candidates as they prepare for the crucial May 23 vote. The program, which is part of VOA English to Africa’s extensive lineup, will continue all week after the election.
Analysis, interviews, special reports and features are available at www.voanews.com, and through a special newsletter that is being distributed by email in an effort to reach listeners who have been affected by the jamming of VOA’s popular broadcasts to Ethiopia.
VOA’s Horn of Africa service will broadcast live to Ethiopia election-day from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the evening, bringing uncensored coverage to its large audience through shortwave and on VOA 24, a new satellite service carried by Arabsat. The extended election coverage, in Afaan Oromoo, Amharic, and Tigrigna, will include on-the-scene reporting of election-day events, panel discussions of polling station turnout and interviews with Ethiopians around the
world. VOA has also added a 30-minute morning program in Amharic that starts at 6 a.m.
Earlier this month, Voice of America Director Danforth W. Austin issued an open letter to Ethiopian listeners expressing deep concern about the jamming of VOA broadcasts and websites. He also assured listeners that VOA will continue to do all it can to bring Ethiopian listeners the news they have come to trust and rely on for almost 30 years.
(VOA Press Release)
Radio is the ‘most trusted’ source of news, says Ofcom
Posted: 19 May 2010 04:40 AM PDT
Recent figures suggest more people are listening to radio than ever before Radio is the most trusted source of news in the UK, beating both TV and the internet, according to a report from Ofcom.
More at : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10121759.stm
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- AIR extended txn’s due to cyclone
- AP takes care of wild Laila
- 26010 kHz DIGIDIA Radio
- 17875 and 15740 Khz TDF MONTSINERY
- Eton E1/E1XM Discontinued
- Radio Marti Marks 25th Anniversary
- National Public Radio picks Balfour Beatty to build headquarters
- RNZI Funding Frozen
- A10 Summer schedules file – new version available.
- RTI Contest: Win an EP of modern aboriginal music!
AIR extended txn’s due to cyclone
Posted: 20 May 2010 08:03 PM PDT
Following All India Radio stations were noted continously on air giving alerts about Cylone Laila which is active in the area :
738 Hyderabad 200 kW
837 Vijayawada 100 kW
900 Cuddapah 100 kW
927 Visakhapatnam 100 kW
4800 Hyderabad 50 kW
A Team from National Institute of Amateur Radio has already moved to the area. Frequencies are 7073 & 14160 kHz. Callsigns from the field stations are VU2MYH, VU2SD, VU2MCW plus VU2NRO ie NIAR HQ Hyderabad.
(Jose Jacob, VU2JOS , National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad)
Posted: 20 May 2010 08:02 PM PDT
Alert administration takes precautionary measures, evacuates over 31,000 people before the cyclone hits the state’s coast .
Hyderabad: The preparedness of the administration in the nine coastal districts to reduce the damage during cyclone Laila, which crossed the coast at Bapatla in Guntur district, showed results in terms of minimizing human and cattle loss. Warned early by the meteorological office, the government took precautionary measures like forcibly evacuating people.
Officials depended on ham radio. Heavy to very heavy rains have been forecast all over Andhra Pradesh for the next 36 hours.
Read the full report here :
Posted: 20 May 2010 08:00 PM PDT
http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2227
17875 and 15740 Khz TDF MONTSINERY
Posted: 20 May 2010 07:59 PM PDT
http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2228
Posted: 20 May 2010 07:35 PM PDT
Thanks to a tip from NASWA’s Rich Dangelo, Universal Radio is announcing that Eton has discontinued production of the E1 in both the XM and XM-less versions. Speculation has run wild for well over a year that this was imminent and now we know.
(Mark Coady, Ontario DX Association via ODXA List)
Radio Marti Marks 25th Anniversary
Posted: 20 May 2010 07:32 PM PDT
Miami, 05/20/2010
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of Radio Marti, which began its broadcasts to Cuba with a simple “buenos dias Cuba.”
In the years since, Radio Marti’s news programs, dedicated to being accurate, objective and comprehensive, have offered the Cuban people a welcome alternative to state-controlled media propaganda.
“I appreciate the opportunity in this historic day to acknowledge all journalists, engineers and support staff for your commitment in providing professionalism, objectivity and balance in all our programs and newscasts,” said Pedro Roig, director of the U.S. government’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which oversees Radio Marti. “Congratulations to all in these 25 years of commitment to the freedom of Cuba.”
Cuba has one of the world’s most restrictive media environments – in the bottom 10 of the Freedom of the Press rankings by Freedom House and among the 10 worst countries to be a blogger according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Radio Marti and its sister television and Internet outlets broadcast across multiple media platforms to combat the massive jamming efforts of the Cuban government.
