BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Prague programmes from Febr 1st, 2010.
Hier gibt es infos der letzten Entwicklung, ab 1.2. wird mit einem leicht
eingeschraenkten Plan weiterhin ueber die Litomysl Anlage gesendet. Die
Relays ueber Russland und Portugal werden wohl gekappt??
La seule mauvaise nouvelle est qu'il sera toutefois procede a des
reductions de ces diffusions puisque seul l'emetteur de Lytomysl sera
conserve.
(wb, Jan 16)
Once again, thank you - all of you who have written in in the last few
months - so much for expressing your support. As we announced several
times, our shortwave broadcasts are to continue according to the current
schedule until the end of January. Radio Prague's management is now
working on a new schedule starting on February 1st but the great news is
Radio Prague will keep its shortwave broadcasts.
There will be a certain reduction but it will not be substantial and the
majority of our listeners should not be affected by it. Radio Prague will
need to find other ways to save and make ends meet with the slimmer budget
for 2010. This is the result of intensive negotiations between Czech Radio
and the Foreign Ministry and we hope this is good news for you just as it
is for us here at Radio Prague.
(via Jonathan Murphy on the Save Radio Prague Facebook group,
BrDXC-UK ng Jan 17)
Radio Prague continues on SW with one transmitter.
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An article on Radio Prague's website deals with the situation following
the Czech government's decision to reduce the station's budget, especially
with regard to shortwave, which the Director of Radio Prague, Miroslav
Krupicka, says accounts for about half the station's audience reach:
"Radio Prague's budget for this year has been reduced by 15.0 percent. It
is a little bit more than we expected but we have to come to terms with
it. It still makes it possible for us to continue shortwave broadcasts.
What we have to do is to close one of the two shortwave transmitters that
we have in Litomysl. We will be able to cover basically more or less the
same territory we have been covering so far, which means the whole of
Europe, North Africa, let's say the Middle East and parts of North and
South America. We won't be reducing very much the area that we cover so
far." Those economy measures almost halve the shortwave transmission bill
to 7.0 million crowns (US$ 387,000) a year. Dutch-based consultant and
former RNW Creative Director Jonathan Marks and the AIB's Simon Spanswick
explain to Radio Prague's Chris Johnstone why some international
broadcasters have dropped shortwave altogether.
(Andrea Borgnino-ITA IW0HK - HB9EMK
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