[Swprograms] Voice of Turkey programming

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** TURKEY. Another VOT transmitter/frequency screwup: Feb 14 at 1458, heard VOT
IS interspersed with Arabic IDs, on 12035; 1500 six pips and opening Arabic
service. Per printed schedule just received, this is supposed to be on 6120!
12035 was supposed to go off a semihour earlier following the English broadcast
beamed NW. A few days ago I heard the other English frequency starting at 1330,
11735, also on the air half an hour late. Are they asleep at Emirler, or is
something preventing the frequencies from being changed, so they are making do
with the frequency they are stuck on? 

Since VOT program schedule in English is not to be found on their website,
http://www.trt.net.tr/wwwtrt/tsr.aspx

I will retype info from the printed schedule postmarked 30 January and received
13 February by P-mail. As usual the info is presented in an extremely confusing
manner. There are four different columns for each day of the week, English I, I
Term, II Term; English II, I Term, II Term.

These ``Terms`` are not defined, but presumably refer to the first and second
halves of 2007, Jan-Jun and Jul-Dec. It turns out that there are only a few
differences between English I and II, and Terms I and II. 

Since we know the days and times when Live from Turkey airs, Tuesday at 1950
and Thursday at 1350, we can conclude that English I and II refer to the
broadcasts containing and not containing the live shows which pre-empt other
programming on that day of the week. 

English I shows LfT on Thursday, so that means English I refers to the 1330
transmission, but if you want to know what is on all the other Thursday English
transmissions, you should look at English II.

Conversely, English II shows LfT on Tuesday, so that means English II refers to
the 1930 transmission, and if you want to know what is on all the other Tuesday
transmissions, you should look at English I. 

Is that clear??? Carefully comparing all the other programming listed on each
day of the week, it is confirmed that LfT is the only difference between
English I and II. 

// apparently means fortnightly alternating programs, as we know that is the
case with DX Corner. John Norfolk keeps track of which weeks it`s on in
DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS at http://www.worldofradio.com

A couple of programs have (r) after them, unexplained, and omitted below. This
probably means repeats from previous years, rather than repeats from earlier in
the same week; namely, The Harem, and From History.

So here is the program schedule as we have tried to make it more comprehensible
and user-friendly, despite lack of exact timings of each show with the 50-55
minute transmissions. Since there are only two changes for the second term,
July-December 2007, they are shown in brackets on Friday and Sunday.

DAILY:
News, Review of the Turkish Press; then:::

MONDAY:
>From Turkey; Hues and Colours of Anatolia; Turkey`s Non-Governmental
Organizations

TUESDAY:
Sports Round Up, on all; Live from Turkey at 1950 
OR Agenda, Atatürk through his Memoirs, The Harem on the others

WEDNESDAY:
Review of the Foreign Media, The Middle East from Turkey`s Window; Letter Box

THURSDAY: 
Agenda, on all; Live from Turkey at 1350
OR The Balkans // Eurasia, on the others

FRIDAY:
The Harem [July-Dec: New Dimensions of the Armenian Issue], Turkish Album, From
History // Turkish Capital

SATURDAY:
Outlook, From Our Correspondents, From History // DX Corner, Masters of Turkish
Pop Music

SUNDAY:
>From the World, In the Wake of a Contest [July-Dec: Skilled Hands], Blue
Voyage, Turkish on Radio, Turkish Music

The folder also describes four of the programs; some may be new ones:

EURASIA --- Bi-weekly [meaning fortnightly], focusing on the process of change
in Central Asia and the Caucasus since the dissolution of the USSR. Attempts to
illuminate the region`s energy-based conflicts, and its future.

TURKISH CAPITAL --- bi-weekly [fortnightly], describing rôle of Turkish
entrepreneurs in the market of a globalizing, ever-shrinking world. The
creativity and potential of Turkish capital and entrepreneurship will be given
an identity in this program. [are there any entrepreneuses in Turkey?]

HUES AND COLORS OF ANATOLIA --- Weekly, continues to describe all the hues and
colors of Anatolia, the cradle of civilizations. The history of universal
cultures born in Anatolia will come to life in this program.

HAREM --- Weekly in Jan and Feb on the VOT`s wide spectrum of programs you have
become accustomed to over the years, ranging from culture to the arts, from
news to music, offering something for everyone. [how`s that for explicitness;
so not about harems?? And what replaces it in March? Not given]

English transmissions:
0400  6020 Eu/NAm, 7240 As/Af
1330 12035 Eu [but also C&ENAm], 11735 Au/As
1930  6055 Eu
2130  9525 Au/As
2300  5960 Eu/NAm
The transmission schedule is for B-06, effective only until 25 March. 

Then we know all broadcasts move one UT hour earlier, and most if not all
frequencies will change for A-07, but this is not explained. The website is
given, but no info about listening to webcasts; instead, all the pertinent info
for listening to satellite broadcasts.

We happen to know that webcasts carrying the English transmissions are in fact
accessible at mms://212.175.166.3/RDVOT 
But why was I hearing German on that at 0022 UT Feb 15?
Or try to figure out which button to press at
http://www.trt.net.tr/wwwtrt/canli.aspx

The printed program folder also has an article about Mevlâna, since 2007 is
World Mevlâna Year (had you heard?), about Sufism, Whirling Dervishes, etc. And
another about the 2006 Essay Contest with a group photo of the 10 winners of a
14-day tour of Turkey, including Volker Willschrey and Christopher Lewis (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)



 
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