BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

15715 CVC at 1727-1745 UT on June 26, English. Interview re hospital at
t/in. Contemporary religous music b/w various CVC IDs and promos. Poor
under propogation QRN.
(Scott R. Barbour-NH-USA, hcdx June 28)
1500-1800 15715 Wertachtal 125 kW / 180 deg to WeAF.
HUNGARY Radio Budapest Hungary farewell.
A reminder that Radio Budapest will be closing on Saturday 30th June so
there are at most only 3 days left to hear them on shortwave. The English
schedule for the final couple of days is:
1900-1930 3975 6025 Eu 2100-2130 6025 9525 EuAf
0100-0130 6040 Am 0230-0300 6195 Am
On Saturdays Radio Budapest usually carries the "Insight Central Europe"
programme produced by Radio Prague rather than its own output, so ist
likely that Friday 29th will be the final day of actual programming from
the station.
(Dave Kenny-UK, BrDXC-UK June 28)
Today the imminent demise of Radio Budapest has finally been mentioned on
air: The Gruss und Kuss show for Germans formerly living in Hungaria bid
his farewell after 47 years, reportedly closing with a short chronicle,
cf. the enclosed posting. This programme originated from the studios of
Radio Pecs, so perhaps one could have hoped for a survival in whatever
way, but now it's clear that it will disappear as well.
So only one thing remains to be seen for the moment: Will Magyar Radio
keep some Kossuth Radio programming on shortwave, or will they abandon
shortwave altogether? And if so, what will happen to the Jaszbereny
transmitters? At present a single VOA transmission appears to be on air
there as well (Russian 1300-1400 on 11725), which could become the only
shortwave broadcasting from Hungary in just a week, unless Antenna
Hungaria shuts down the plant. Or will IBB step in and move more
transmissions to Jaszbereny, perhaps even at the expense of other sites?
(later)
Some short notes about this programme are here (under Hungary of course):
The point is that the target audience of Gruss und Kuss were Germans
wholeft Hungary at their own will. Greetings from the old homeland andthe
relatives still living there, some reports about current events there
(basically material already broadcast domestically during the week) and
lots of music.
This is much unlike the situation with Czechoslovakia and Poland were the
Germans were forced out of the country. Such a program like Gruss und Kuss
was entirely unthinkable at Prague and Warsaw, already due to the simple
fact that no German community remained in these countries. All bridges
teared down, this country is not your business anymore. Hence all German-
language foreign broadcasting from there aimed at a general audience,
primarily in the FRG but not in the "brother country" GDR.
It might be interesting here that after the martial law in Poland GDR
citizens needed a visa to visit Poland. Not officially, but one needed a
stamp and in my humble opinion it is merely nitpicking how the bureaucrats
choose to call it, since it was in fact impossible to just walk over the
Neisse river at Goerlitz and Guben or the Oder river at Frankfurt (the
east German one). It was just another Iron Curtain! And in summer 1989,
when the border to Czechoslovakia had been closed as well, people just
said "now they're entirely nuts", "enough is enough", and it was commonly
felt that this move signals an imminent crash.