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Tehran Times Culture Desk
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=163582
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8611290623
TEHRAN — The English language department of Iran´s Islamic Education
radio station was launched here on Sunday.

Expediency Council member Seyyed Ahmad Khatami, manager of the
Islamic Education radio station Mohammad-Hossein Mohammadzadeh, IRIB
deputy manager Ali Darabi and several officials from the Qom Seminary
attended the launching ceremony.

Khatami made an opening address, in which he said, “It is no exaggeration
to say that our two radio stations, one of which is dedicated exclusively to
the Holy Quran and the other to Islamic teachings, are the pride of this
country and I must acknowledge that the great scholars of the Seminary at
Qom have always praised them.”

Ali Darabi also spoke at the ceremony, saying, “The Islamic Republic of Iran
Broadcasting (IRIB) airs programs in 31 languages with the assistance of a
great number of professional personnel. The countries with which we have
signed contracts of bilateral collaboration also draw on the experience of
these people.”

Radio deputy manager Hassan Khojasteh, expressing his pleasure over the
launching of the English department explained, “The world is in dire need of
Islamic teachings to help people find the right path in life, so we must make
use of this channel as a source of guidance.”

He continued that the department commenced its work with three hours of
programs in English covering various issues, adding, “Although digital
technology is not yet being used in the production of programs in our
Persian section, the programs in English are all being produced digitally.”

Khojasteh concluded that the radio station is making use of local experts for
writing and supervising the programs.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/18/business/bbc.php
By Doreen Carvajal
Published: February 18, 2008

PARIS: The BBC World Service, which started its scratchy shortwave
transmissions to listeners cut off by “desert, snow and sea” 75 years ago,
ended its last English-language shortwave services in Europe on Monday.

The British public broadcaster has been reducing its shortwave
transmissions over the past seven years, eliminating services to North
America and Australia in 2001 and South America in 2005. Last March, the
BBC started reducing European transmissions, finally cutting off a
transmitter that reached parts of southern Europe on Monday.

“There comes a point where the shortwave audience in a given region
becomes so small that spending money on it can no longer be justified,” the
broadcaster said in a statement.

The quiet ending for the service was a contrast with its celebrated arrival.
Seventy-five years ago, King George V helped promote the new technology
from his small study in the British royal family’s Norfolk retreat,
Sandringham. In a speech written by the poet Rudyard Kipling, the king
extolled radio as a way to reach out to men and women isolated by snow
and sea.

“Through one of the marvels of modern science, I am enabled this
Christmas Day to speak to all my people throughout the empire,” the king
said.

The abdication speech of Edward VIII was broadcast on shortwave, as was
news of the Hindenburg airship’s explosion and Hungarian Free Radio’s last
anguished call for aid as Russian tanks rumbled into Budapest.

But modern modes of communication have been squeezing out shortwave
services in Western countries, where programming is available on FM radio,
on the Internet and on iPods with wireless connections.

“Europe is very developed and so is America,” said Michael Gardner, a
spokesman for BBC World Services. “Shortwave is not the best way of
reaching those audiences there. They all have FM, AM stations close by.
Some of them have satellites or they can pull it down on their TV screens
and there are alternatives on line. There are lots of ways of interacting with
the BBC.”

Simon Spanswick, chief executive of the Association of International
Broadcasters in London, said that the move by the BBC “probably sounds
the death knell for traditional analogue shortwave broadcasting in the
developed world.”

Shortwave transmissions remain an important media outlet in Africa and
Asia, he noted. Since 2006, the BBC World Service shortwave audience has
grown by 7 million people, or 7 percent, to 107 million - about 58 percent of
the BBC’s total radio audience.

But in developed countries, Spanswick added, “nobody really uses
shortwave radio any more to listen to content produced on a big scale.”

All of the world’s largest international broadcasters, based in the United
States, France, Germany, England and the Netherlands, are cutting back on
shortwave or reviewing the deployment of their resources.

