[A-DX] Radio Tirna

[Peter Beck <peter.beck@xxxxxxx>]

die nachstehende Meldung erhielt ich soeben von Frau Cico aus Tirana, sie
schickte das an einen relativ großen Verteiler, daher kennt's wohl schon
der Eine oder Andere. Passt ja zum allgemeinen Trend:

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>Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:41:59 +0100
>From: Drita Cico - Albanian RTV Monitoring <dcico@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Possible closure of RT Foreign Service on Short Waves
>
>Hi,
>
>Klara, the English translator in Radio Tirana, told me today in full 
>confidence
>that she recently translated a material of EBU-European Broadcasting
>Union,
>where an EBU director, woman, has suggested to the Radio Tirana
>Director to
>close the Radio Tirana Service on Short Waves and use the Internet
>for 
>Radio Tirana
>Foreign Service instead.
>The EBU argument for that was that we spend much more for the power
>on Medium
>Waves and Short Waves than for the production of the programs.
>Its replacement with Internet, would bring also the increase of the
>salary 
>of the program
>producers, who may be trained by the EBU specialists how to enter
>their 
>programs in
>the Internet. Klara said that she very much hopes to be kept as the 
>English program
>maker, while it is unclear if other foreign languages producers will 
>continue to work in
>Radio Tirana.
>
>A week ago, I had in the hall of Radio Tirana a long talk with our
>General 
>Director.
>We met him occasionally. The Audit Director at ARTV was with me.
>Our General Director while talking about ARTV problems and the
>position of my
>Monitoring Center, said that ' when nominated in 2006 as General
>Director, 
>we found
>closed the short wave service of Radio Tirana, we reopened it and
>possibly 
>we will
>close it soon. His argument was the high expenses for this service
>that 
>are partially
>covered by our Government'.
>He did not mention that this service would be replaced by the
>Internet.
>I immediately went to the Director of Radio Tirana Foreign Service,
>Ms 
>Mira Bregu,
>and to the Director of Radio Tirana, Ms Zamira Koleci. I told them 
>separately about this
>news, without giving the name of the source of it. The first, Mira
>was 
>cold and passive,
>very much indeed! While Zamira insisted to tell her the source, but I 
>could not give her
>the name of General Director, because of a real fight between them.
>Zamira said that nothing may happen only if she will propose
>anything to 
>the Council
>of ARTV. She did not tell me for her planes with EBU to close the
>short 
>waves and
>pass this service on to the Internet. I am not going to talk here
>about 
>the real advantages
>of the short waves towards the Internet. We have been talking
>together 
>about this
>much in the past. I always think that behind economic reasons, there
>are 
>rather strong
>political reasons in the world political higher levels (...against 
>communism???).
>In October 2007, the TWR transferred its broadcasts on SW via Shijak 
>r/station to
>DTK-Germany (very much expensive comparing with us) , while the TWR 
>Technical Director
>Mr Ruedi Baertschi told me last July that TWR might come back after
>one 
>year and a half
>again to Shijak.
>
>That's for now from us.
>
>Drita

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