Radio Romania International
Radio Romania International ( RRI , Romanian Radio România Internaţional ) is the foreign service of the public Romanian Radio Broadcasting Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune ( SRR ). Until the end of 1989 the station was called Radio Bucharest .
history
After the first experimental radio broadcasts in the late 1920s, which could be heard as far as Australia, the first regular radio broadcast from Romania for foreign countries was broadcast on February 12, 1939 on the occasion of the world exhibition in New York with the destination America. During the Second World War , Radio Bucharest operated services in German, French, English, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian. At the end of 1944, the Dacia Romana transmitter continued to operate in German, English, Russian, French and Hungarian after Romania had turned away from the Axis powers and joined the Allies . The radio house was destroyed in a German bomb attack in August 1944.
After the war, on July 10, 1950, the first broadcast of Radio Bucharest was broadcast in Romanian on shortwave for foreign countries, in order to address Romanian exiles mainly in the USA. It was political propaganda broadcasts . Additional services were introduced in the following years. In 1957 it was broadcast in eleven languages (Russian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Farsi, Yiddish, Greek and Serbian). There was also a program in Portuguese, and since 1961 one in Arabic. A Russian editorial team for shortwave broadcasts was founded in 1975.
During the turnaround in Eastern Europe, Radio Bucharest, like Radio Berlin International , was not amenable to a self-critical presentation and "continued to bring success reports". Immediately after the end of the Ceaușescu regime , the station was renamed Radio Romania International in 1989. The first broadcast of the new international service was a continuous broadcasting loop in which the end of the old regime was announced in several languages. At Christmas 1989 the programs were resumed with a church service. The German service had been on the air again since December 24, 1989. On New Year's Eve they apologized for the propaganda sent in previous years. The German-speaking editors were changed. Since then, the newly established station has had three editorial offices: Radio Romania Live produced programs for Romanians abroad; Open Radio broadcast programs in foreign languages for listeners abroad (from 1991 in Aromanian, from 1993 in Hungarian, since 1995 in Bulgarian, since 1999 also in Chinese); and the “Hertzsche Bridges” editorial group started in 1990 with new foreign language programs aimed at the neighboring countries in Eastern and South Eastern Europe in their national languages.
RRI today
Radio Romania International is incorporated into the public radio company Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune ( SRR ), which was founded in 1928.
Radio Romania International currently broadcasts two programs, one in Romanian ( RRI 1 ) and another in ten foreign languages ( RRI 2 ; in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian).
RRI can be heard via satellite , short wave , medium wave and via live stream on the Internet. In addition, the programs are taken over by some stations on FM in order to reach local target groups (so-called reroadasting ). After RRI was one of the first international services to broadcast its programs on the World Radio Network in order to maintain and expand its reach in the face of the advance of new technology, the withdrawal of RRI in 2013 also heralded the end of WRN as a single channel for international services.
Radio Romania International had its short and medium wave transmitters modernized with American help in 2008 and continues to broadcast extensively on short wave, partly digitally (DRM). However, the existence of the transmitter is not secured. Plans to close it were stopped in 2012 only because of the political situation in the government. Information for Romanians living abroad is currently the main focus; the foreign language programs no longer play a decisive role in the broadcasting policy discussion.
Web links
- Official website
- RRI's pause characters in the pause character database (2001)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the description of the main features of the history of Radio Romania International follows the self-presentation of Eugen Cojocariu: On the history of Romanian radio and its international broadcasts . In: Radio Romania International website. June 23, 2013. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
- ↑ Jan Musekamp : DX no. 7150 and the armistice in the ether . In: Katharina Kucher, Gregor Thum, Sören Urbansky (eds.): Silent Revolutions: The new formation of the world since 1989 . Campus publishing house. Frankfurt am Main, New York. 2013. ISBN 9783593398518 , pp. 189ff., 195, 197 (quoted after the preview on Google Books on December 12, 2013).
- ^ Hansjörg Biener: Radio Romania International ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . December 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2013.
- ↑ There is also a television company Televiziunea Română / TVR , which was founded in 1956. For the whole see the entry Romania - Politics . In: Munzinger Online / Länder - Internationales Handbuch . January 15, 2013. Last updated November 29, 2013. Accessed December 12, 2013.
- ↑ Michael Schmitz, Harald Kuhl: Conversation with Mariana Stoican, editor-in-chief of Radio Romania International . In: Radio Kurier. 13-14 / 2004. Pp. 14-17, 15-16. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
- ↑ a b Kai Ludwig: Speculations about Romanian foreign radio ( memento from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . In: RBB Radio Eins. Media magazine. March 24, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2013.