Andy Sennit, a media specialist with the Dutch public broadcaster, Radio
Netherlands Worldwide, said that he got his start 30 years ago working on
BBC shortwave broadcasts and had mixed feelings about the end of the
transmissions.

“For die-hard shortwave listeners, this is negative,” he said. “What they don’t
understand is the huge cost of powering transmitters. The cost of diesel fuel
has doubled.”

Radio Netherlands has also cut back its shortwave services in English and
has considered shutting down some transmitter stations, he said.

Jonathan Marks, a former radio executive and consultant for international
broadcasting, said the decision by the BBC was simply another sign of
shortwave radio’s “long, slow fade.”

“A major broadcaster has pulled the plug on a major continent,” he said. “It
indicates that the BBC no longer sees it as a viable medium.”

08-02-2008

HILVERSUM - On Monday 11 February, Radio Netherlands Worldwide
(RNW) will be launching its new Chinese-language website
www.rnw.nl/chinese in Amsterdam.

The site is aimed at Chinese people with a special interest in the
Netherlands and provides Dutch news and background information. It is the
first time RNW has targetted China. The site is designed to help promote
press freedom and pluralism in China long-term.

There will be daily news reports from the Netherlands and a review of Dutch
newspapers on the site. It will also include topical pieces where the Dutch
view is of interest to China, for example, the environment, water
management, health care and culture. Chinese people will gain information
on the Netherlands and Dutch society.

Limits
The website will have to take some account of the limitations in China.
RNW’s Deputy Editor-in-Chief, China expert Ardi Bouwers, explains:

“We’ve chosen a realistic  approach without setting ourselves editorial
limitations. Bearing in mind the very specific information contained on the
site, we don’t expect to be blacked out by the Chinese government
straightaway”. However, the editorial team are not going to avoid politically
sensitive issues. “We intend to make use of what room we believe is
available. If risky topics are considered to be within the scope of the site,
we’ll publish.”

RNW has chosen an approach which looks to the future, and it will continue
to analyse China’s media landscape and the state of press freedom into the
years after the 2008 Olympic Games. “We hope the website will be a bridge
for Chinese people on the lookout for information. We hope to extend what
we do as soon as new possibilities open up,” says Ardi Bouwers.

Launch event
RNW is launching the site on 11 February at Amsterdam’s Pakhuis de
Zwijger. Speakers at the launch event, whose theme is ‘China and the
Internet: opportunities and limitations’, will include Xiaoying Zhang of
Deutsche Welle, Jeroen de Kloet from the University of Amsterdam and
China and Internet expert, Xiao Qiang, who is flying from the United States
to attend.

Editorial staff please note
Those interested in attending must register for the meeting. Please contact
Marjolein Klaassen-Hulst of Radio Netherlands Worldwide on 035-67 24
212, 06-5115 6394 or marjolein.klaassen@rnw.nl. She can also provide
further information about the website, interviews and press photos.

Each week, Radio Netherlands Worldwide informs tens of millions of people
about developments in the Netherlands, Europe and the world via radio,
television and the Internet. RNW provides an independent, objective,
unbiased and trustworthy source of news to its global audience in ten
languages, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/080208-chinese-website

