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The detailed report now exists with the requested international broadcasting of the USA for the period from autumn 2016 to autumn 2017 a total budget of 777.8 million dollars.
Including 4 million for the continuation of the Balkan Service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty are provided, which should be concluded by previous plans, 2015. RFE / RL takes can claim to have made the work of the editorial was the first medium to the emergence of the "Balkan Route" attention.
Noteworthy is the closure of the office of RFE / RL in Baku or to reasons given. This is therefore a pure saving measure. This is in sharp contradiction to what weight the US foreign radio on the issue of detention of Azerbaijani reporter of RFE / RL, Khadija Ismayilova, sets.
it should now be a program with the same concept for the Donbass About in September 2015 launched by RFE / RL broadcast "Radio Crimea Realij" addition, which reportedly "an in cooperation with the Ukrainian government newly created FM frequency" runs , However, this formulation does not appear to be necessarily exact.
should have no noticeable impact on the allocation of resources, the priorities, describing the report. Accordingly, the international broadcasting of the USA will focus on the expansion of television and online services in Russian, Arabic and Chinese languages. The same applies to the target area of Iran where is RFE / RL Radio Farda produced in future only of secondary importance.
As part of a "realignment" of the transmission capacity for the short-wave radio, the transmission system of US foreign broadcasting in Kuwait will be further expanded. Because of there very low electricity prices their business is extremely low, which is why the investment in a very short time would be amortized.
In return, it is provided to give up other transmitters. should be affected sites "in Europe and Asia", hence the emission plants Biblis / or Lampertheim in Hessen.
A special focus is the used for Radio Farda medium wave 1575 kHz. For them, the station operator calculated in Abu Dhabi an annual rent of 2.4 million dollars. Here it is provided to let off the frequency at least during the day. The so achievable savings but only amounts to 300,000 dollars.
These high costs are particularly unpleasant once already since 2010 on the base station in Kuwait for a certain Radio Farda medium wave system exists. Their use, however, fails to today spectrum policy reasons. likely to have been clumsily has the choice of frequency 1386 kHz, for most stations in Iran is coordinated internationally.
to be further developed on the FM network of Voice of America in Africa after since 2011 already stations in the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Burundi and Mali, as well as additional channels have been installed in Niger and Congo. Particular emphasis is how the VOA remained in Burundi with only three months previously established VHF radios on the air, as the end of April 2015, the operation of all private stations has been denied.
A remarkable, not explained in greater detail detail mentioned the report of the transmitting station of the US foreign broadcasting in Botswana. For them, therefore, a wheeled tank was purchased.
For veritable horror in Washington in February, the presentation of findings of the pollster Gallup had seen. Accordingly, in the post-Soviet space to enjoy the Russian media greater confidence than foreign stations of USA.
Despite vociferous voices in Washington want to continue anything of opinions know that see the path to success is to reliably provide a balanced coverage of current affairs. Critics in turn consider the criterion of "Impacts", against which success is to be measured in the future, as problematic.
Meanwhile, the period beginning on March 20, 2016 visit by US President Obama in Cuba only from reporters the Voice of America, but not from Radio / TV Martí seems to be accompanied. The US foreign radio searches obviously not to provide this to the fore, and instead stresses the "unprecedented cooperation", will be supplied with the Radio / TV Martí from the VOA.
Also concerning technical matters is no change in the Cuban attitude towards Radio / TV Martí to recognize. Furthermore, the medium wave frequency of Radio Martí are blocked by powerful radio stations in Cuba and is the short wave frequencies with jammers. Nevertheless, some of the short waves of Radio Martí is to be operated only limited to 60 kW output power in the future.
For the future it is planned to transform Radio / TV Martí by an authority (Office of Cuba Broadcasting) in a private law structure as RFE / RL, Alhurra and Radio Free Asia. This was announced in the spring of 2015, but apparently went unheeded for months. It was only in February 2016, media reported in Miami about the supposed "surprising" news and excitement to which they led in the workforce of the transmitter
FY 2017 BUDGET REQUEST - Executive Summary:
http://www.bbg.gov/wp-content/media/2016/02/FY2017Budget_ExecutiveSummary.pdfSource:
http://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/medienmagazin/radio_news/beitraege/2016/bbg.html
Topic: Plans of US foreign broadcasting in 2017 (Read 856 times)
