15 October 2004 Moscow, (Itar-Tass)
The seventy-fifth anniversary of radio broadcasts in foreign languages will be marked in Russia this year. Itar-Tass was told at the Russian "Golos Rossii" (Voice of Russia) state broadcasting company, which has been representing Russia on the air all these years, that the most eminent broadcasters in foreign languages, including directors and presidents of foreign radio broadcasting companies, would come to Moscow on October 29 on the occasion of the jubilee and to attend the "Radio Without Borders" international conference. The conference will be held on the day when the first broadcasts in the German language came from Russia in 1929. This was the world's first case of international radio broadcasting. The BBC appeared on the air three years later and the "Voice of America" - seven years later. Moscow began to broadcast in French in November of the same year, and in English - in December. "Voice of Russia" officials noted that the world public at large always evinces particular interest in the broadcasts of their station during global crises and it sometimes even plays a special role in the events themselves. This happened, for instance, during the Caribbean crisis in the early sixties, when the negotiations between the USSR and the United States were deadlocked. The Moscow Radio was the first at that time to inform Washington and the entire world about the Soviet Union's decision to turn back its warships from the Atlantic, which were heading for Cuba. Today, the "Voice of Russia" daily broadcasts in Russian and in thirty-one foreign languages for a total of 115 hours. The company relays 400 programmes on different aspects of life within the country. The "Voice of Russia" is listened in more than 160 countries. The global audience of the "Voice of Russia" numbers 109 million people. http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1351113&PageNum=0 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
