{"id":39533,"date":"2019-09-13T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=39533"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:28:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T11:28:47","slug":"radio-free-europe-set-to-restart-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/radio-free-europe-set-to-restart-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Free Europe &#8220;set to restart in Hungary&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RFE-RadioLiberty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5293 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RFE-RadioLiberty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RFE-RadioLiberty.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/RFE-RadioLiberty-100x44.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbj.hu\/politics\/radio-free-europe-gears-for-relaunch-in-hungary_170911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Budapest Business Journal<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty, the U.S. government-funded organization that broadcasts news and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East \u201cwhere a free press is banned or not fully established,\u201d is set to restart in Hungary, following recent relaunches in Bulgaria and Romania.<\/p>\n<p>During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe &#8211; whose motto is \u201cFree Media in Unfree Societies\u201d &#8211; was broadcast to Soviet satellite countries. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, it wound up the service in Hungary in 1993, considering the collapse of communism to be mission accomplished, recalls a report in The New York Times (NYT) dated September 6.<\/p>\n<p>The article comments that the move to relaunch the service by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent federal agency, reflects Hungary\u2019s drift away from a free and open government under Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done our homework, and we know this has broad backing, and we\u2019re preparing to move forward,\u201d the agency\u2019s chief, John Lansing, is cited as saying. He adds that the service\u2019s initial budget could run up to USD 750,000, and that a bureau would be established in Hungary. He expects a soft launch of the service in May 2020, with a hard launch one year from now.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bbj.hu\/politics\/radio-free-europe-gears-for-relaunch-in-hungary_170911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading the full article at the Budapest Business Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I seriously doubt &#8220;restarting&#8221; RFE for Hungary would include any shortwave radio broadcasts. I suspect this would equate to their website and streaming media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Budapest Business Journal) Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty, the U.S. government-funded organization that broadcasts news and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East \u201cwhere a free press is banned or not fully established,\u201d is set to restart in Hungary, following recent relaunches in Bulgaria and Romania. During the Cold War, 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