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[IRCA] Fwd: [HCDX] Nigeria: Radio Nigeria Acquires New Transmitters
Note a new 200 kW MW transmitter. No frequency given, though.......Walt.
>Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 19:08:41 +0300
>From: Zacharias Liangas <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [HCDX] Nigeria: Radio Nigeria Acquires New Transmitters
>
>Nigeria: Radio Nigeria Acquires New Transmitters
>
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>Developments at Nigeria's premier radio corporation, Federal Radio
>Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), are fast transforming the staid image of
>Africa's largest radio network.
>
>In the past one year, Radio Nigeria has been quietly transforming itself with
>improved signals, captivating programming, web audio streaming, and, the
>latest, brand new transmitters at Kaduna and Enugu to be dedicated to
>educationsl service.
>
>When completely installed in December 2008, the 200 MW KW transmitter
>in Jaji Kaduna would be one of the most powerful radio transmitters in
>Africa, and, in combination with the 100KW transmitter planned for Enugu in
>2009, the whole country and much of Africa would receive the signals. The
>transmitters, a grant from the Japanese Government, would be digital ready.
>
>A statement by Ike Okere, Head of Communications FRCN, indicated that
>Radio Nigeria Kaduna has begun the process of dismantling its obsolete,
>47-year-old MW transmitter to provide space for the new 200 KW transmitter
>coming from Japan.
>
>The process of dismantling the gigantic, obsolete transmitter and its
>antennae component and installing the new one would take six months. To
>keep its Hausa language listeners during this transition, Radio Nigeria
>Kaduna recently commissioned a new Hausa language FM station in
>Kaduna.
>
>It also temporarily fixed its old Short Wave channel on the 49 Metre Band.
>Karama FM, the call sign of the new FM station, and the SW station would
>both continue to carry the quality programmes of Radio Nigeria's famous
>Hausa Service.
>
>The new, public-minded FRCN began sensitising its Hausa Service listeners
>in early April with regular jingles announcing the transition and the
>continuation of the Hausa Service on SW and FM. In early May, the zonal
>director, FRCN Kaduna, Alhaji Ladan Salihu, took pressmen round the
>transmitting station in Jaji to explain the process of de-commissioning.
>Hundreds of listeners have been calling in to express support for the
>planned improvement the new transmitters would bring to Radio Nigeria's
>signals.
>
>"The collaboration with Japan through the Japanese International
>Cooperation Agency (JICA), would enable Radio Nigeria boost its Hausa
>and Educational Services in the face of competition from foreign
>broadcasters such as the BBC, VOA and China Hausa Services", said Mr.
>Ben Egbuna, FRCN's Director General, in the statement.
>
>A Yoruba language station, Amuludun FM, in Ibadan, began transmission
>last year, while the Igbo language channel is expected to kick-off at Enugu
>next year.
>
>Last year, Radio Nigeria began live web audio streaming of five of its FM
>stations in Abuja, Kaduna, Enugu, Ibadan and Lagos, thus enabling millions
>of Nigerians in the diaspora to receive these stations and participate in
>interactive programmes.
>
>A few months ago, it rolled out its VSAT platforms nationwide and thereby
>started taking the very popular Network News live from across the nation.
>The VSAT also enabled the corporation to introduce Network Nigeria, the
>midday, grassroots-oriented, human-angle news and features programme.
>
>The FRCN is Nigeria's premier radio broadcaster. With four National
>Stations and an Operations Centre on Short and Medium Wave Bands and
>Thirty-Two (32) FM Stations nationwide, plus the new Web audio streaming,
>it is Africa's largest radio network. Its network signals, including those of its
>State stations which broadcast in both English and 15 local languages, are
>estimated to re ach 120 million listeners daily.
>
>Meanwhile, the network has joined the league of world class broadcast
>organisations that can boast of crystal clear signals. This is made possible
>by the installation and commissioning of Very Small Aperture Terminal
>(VSAT) facilities for satellite communications.
>
>The V-SAT is used to relay grade 'A' programmes and news items
>emanating from headquarters to all the national stations comprising Abuja,
>Kaduna, Ibadan, Enugu and Lagos operations. The FM stations under each
>national stations also receive signals for onward transmission through their
>terrestrial transmitters.
>
>
>The installation with uplink and downlink equipment which effectively
>captures FRCN signals from headquarters or from other national stations
>has crystal clear sound quality which is best described as CD quality.
>
>Apart from expanding the coverage areas of the Corporation and reduction
>in downtime, the introduction of V-SAT to its broadcast services has helped
>to minimise reliance on national infrastructure like NITEL.
>
>The Corporation's spokesperson, Ike Okere said the commissioning of the
>V-SAT whose installation started as far back as 2003, marks the beginning
>of a new era in the Corporation. "Infact, the current practice whereby our
>network news can emanate from any of the national stations is an offshoot
>of the introduction of VSAT in our broadcast services", he said.
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