START END LANG       FREQ       DAYS     SITE
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0030 0100 BHOJPURI   7350,9455* MON-FRI  NOVOSIBIRSK
0045 0100 DZONKA     7350,9455* SAT      NOVOSIBIRSK
0045 0130 HINDI      7350,9455* SUN      NOVOSIBIRSK
0100 0115 NEPALI     7350,9455* SAT      NOVOSIBIRSK
0100 0130 NEPALI     7350,9455* MON-FRI  NOVOSIBIRSK
0115 0130 HINDI      7350,9455* SAT      NOVOSIBIRSK
1230 1245 GUJARATI   7320       MON      IRKUTSK
1230 1245 DHODIYA    7320       TUES/WED IRKUTSK
1230 1245 MAITHILI   7320       THU/FRI  IRKUTSK
1230 1245 SANTHALI   7320       SAT      IRKUTSK
1230 1300 KOKBOROK   12065      FRI      GUAM
1245 1300 KUI        7320       SAT      IRKUTSK
1245 1300 KOKBOROK   12065      SAT      GUAM
1245 1315 URDU       7320       MON-FRI  IRKUTSK
1300 1315 GARHWALI   5950       DAILY    NOVOSIBIRSK
1300 1315 HO         7320       SAT      IRKUTSK
1300 1345 SANTHALI   11800      SUN      GUAM
1315 1330 DOGRI      5950       MON-FRI  NOVOSIBIRSK
1315 1330 MARWARI    7320       SUN      IRKUTSK
1315 1330 MEWARI     7320       THU/FRI  IRKUTSK
1315 1330 BENGALI    7320       SAT      IRKUTSK
1315 1345 M.BENGALI  7320       MON/TUES IRKUTSK
1315 1345 PUNJABI    7320       WED      IRKUTSK
1315 1430 HINDI      5950       SAT/SUN  NOVOSIBIRSK
1330 1345 HINDI      5950       MON      NOVOSIBIRSK
1330 1345 BONDO      7320       SUN      IRKUTSK
1330 1345 DZONKA     7320       THU-SAT  IRKUTSK
1330 1400 HINDI      5950       TUES/WED NOVOSIBIRSK
1330 1400 ASSAMESE   11800      MON-FRI  GUAM
1330 1415 HINDI      5950       THU/FRI  NOVOSIBIRSK
1345 1400 TIBETAN    5950       MON      NOVOSIBIRSK
1345 1400 BUNDELI    7320       SAT      IRKUTSK
1345 1400 SANTHALI   12065      DAILY    GUAM
1345 1415 BUNDELI    7320       SUN      IRKUTSK
1345 1415 MAITHILI   7320       MON-FRI  IRKUTSK
1400 1415 BRAJ BHASA 5950       MON/TUES NOVOSIBIRSK
1400 1415 KASHMIRI   5950       WED      NOVOSIBIRSK
1400 1415 ORIYA      7320       SAT      IRKUTSK
1400 1415 BORO       12065      WED-SUN  GUAM
1400 1415 M.BENGALI  12065      MON/TUES GUAM
1415 1430 BHOJPURI   5950       MON-FRI  NOVOSIBIRSK
1415 1430 KUMAONI    7320       SUN      IRKUTSK
1415 1430 MAGAHI     7320       MON      IRKUTSK
1415 1430 MUNDARI    7320       TUES/WED IRKUTSK
1415 1430 KURUKH     7320       THU-SAT  IRKUTSK
1415 1430 MANIPURI   12065      SAT/SUN  GUAM
1430 1445 HINDI      5950       MON-FRI  NOVOSIBIRSK
1430 1445 SADRI      7320       SAT/SUN  IRKUTSK
1430 1500 PUNJABI    5950       SAT/SUN  NOVOSIBIRSK
1430 1500 SINDHI     7320       MON-FRI  IRKUTSK
1445 1500 CHODRI     7320       SAT/SUN  IRKUTSK
1445 1515 PUNJABI    5950       MON-FRI  NOVOSIBIRSK
1500 1515 MARWARI    5950       SAT/SUN  NOVOSIBIRSK
1500 1515 BHILI      7320       SAT/SUN  IRKUTSK
1500 1530 KUTCHI     7320       MON-FRI  IRKUTSK
1515 1530 MOUCHA     7320       SAT/SUN  IRKUTSK
1515 1545 HINDI      5950       MON-FRI  NOVOSIBIRSK
1530 1545 AWADHI     7320       SAT/SUN  IRKUTSK
1530 1545 GAMIT      7320       MON-WED  IRKUTSK
1530 1545 VASAVI     7320       THU/FRI  IRKUTSK
1545 1600 HARYANVI   7320       SUN      IRKUTSK
1545 1600 URDU       7320       MON-FRI  IRKUTSK
1545 1600 HINDI      7320       SAT      IRKUTSK
1600 1615 PASHTO     7315       SAT/SUN  SAMARA
1600 1630 PASHTO     7315       MON-FRI  SAMARA
1630 1645 DARI       7315       MON      SAMARA

