{"id":18618,"date":"2016-04-30T06:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18618"},"modified":"2016-04-30T06:31:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:31:51","slug":"south-sudan-eye-radio-reaches-new-audience-via-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/south-sudan-eye-radio-reaches-new-audience-via-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: Eye Radio reaches new audience via shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EyeRadio\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You might recall\u00a0a post from Robert Gulley earlier this week about Eye Radio<\/a>. Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Andrea Borgnino<\/a> who shares a link to the following article from the BBC about Eye Radio’s broadcasts over shortwave:<\/p>\n

(Source: BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A radio station in South Sudan is using older, but tried and tested technology to reach new audiences.<\/em><\/p>\n

Radio is a crucial medium in South Sudan, where illiteracy is high and many areas lack an electricity supply.<\/em><\/p>\n

But many people living in remote villages are out of range of existing FM and mediumwave (AM) broadcasts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Huge distances<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

To reach these potential listeners, Eye Radio, which is based in the capital Juba and can be heard in regional capitals, has just started broadcasting on shortwave.<\/em><\/p>\n

The new service covers “the whole of South Sudan, including remote areas in which communities are not able to access FM radio”, says Eye Media head Stephen Omiri.<\/em><\/p>\n

[…]The station is thought to be renting airtime on a transmitter based outside South Sudan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Funding for the shortwave service comes from USAID, the international development arm of the US government.<\/em><\/p>\n

[…]Eye Radio broadcasts in English, standard Arabic, and local languages Dinka, Nuer, Juba Arabic, Bari, Shilluk, Zande and Moro.<\/em><\/p>\n

The shortwave broadcasts are on the air from<\/strong> 7-8 a.m. local time on 11730 kHz, and 7-8 p.m. on 17730 kHz.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Another station using shortwave to reach South Sudan is Radio Tamazuj, which is based in the Netherlands.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to read the fu<\/em>ll article at the BBC Monitoring website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might recall\u00a0a post from Robert Gulley earlier this week about Eye Radio. Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andrea Borgnino who shares a link to the following article from the BBC about Eye Radio’s broadcasts over shortwave: (Source: BBC) A radio station in South Sudan is using older, but tried and tested technology to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[960,3,43,1167],"tags":[104,5029,4082,2261,4655],"class_list":["post-18618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-bbc","tag-eye-radio","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-south-sudan","tag-why-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4Qi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18564,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-shortwave-station-in-south-sudan\/","url_meta":{"origin":18618,"position":0},"title":"New Shortwave Station in South Sudan","author":"Robert Gulley","date":"April 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a new shortwave station in South Sudan! 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