China radio international address5/9/2023 ![]() You get some revolutionary opera on frequencies that were used for Serb programs in the past, or rock and pop music on what was once the Czech service. The mere-music programs may run without day-to-day updates. Language services that may be considered global ones – Chinese, English, Russian, or Spanish, still have news in their programs, and maybe cultural programs, too, but CRI’s Portuguese service hasn’t.Įsperanto broadcasts a cultural program with lots of talk, but no news or current affairs either. ![]() Some language services without news add explanatory announcements to their music programs, but others run completely without spoken words. Programs without news / current affairs are usually filled up with music. This list is not at all exhaustive there are many more CRI language services I haven’t recently listened to. As for Esperanto, for example, I only listened to the broadcast to Europe, but Europe may not be CRI Esperanto’s only target area. The mention of target areas does not imply that there may not be other target areas for certain languages, too. The German editorial department’s current trimedial attempts at agitating their listeners in China’s favor may be good for a laugh every now and then, but contrary to CRI’s radio productions in the past, these days’ online content is useless. It is easy to think that CRI’s German service has lost some of its (not too numerous anyway) German listeners after leaving shortwave, along with many other CRI language services. The correspondent, Kirill Volkov, seems to interview a number of people for his video productions, but as a listener, you can only guess who he is talking to. ![]() by “Central Radio and Television Network” foreign-radio channel. (You won’t even know who’s speaking at times, because obviously, you are missing out on the subtitles.) And while I don’t know what they are talking about in Russian on China’s foreign media, I seem to notice that there is a similar problem with the CGTN correspondent’s contributions that are also used by CRI, i. At Radio Japan, English is only broadcast on shortwave three times a day, and as for the news, that’s only a soundtrack from NHK’s global English-language television channel. In fact, it’s nice to be spoken to in my first language by RTI’s German department.īut above all, developments at Radio Japan and CRI aren’t looking really promising. Also, if I go by my own fondness for radio, “Taiwan+” isn’t for me, and never will be. In my view, starting an international television channel on the one hand as is done with “Taiwan+” and keeping RTI as a station focused on audiences in different languages looks like a comparatively wise choice.įor one, RTI might provide a pool of foreign-language speakers for television if need be. Now, questions are occasionally asked which plan for RTI was better – the one devised in 2018 or the one actually implemented in 2019 and onward. Instead, RTI got a new director-general, and its Spanish, French and Korean services returned to shortwave from a mere online existence. Taiwan’s government appeared to have similar plans for Radio Taiwan International (RTI) – not to take them off the airwaves, but to create an tri-medial organization, integrating RTI, Taiwan’s national newsagency CNA, and public television. Some three years later, many CRI language broadcasts on shortwave were replaced by mere music loops or endless repetitions of always-the-same cultural programs. ![]() Some adjustments for synergy were called for, and the central committee delivered, early in 2018, by amalgamating CRI, CPBS (domestic radio) and television into a “Central Radio and Television Network” (中央广播电视总台). CRI’s then director, Wang Gengnian, even delivered his own annual new-year address. The first 25 minutes of CRI’s Russian program at 17:00 UTC on Sunday were all about Donbas, with a CGTN correspondent reporting from there.ĬRI might have dispatched its own correspondents a few years ago, when the station was actually an organization in its own right, and quite a fiefdom at that. I don’t speak Russian, but it seems that China Radio International’s (CRI) coverage leaves nothing to be desired when you want to be kept up to date with your country’s war in Ukraine (without too much disturbing news, I suppose). Ist – zum Beispiel die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit – lässt sich auch nicht ignorieren.
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