Since 1 February, Radio Farda has added 30 minutes to its main evening news programme, doubling its length to one hour and increasing the total amount of daily news and information programming to Iran to nearly nine hours, more than any other Persian-language international broadcaster.
The expanded program, which is broadcast on mediumwave (1575 kHz), shortwave (9865, 13680, 15690 kHz), satellite and the Internet, airs daily from 6:30PM to 7:30PM Tehran time (1500-1600 UTC) and gives listeners more in-depth analysis in addition to a rich overview of the latest news and current affairs.
The recently redesigned and expanded Persian language website of Radio Farda will carry audio and text versions of the extended news broadcasts. In December, the first month of operation of the revamped site, page views on www.radiofarda.com increased by 30 percent to 4.2 million.
(Source: RFE/RL/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)
