Radio Romania International

Radio Romania International

Radio România Internaţional (Romanian: Radio România Internaţional, or RRI) is a Romanian radio station owned by the Romanian public radio broadcaster Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (SRR, the national public radio in Romania) that broadcasts abroad.

According to the Romanian law nr. 41/1994, republished, the SRR produces and broadcasts programmes in the Romanian language and other languages, for worldwide auditorium, to promote the image of Romania, and her internal and external politics. As a result, inside the SRR there is Departamentul Radio România Internaţional (The Department Radio Romania International) (RRI), that owns two radio stations:

  • RRI 1 - “Romania Live”

As of March 2001, RRI 1 has broadcast daily shows under the heading “Romania, live”, a summary of the shows produced by the main departments in the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation. This summary is broadcast around the clock via the satellite, on the Internet (in RealAudio), and also on short waves (to Central and Western Europe and Israel), 8 hours per day. RRI 1 has daily broadcasts around the clock in Romanian, and three 30 minute-broadcasts in the Aromanian dialect, which add up to 9,300 hours per year.

  • RRI 2 - “Radio Bridges”

RRI 2 produces and broadcasts shows in ten foreign languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian, which total 25.5 hours per day. In other words, 9,300 more broadcasting hours per year.

People can listen to the programmes on short, medium and ultra-short waves, but also via satellite and other means of reception; the radio has 51 hours of radio programme every day, which amount to more than 18,600 hours of radio production in 12 months.

Estimated total direct programme hours per week of some external radio broadcasters for 1996
Broadcaster 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1996
VOA, RFE/RL & Radio Martí 497 1,495 1,907 1,901 2,611 1,821
China Radio International 66 687 1,267 1,350 1,515 1,620
BBC World Service 643 589 723 719 796 1,036
Radio Moscow / Voice of Russia 533 1,015 1,908 2,094 1,876 726
Deutsche Welle 0 315 779 804 848 655
Radio Cairo / ERTU 0 301 540 546 605 604
IRIB World Service 12 24 155 175 400 575
All India Radio 116 157 271 389 456 500
NHK World Radio Japan 0 203 259 259 343 468
Radio France Internationale 198 326 200 125 379 459
Radio Netherlands Worldwide 127 178 335 289 323 392
Israel Radio International 0 91 158 210 253 365
Voice of Turkey 40 77 88 199 322 364
Radio Pyongyang / Voice of Korea 0 159 330 597 534 364
Radio Bulgaria 30 117 164 236 320 338
Radio Australia 181 257 350 333 330 307
Radio Tirana 26 63 487 560 451 303
Radio Romania International 30 159 185 198 199 298
Radio Exterior de España 68 202 251 239 403 270
RDP Internacional 46 133 295 214 203 226
Radio Havana Cuba 0 0 320 424 352 203
Rai Italia Radio 170 205 165 169 181 203
Radio Canada International 85 80 98 134 195 175
Radio Polonia 131 232 334 337 292 171
Radio RSA / Channel Africa 0 63 150 183 156 159
Sveriges Radio International 28 114 140 155 167 149
Magyar Rádió 76 120 105 127 102 144
Radio Prague 119 196 202 255 131 131
Voice of Nigeria 0 0 62 170 120 127
Radio Belgrade 80 70 76 72 96 68

Source: International Broadcast Audience Research, June 1996

The list includes about a quarter of the world's external broadcasters whose output is both publicly funded and worldwide. Among those excluded are Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea and various international commercial and religious stations.

Notes:

  1. 1996 figures as at June; all other years as at December.
  2. Before 1991, broadcasting for the former USSR.
  3. Before 1996, broadcasting for the former Czechoslovakia.

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