DOGE Targeting VOA And Radio Free Europe

 

Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) are in the sights of Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur appointed by President Donald Trump to oversee the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Musk commented on a social media post by Richard Grenell, the U.S. Special Envoy for Special Missions, who said the radio networks are “state-owned media” and “are a relic of the past.”

“Yes, shut them down,” Musk wrote in his reply to the post. “Europe is free now (not counting stifling bureaucracy). Nobody listens to them anymore. It’s just radical left crazy people talking to themselves while torching $1B/year of US taxpayer money."

As previously reported by Inside Radio, DOGE wants to defund National Public Radio (NPR). DOGE Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has asked the leaders of NPR and PBS, to testify to the subcommittee in the coming weeks. DOGE says it is looking into the “systemically biased news coverage” of the two public media outlets.

Additionally, a bill has been introduced in Congress that would specifically prohibit federal funding for National Public Radio. The proposed No More Funding for NPR Act of 2025 would not only cut off future funding of NPR but also require that any money that had earlier been allocated but not yet been spent be permanently rescinded.

(Inside Radio)

BBG station's frequency updates

All times UTC / NF new frequency

0100-0200 NF 7515 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 7470 RFA Tibetan Mon/Thu
0100-0200 NF 7500 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 7470 RFA Tibetan Wed/Sun
0100-0200 NF 7530 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 7470 RFA Tibetan Tue/Fri
0100-0200 NF 7545 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 7470 RFA Tibetan Sat
0100-0200 NF 17850 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg, ex 17825 RFA Uighur Tue
0200-0300 NF 15520 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex 15220 RFA Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri
0200-0300 on 15220 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex Daily RFA Tibetan Thu
0200-0300 NF 15540 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex 15220 RFA Tibetan Sun/Tue/Sat
0300-0600 NF 21555 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg, ex 21540 RFA Chinese Sat
0300-0320 NF 7425 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg, ex 11925 RFE Avari
0320-0340 NF 7425 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg, ex 11925 RFE Chechen
0340-0400 NF 7425 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg, ex 11925 RFE Circassian
0330-0400 NF 13745 IRA 250 kW / 263 deg, ex 9845 VOA Somali
0600-0700 NF 17675 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 17715 RFA Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri
0600-0700 on 17715 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex Daily RFA Tibetan Thu
0600-0700 NF 17685 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 17715 RFA Tibetan Sun/Tue/Sat
1100-1200 NF 11510 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex 11590 RFA Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri
1100-1200 on 11590 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex Daily RFA Tibetan Thu
1100-1200 NF 11545 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex 11590 RFA Tibetan Sun/Tue/Sat
1230-1400 NF 13595 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg, ex 7245 RFA Burmese
1400-1500 NF 11880 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg, ex 15265 VOA Kurdish
1500-1530 NF 11640 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg, ex 13785 VOA Uzbek
1500-1600 NF 12085 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 11625 RFA Tibetan
1600-1630 NF 13740 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg, ex 12010 VOA Kinyarwanda Sat
1630-1700 NF 17655 GB 250 kW / 094 deg, ex 17650 VOA Portuguese Fri
1700-1800 NF 17655 GB 250 kW / 094 deg, ex 17650 VOA Portuguese
1800-1830 NF 17655 GB 250 kW / 094 deg, ex 17650 VOA Portuguese Mon-Fri
1830-1900 NF 9435 WER 250 kW / 090 deg, ex 9440 VOA Azeri, re-ex 9440
2030-2100 NF 11670*WER 250 kW / 180 deg, ex 7315 VOA Hausa Mon-Fri, re-ex 9780
2330-0030 NF 9920 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg, ex 5885 RFA Vietnamese
* strong co-ch AIR in Hindi/English

RFA/ Radio Free Asia
RFE/ Radio Free Europe
VOA/ Voice of America
(DX Mix News 715 via Alokesh Gupta, India)

Radio Free Afghanistan schedule update

All times UTC


RFE/R Liberty/Radio Free Afghanistan

Dari
0300-0330 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0430-0530 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0630-0730 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0830-0930 999 1296 15090 15680 17685
1030-1130 999 1296 15090 15680 17685
1230-1330 999 1296 11550 15090 15680
1400-1430 999 1296 11550 15090