* 7350 : TILL 2ND FEB,2008
  9455 : WEF  3RD FEB,2008

Reports to :
Trans World Radio,
L-15,Green Park,
New Delhi 110016,India.

http://voanews.com/english/About/2008-01-08-heza-launch.cfm

PRESS RELEASE -  Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2008 — The Voice of
America (VOA) has launched Heza, a weekly, half-hour Kinyarwanda-
language radio program that addresses issues of concern to Rwandan
youth.

Heza includes roundtable discussions, news stories by young journalists,
and music by some of Rwanda’s most popular music bands. The first
program featured music by and an interview with “Kigali Boys,” one of
Rwanda’s most popular hip-hop bands.

“I am very excited by the first Heza broadcast,” comments VOA Central
Africa Service Chief Robert Daguillard. “The show is energetic and fast-
paced. This is youth radio at its best!” he added.

The roundtable discussions and much of the music heard in Heza are
recorded at the Maison des Jeunes de Kimisagara, a youth center operated
by Forum des Jeunes and located in Kigali, the capital.

The program is a co-production of the German Development Service (an
international development aid organization funded by the German
government), the Voice of America, and the Forum des Jeunes Giramahoro
in Rwanda. The partners’ goal in producing Heza is to help promote inter-
ethnic reconciliation, to help foster civil society, and to combat hatred and
prejudice.

The program, broadcast on shortwave and 104.3 FM, VOA´s 24-hour station
in Kigali, Rwanda, airs on Sundays at 0330 UTC (repeats: Sundays, 1630
UTC and Saturdays, 1600 UTC).

The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia
international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through
the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000
hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every
week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people.
Programs are produced in 45 languages.

For more information, call the Office of Public Affairs at (202) 203-4959, or
e-mail publicaffairs@voa.gov.

Mogadishu mayor spurns radio pleas to resume broadcasts.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hrJuo8pR81hMIeMZoPjR1SLCYT7Q

MOGADISHU (AFP) - The mayor of Mogadishu on Saturday spurned pleas
by three radio stations to resume broadcasting, a fortnight after they were
pulled off air for allegedly fanning insurgency, radio managers said.

The Somali authorities mid-November ordered Radio Simba, Radio Banadir
and Radio Shabelle to halt operations in the volatile seaside capital.

In order to resume business, the radios must sign a decree by mayor
Mohamed Omar Habeb which bans the reporting of “military operations”
without permission, interviewing “government opponents” and covering the
refugee exodus from the capital.

Radio managers said Habeb rejected their attempt to reverse the order
during a meeting Saturday.

“The mayor insisted his decision must be implemented. (The) radio stations
are still silent and I am afraid other stations might also go silent if they don’t
sign the document,” Shabelle chief Muktar Mohamed told AFP.

“We could not sign a statement that paralyses the independence of the
media.”

“We are losing hope day by day,” added Radio Simba head Abdullahi Atosh.

The mayor said that six other radio stations and one television channel also
refusing to sign the decree would shortly be pulled off air.

Media watchdogs have roundly condemned Habeb for the decree that piles
pressure on media in a country ranked as the second-deadliest worldwide
for journalists.

Meanwhile, new Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein conceded in an
interview with Kenyan television that he faced a challenge in forming a
government to represent a broad array of the country’s feuding clans.

The 69-year-old was sworn in on November 24 to replace Ali Mohamed
Gedi, who resigned after a long-running power struggle with President
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.

Hussein told Nation TV that naming a new cabinet was posing a challenge
because he had to follow a fragile formula of appointing ministers from four
major clans and one minor one, according to the constitution.

