Text of report in English by Saudi state-owned official news agency SPA website
Riyadh, 17 August: The Minister of Culture and Information, Dr Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khojah has approved that Saudi Radio starts broadcasting in Turkish language next Saturday [August 22].
In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry for Radio Affairs Ibrahim bin Ahmed Al-Saqa’ob pointed out that the 9675 kHz frequency transmission will be launched from Jedda Radio for three hours daily starting from 9:00 p.m. until midnight [1800-2100 UTC], noting that the transmission will be directed to Turkey, northern Iraq, northern Syria, Greece and Cyprus.
(Source: SPA news agency website, Riyadh, in English 0000 gmt 17 Aug 09 via BBC Monitoring)
on Aug 18th, 2009 at 14:12
This is a resumption of the service terminated in 2007, albeit it’ll now be aired in the local evening rather than morning.
MN item re closure here: http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/saudi-radio-ends-turkish-language-broadcast#more-7142
on Aug 18th, 2009 at 14:49
Thank you Dave. I did not have time to do any research on this item as I have been on a current affairs shift today. I thought it sounded familiar