Radio Sawa

Radio Sawa is a US Congress sponsored radio station that broadcasts programming in Arabic for the Middle East region . He reports to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which is responsible for the operation of all non-military international broadcasts in the USA . The technical operation of the transmission systems is subordinate to the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB). The program is produced by Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) .

Radio Sawa began broadcasting its program on March 23, 2002 . The station emerged from an extensive program reform of the Voice of America (VOA), the official foreign broadcaster of the USA. The VOA's Arabic program had a small audience, the programs were too verbose and, above all, did not address the political interests of listeners in the Arab countries. So the programs in Arabic of the VOA were discontinued and replaced by Radio Sawa with a new program schedule.

The program consists of:

News from the region, the world and the USA,
current information articles and
Arabic, English and Spanish pop music.

The target group is a young, Arabic-speaking audience in the region. According to its own statements, Radio Sawa feels obliged to "the highest standards of journalism, the free market for ideas, the intelligence and culture of its listeners and a modern, future-oriented program".

The radio program now takes a back seat to the television program Al Hurra , which first went on air in 2004. Both Radio Sawa and Al Hurra are produced in studios in the Washington suburb of Springfield. The building was rented from Boeing.

Web links

www.radiosawa.com

Individual evidence

↑ Kai Ludwig. In: Glenn Hauser. DX Listening Digest 11-15 . April 14, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2011: “VOA has nothing to do with this. Radio Sawa is produced by yet another US international broadcasting entity, called Middle East Broadcasting Networks to which VOA had to surrender all Arabic-language activities after this entity had been founded in 2002. "
↑ Kai Ludwig. In: Glenn Hauser. DX Listening Digest 11-15 . April 14, 2011. Retrieved on April 18, 2011: “The by far most important product of MBN is nowadays the Al Hurra (or Alhurra) TV service, launched in 2004. It appears to be suitable to call Radio Sawa the radio offshoot of Al Hooray nowadays. Studios / offices of Al Hurra and Radio Sawa are located in an industrial area in a Washington suburb called Springfield (like at least a dozen other towns in the USA), in a building leased from Boeing if I recall correct. What makes the whole affair completely silly is the circumstance that Persian is still alive at VOA. They were supposed to surrender it to RFE / RL when Radio Farda had been created but kept some own radio broadcasts and finally launched a Persian TV service, called VOA PNN. "

[1] Kai Ludwig. In: Glenn Hauser. DX Listening Digest 11-15 . April 14, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2011: “VOA has nothing to do with this. Radio Sawa is produced by yet another US international broadcasting entity, called Middle East Broadcasting Networks to which VOA had to surrender all Arabic-language activities after this entity had been founded in 2002. "

[2] Kai Ludwig. In: Glenn Hauser. DX Listening Digest 11-15 . April 14, 2011. Retrieved on April 18, 2011: “The by far most important product of MBN is nowadays the Al Hurra (or Alhurra) TV service, launched in 2004. It appears to be suitable to call Radio Sawa the radio offshoot of Al Hooray nowadays. Studios / offices of Al Hurra and Radio Sawa are located in an industrial area in a Washington suburb called Springfield (like at least a dozen other towns in the USA), in a building leased from Boeing if I recall correct. What makes the whole affair completely silly is the circumstance that Persian is still alive at VOA. They were supposed to surrender it to RFE / RL when Radio Farda had been created but kept some own radio broadcasts and finally launched a Persian TV service, called VOA PNN. "