From the ARRL Letter...
Milestones: Voice of Russia --
Former "Radio Moscow" -- to End
Shortwave Broadcasts
Voice of Russia (VOR), the
former Radio Moscow
during the USSR era, will cease shortwave broadcasts as of
January 1, 2014.
From the 1950s through the 1980s, the station, as Radio Moscow,
was a virtual
beacon for short-wave listeners (SWLs), many of whom gravitated
into
Amateur Radio. Voice of Russia currently broadcasts to 160
countries in 38
languages for an aggregate 151 hours per day on short and medium
waves, on FM,
via satellite, and via the Internet. Earlier this year shortwave
transmissions were cut to 26 hours a day in all languages, down
from more than 50 hours
a day in 2012.
VOR, which claims to be the
first radio station to broadcast internationally, will continue
to broadcast
online and via three medium-wave transmitters. In 2003 VOR was
among the
first major international radio broadcasters to launch daily
broadcasts to
Europe in Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM).
As a result of a decree signed
earlier this month by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Voice
of Russia radio
company officially ceased to exist on December 9 and merged with
several
other state-run news agencies as part of Rossia Segodnya,
a
Russia-based international news service. Putin's decree also
abolished the State
Fund of Television and Radio Programs, placing it under control of
All-Russia
State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
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