{"id":5604,"date":"2013-02-13T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2013-02-13T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T12:50:09","slug":"voice-of-russia-world-celebrates-all-uniting-role-of-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/voice-of-russia-world-celebrates-all-uniting-role-of-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Russia: World celebrates all-uniting role of radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WorldRadioDay\"(Source: Voice of Russia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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February 13 is World Radio Day. It\u2019s a young holiday, just two years old, established on the initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2011. Representatives of all of the world\u2019s major radio broadcasters, the Voice of Russia among them, have gathered at the UNESCO\u2019s central headquarters in Paris to celebrate World Radio Day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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February 13 is not a random date. On that day in 1946, Radio UN aired its first broadcast. In his World Radio Day-2013 message, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that as a boy growing up in a poor village after the Korean War with neither phones nor television people still had something that connected them to the world outside their small village – they had radio. Since its invention more than 100 years ago, radio has sparked imagination and opened doors for change, entertaining, informing, promoting democracy and connecting people wherever they are, and \u201cin conflict situations and times of crisis, radio is a lifeline for vulnerable communities,\u201d Ban Ki-moon remarked.<\/p>\n

About 95% of all people throughout the globe listen to radio regularly, chief of the UNESCO\u2019s Communication and Information Sector Mirta Lourenco told the Voice of Russia:<\/p>\n

“Radio remains the most easily accessible mass media. You can listen to it in the remotest corners of the Earth. Thanks to radio, people who cannot read or write have access to information. Radio plays a crucial role in emergencies, natural disaster warning and during rescue operations. For the UNESCO, World Radio Day is the acknowledgment of the tremendous use of which radio has been to humanity over more than a century.”[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article at the Voice of Russia website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Voice of Russia) February 13 is World Radio Day. It\u2019s a young holiday, just two years old, established on the initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2011. Representatives of all of the world\u2019s major radio broadcasters, the Voice of Russia among them, have gathered at the UNESCO\u2019s central […]<\/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":[8,81,3],"tags":[620,1688,408,1689],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-current-events","category-news","tag-unesco","tag-unesco-world-radio-day","tag-voice-of-russia","tag-world-radio-day-2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1so","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1970,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/unesco-proclaims-world-radio-day-february-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":5604,"position":0},"title":"UNESCO Proclaims World Radio Day – February 13","author":"Thomas","date":"September 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"UNESCO\u2019s Executive Board approved item 13 of its provisional agenda \u201cProclamation of a World Radio Day\u201d to be celebrated each February 13th. 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