[HCDX] Radio Sweden/SR International Language Changes

[Alokesh <alokeshgupta@xxxxxxxx>]

Radio Sweden/SR International Language Changes

Following Swedish Radio's annual language review, the decision has been made
to close down the Radio Sweden Estonian and Latvian services, as well as the
website in Polish. Among Immigrant Languages, Spanish and Turkish are
closing down, along with the Swedish-language program "Passet".
In announcing the decision, Swedish Radio Program Director Kerstin Brunnberg
underlined that the changes were not made for budgetary reasons. Instead,
she told a meeting of SR International staff Monday morning, the changes are
intended to make it possible for the continuing Immigrant Languages to
expand programming hours and staff.
In a previous review Polish was removed from the air, but was allowed to
continue on the Internet. At the same time broadcasts in Estonian and
Latvian were cut back.
Among the criteria in the annual review is how long the immigrant group in
question has been in the country, meaning how long have they had time to
integrate and be able to listen to programs in Sweden. Most of the
Spanish-speaking community here came after the 1973 coup in Chile. Turkish
programming started 28 years ago, while many Turks may have come here after
the 1980 coup. Many people from Turkey here are also probably
Kurdish-speaking, and Swedish Radio added Immigrant Language programming in
Kurdish several years ago.
The criteria for Radio Sweden include an aim to help democratization in
target countries. Estonian and Latvian were added after the break-up of the
Soviet Union. Now that those countries are members of the European Union,
the democratization necessity is apparently perceived to be been
accomplished.
The Immigrant Languages changes are expected to go into effect when Swedish
Radio's P2 channel changes its schedule on January 16. The Radio Sweden
changes will probably be made in connection with the international changes
in shortwave frequency schedules at the end of March. There could be changes
earlier, however, if that is possible within our current shortwave schedule.

Posted at 02:41 pm by gwood
http://mediascan.blogdrive.com/

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Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi



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