Pashto0230-0300 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0330-0430 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0530-0630 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0730-0830 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0930-1030 999 1296 15090 15680 17685
1130-1230 999 1296 15090 15680 17685
1330-1400 999 1296 11550 15090
(DX Mix News 686 via Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria & Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany)

Radio Azadi's Radio Distribution Drive in Afghanistan

Since September, RFE’s (Radio Free Europe's) Afghan service Radio Azadi -- the most popular radio station in the country -- has been distributing 20,000 hand-cranked and solar powered radios to people all across Afghanistan. The aim of the project is to promote access to news and information, especially in rural and remote areas where illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world and where radio is often the only means for people to receive news.

Continued story and photos at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty: http://www.rferl.org/content/off_mic_radio_azadi_distribution_drive/2241690.html

RFE broadcast from Hungarian revolution digitized

The RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) Broadcast Collection at Stanford’s Hoover Institution contains some 80,000 studio tape reels of Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL) broadcasts. Now, thanks to the hard work of a dedicated team of RFE affiliates, it also contains rare log tapes (low-quality recordings of shortwave transmitter output) for the crucial three weeks of the Hungarian Revolution (October 19 – November 13, 1956).

During this era, log tapes were routinely reused (no others have been preserved), but thanks to historical accident and modern technology, the complete recordings of every RFE broadcast hour from that momentous period are now available in digitized form at the Hoover Archives at Stanford University and the Hungarian National Szechenyi Library. While the transcripts of many of these programmes aired during those three weeks of 1956 have long been available, the recovered 1956 log tapes provide the only complete audio record of RFE’s broadcasts at that time.
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

More from RFE/RL at:
http://www.rferl.org/content/off_mic_ross_johnson_hungarian_revolution/2209996.html

Radio Azadi launches interactive SMS service

Radio Azadi, Radio Free Europe's Afghan station, has launched an interactive SMS service that is connecting the station more directly with its audience, especially villagers in remote, inaccessible regions who are often cut off from news and information. Thanks to a recent partnership between RFE and mobile service provider Etisalat, mobile phone users in Afghanistan can now subscribe to free SMS news updates and emergency alerts from Radio Azadi.

“The exciting thing is that it’s not just Radio Azadi sending news to subscribers,” says RFE Associate Director of Broadcasting Akbar Ayazi. “It’s our subscribers sending news back to us. Since the project launched less than a month ago, we’ve already received more than 5,000 text messages from people all around the country - this ‘citizen journalism’ is unique in Afghanistan.”

Each morning and evening, Etisalat customers who subscribe to the free service receive news headlines from Radio Azadi in either Dari or Pashto. They also get SMS messages on their phones with breaking news and emergency alerts. In addition to texts, Mr Ayazi says subscribers will soon be able to send Radio Azadi photos and videos from their mobile devices. He says the station has launched a new weekly programme in which many of the SMS messages it receives are read on the air.

Despite being one of the poorest countries in the world, Afghanistan has 17 million mobile phone subscriptions out of a population of 29 million.
(Source: RFE/RL/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

RFE Kyrgyz off the air

Radio Free Europe’s Kyrgyz television and radio programs have been off the air in the capital city of Bishkek since Wednesday (Mar 10), shortly after affiliate managers reported that they had been pressured by Kyrgyz officials.

RFE/RL’s Bishkek television affiliate station “Echo of Manas” was warned by Kyrgyz authorities that it would face difficulties in renewing its broadcast license if it continued to air the Kyrgyz Service’s widely viewed “Inconvenient Questions” and “Azattyk Plus” programs. Radio affiliates in Bishkek and the northern city of Naryn have also stopped carrying Kyrgyz Service programming.

The broadcasting of RFE/RL programs was halted just days before expected rallies and protests marking the fifth anniversary of the country’s so-called Tulip Revolution. The US State Department’s just released annual report on human rights in Kyrgyzstan noted that, while “the law provides for freedom of speech and of the press… the government at times restricted these rights in practice, especially through withdrawal of broadcasting rights and reportedly through intimidation of journalists.”

