{"id":19278,"date":"2016-05-31T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=19278"},"modified":"2016-05-31T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:42:07","slug":"deutsche-welle-closes-kigali-relay-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/deutsche-welle-closes-kigali-relay-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Welle closes Kigali relay station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DW’s relay station in Kigali (Source: Deutsche Welle)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: KT Press<\/a>\u00a0via Richard Cuff)<\/p>\n

Germans Close Business in Rwanda After Half Century Lease Expires<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once a powerful facility in the region, the German owned Deutsche Welle radio center at Kinyinya hill outside Kigali is finally and completely shutting down. It\u2019s no more.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1965, Rwanda leased 68.4 hectares on Kinyinya hill for fifty years to the Germans- that later set up a massive facility to boost Deutsche Welle, Germany\u2019s international broadcaster.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are stopping our short wave transmitters today and then next week we will start dismantling them and the masts in order to meet the deadline of August when our license expires,\u201d said Bernhard Ahlborn, the deputy director of Deutsche Welle.<\/em><\/p>\n

On March 28, 2015 the facility stopped its operations, to begin dismantling their equipment, to pave away for the handover of the Land to Rwanda government.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Germans will today hand over the premises of the relay station with its infrastructure to the Government of Rwanda, to mark the end of 50 year concession agreement.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Deutsche Welle relay station in Kigali has been serving African and the Middle East audiences. It was the only firm facility of the kind that was remaining. The Germans had similar facilities in other 60 countries.<\/em><\/p>\n

Continue reading on the KT Press website…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: KT Press\u00a0via Richard Cuff) Germans Close Business in Rwanda After Half Century Lease Expires Once a powerful facility in the region, the German owned Deutsche Welle radio center at Kinyinya hill outside Kigali is finally and completely shutting down. It\u2019s no more. In 1965, Rwanda leased 68.4 hectares on Kinyinya hill for fifty years […]<\/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":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[328,3737,3739,3738],"class_list":["post-19278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-deutsche-welle","tag-deutsche-welle-kigali","tag-deutsche-welle-kigali-closure","tag-dw-kigali-closure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-50W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12805,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/deutsche-welle-to-close-kigali-relay-march-28-2105\/","url_meta":{"origin":19278,"position":0},"title":"Deutsche Welle to close Kigali relay March 28, 2015","author":"Thomas","date":"March 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Mike, who writes: \"I wanted to pass on a quick (and unfortunate) word that Deutsche Welle will be closing its Kigali, Rwanda relay on March 28th. 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