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Personality of the Year 2024 on RRI

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following announcement from Radio Romania international:

Personality of the Year 2024 on RRI

Dear Friends,

Radio Romania International is again conducting its annual survey among listeners and users of Internet and social media, presenting you with a new challenge in 2024, a complicated and difficult year for all of us.

It was a difficult year due to the continuation of the war launched by Russia against Ukraine, the conflicts in the Middle East, but also due to global warming, which made 2024 the hottest year in history.

It is against this backdrop that we’re asking you who has had the most positive impact on the world this year? Based on your options, we will be designating the
“Personality of the Year 2024 on Radio Romania International”. We kindly ask you to make your nomination, accompanied by a short justification.

Please send your contributions as soon as possible by e-mail to [email protected], leave a comment on our Facebook or Instagram profiles or write to us on WhatsApp, at 0040.744.312.650 (text or audio).

We will announce the “Personality of the Year 2024 on Radio Romania International” on-air as well as online, on Wednesday, January 1, 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Radio Romania International Listeners’ Day 2024

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who shares the following news from Radio Romania International:

Listeners’ Day on Radio Romania International

On November 3, 2024, the first Sunday after the celebration of the Romanian radio corporation, RRI invites you to be part of the Listeners’ Day show.

Radio România Interna?ional, 02.10.2024, 17:42

This year, RRI asks you in what way you think AI will change the world. What will the jobs of the future be like? To what extent will we depend on AI? Who and how will have to regulate the use of AI? Which are, in your opinion, the pros and cons of using AI?

We are waiting for your contributions, to include them in our November 3rd show. You can send them by email, to [email protected], or on Facebook. You can also send audio messages on WhatsApp, at +40744312650, or you can send us your phone number and we will call to record your contribution. Thank you!

Detailed List of Radio Romania International English Programs (Dec 18 – Jan 2)

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who writes:

Hi Thomas

I have been sent a listing with full descriptions of topics to be heard on the English service of Radio Romania International for most programmes for each day from 18 December to 2 January. This list was very kindly compiled and supplied by Vlad Paclu from RRI. [P]lease let Vlad and the team at RRI know that their efforts to provide such information over the holiday period was useful – their email address is [email protected]

Many thanks

Alan Roe

Click here to download the RRI Program Schedule (PDF).

Thank you for sharing this with us, Alan, and we’ll let Vlad and the team know how much we appreciate it! Sending my email now!

RRI’s Annual “Personality of the Year”

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following announcement from Radio Romania International:

Personality of the Year 2023 on RRI

Time for RRI’s annual survey of its listeners and Internet and social media users to find out the 2023 Personality of the Year.

RRI is again holding its annual survey of its listeners and Internet and social media users to find out the 2023 Personality of the Year.

And this has been no easy year, with Russia’s war in Ukraine continuing, energy prices rocketing, many parts of the world suffering food shortages, and not least, with global warming causing what was probably the hottest year on record. On top of all this came the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.

In this difficult year, which international public figure, in your opinion, has had the strongest positive impact on the world? And why? RRI will designate its Personality of the Year based on your nominations, which you can submit, together with a short justification, by posting directly on our website in a comment to this article, at www.rri.ro, by email at [email protected], on our Facebook page, on Instagram, WhatsApp, at 0040.744.312.650 (text or audio) or by fax at 0040.21.319.05.62.

We will announce the RRI Personality of the Year on-air and online on Monday, 1st January 2024.

We are looking forward to receiving your nominations, so please, get in touch!

Radio Romania International shuts down two transmitters after budget cuts

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RRI’s Tiganesti-based shortwave transmitter centre (Photo source: Radio Romania International)

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following news from RRI:

Two transmitters discontinued

Two out of the five transmitters broadcasting RRI’s programmes are temporarily suspended as of 1 August

Dear friends, the Radio Romania Board of Administrators decided to temporarily suspend the use of 2 out of the 5 Radiocom shortwave transmitters that ensure the broadcast of Radio Romania International programmes, because of budget cuts. As of August 1, our programmes are aired via one transmitter in ?ig?ne?ti, one in S?ftica (both of them near Bucharest) and one in Galbeni (east). As soon as the budget of the institution is restored, we will resume broadcasts on all 5 transmitters.

The RRI programmes in Romanian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew are affected. All of them may be received on only one frequency instead of 2, as of August 1, 2023. The frequencies as well as any other prospective changes operated by Radiocom further to reception monitoring and to your feedback on reception quality will be announced in our broadcasts, on our web page and on Facebook.

Budget restrictions also prompted a reduction of the night time power of medium wave transmitters that broadcast Radio Romania News and Current Affairs programmes and of some regional stations.

We invite you to follow RRI’s programmes online at www.rri.ro (including on demand), on SoundCloud, on Android and iOS apps, via TuneIn and via satellite. You can find more details on our home page. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Spotify.

2022 Listeners’ Day on Radio Romania International

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who shares the following item from Radio Romania International:

Listeners’ Day on Radio Romania International

Sunday, the 6th of November 2022, is Listeners’ Day on Radio Romania International

Dear friends, Sunday, the 6th of November 2022, will be Listeners’ Day on Radio Romania International, celebrated a week after the Romanian Radio Day marked on the 1st of November.

2022 will go down in history and, equally, in the collective memory, as a very special year, but not like the year when the whole world emerged out of the pandemic, as most of us would have expected.

On the morning of February 24, the old continent was shattered by an armed conflict, after almost 80 years of peace. Large-scale propaganda and disinformation campaigns, meant to create chaos and confusion, have also become part of the confrontation.

The information warfare is not a new kind of reality. However, its effects have become more visible than ever against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, because the war has brought a real explosion of fake news and disinformation with it.

In this year’s edition of Listeners’ Day on RRI we ask you what sources of information about the war in Ukraine are the most reliable for you? How can you identify fake news from real news? How vulnerable you think you are to disinformation? Have you removed from your list the sources of information proven to be spreading fake news and disinform the public? Which is the role that public radio, and an international radio station in particular, plays in your life during this period of time?

We are looking forward to receiving your answers, which will be included in our show on the 6th of November! You can email them to us, at [email protected], post them on Facebook or send them as a comment to this article on RRI’s website at  www.rri.ro. If you like, you can also send us pre-recorded answers via WhatsApp, at +40744312650, or you can send us your telephone number so we can call you from the studio and record your opinions. Thank you!