Radio Al-Kul

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Radio al-Kul is a Syrian-run radio broadcaster working from Istanbul for Syria .

history

Radio al-Kul went on the air in April 2014. The team consists of media workers from Syrians who left the country due to the civil war . The station has its own correspondents and accompanied the UN peace talks for Syria in Switzerland with its own reporter.

financing

The channel is mainly financed by the French NGO "Association de Soutien aux Medias Libres" ASML. The station also receives money from other NGOs, Syrian business people and Syrians living in exile.

program

Radio Al-Kul broadcasts news, information and music. A number of advice programs are also produced. “My Car Has Stopped” takes up the American “Car Talk” format ( WBUR ) from NPR .

Radio al-Kul operates an English language homepage.

Distribution channels

Radio Al-Kul broadcasts to Syria via internet stream, satellite and FM . According to its own information, the station can be heard in seven of the 14 Syrian governorates on VHF. 90% of the transmission area is not controlled by the Syrian government.

Radio al-Kul is broadcast via Eutelsat 8 (8.0 ° W), 12563 V and DVB-S 27500.

The Syrian Media Action Revolution Team (SMART) , founded in April 2011 by a group of activists from the Syrian diaspora in France, provides mobile VHF broadcasting technology with which Radio al-Kul is broadcast. SMART cooperates with the French-Syrian Association de soutien aux médias libres (ASML), founded in November 2011 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Seibert: Radio For All reminds Syrians there is more to the world than war. The National (Abu Dhabi), January 9, 2014, accessed December 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Julia Tieke: A very effective medium in this situation. Deutschlandradio Kultur, June 16, 2014, accessed on December 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ An Independent Syrian Media Comes of Age at a Time of War . In: Newsweek . ( newsweek.com [accessed December 18, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Home . In: Radio Alkul . ( radioalkul.com [accessed December 18, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Radio Alkul - LyngSat. In: www.lyngsat.com. Retrieved December 18, 2016 .
  6. ^ Syrian opposition radio airs own 'Car Talk' . In: Al-Monitor . February 13, 2014 ( al-monitor.com [accessed December 18, 2016]).