{"id":7893,"date":"2013-11-14T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2013-11-14T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T13:55:08","slug":"radio-slovakia-international-wishes-to-resume-shortwave-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/radio-slovakia-international-wishes-to-resume-shortwave-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Slovakia International wishes to resume shortwave service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"USAMany thanks to SWLing Post reader, Dominik, who points us to the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters’ latest newsletter<\/a>, which mentions Radio Slovakia International’s intentions to, once again, broadcast on shortwave from Slovakia.<\/p>\n

“The NASB organized the B13 Conference in cooperation with Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS) and its international service, Radio Slovakia International (RSI). RSI stopped broadcasting on shortwave from Slovakia at the end of 2010, but NASB member WRMI in Miami has continued to relay the station\u2019s English and Spanish broadcasts to the Americas since January of 2011. And RSI would like to resume shortwave broadcasts from Slovakia in the near future if funding can be restored.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The NASB newsletter summarizes the full\u00a0B13 HFCC Conference<\/a>. \u00a0The following is an excerpt from the NASB Newsletter<\/a>\u00a0newsletter, featuring\u00a0Maria Mikusova, Chief of Radio Slovakia International:<\/p>\n

[…]Tuesday morning, August 27, the HFCC Conference began with some words of welcome from Maria Mikusova, Chief of Radio Slovakia International. \u201cAs the General Director of Radio and Television Slovakia pointed out yesterday,\u201d she said, \u201cthe fact that this conference is taking place in Bratislava is a great inspiration and impulse for us. It broadens the horizons of us \u2014 journalists and professionals from the foreign broadcast of Radio Slovakia International, on behalf of whom I\u2019d like to welcome you to Bratislava as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Mikusova noted that RSI has received feedback from listeners in 130 countries. \u201cThe core of this feedback,\u201d she said, \u201ccomes from broadcasting our programs via short waves. We left shortwave broadcasting only recently, at the beginning of the year 2011, and not fully.\u201d She noted that RSI remains on shortwave via WRMI in the Americas.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Mikusova said that RSI is busy developing a new website. \u201cIn regards to the variety of languages we broadcast in, you can listen to RSI in six languages, which is the same number as Radio Prague, our Czech colleagues and closest partners, broadcast in. This says a lot about the power of tradition and our efforts and ability to preserve this kind of a broadcast at a time of such a vast choice of communication channels opening on the internet and social networks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mikusova said that RSI still receives good listener feedback from areas such as Russia, and the station still sends QSL cards to listeners. \u201cWe consider this to be a very important form of communicating with our listeners, although we know that QSLs are traditionally a shortwave communication.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me wish all the best to this coordination meeting,\u201d she continued. \u201cYour conference allows us to get to know better your work, and makes us feel that we are still part of the world network of shortwavers. For us, this conference is a firsthand, live encounter with the shortwave network and its significance for broadcasting. But at the same time it unveils what strategies of radio broadcasting and shortwave transmission are out there in the modern world. After all, the outlook and future strategy of Radio and Television of Slovakia is to bring RSI back to shortwave broadcasting.<\/strong> Although this issue has not been resolved yet, it shows just how important the HFCC Conference in Bratislava is, and why we, RSI, are so very interested in it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dominik also pointed to the HFCC schedule<\/a> where RSI already has a slate of broadcasts listed from the RSI Rimavska Sobota\u00a0transmitter site:<\/p>\n

\"HFCC-Clip-RSI\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Again, thanks to Dominik for sharing this hopeful news!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Dominik, who points us to the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters’ latest newsletter, which mentions Radio Slovakia International’s intentions to, once again, broadcast on shortwave from Slovakia. “The NASB organized the B13 Conference in cooperation with Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS) and its international service, Radio Slovakia International (RSI). 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