Radio Romania International

Radio Romania International ( RRI, Romanian Radio România International) is the international service of the public Romanian Radio Broadcasting Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (SRR ). By the end of 1989, the station was called Radio Bucharest.

History

After first experimental radio broadcasts in the late 1920s, which could be heard far away as Australia, the first regular radio program was broadcast from Romania for foreign countries on 12 February 1939, on the World's Fair in New York with the goal towards America. During World War II service in the languages ​​German, French, English, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian were operated by Radio Bucharest. At the end of 1944, led the transmitter Dacia Romana operation in German, English, Russian, French and Hungarian continued after Romania had turned away from the Axis Powers and joined the Allies. The radio house was destroyed in August 1944 during a German air raid.

After the war, the first broadcast of Radio Bucharest was broadcast in Romanian on shortwave for foreign countries to speak Romanian exiles, especially in the USA on 10 July 1950. It was political propaganda broadcasts. In the following years other services have been introduced. In 1957 sent in eleven languages ​​( Russian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Farsi, Yiddish, Greek and Serbian). There was also a program in Portuguese, since 1961, one in Arabic. A dedicated editorial staff for Russian shortwave broadcasts was founded in 1975.

During the turn in Eastern Europe Bucharest Radio as Radio Berlin International, a self-critical presentation showed inaccessible and brought " continued reports of success ." Immediately after the end of the Ceauşescu regime of the station was renamed in 1989 in Radio Romania International. The first broadcast of the new foreign service was a permanent end loop in which in several languages ​​, the end of the old regime was announced. At Christmas 1989, the broadcasts were resumed with a church service. The German service was since December 24, 1989 back on the air. New Year's Eve they apologized for the message sent in the previous years propaganda. The German editors were replaced. The newly established stations maintained since three editors: Radio Romania Live produced programs for Romanians living abroad; Open Radio broadcasts brought in foreign languages ​​for listeners abroad (from 1991 to Aromanian, 1993 in Hungarian, since 1995, in Bulgarian, since 1999 also in Chinese ); and the editorial community " Hertzian Bridges" from 1990 brought new foreign language programs that were aimed at the Eastern European and Southeast European neighbors in their native languages.

RRI today

Radio Romania International is the public radio company Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (SRR ) incorporated, which had been founded in 1928.

Currently, Radio Romania International broadcasts two programs, one in Romanian (RRI 1) and another one in ten languages ​​(RRI 2, in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Russian and Ukrainian).

RRI can be heard via satellite, on shortwave, medium wave and via live stream on the Internet. In addition, the programs are taken from some stations on FM to reach local audiences (so-called Rebroadasting ). After RRI was one of the first foreign services, which spread their programs via World Radio Network, in order to obtain its reach in the face of the advance of new technology and expand, also led the retreat of RRI 2013, the end of WRN one as a collection channel for international services.

Radio Romania International has had to modernize its short and medium wave transmitter 2008 with American help and continues to send extensively on shortwave, partly digital ( DRM) technology. However, the existence of the radio station is not secured. Plans to its closure in 2012 were no longer pursued only because of the political situation in the government. The information of the Romanians living abroad is currently in the foreground; foreign language programs do not play a more decisive role in the broadcasting policy debate.