** FINLAND. Dear Mr Hauser, Due to a YLE Radio reorganization (announced earlier) I am leaving YLE at the end of the month. International Broadcasting as a unit within YLE is being merged with YLE Radio Peili (a talk channel, mainly internet, used to be DAB until its demise this fall). The foreign language programming except Russian was axed here already in 2002.
Personally, I want to thank you, Mr Hauser, for the services in making news about stations and service available, not only in recent years but as early as the late 80s at least. I recall there was duplicated News about International Radio that we used to get. I believe you were associated with them. There was no internet, and the WRTH was outdated soon after printing - and thus private information services were of much avail. In a recent edition you wondered why the FM English newscast about Finland is not aired internationally. Well, the decision to stop international distribution in 2002 was a stand in principle, and no effort is being made to subvent it, of course. That was a corporate policy decision; there has never (since the 50s) been any Foreign Office involvement in Finnish external radio. - The newscast is on the internet as video, though. You will see in it some familiar voices from the past. - YLE Mondo (successor to the Capital FM) is not on the internet. Much of the material heard on the station is on the net, from the original producers. For technical schedule information, or other needs of the kind, you may contact in the future Mr Janne Nieminen, technical manager. at first name, surname AT yle.fi With best regards (Juhani Niinisto (at YLE international radio 1977-2005), Dec 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mr Niinisto, best of luck to you in whatever you do next. I have always appreciated your initiative in clarifying matters about YLE, even if I have not asked you directly (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ___________________________________________________________________________________ Ennakkotilaa WRTH 2006 nyt: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/dx _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
