Polish Radio launches Ukrainian news bulletins

 

Polish Radio launches news bulletins in Ukrainian to report on the Russian invasion 

(25.02.2022 11:30)

Public broadcaster Polish Radio on Thursday began airing special news bulletins in Ukrainian, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  (Polkish Radio 1 on 225 kHz LW) 

Website: http://www.polskieradio.pl 

The newscasts can be heard on Polish Radio 1, every day after 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.  News is gathered and presented by journalists from the Ukrainian section of Polish Radio’s External Service, also known as Radio Poland. 

Broadcast on longwave, Polish Radio 1 is available not just in Poland, but also in Ukraine and almost all over Europe, IAR reported.

Effort to counter Russian disinformation

The three-minute news programmes are addressed to the Ukrainian expatriate community in Poland, as well as to Ukraine’s home population, said Andrzej Rybat, director of Radio Poland. 

He added that the bulletins would focus on the situation on the frontline, as well as the free world’s efforts to help Ukraine, and especially Poland’s drive to secure meaningful international sanctions against Russia.

Also covered will be the fate of the Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion and the support provided to them by Polish non-governmental and church-based groups. In addition, journalists will report on all initiatives on the part of Polish politicians and the wider society to help Ukrainians based in Ukraine, Ryba?t said.

He emphasized that the news bulletins would aim to dispel “disinformation and fake news produced by the propaganda machine of Putin’s regime,” which are part of Russia’s “hybrid war against the free world.”

'Credible, first-hand information

Drawing on extensive contacts and teaming up with journalists and partners in Ukraine and Western countries, Polish Radio’s Ukrainian news programs will seek to counter fake news and provide "credible, first-hand information" about the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Ryba?t also said.  

The Ukrainian-language newscasts are also an expression of solidarity with Ukrainian journalists, who are risking their lives to defend the whole Euro-Atlantic community against “a concentrated disinformation attack by the propaganda machine of the Russian aggressor," he added.             

In the early hours of Thursday morning, Russia announced a "special military operation" against Ukraine to eliminate what President Vladimir Putin said was a "serious threat" against his country.

Despite appeals and warnings from the international community, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by land, air, and sea, the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War II, the Reuters news agency reported.

Top Polish officials have condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine and vowed to support the Ukrainian people.

(pm/gs)

Source: IAR

https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Artykul/2908605,Polish-Radio-launches-news-bulletins-in-Ukrainian-to-report-on-Russian-invasion

(via Wireless on Flirt FM on Twitter, 25 Feb) 

Polish Radio downsizes shortwave service

Polish Radio External Service, according to their website (www.thenews.pl ) the only shortwave transmission for B11 Winter, is on 3955 kHz from 1800-1900 UTC via Sitkunai, Lithuania. This is sad as I was a semi-regular listener to their programs having grown to like them when the CBC's Overnight Service used to carry them at 4:30 AM (local).
(Mark Coady/ODXA via Cumbre)

Polish Radio and TV under one banner ?

The head of Poland’s National Broadcasting Council, Jan Dworak has voiced that he would like to merge public broadcasters TVP and Polskie Radio. “Maybe one day we will see the creation of one giant public broadcaster, which would combine radio and television,” Dworak told the business daily, Puls Biznesu.

The daily writes that as head of the National Broadcasting Council, Jan Dworak wants to create a joint TV and radio council which would also act as a programming and supervisory board. According to Mr Dworak, the board would comprise of representatives from the world of Polish culture, artists’ associations, clerics, media bosses, but would also have room for “a few” politicians.
(Source: Polskie Radio/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

VT Group secures contract with Polskie Radio

Support services company VT Group has secured a contract to broadcast 20 hours a day of analogue and digital output from the Polish public broadcaster Polskie Radio using its network of European and global transmission sites. VT will deliver the programming on shortwave to listeners in Europe and Israel. Broadcasts by Polskie Radio’s External Service, Poland’s international radio service, will be delivered in Polish, English, German, Hebrew, Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian.

Programming, originating in Warsaw, will be brought into VT’s Media Management Centre in London for scheduling and distribution to various transmission sites using VT’s Global Media Network - a combination of fibre connectivity and satellite delivery. The majority of transmission will go out from VT’s site at Woofferton in Shropshire, supported by other sites including Rampisham and Skelton, and partner sites in Dhabiyya in the United Arab Emirates and at Moosbrun in Austria.