RFE/RL’s difficulties in Kyrgyzstan are not new. In late 2008, UTRK, Kyrgyzstan’s state broadcaster, suspended Radio Azattyk programming, calling its political content “too negative and too critical.” The company later offered to resume broadcasts on condition that all programming be submitted to state authorities for prior approval. RFE/RL rejected the proposal.
(Source: RFE/RL)

Andy Sennitt adds: Kim Andrew Elliott points out that RFE/RL Kyrgyz programming is still available on shortwave, at 1200-1230 UTC on 9465 and 13755 kHz, and 1500-1530 UTC on 7480 and 11790 kHz.
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

RFE/RL to begin new Radio Mashaal broadcast

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (FE/RL) will begin broadcasting in the local Pashto dialects to Pakistan and the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The new station - called Radio Mashaal ("Torch" in Pashto) - will offer an alternative to the growing number of Islamic extremist radio stations in the region.
"There is an urgent need for accurate, objective news and information in Pakistan's tribal areas," says U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke. "Radio Mashaal's commitment to professional journalism in the local language will be an important contribution toward peace, reconciliation and democracy in the region."

Veteran Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid says he hopes Radio Mashaal "will provide people the kind of information they need to make the right decisions about their lives."

One surprise in store for listeners will be the reappearance of Haroon Bacha, a popular Pashtun singer who fled the region last year amid death threats from the Taliban. The 36-year-old recording artist - whose dozens of albums, music videos and television appearances made him one of the most famous entertainers in the region - will be hosting a cultural affairs show for Radio Mashaal. [see The New York Times: "U.S. Refuge for Singer Fleeing the Taliban," 10/12/08]

There is an urgent need for accurate, objective news and information in Pakistan's tribal areas
The first broadcast will air live on January 15 at 4pm local time. Radio Mashaal's correspondents will be covering local and international news with in-depth reports on terrorism, politics, women's issues, and health care (with an emphasis on preventive medicine). The station will feature roundtable discussions and interviews with tribal leaders and local policymakers in addition to regular call-in programs aimed at giving listeners the opportunity to be heard.
Radio Mashaal will operate out of a new bureau in Pakistan and broadcast from RFE/RL's Prague headquarters. The station will share a frequency with VOA's Radio Deewa and transmit via FM and shortwave. Online, Radio Mashaal's website will provide a live stream of its broadcasts. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty web site)
(Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina)

Scheduled to broadcast as: 1100-1300 UTC 9395.0 via Thailand, 11605.0, 13700.0 via Sri Lanka.

International broadcasters on Iran's 'seditious' list

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has issued a list of some 60 US and international organizations and media outlets - including RFE/RL’s Radio Farda - that it accuses of backing “sedition” in Iran and playing a role in the post-election unrest. The list, carried yesterday by Iranian media, includes television networks and other media including Radio Farda, BBC, VOA, and Radio Zamaneh, which is based in the Netherlands.

An unspecified deputy intelligence minister for international affairs was quoted as having accused the organizations of working against the Iranian regime and being “examples of foreign subversive organizations.”

Other organizations include the Open Society Institute of U.S. philanthropist George Soros, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and Freedom House. The unnamed official added that contacts and cooperation with these organizations are banned.
(Source: RFE/RL/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty updates broadcast schedule

Updated summer A-09 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

All times UTC

Arabic
0200-0700 on 1593

Radio Free Iraq
1500-1530 on 1593
1830-2000 on 1593
2100-2300 on 1593

Azeri
1500-1600 on 7480 15565

Avari
0300-0320 on 7290 9435
1500-1520 on 6120 11810

Belarussian
0300-0500 on 612 6105 6120
1500-1700 on 612 7445 9725
1700-1900 on 612 6050 6105
1900-2100 on 612 5820 9405

Chechen
0320-0340 on 7290 9435
1520-1540 on 6120 11810

Chercassi
0340-0400 on 7290 9435
1540-1600 on 6120 11810

Dari
0330-0430 on 1296 15680 17670 17685

Radio Free Afghanistan
0530-0630 on 1296 15680 17670 17685
0730-0830 on 1296 15680 17670 17685
0930-1030 on 1296 15090 15680 17685
1130-1230 on 1296 15090 15680 17685
1330-1430 on 1296 11550 15090

