The Hiring commission of Venezuela’s Ministry of Communication and Information (Minci) and the commission of Radio Nacional de Venezuela (RNV), yesterday met representatives of companies bidding for work in the construction of the new shortwave station for RNV, located in Calabozo, Guarico state.
Engineer Luis Alfredo Palacios, an adviser to RNV, said the station will propagate programming of RNV throughout the American Continent. “At this time, the International Channel’s programming is produced in the RNV’s studios and transmitted from a shortwave station in the Republic of Cuba by an agreement signed between the two countries,” said Palacios.
He also stressed that the goal of this project is to build a shortwave station in Venezuela “so that in the near future, we believe that time will be a maximum of 18 months, we can begin to make international broadcasts from this centre.”
Palacios also stressed that the project of this shortwave station consists of two phases. The first is expected to be completed in the next 18 months and to cover only the northern hemisphere, and the second would last an additional year, with which will be achieved the broadcasting of RNV throughout Latin America.
Finally, engineer Luis Alfredo Palacios said that Guarico state is a strategic location for the installation of the antennas because of the place it geographically occupies, at the heart of the country, meaning that there will be an excellent coverage and spreading of the signal of the RNV circuit towards any country in the Americas.
(Source: Radio Nacional de Venezuela via Ashok Bose)
on May 23rd, 2008 at 10:30
good news that at least one country sees the usefullness of short-wave as a mass communication tool, and not just doing it ON THE CHEAP by setting up a website.