Voice of Russia
Voice of Russia (Russian: Голос России / Golos Rossii; formerly Radio Moscow ), the Russian state-owned broadcasting service abroad. He sends in Russian and many other languages.
History of the station
Radio Moscow
The station was founded under the name Radio Moscow. On October 29, 1929, the first radio broadcasts for listeners started abroad. Also, the first German -language program started that day with a report on the celebrations of the October Revolution on Red Square. The programs were characterized by a clear espousal of communism and moral support of communists from abroad.
At the time of the Nazi regime in Germany, the transmitter was a source of information for the communist resistance. According to the official attitude of the Soviet Union differed Radio Moscow clearly between the Hitler regime and the German people. In the times of the Cold War, Radio Moscow expanded its programming from considerably and became a broadcasting major power in the East- West conflict. The daily German -language channel had a length of seven hours and was broadcast at lunchtime and in the evenings over the short, medium and long wave to Central Europe. In more than 60 foreign languages programs at numerous frequencies of Radio Moscow were heard. Were used transmitters in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Cuba. The pause character came from the melody of the song Schiroka strana moja Rodnaja ( Широка страна моя родная ). In analogy to the BBC World Service transmitter beamed a world- to-air 24 -hour program in English language under the title Radio Moscow World Service. On the part of the West were stations like the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty as a counterweight to the radio propaganda.
Voice of Russia
In the times of glasnost and perestroika, the program changed significantly. For example, Radio Moscow broadcast on 1 January 1987, the New Year's speech of U.S. President Ronald Reagan to the Soviet people.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the station renamed in Voice of Russia and distanced himself verbally by the previous ideology.
The Voice of Russia is funded by the Russian government institution and is designed to disseminate the views and opinions of the governance of Russia abroad and the information about life and about the culture and customs of the Russians.
The Russian government demanded a comprehensive change in the distribution base to go to the Internet and digital media distribution as well as a modernization and editorial refresh the well-known traditional program structure. There is currently a program scheme with live read messages every 15 minutes in selected program hours that are broadcast under the name "Radio Impala " also on DAB . In the organization and the program much is in flux. So long transmission lines (DX - shipment and post box ) were removed because they found little interest among the listeners. At the moment it is unclear whether, for example, the program enhancements made after May 20, 2013, in the morning and 21 to 22 German clock time actually taken at the relatively low number of listeners or dropped off.
In the first quarter of 2013, the Voice of Russia opened a studio in Berlin at the Pariser Platz, are produced from the programs and plays partially live and for subcontracting to Moscow. In the Studio Berlin a workforce of Russians and Germans, to be reinforced occasionally, even editorially other external employee works.
Merger with RIA Novosti
By Decree No. 894, the Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on December 9, 2013, the " Voice of Russia " and the news agency RIA Novosti become a new, state news agency with the name " International news agency Rossiya Sewodnja " ( "Russia Today" ) together. An organizational context with the same name foreign TV station Russia Today (RT ) is not " apparently ". The journalist Dmitry Kiselyov was appointed simultaneously with Decree No. 895 as Director-General of the new agency. He is regarded as the ideological hardliners and as an advocate of presidential autocratic tendencies. The conversion, which takes place in Sochi before the Olympic Winter Games, will be completed within one month of the Russian government. Overall, it is expected with a duration of about a quarter until it will be completed, which at present are known no implementing regulations.
The development has been taken critically. The chairman of the Moscow Association of Journalists Pavel Gusev said it states that it is the "revival of Soviet principles." Kiselyov was noticed by homophobic remarks last in the summer of 2013. For his 60th birthday he had Putin compared in a positive way with the dictator Josef Stalin. The reasons for the restructuring of the realignment of the self-representation of Russia was a time of increasing tensions with the West called in addition to money savings.
Kiselyov had indeed told a joint meeting of RIA Novosti, " the old brand " should be continued within the new organization; but this was only related to RIA Novosti. At the Olympic Winter Games since 21 November 2013 English-language radio station Sochi Today is operated, which however is not supplied by the British editors of the Voice of Russia, but of the television channel Russia Today.
Dissemination
The broadcast of the program was noticeably reduced on the classic distribution channels short and medium wave in recent times (2012/ 2013). In return, some of the program content of the German Service of the Voice of Russia in Berlin, the Rhine -Main region and much of North Rhine -Westphalia on the digital terrestrial radio DAB standard under the name Radio can be received Impala. In addition, audio-on -demand and live streams are offered over the Internet.
For the German -speaking world analog broadcast on the medium wave transmitter Oranienburg by digital shortwave broadcasting (DRM ) is replaced from 1 January 2014.
The more significant voice services, including the German, can be heard around the clock as a live audio stream. In addition, individual shipments from the website of the German editors are available for download. In English there are three more next to the World Service Services for U.S., UK and India, which also operate separate sites.
The programs that are sent under the name Radio Impala, since December 7, 2012 at the Greater Berlin and the Rhine -Main and since May 1, 2013, in North Rhine-Westphalia space via DAB listen. The service is still under construction. He is due to the intermediary fiduciary relationship as a legally controversial and vulnerable. The full program is distributed exclusively on the website of the transmitter. The contractor Radio Impala exudes only those hours of broadcasting on DAB , which are produced under this label by the editorial staff in Moscow. There are efforts by the expansion of digital distribution base for the Free State of Bavaria with 15 hours of coverage every day and it is reported of resistors against a permit this Ansinnens.