[HCDX] Harare To Tell 'True Zimbabwe Story' Over 24-Hour Shortwave Station

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Harare To Tell 'True Zimbabwe Story' Over 24-Hour Shortwave Station
http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/2007-04-12-
voa58.cfm
By Taurai Shava and Ndimyake Mwakalyelye
Washington
12 April 2007
	
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Zimbabwe is shortly to roll out a 24-hour shortwave radio station called 
News 24/7 in the aim of countering what it says is a barrage of foreign 
propaganda - among others from VOA which provides 90 minutes of 
news to Zimbabwe five nights a week.

News 24/7 will inaugurate programming on Wednesday, April 18 - 
Independence Day in Zimbabwe - broadcasting from Gweru, capital of 
Midlands Province.

Reports said the around-the-clock news operation is being funded by 
Iran at a cost of Z$8.9 billion - about US$35.6 million at the official 
exchange rate though more like US$6 million at the prevailing parallel 
market rate of Z$15,000 per greenback.

Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu declined to comment on the 
new station until after it is launched next Wednesday. Deputy 
Information Minister Bright Matonga confirmed to parliament earlier this 
year that the government is jamming foreign broadcasts from VOA's 
Studio 7 and London-based SW Radio Africa.

Zimbabwe has not authorized any private broadcasters to operate.

Gweru residents told correspondent Taurai Shava of VOA's Studio 7 for 
Zimbabwe that they consider the shortwave project to be a waste of 
money given that the state broadcasting monopoly already operates a 
number of radio stations.

Media analysts said Harare's launch of the station would further tighten 
its grip on an already constricted media environment, and that its 
statement that it wants to tell "the true Zimbabwe story,? means that it 
wants to spread its own propaganda wider.

News 24/7 will operate under state-controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting 
Holdings and will be headed by former senior ZBC broadcaster 
Happison Muchechetere.

For perspective on the new media venture, reporter Ndimyake 
Mwakalyelye turned to experts Andrew Moyse, coordinator of the Media 
Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe, and Rashweat Mukundu, director of 
the Media Institute of Southern Africa in Zimbabwe


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