With an all news format, Radio Marti programs air 24 hours a day Tuesday through Sunday, and 18 hours on Monday on shortwave and AM frequencies. Approximately 70 percent of the broadcast hours are live newscasts. Three daily half-hour programs are dedicated to information
and reports from dissidents, independent journalists, independent librarians and pro-democracy advocates within Cuba.
The Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which is funded by the U.S. government through the presidentially appointed Broadcasting Board of Governors, was established in 1990 to oversee the operations of Radio and TV Marti, which broadcast news and information to the people of Cuba. For more information, please call the BBG’s Office of Public Affairs at 202-203-4400 or e-mail publicaffairs@bbg.gov.
(BBG Press Release)
National Public Radio picks Balfour Beatty to build headquarters
Posted: 20 May 2010 07:29 PM PDT
Read the Washington Business Journal story here :
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2010/05/17/daily33.html
Posted: 20 May 2010 07:18 PM PDT
New Zealand Budget 2010 – Radio New Zealand International Funding Frozen
Radio New Zealand International [RNZI], the country’s shortwave broadcaster receives no additional funding in the latest government budget for 2010/2011 announced in Wellington yesterday.
Funding remains at NZ$1.9m [US$1.26m] and it’s required to deliver 16 hours of good quality reception daily to a minimum of 11 Pacific nations with one 100kW analog transmitter installed in 1990 and one 100kW digital capable transmitter installed in 2005.
The primary coverage nations it’s funded for are French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Tokelau, American Samoa, Samoa, Niue, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, Tuvalu, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
The secondary coverage nations are Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Nauru and Kiribati, whilst general coverage must be provided to the Asia/Pacific and Pacific Rim region including the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau.
In addition, RNZI must increase the number of Pacific radio stations relaying or rebroadcasting its news bulletins to 18 and is permiited a maximum 1% of transmission time lost from equipment failure.
The Radio Heritage Foundation welcomes the continued funding of RNZI as recognition by the government that it provides a valuable service for New Zealand’s interests in the Pacific.
‘At a time when many shortwave broadcasters face budget cuts and complete closedown of services, this continued confidence in RNZI’s ability to deliver a quality service with a bare-bones budget is tribute to the extreme dedication to duty and pragmatism of the entire RNZI team” says chairman David Ricquish.
RNZI provides valuable cyclone, extreme weather watch and tsunami warnings for the entire South Pacific region. It also provides local FM quality news, information and other programs for rebroadcast on a growing number of local Pacific island radio stations.
“With Fiji in media censorship lockdown and media freedoms poorly understood in many of the target nations, RNZI provides local listeners with a respected and valuable news source from a Pacific perspective” adds Ricquish.
“Every week, thousands of New Zealanders are on holiday, on business visits or working and living in the Pacific and RNZI provides a valuable service for their continued safety.”
“To maintain this security, RNZI should also be urgently capital funded for a replacement of the 20 year old analog transmitter with another high power digital capable shortwave transmitter sooner rather than later” says Ricquish.
Catastrophic RNZI transmitter failure co-inciding with natural disasters or sudden political events and instability in the region could threaten the lives of New Zealanders and New Zealand’s security and commercial interests.
Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the Pacific. It’s global website www.radioheritage.net offers free community access to Pacific Radio Guides and other valuable resources. Annual supporter packages start at US$10 and online advertising rates are now available.
Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
A10 Summer schedules file – new version available.
Posted: 19 May 2010 08:08 PM PDT
An updated version of the recent A10 schedules file has been uploaded to the WRTH website: http://www.wrth.com which addresses some issues that have arisen since the original file was published. Changes have been highlighted in red text to enable easy identification.
Sean Gilbert, International Editor – WRTH (World Radio TV Handbook)
Web: http://www.wrth.com
RX : Icom IC756PRO; Racal RA1792
ANT : 15.5m Inverted Vee @ 10m; ALA1530 @ 3m
RTI Contest: Win an EP of modern aboriginal music!
Posted: 16 May 2010 09:48 PM PDT
Radio Taiwan International Contest: Win an EP of modern aboriginal music!
Feast Meets West is giving away 10 EPs of modern indigenous music from Taiwan by Amis musician/composer Suming! He will release his first solo album on May 15, and we’ll be inviting him to join us on the May 29th edition of our program to help us give awaythese CDs which contain two songs from his new album.
DETAILS
* All you have to do is send us a email with the name of Suming’s tribe (hint: it’s the largest tribe of indigenous people in Taiwan)!
* Entries must be received by Monday, May 24th to be eligible for a prize. Winners will be announced in the May 29th edition of Feast Meets West* Send your entry by email: androo@rti.org.tw
Thanks, as always, for listening!
(Source : Radio Taiwan International)
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