[HCDX]: LTU-BC-INFO, 29.12.1999

[RATEKONA <ratekona@xxxxx>]

1. CHANGES ON 612 KHZ IN VILNIUS

As of January 1, 2000, Program 2 of Lietuvos Radijas
will change frequency at its Vilnius site: instead of
612 kHz, 1107 kHz will be used with 25 kW of power.
There are intentions to make the same change at the
Klaipéda site, but no concrete decisions have been
made so far.

Vilnius 612 kHz (with 50 kW of power) will be used
in the very near future for relays of Radio Polonia's
broadcasts in Belarusian daily 1730-1755 UTC. It is highly
possible that this will start January 1, 2000 as well.
Later in January or February, relays of RFE-RL
broadcasts in Belarusian are to be added, as well as relays
of Radio Racja, a Belarusian station based in Bialystok, Poland.
These relays will be made by a new Lithuanian broadcaster
Radio Baltic Waves, which was licensed in August 1999
to use Vilnius 612 kHz throughout the year 2000.
Radio Baltic Waves plans to add its own programming
later in the year 2000, depending upon financing from western
free speech and human rights foundations.

2. RADIO RACJA STARTS ON 105.5 MHZ
(off-topic as non-Lithuanian, nevertheless related to the above)
TVP1 (Polish TV) reported today in its main newscast that
R. Racja started broadcasting in Bialystok, Poland, on 105.5 MHz.
The reporter said that at this time R. Racja would broadcast daily
1600-1700 local time (i.e. 1500-1600 UTC) in Belarusian with
short main information summaries in Polish. Later, it would
"gradually increase the amount of airtime after direct links
to Sowlany transmitting center near Bialystok are established",
said the reporter. As the camera showed also the studio of R. Racja
in Bialystok, and an announcer at work, I presume that they will
produce own programs, not the same that are broadcast on
shortwave (the latter are largely produced in Minsk, Belarus).

   END

SIGITAS ZILIONIS, DX Editor <dx@xxxxx>
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