RNW’s Head of English Andy Clark writes: Starting on Saturday 4 July there will be a revision of the summer schedule of our English stream, RNW2, mainly to bring more variety in our “overnight” web and satellite programming to the US and Asia. We tried to create a grid where web or satellite listeners can listen to us for at least two hours without hearing repetitions, and where they can listen on successive days at the same time without hearing repetitions.
The hours between 0000 UTC and 1400 UTC used to contain just two programmes which were repeated no less than 14 times. These hours now contain repeats of all our feature programmes, and Newsline. Plus a whole load of new music programmes: Live at the Concertgebouw, Tim Fisher’s Euro Hit-40, Daniel Frankl’s European Jazz Stage (alternating every 13 weeks with World Music), and the return by popular demand of our Classic Documentaries.
on Jul 3rd, 2009 at 00:34
BRAVO! This is absolutely fantastic news. The quality of the added programs equal those already on the RNW2 feed and reduces the level of existing repetition which, frankly, got tedious as time went on. The only problem for me will be that I’m going to have to find more time to listen to Radio Netherlands!
A great and welcome move on your part. Thank you!