Most of the programming will be analogue but there is also provision for 1.5 hours a day of digital output using DRM digital short wave.

VT’s John Prior, General Manager Broadcast and Security, commented: ” We are delighted to be appointed as Polskie Radio’s exclusive shortwave transmission partner supplementing their existing output by satellite and Internet. The move demonstrates a continued commitment to short wave from a major European broadcaster.”

The four-year contract with Polskie Radio, which started in late October, is worth some £1.5 million and means VT now has nearly 40 customers for its transmission services. Polskie Radio’s daily output will place it in the company’s top ten broadcast customers.

(Source: VT Group)

Andy Sennitt comments: This confirms our report of 15 October, but at that stage the contract was said to be for six months. A four-year contract is good news for Polish Radio listeners.
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Related story from Oct. 15
On the latest Multimedia programme of Polish Radio’s English service, presenter Slawek Szefs announced that, like Radio Prague, the future of its shortwave broadcasts is in some doubt, but the station has been able to secure a new six-month contract via a new provider [presumably VT Communications] and will broadcast in English as follows during the B09 transmission period commencing on 25 October:

1300-1400 UTC on 11675 kHz via Moosbrunn, Austria (100 kW)
1300-1400 UTC on 11860 kHz via Woofferton, UK (125 kW)

1800-1900 UTC on 9650 kHz via Dhabbaya, UAE (250 kW)
1800-1900 UTC on 6130 kHz DRM via Woofferton, UK (100 kW)
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Summer schedule updates

Summer schedule for SW transmissions from Centre de Fontbonne (MCR)

All times UTC

TransWorld Radio
0545-0600 : 5910 in Polish
0545-0600 : 7335 in Polish
0600-0615 : Mo/Tu/Th/Fr 5910 in Czech
0600-0615 : Mo/Tu/Th/Fr 7335 in Czech
0645-0820 : Su 9800 in English
0700-0750 : Mo-Fr 9800 in English
0715-0750 : Sa 9800 in English
0800-0830 : Sa 7210 in Serbian
0830-0900 : 7210 in Hungarian
1000-1030 : Sa 9440 in Romanian.

Polskie Radio, Warsaw
1530-1630 : 9670 in Polish.
1630-1700 : 9670 in Belarusian. (Ghibaudo)

(Source: DSWCI/DX Window # 352 via Anker Petersen, Denmark)

Radio Euro goes online, on air in Poland

Today sees the first broadcasts of Radio Euro, which takes over from the now defunct Radio BiS. Radio Euro is the first fully multimedia radio station run by public broadcaster Polskie Radio.

Polskie Radio Euro is to include more news services, including sports bulletins. The station also offers information on the upcoming Euro 2008 championships and ongoing preparation in Poland for the Euro 2012 football championships to be held in Poland and the Ukraine.

The station went online today at 0600, with its new breakfast show ‘Po bandzie’, hosted by Witold Odrobina, a known radio journalist who has previously worked for RMF FM and AntyRadio. Radio Euro offers new services, including a new website, which is to include podcasts and provides a webcam for listeners to see what’s going on live in the station’s studio.

Many programmes have adopted a new format, although one show has been rolled over from Radio BIS, being Bis Up, a show that concentrates on popular culture and foreign languages.
The station’s website includes audio, radio, and society portals for listeners to interact with the station. Polskie Radio Euro has taken over frequencies once used by Radio BIS, and can be found at www.polskieradioeuro .
(Source: Polskie Radio/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Polskie Radio - A08 Multilingual schedule

Effective: 30 March - 26 October 2008
All times UTC

Belaruss
1330-1430 7180 9440
1630-1659 9670

English
1200-1259 9525 11850
1700-1759 7140 7265

Polish
1030-1059 11915 11995
1530-1630 9670
2100-2200 5975 7135

German
1130-1159 5965 5975
1530-1555 5975
1930-1955 6110 6135

Esperanto
1500-1525 9440 11800
1800-1825 6140

Russian
1100-1125 13745 13840
1300-1329 11835 13800
1430-1455 11955
1800-1829 6140 9695
1900-1955 6050

Ukranian
1430-1459 11755
1830-1859 6145 6175
Website: www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/
(Source:wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 24/wb, Germany/HCDX)