Georgian
0500-0600 on 9725 11875 17770
1130-1145 on 12070 15130 15460 Mon-Fri
1400-1500 on 13615 15460
1800-1900 on 7520 9370
2000-2045 on 7480 9840 Mon-Fri
2000-2100 on 7480 9840 Sat/Sun

Kazakh
0100-0200 on 7215 9750
1300-1400 on 9465 12005

Kyrgyz
1200-1230 on 15140 17730
1500-1530 on 7465 11780

Moldovan
0400-0430 on 5955 Mon-Fri
1500-1530 on 9495 Sat/Sun
1600-1630 on 7430 Mon-Fri
1800-1830 on 3995 Mon-Fri

Pashto
0230-0330 on 1296 12140 17670 17685

Radio Free Afghanistan
0430-0530 on 1296 15680 17670 17685
0630-0730 on 1296 15680 17670 17685
0830-0930 on 1296 15090 15680 17685
1030-1130 on 1296 15090 15680 17685
1230-1330 on 1296 11550 15090 15680

Persian
0030-0100 on 1575 5860 7280 7245 7295 7375

Radio Farda
0100-0130 on 1575 5860 7280 7245 7295 7375 7490
0130-0230 on 1575 5860 5885 6045 7280 7295 7375 15475
0200-0230 on 1575 5860 5885 6045 7280 7295 7375 7490 15475
0230-0300 on 1575 5860 5885 7280 7370 11700 13810 15475
0300-0330 on 1575 5860 5885 7280 7370 9480 9805 11700 13810 15475
0330-0400 on 1575 5860 5885 7280 9480 9805 11700 13810 15690 15475
0400-0500 on 1575 5860 5885 9635 11705 13810 15690 15475
0500-0530 on 1575 5860 5885 13810 15255 15690 15475
0530-0600 on 1575 5885 7220 13810 15255 15690 15475 21715
0600-0630 on 1575 5885 7220 13810 15690 15475 17545 17630 17845 21715
0630-0800 on 1575 5885 7220 15690 15475 17545 17590 17630 17845 21715
0800-0830 on 1575 5885 7220 15690 15475 17545 17590 17630 17845 17880 21715
0830-0930 on 1575 5885 7220 13825 15610 17545 17590 15690 17630 17845 17880 21715
0930-1000 on 1575 5885 15610 15690 17545 17590 17630 17845 17880 21715
1000-1030 on 1575 5885 7435 15610 15690 17545 17590 17630 17880 21715
1030-1130 on 1575 5885 7435 15610 15690 17630 17695 17880 21715
1130-1200 on 1575 5885 7435 15690 17630 17695 17880 21715
1200-1330 on 1575 7435 15690 17755
1330-1400 on 1575 7435 15330 15690 17755
1400-1500 on 1575 5870 11520 15330 17670 17755
1500-1530 on 1575 11520 15410 17755
1530-1600 on 1575 11520 11560 15410 17755
1600-1630 on 1575 7340 7580 11520 11560
1630-1700 on 1575 7340 7580 11520 15475
1700-1730 on 1575 7580 9760 11520 15475
1730-1800 on 1575 7580 9760 9855
1800-1900 on 1575 5830 7580 9855
1900-2130 on 1575 5830 7580 9505
2130-0030 on 1575

Russian
0300-0400 on 5925 7205 11700 15470
0400-0500 on 5925 7205 9520 9760
0500-0700 on 9520 9760 12005 17560
0800-1000 on 11700 15130 17730
1200-1300 on 9585 11700 15130 15565
1300-1400 on 11725 15130 15565
1400-1500 on 9530 11725 11880 13645 15565
1500-1600 on 9520 9530 11885 11725
1600-1700 on 7270 9445 9530
1700-1800 on 5980 5995 9520 11805
1800-1900 on 5820 9520 11755 11805
1900-2000 on 7220 9465 9475 9840
2000-2100 on 7285 9465

