Radio Romania International

Radio România Internaţional

Broadcast area	International
First air date	1927
Affiliations	World Radio Network, EBU-UER, Euranet
Owner	Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company
Sister stations	RRA, RRC, R3N, RRM, RAS
Webcast	http://www.rri.ro/stream/rri1.asx http://www.rri.ro/stream/rri2.asx http://www.rri.ro/stream/rri3.asx
Website	http://www.rri.ro/

Radio România Internaţional (Romanian: Radio România Internaţional, or RRI) is a Romanian radio station owned by the Romanian public radio broadcaster Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (SRR, the national public radio in Romania) that broadcasts abroad.

According to the Romanian law nr. 41/1994, republished, the SRR produces and broadcasts programmes in the Romanian language and other languages, for worldwide auditorium, to promote the image of Romania, and her internal and external politics. As a result, inside the SRR there is Departamentul Radio România Internaţional (The Department Radio Romania International) (RRI), that owns two radio stations:

• RRI 1 - “Romania Live”

As of March 2001, RRI 1 has broadcast daily shows under the heading “Romania, live”, a summary of the shows produced by the main departments in the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation. This summary is broadcast around the clock via the satellite, on the Internet (in Real Audio), and also on short waves (to Central and Western Europe and Israel), 8 hours per day. RRI 1 has daily broadcasts around the clock in Romanian, and three 30 minute-broadcasts in the Aromanian dialect, which add up to 9,300 hours per year.

• RRI 2 - “Radio Bridges”

RRI 2 produces and broadcasts shows in ten foreign languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian, which total 25.5 hours per day. In other words, 9,300 more broadcasting hours per year.

People can listen to the programmes on short, medium and ultra-short waves, but also via satellite and other means of reception; the radio has 51 hours of radio programme every day, which amount to more than 18,600 hours of radio production in 12 months.

Estimated total direct programme hours per week of some external radio broadcasters for 1996

Broadcaster	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	1996[1]
VOA, RFE/RL & Radio Martí	497	1,495	1,907	1,901	2,611	1,821
China Radio International	66	687	1,267	1,350	1,515	1,620
BBC World Service	643	589	723	719	796	1,036
Radio Moscow / Voice of Russia[2]	533	1,015	1,908	2,094	1,876	726
Deutsche Welle	0	315	779	804	848	655
Radio Cairo / ERTU	0	301	540	546	605	604
IRIB World Service	12	24	155	175	400	575
All India Radio	116	157	271	389	456	500
NHK World Radio Japan	0	203	259	259	343	468
Radio France Internationale	198	326	200	125	379	459
Radio Netherlands Worldwide	127	178	335	289	323	392
Israel Radio International	0	91	158	210	253	365
Voice of Turkey	40	77	88	199	322	364
Radio Pyongyang / Voice of Korea	0	159	330	597	534	364
Radio Bulgaria	30	117	164	236	320	338
Radio Australia	181	257	350	333	330	307
Radio Tirana	26	63	487	560	451	303
Radio Romania International	30	159	185	198	199	298
Radio Exterior de España	68	202	251	239	403	270
RDP Internacional	46	133	295	214	203	226
Radio Havana Cuba	0	0	320	424	352	203
Rai Italia Radio	170	205	165	169	181	203
Radio Canada International	85	80	98	134	195	175
Radio Polonia	131	232	334	337	292	171
Radio RSA / Channel Africa	0	63	150	183	156	159
Sveriges Radio International	28	114	140	155	167	149
Magyar Rádió	76	120	105	127	102	144
Radio Prague[3]	119	196	202	255	131	131
Voice of Nigeria[4]	0	0	62	170	120	127
Radio Belgrade	80	70	76	72	96	68

Source: International Broadcast Audience Research, June 1996

The list includes about a quarter of the world's external broadcasters whose output is both publicly funded and worldwide. Among those excluded are Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea and various international commercial and religious stations.

Notes:

1. 1996 figures as at June; all other years as at December.
2. Before 1991, broadcasting for the former USSR.
3. Before 1996, broadcasting for the former Czechoslovakia.
4. Nigeria's external service is now off air.^{[citation needed]}

Satellite broadcasts

RRI also broadcast for listeners in Western Europe via satellite Hot Bird 6 polarization, azimuth 13 degrees East, central frequency 11623 MHz, FEC 3/4, SR 27.500 Msymb/s.

Short Wave broadcasts

RRI broadcasts on shortwave with 300 kW from Galbeni (46.751667N, 26.856667E) and Tiganesti (44.7496057N, 26.1027968E) in Romania, and from NRK's 65 kW transmitter in Kvitsøy, Norway (59.066667N, 5.437500E).

English Language Broadcasts: (GMT)
0100–0200 Freq[kHz]: 6150 & 9515,
0400–0500 Freq[kHz]: 6115, 9515, 9690 & 11895,
0630–0700 Freq[kHz]: 7180, 9690, 15135 & 17780,
1300–1400 Freq[kHz]: 15105 & 17745,
1800–1900 Freq[kHz]: 7120 & 9640,
2130–2200 Freq[kHz]: 6055, 6115, 7145 & 9755,
2300–2400 Freq[kHz]: 6055, 6115, 7105 & 9610.

Romanian Language Broadcast: (GMT)
0100–0300 Freq[kHz]: 6040 & 9640
0800–0900 Freq[kHz]: 11730 & 15370,
0800–1000 Freq[kHz]: 15430 & 17775,
0900–1000 Freq[kHz]: 17745,
0900–1100 Freq[kHz]: 15380,
1000–1100 Freq[kHz]: 15260, 17735 & 17825,
1300–1400 Freq[kHz]: 9610, 11795 & 15170,
1500–1600 Freq[kHz]: 9595 & 11970,
1700–1800 Freq[kHz]: 6110 & 7220,
1800–2000 Freq[kHz]: 7140 & 9595.

Schedule for English broadcasts: (GMT +1H)

WESTERN EUROPE

05.30 – 06.00-----------------------------9 655; 7 305 (DRM)
11.00 – 12.00-----------------------------15 210; 17 510
17.00 – 18.00-----------------------------11 735; 9 535 (DRM)
17.00-17.30 ------------------------------ 7 350 (DRM for Great Britain alone)
20.30 – 21.00-----------------------------11 880; 9 765 (DRM)
22.00 – 23.00-----------------------------5 960; 7 435

External links

• Radio Romania International Website (Arabic) (Chinese) (English) (French) (German) (Italian) (Serbian) (Spanish) (Russian) (Ukrainian)
• main schedule with respective languages & frequencies
• Listen to Radio Romania International Live (English) : http://stream2.srr.ro:8052
• (Romanian): http://stream2.srr.ro:8062
• (Other Languages): http://stream2.srr.ro:8072