Bloody clan conflict and power struggles that erupted after the 1991 ouster
of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre have scuppered numerous initiatives to
restore national stability.

The Shortwave Report 11/30/07 ¡Listen Globally!
by Dan Roberts ( outfarpress [at] saber.net )
Thursday Nov 29th, 2007 4:18 PM

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a
shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files-
broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China,
Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

Dear Radio Friend,

The latest Shortwave Report (November 30) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast
quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)

This week’s show features stories from China Radio International, Radio
Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
>From CHINA- The European Left, or E.L., is a group of 29 political parties
from around Europe- they are opposed to the US Missile Defense system
and US military bases in their countries. China says that the 3 Gorges
project has made cleaner energy available and improved the environment.
The Chinese and French Presidents held talks in Beijing this week, agreeing
to work together to combat climate change.

>From NETHERLANDS- As the French president Sarkozy visited China,
violent riots broke out in the suburbs of Paris. Kevin Rudd became the new
Prime Minister of Australia in a landslide election, signaling a serious shift
from the conservative policies of John Howard. In Canada, there have been
large demonstrations and heated debate over the police use of tasers or
stun guns, following several recent deaths.

>From CUBA- Many Palestinian organizations reject the Annapolis
Conference on the Middle East, saying the US is attempting to undermine
Palestinian resistance. With a referendum due this Sunday, Venezuela
president Chavez warned that there is a US plot to create chaos in his
country, requiring military intervention.

>From RUSSIA- A commentary on the Western media's view of Russia- is it
an estranged partner or is Putin crushing democracy and reviving the Soviet
Union?

There is an article about the Shortwave Report by Cassandra Roos on line
at- http://www.campusprogress.org/soundvision/780/big-stories-shortwaves

I was interviewed for an informative weekly radio show Mediageek, available
at http://radio.mediageek.net

All that plus times and frequencies for listening at home. It’s free to
rebroadcast, please notify me if you’re airing it and haven’t notified me in the
last month, please mention the website if you only air a portion. If you just
want to listen and have a slow connection, try the streaming version- lower
sound quality but good enough and way easier if you don’t have a high-
speed internet connection. If streaming is a problem because of your slow
connection, download the smaller file- it takes 20 minutes or less, and will
play swell in any mp3 player application (RealPlayer, Winamp, Quicktime,
iTunes, etc) you have on your computer.

This program will be aired on Friday afternoon at 4:30pm (PST) on KZYX/Z
Philo CA, you might be able to stream via
There are several other streams that work better- <
http://www.freakradio.org >Freak Radio Santa Cruz now streams this
program on Friday at 9:00am and Monday at 5:30pm(PST)

The Shortwave Report may be downloaded as a podcast from:

http://www.radio4all.net/podcast.php/.xml?series=outFarpress%20presents

Check out the amazing streams at http://www.rfpi.org

I hope you’ll listen and air this if you’re connected with a radio station. I am
still wondering how to get financially compensated for the 25 hours I put into
this program weekly- any ideas are appreciated. Any stations rebroadcasting
this (or listeners) are welcome to donate for production costs. You can do so
through the website. Many thanks to those that have donated! No Guilt!
(maybe a little)
link for broadcast edition-
< http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/swr_11_30_07.mp3 >(13.3MB)
link for smaller file and streaming-
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¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts

Ethiopian jamming hits Voice of America, Deutsche Welle

November 20, 2007

BBC Monitoring (BBCM) can confirm that two major Western broadcasters are suffering consistent jamming of their transmissions to Ethiopia. Jamming is deliberate interference aimed at preventing the target broadcast from being heard. The standard technique is to transmit an irritating noise or continuous music on the same channel as the target.

In the latest media development to hit the Horn of Africa, the scene of numerous “radio wars” over the past quarter-century, shortwave broadcasts from Washington-based Voice of America (VOA) and Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) are now being jammed.

In both cases, the target of the jamming is radio programmes in Amharic, the lingua franca and main official language of Ethiopia. VOA is also suffering jamming of another of its regional language services. The deliberate interference appears to have started in the first half of this month, possibly on or around 12 November.

