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Re: [HCDX] Radio Mashaal
Schedule is 1030-1230 [sic, 1100-1300] UTC on
9395 Udornthani-Thailand, 11605 Iranawila-Sri Lanka, and
13700 Iranawila-Sri Lanka kHz shortwave.
I'm sure Radio Mashaal will do a good job. But it will do much the same
job that VOA's Deewa Radio is already doing, in the same language, to the
same target area. Put together the talent from these two stations, and US
international broadcasting would be in danger of achieving excellence.
This was not the idea of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Some senator
put some language in some appropriations bill, and Radio Mashaal was
created. Such shards of bad legislation have made US international
broadcasting the archetype of bureaucratic inefficiency.
(Kim Andrew Elliott-USA, <kimandrewelliott.com> via dxld Jan 15)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Portzer" <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:19 AM
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Mashaal
From the Seattle Post Intelligencer website 15 Jan 2010,
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103ap_eu_czech_radio_free_europe_pakistan.html
There is also an announcement on the RFE/RL website
http://www.rferl.org/section/Pakistan/1073.html but I couldn't find any
frequencies mentioned
Radio Free Europe begins broadcast to Pakistan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRAGUE -- U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty says it will start
broadcasting to the tribal areas of Pakistan to provide an alternative to
Islamic extremist stations.
The broadcaster says in a statement that its new Radio Mashaal will
broadcast in the local Pashto dialect into Pakistan's border region with
Afghanistan. The first programs will be aired Friday.
The network said Thursday that Mashaal, or Torch in Pashto, will broadcast
from its headquarters in Prague while its reporters operate from a new
bureau in Pakistan.
The network broadcasts in Pashto to Afghanistan, but these will be the
first broadcasts to Pakistan.
Radio Free Europe is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts in
28 languages to 20 countries, including Iran.
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