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0300-0330 NF 7185 / 150 deg, ex 9550 / 240 deg to EaAf Oromo
0300-0400 NF 7315 / 120 deg, ex 9760 / 260 deg to EaAf Amharic/Tigrigna
1200-1300 NF 15140 / 090 deg, ex 15110 / 085 deg to EaAs English/Bangla
1300-1330 NF 11725 / 060 deg, ex 11720 / 090 deg to EaAs Chinese Mon-Fri
1300-1330 NF 11725 / 060 deg, ex 11720 / 090 deg to EaAs Uighur Sat/Sun
1330-1500 NF 11725 / 060 deg, ex 11720 / 090 deg to EaAs Chinese
1500-1600 NF 11670 / 060 deg, ex 9530 / 060 deg to SoAs Nepali/English
1500-1600 NF 9855 / 090 deg, ex 11695 / 060 deg to SoAs Punjabi/Hindi
1630-1700 NF 11905 / 150 deg, ex 17595 / 240 deg to EaAf Somali
1730-1800 NF 11795 / 150 deg, ex 6180 / 225 deg to EaAf Oromo
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Dec 19)
Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich is planning a new radio program aiming at
young listeners for about a year now. It was subject of a rather
controversial debate during the recent months whether the FM network of
the classical music program Bayern 4 Klassik should be used for the new
youth station; the "taz" newspaper commented that the discussion got out
of hand to a point where it became a clash of the cultures, youth vs.
friends of classical music. Now the council of Bayerischer Rundfunk
brought an end to this debate by deciding that the new youth station is to
be launched in next year "on all available distribution platforms except
FM". I did not see an explicit confirmation for it so far, but some
observers say that they indeed mean *all*, thus also mediumwave. At
present BR's mediumwave transmitters on 801 and 729 simulcast Bayern 1,
with the exception of some rare special broadcasts.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Dec 17)
Wertachtal will not go dark at all; it even appears that two transmitters
>from Juelich were already transferred to this site in preparation of the
Radio Polonia arrangements (100 kW for a good price instead of an
expensive 500 kW overkill, apparently a good concept to tender for a
contract, at least they won in this case). Only all DW transmissions will
cease on New Year's Eve, I assume at local midnight 2300 UT. Anything else
will continue.
The actual question is when Juelich will go dark for the side of T-
Systems and the remaining transmissions being transferred to Wertachtal or
in some cases Nauen instead. I assume this will happen sometime during
2007, since to my knowledge T-Systems officially abandons Juelich by
yearend 2007, not as a result of the CVC deal which in fact only saved the
site from a complete demolition. It is simply impossible to run two big
shortwave stations with altogether 28 transmitters without a general
customer, by just selling airtime here and there. So Juelich has to go,
thanks to DW's move to VTC.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Dec 17)
Deutsche Welle: Mehr DW-RADIO via Internet.
Die Deutsche Welle erweitert ihre Internet-Ausstrahlung und bietet nach
Deutsch und Englisch zwei zusaetzliche Programmstroeme an. Ab sofort
koennen das Russische Programm von DW-RADIO und die Programme fuer Asien
live im Internet gehoert werden. "Wir reagieren mit diesem Service auf die
stark steigende Verbreitung von Internetzugaengen in Russland und Teilen
Asiens. Besonders in Metropolen wie Moskau oder Neu Delhi haben immer mehr
Menschen Zugang zu Breitband-Internet", so Holger Hank, Leiter Neue
Medien.
Mit den beiden neuen Angeboten praesentiert die DW zum ersten Mal
regionalisierte Livestreams. Miodrag Soric, Chefredakteur DW-RADIO: "Unser
Ziel ist es, vor allem juengere Nutzergruppen anzusprechen und so
zusaetzliche Hoerer fuer unsere Radioprogramme zu gewinnen." Fuer den
asiatischen Kontinent wird ein zusammenhaengender Programmblock in den
Sprachen Dari, Paschtu, Chinesisch, Indonesisch, Bengali, Persisch, Hindi
und Urdu - ergaenzt durch Englisch - angeboten. Der Livestream des
Russischen Programms wird ebenfalls im ersten Schritt mit