VOA and Cologne-based DW are funded by the US and German governments to broadcast radio and TV programmes to foreign audiences. The moves against the VOA and DW follow intensification by Ethiopia of its jamming of broadcasts from neighbouring Eritrea. The jamming of Eritrean state radio, the latest episode of which began in summer 2007, was stepped up in late September and early October, BBCM observed at the time.

Details of the jammed broadcasts

The VOA’s daily one-hour (1800-1900 gmt) service in Amharic is now being jammed. According to the opposition website Ethiopian Review - www.ethiopianreview.com - the jamming of VOA began on 12 November. BBCM observations have confirmed the presence of jamming signals on at least three of the five frequencies used by the VOA. The direction whence the jamming originates (established by the use of directional aerials) is consistent with the signals being transmitted from within Ethiopia.

VOA currently uses 9320, 9860, 11675, 11905 and 13870 kHz for its Amharic service. The service is not streamed on the Internet, but audio of recent broadcasts is available at www.voanews.com/horn.

On 19 November, VOA’s service in another major Ethiopian language, Oromo, was also observed to be jammed. VOA’s Oromo service broadcasts at 1730-1800 gmt, immediately before the Amharic transmission and on the same frequencies.

DW’s daily one-hour (1400-1500 gmt) service in Amharic is also being jammed. Noise interference has been observed on two of DW’s shortwave frequencies (11645 and 15640 kHz). DW recently added a third frequency (15660 kHz). At the start of its Amharic programme on 19 November it announced that this had been done in response to the jamming. The lead item in the news bulletin that followed was that the Ethiopian government had conducted air raids on villages in the Ogaden region in the southeast of the country. DW maintains a multimedia website for its Amharic service at www2.dw-world.de/amharic.

Opposition broadcasts

Ethiopia has also jammed various private opposition radio broadcasts. The country has been targeted for many years by such operators, which hire airtime (generally an hour a day or on certain days of the week) from commercial shortwave transmission facilities, including those based in Germany and the former Soviet Union. The number and identity of such broadcasts, and their schedules, often varies, depending on the availability of funds to hire shortwave airtime. Eritrea is also targeted by private opposition shortwave stations.

(Source: BBC Monitoring research 16-19 Nov 07)

Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:28pm BST

LONDON (Reuters) - BBC radio stations 1, 2, 3 and 4 celebrated their
40th anniversary on Sunday by broadcasting a series of special
programmes as some of the corporation's former disc jockeys made a
nostalgic return to the airwaves.

The BBC launched Radios 1 and 2 on September 30, 1967 as a
replacement for the Light Programme, while the Third Programme
became Radio 3 and the Home Service was renamed Radio 4.

Sunday's celebrations for Radio 1 included the outspoken Chris
Moyles, who has called himself the saviour of the station, co-hosting
the breakfast show with Tony Blackburn, who launched Radio 1 in
1967.

A two-hour documentary "Keeping it Peel" pays tribute to the veteran
broadcaster, who championed new music trends like punk, before his
death three years ago.

Radio 1 has enjoyed a renaissance since managers dropped many
older presenters in the 1990s.

"Radio 1 is still seen as the best radio station in the world," former disc
jockey Bruno Brookes told BBC News 24. "It's a brand that isn't going to
go away - it's got a great future."

Radio 2 broadcast Kenny Everett's first show for the station while DJs
Smashie and Nicey -- the comic creation of Harry Enfield and Paul
Whitehouse -- will host an edition of Pick of the Pops playing hits from
40 years ago.

The show is a tribute to DJ Alan "Fluff" Freeman who originally
presented the show.

On Radio 4 comedian Matthew Lucas and actor Stephen Fry will host a
spoof edition of "This is Your Life" telling the history of the station,

with

contributions from broadcasters John Humphrys, Sue Lawley, Jonathan
Dimbleby and Barry Cryer.