[HCDX] DW to North America and the Pacific

["Alokesh Gupta" <alokeshgupta@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Following message from Mrs Margot Forbes of DW English will be useful for
you.

Swopan Chakroborty
Kolkata, India

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Margot.Forbes@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote
Dear Mr. Chakroborty,
You mention a 60 minute Mailbag and, of  course, this is not possible but
Ms. Thofern was referring to a whole slot in our programming and perhaps not
taking into consideration the technical aspect of changing over to satellite
and/or different frequencies. However, our editors and planners of the
English Service are looking into how we can make the turnover at the end of
the slot shorter, making some of our programmes a little longer!
In answer to your question about the future of DW-English language shortwave
programmes to North America and the Pacific region, I would like to inform
you that, to date DW-Radio's English Service has broadcast to all of its
target audiences via the shortwave but, as of 30th March 2003, this policy
will change. In future Deutsche Welle will take into account the conditions
prevailing on individual media markets and respond to new technical
developments in the most appropriate fashion.
DW plans to introduce digital shortwave transmissions to East Asia and
Europe with analogue shortwave transmissions to Asia and Africa continuing
for the foreseeable future. However, shortwave broadcasts to the highly
developed media markets of North America and Australia and New Zealand will
be terminated. Instead, DW will focus on expanding the number of radio
stations, like Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or ABC News Radio, who
rebroadcast DW-Radio's programmes successfully. Listeners in those regions
will of course still be able to hear us via satellite or by means of our
Internet page at www.dw-world.de/English.

You will no doubt be hearing more about this subject, as well as the
facelift the English Service will be experiencing - during our various
programmes.
Hoping the above has thrown some more light on the subject for you and
looking forward to hearing from you again in the near future,
Regards,
Margot Forbes
DEUTSCHE WELLE
ENGLISH SERVICE
Tel.: +49 221 389 4144
Fax: +49 221 389 4155
E-mail: margot.forbes@xxxxxxxxxxx
Website: www.dw-world.de

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