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From: "George Wood" 
East. ("SATCO DX Chart Update")
TIBET--The U.S. government's Radio Free Asia started broadcasts in
Tibetan on December 2. It broadcasts three half hours a day to the
Chinese-occupied area. This is the station's second language, after
Chinese. There are plans to introduce local language broadcasts to
Burma, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia next year. (Reuters)
AUSTRALIA--The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is considering a
plan to sell its Asian satellite television service, reports the
"Sydney Morning Herald". The newspaper says the proposed sale of
Australian Television is supported by Prime Minister John Howard and
his cabinet. Australian Television broadcasts Australian news and
other ABC programming to Asia, using a transponder on one of
Indonesia's Palapa satellites. The "Herald" said that under the plan
the ABC would sell Australian Television's satellite capacity and its
contracts with Asian pay TV operators. In return, the ABC would retain
eight to 12 hours of daily time of service for its programming. (AP)
Australian Television was set up under the previous Labour Party
government. The current right wing government apparently prefers
private ownership.
JAPAN--The U.S. television network NBC plans to distribute its 
programs in Japan, the president of NBC Asia said Tuesday. S.K. Fung
said NBC programs will be seen in Japan next year, although it remains
to be decided whether they will be shown on conventional commercial
TV, cable TV, or by satellite. 
NBC has been airing its CNBC business channel in parts of Asia for 1
1/2 years, and started an NBC general channel in Asia earlier this
year. But the network doesn't have any programming available in Japan
now, Fung said. (AP)
NORTH AMERICA:
CANADA--A week after the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had
announced it would take Radio Canada International off the air in
March, the station has won a one year repreive from the Canadian
government. The cash-strapped CBC is currently trimming services and
cutting jobs to deal with a 414 million (Canadian) dollar cutback in
government subsidies. The federal government announced on December 12
that RCI's 16 million (Canadian) dollar funding will be part of a new
foreign communications strategy. (Reuters)
RADIO MIAMI INTERNATIONAL--On December 7, WRMI began broadcasting a
weekly program from the Khmer Community Rescue Association of Seattle,
Washington, USA.  The program, which is in a test phase during the
month of December, is aired each Saturday from 22:00-23:00 UTC on 9955
kHz.  The first half-hour of the program is in the Cambodian, or
Khmer, language and is called "Thansour Thmey Radio."  It is intended
for Cambodian immigrants living in the Americas.  The second-half-hour
of the program is in English and is called "Voice of Cambodia Radio
International." The English-language program is intended for a general
audience in the Americas, and its purpose is to promote Cambodian
culture.  The Khmer-language program is intended to preserve the Khmer
language and culture of Cambodian immigrants.
The English-language segment will also be broadcast via IRRS-Shortwave
in Milan, Italy during December as part of the "International Public
Access Radio" project undertaken by both IRRS and WRMI.
On December 9, WRMI began re-broadcasting a daily 15-minute program
from Vatican Radio in Spanish.  This program is aired at 02:15-02:30
UTC Tuesday-Saturday, and at 01:45-02:00 UTC Sunday on 9955 kHz.  The
program contains a summary of recent Spanish-language programming from
Vatican Radio's Hispanoamerican Service, news, commentaries, analysis,
religious features and excerpts from speeches by Pope John Paul II in
Spanish.  During a visit by WRMI representatives to Vatican Radio in
June of this year, discussions began between the two stations
regarding possible shortwave relays of Vatican Radio programming by
WRMI to Latin America. (Jeff White, WRMI)
GLOBAL:
CHILDREN'S DAY--The World Radio Network will be broadcasting the
highlights of a special Children's Radio Day, as part of UNICEF's
fifth annual Children's Day of Broadcasting on December 15. The
special program by Children 2000, an organization set up to promote
the use of radio for children, will be presented live from under the
Christmas tree at Whiteley's shopping mall in central London, at
17:00-17:30 hrs UTC. It will be carried across Europe, Africa, the
Middle East, North America, Asia, and the Pacific on WRN (the
satellite details are the same as for the WRN relays of Radio Sweden
given below). A RealAudio version will also be available on WRN's Web
site (www.wrn.org).
The broadcast will also make history as the first radio program for
children to be broadcast by Digital Audio Broadcasting. WRN's European
English-language network is currently broadcast part of the
Independent Radio DAB Multiplex in London. (Simon Spanswick, WRN)
BBC--The Discovery Channel and the BBC are to team up in a USD 500
million venture to make programs and launch new channels. The new
channels are to be "in the United States and elsewhere". The venture
will also create hundreds of hours of new programs. (Reuters)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC--NBC and National Geographic Television have
formed a joint venture to launch National Geographic channels
through-out the world in 1997. The channels will carry documentary,
drama, and children's shows, using National Geographic's library of
nature programming, as well as shows that will be acquired. To start,
the venture will launch cable and satellite channels in Latin America,
Europe, and Asia, in co-operation with local partners in each
territory. ("Tele-satellit News" and AP)
CYBERSPACE:
SERBIA--When Serbian strongman Slobadan Milosevic closed the free
radio station B92, the station moved to the Worldwide Web. Within a
few hours news from the station could be read and heard (in
RealAudio). Milosevic was forced by international opinion to let the
station return to the airwaves ("it was a problem with electricity"
according to the Serb government), you can still check out the Web
pages:
http://www.xs4all.nl/opennet/
http://www.dds.nl/~pressnow/b92.htm
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Radio Sweden broadcasts in English:
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Satellite:
13:30, 17:15, and 19:30 hrs on Astra transponder 33 (ZDF) and Tele-X
(Kanal 5 -- 12.475 GHz) (through March) and on Eutelsat II-F1, 10.987
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01:30 hrs    7265/7290* kHz
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Thanks to this week's contributors            Good Listening!
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