[HCDX] Russia's radio-broadcasting companies celebrate Day of Radio

["Mike Terry" <miketerry73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

7 May 2006
Moscow
Itar-Tass

Russia's radio-broadcasting companies and their personnel are marking the
Day of Radio.

In 1895, Russian scientist Alexander Popov represented at a meeting of the
Russian Physico-Chemical Society the first-ever radio receiver in the world
he had designed.

Only 50 years ago, May 7 was proclaimed the Day of Radio.

At present, radio remains one of the most popular mass media sources
successfully competing with TV and press. According to statistics, 85
percent of adults listened to the radio last year.

"Although we get most of the information visually, radio helps us in
thousands of situations when we are unable to switch on a TV-set and look
through a newspaper," a member of the Radio Guild - the national
organization of mass media workers Mediasoyuz, Igor Malov, told Itar-Tass.

"Radio is one of the most democratic mass media and the promptest source of
information," he said.

He believes that "real revolution that may be only compared with the
invention of radio will embrace domestic radio broadcasters in the near
future."

"In the shortest time possible, radio will transfer to digital
 broadcasting," Malov said.

During the day Russia's radio-broadcasting companies will surprise their
listeners and make presents to them. For instance, the Voice of Russia will
hold a radio-marathon devoted to the Russian language as a tool of
inter-ethnic communication.

Different Russian-speaking radio stations from the CIS and non-CIS countries
will be on air of the Voice of Russia for eight hours. Scientists,
politicians, writers, public and cultural figures will discuss on air what
role the Russian language plays in the modern world and whether it has
chances to become the language of international communication.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=7715813&PageNum=0



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