Tajik
0100-0200 on 9760 13760
0200-0400 on 9760 15525
1400-1500 on 9790 11895
1500-1600 on 9790 11975
1600-1700 on 7540 9790

Tatar
0300-0400 on 7390 9635
0500-0600 on 9635
1500-1530 on 9715 12075
1600-1630 on 9695 11600
1900-2000 on 9805

Turkmen
0200-0300 on 864 9555 15460
0300-0400 on 9555 15460
1400-1500 on 12075 13830
1500-1530 on 7260 7420
1530-1600 on 864 7260 7420
1600-1700 on 7350 11975
1700-1800 on 9485 9670

Uzbek
0200-0300 on 9855 12025 15145
0300-0400 on 9855 15145 17770
1400-1500 on 7560 9510 12005
1600-1700 on 6060 7555 9390 9520
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 10/DX Mix News #580 via wb, Germany)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty open new headquarters

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty today officially opened its new highly secured headquarters in Prague. “Security was our number-one consideration,” Steven Simmons, a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, said at a ceremony.
The move was partly sparked by heightened Czech fears of terrorism following the attacks of 11 September, 2001. RFE/RL has in recent years reduced its activities in Central and Eastern Europe to focus on Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. The radio station with more than 1,000 journalists and correspondents broadcasts in 28 languages and has developed a range of websites.
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who worked at RFE/RL for nine years during communism and the post-Soviet transition, praised the radio for its efforts “to ensure there is a free press where the free flow of ideas is restricted.”
RFE/RL, founded by the United States during the Cold War in the 1950s, moved to Prague from Munich, Germany in 1995, settling down in the former Czechoslovak parliament building at the top of the central Wenceslas Square. After 9/11, Czech authorities decided to move the radio station out of the centre to a brand new headquarters that the station itself describes as one of the best-protected buildings in Europe.
(Source: AFP/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Related story at:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/first-broadcast-from-new-rferl-headquarters

RFE/RL begins broadcast from new Prague headquarters

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) began a new chapter in its long and distinguished history yesterday when Radio Free Iraq broadcast its first program from RFE/RL’s recently completed Prague headquarters. The broadcast was the first step in relocating all of RFE/RL’s more than 500 Prague-based employees to the facility in Hagibor, ten minutes from the city centre.
The five-story, 236,000 sq/ft broadcast centre features multimedia recording studios, interlinking offices, and a modern newsroom. It is also energy-efficient and one of the most secure buildings in Europe.
“Our new home is tailor-made to meet the needs of a 21st century media organization,” said RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin. “It allows us to stay ahead of the technological curve as we broadcast news and information to many places where authorities are hostile to free and independent media.”
Steve Simmons of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees all US international broadcasting including RFE/RL, credited a number of partners for the successful completion of the project. “We could not have done this without the crucial support of the Czech government, the US Congress, and the US embassy in Prague,” he said. “The BBG is delighted that RFE/RL employees, who broadcast in 28 languages to 20 countries via radio, TV, and the Internet, will now have a state-of-the-art headquarters to meet their needs.”
The building was constructed by Paris-based Orco Property Group and designed by the architectural firm Cigler Marani. RFE/RL is leaving its home of 15 years, the former Czechoslovak communist parliament building, which is being turned over to the National Museum.
(Source: RFE/RL/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - B08 schedule

All times UTC

Avari, Chechen

0400-0500 on 5885 15625
Cherkessi(x20m.) 1600-1700 on 9725 11605

Belorussian

0400-0600 on 612 6105 6120
1600-1800 on 612 9415 9865
1800-2000 on 612 6105 9865
2000-2200 on 612 7165 7220

Dari

0330-0430 on 1296 9335 12140 15335
Free Afghanistan 0530-0630 on 1296 12140 17530 19010
0730-0830 on 1296 12140 17530 19010
0930-1030 on 1296 12140 17530 19010
1130-1230 on 1296 9335 9990 12140
1330-1430 on 1296 9335 12140

Georgian

0500-0600 on 9725 15265 17495
1130-1145 on 15265 15460 17495 17515 Mon-Fri
1400-1500 on 15120 15265
1800-1900 on 9525 9620 9780
2000-2045 on 9565 9590 9840 Mon-Fri
2000-2100 on 9565 9590 9840 Sat/Sun

Kazakh

0100-0200 on 7235 9790
1300-1400 on 12005 15120

Pashto

0230-0330 on 1296 9335 12140 15335
Free Afghanistan 0430-0530 on 1296 12140 15335 19010
0630-0730 on 1296 12140 17530 19010
0830-0930 on 1296 12140 17530 19010
1030-1130 on 1296 9990 12140 19010
1230-1330 on 1296 9335 9990 12140

Persian

0030-0200 on 1575 5860 6115 7145

Farda

0200-0230 on 1575 5860 6115 9520
0230-0300 on 1575 6115 9520 15690
0300-0400 on 1575 5925 9520 15690
0400-0500 on 1575 9430 9585 15690
0500-0600 on 1575 9585 12015 15690
0600-0830 on 1575 9585 15690 17675
0830-1230 on 1575 5860 15690 21715
1230-1400 on 1575 5860 13680 15690
1400-1530 on 1575 11750 13680 15410
1530-1600 on 1575 11750 11840 13680
1600-1700 on 1575 7520 7580 11840
1700-1800 on 1575 7520 7580 9785
1800-1900 on 1575 7520 7580 9595
1900-2000 on 1575 7580 9335 9570
2000-2130 on 1575 7485 7580 9335
2130-0030 on 1575

Moldovian

0500-0600 on 5890 Mon-Fri
1600-1630 on 6120 Sat/Sun
1700-1730 on 6135 Mon-Fri
1900-1930 on 6135 Mon-Fri

Russian

0400-0500 on 5940 7305 9520 17770
0500-0600 on 7305 7345 9520 17770
0600-0700 on 9520 9535 15250 17770
0700-0800 on 9520 12015 15250 15285
0900-1100 on 7220 9520 15130
1300-1400 on 9715 13660 15130
1400-1500 on 7225 9715 15130
1500-1600 on 7220 7270 11805 11870
1600-1700 on 7220 7305 9520 11805
1700-1800 on 7220 7305 9520 9725
1800-2000 on 6150 7220 7350 9650
2000-2100 on 6150 9520
2100-2200 on 6105 7335 7425

Tajik

0100-0300 on 7275 11795
0300-0400 on 9760 11795
1400-1500 on 7595 9695
1500-1700 on 7260 9695

Tatar Bashkir

0400-0500 on 5920 7220
0600-0700 on 9680
1600-1630 on 5895 7380
1700-1730 on 5895 7380
2000-2100 on 5895

Turkmen

0200-0300 on 864 7295 12015
0300-0400 on 5955 12015
1400-1500 on 6055 9445
1500-1530 on 6055 9835
1530-1600 on 864 6055 9835
1600-1800 on 5820 9625

Uzbek

0200-0400 on 9680 12025 15590
1400-1500 on 9595 11715 12015
1500-1530 on 864
1600-1700 on 6060 7550 9760
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 15/ DX Mix News #551)

RFE/RL plans move to new headquarters

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s HQ will move to Hagibor in Prague 10 from Wenceslas Square at the end of the year. At present, concrete blocks are scattered around the gate to the Hagibor area. “Those are benches [sic]. They have to be massive so they wouldn’t fly in the air in case of an explosion,” says Stepán Jirout from Orco, the project’s developer. The new facility will become one of the most guarded places in Europe.
(Source: Prague Daily Monitor/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Radio Free Europe ? Does That Still Exists ?

Radio To Stay Tuned To

By Anne Applebaum
Tuesday, April 22, 2008; Page A19

"Radio Free Europe? Does that still exist?"

That was the question; the speaker was an Important Public Broadcaster, visiting Europe for a few days last week. It wasn't a surprising query, as these things go, or an ignorant one. Not many other Americans know that Radio Free Europe still exists, so why should he?

Nevertheless, the query bothered me, because Radio Free Europe -- the Cold War news service that was, for decades, the only source of independent information in Eastern Europe -- does exist. In fact, it's as important as it ever was, at least in the 21 countries and 28 languages in which it is still often the only source of independent information.....
Read more from The Washington Post at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102551.html