BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

The strategy to distribute audio and in the next step also video content
online instead as radio and TV transmissions does not consider the
circumstance that independent journalistic web platforms have hardly a
chance worlwide. Established media like CNN, BBC or Der Spiegel share the
market between themselves. Without recognizable TV and radio offerings DW
will disappear in the cyperspace.
The concentration on the online offerings is also problematic in regard to
the again increasing number of censored media markets. The head of Radio
Vatican's German service has said that "they can switch off the internet
but not radio waves". Many staff members from former East Block countries
know that it was even with intense jamming not possible to block western
stations completely.
About the orientation on the audiences: Typical for DW TV are newscasts at
least every two hours. Now it is planned, apparently as a cost-saving
measure, to abandon this concept and weaken the market position of DW TV.
BBC World, Russia Today or France 24 are explicit news channels, but the
planned English program of DW TV at times provides for news only every
four hours. This way the clear and successful program structure, achieved
by hard work, will be abandoned for clearly not journalistic motivations.
So far it is simple and easy to remember: One hour German, the other hour
English, news at the hour, documentary and magazines at the half hour,
fixed slots for program windows in other languages. CNN or France 24 have
different channels for different languages, but DW TV has only one channel
at its disposal. Under this situation the hourly language change is the
easiest method. Breaking up this established structure irritates the
viewers and drives them away.
About the internal situation: The approach of the management has already
dramatic consequences for the internal state of DW. The expensive relaunch
from 2007 had been plagued by a considerable lack of internal
communication from the start. It was possible to implement it timely and
successful only due to the great engagement of the staff.
Now all the mistakes will not only be repeated but even worsened. A just
established structure will immediately be scrapped again. Facts are being
made without involving the staff, something that is for such far-reaching
steps definitely standard even in commercial media ventures. This lets it
become a demotivation program for the whole station.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Dec 4)
9490 DEMOCRATIC VOICE OF BURMA via Wertachtal. Full-data Media Broadcast
antenna scenes e-QSL card from Michael Puetz in 4 months.
9510 RADIO FARDA via Wertachtal. Full-data Media Broadcast antenna scenes
e-QSL card from Michael Puetz in 4 months.
(Wendel Craighead-KS-USA, DXplorer Dec 5)
[PORTUGAL/UAE/UK] DWL German service main frequency towards Europe 6075
kHz is now used again by Sines Portugal site at 1700-2400 UT [instead of
poor reception from Al Dhabbaya UAE 20-23 UT], also in // synchronized co-
ch to Balkan, NE & ME via Woofferton England at 1800-2000 UT too.
6075 in southern Germany, at 2140 UT S=9+40dB, that's undoubtedly Sines
relay outlet, in comparison to former weaker UAE relay S=9.
(wb, Dec 3/5)
The paper "Fortschreibung und Perspektiven fuer den deutschen
Auslandsrundfunk Deutsche Welle 2010-2013"
gives some details about changes planned for the DWL budget year 2009: