On Wednesday, 3 September Radio Sweden will be celebrating its 70th birthday with special broadcasts, a panel discussion, and live music. The first English broadcast of the day, at 1230 UTC, will be a live programme from Studio 5 at Broadcasting House in Stockholm. Radio Sweden will be looking back at some of the major stories it has covered over the years, and talking with many guests, including some well-known Radio Sweden voices from the past.
That will be followed by a special panel debate in Swedish with a number of cultural and media personalities. The 1400 UTC Swedish broadcast will also be live from Studio 5.
The entire special programme, from 1230 to 1630 UTC, will be carried live in a special web broadcast. Listeners in North America can hear the 1230 English broadcast on 15240 kHz shortwave.
(Source: Radio Sweden)
on Aug 29th, 2008 at 16:38
This press release is really confusing. What are the exact times for English and Swidish special live programming? 1230 to 1400 English and 1400 to 1630 Swedish? Wouldn’t it be better to have a live English program at 1430 when RS covers Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific?
How long a 1230 SW English broadcast is gonna be? Usual 30 min. or longer? What about 1330 broadcast to Asia and the Pacific? Will it be live, as well?
Just in case, here’s R.Sweden’s English SW schedule for a period of 1230 to 1600 UT:
1230-1300 15240 (290°} N.America
1330-1400 15735 (40°) Asia and the Pacific
1430-1500 15240 (272°) via Sackville N.America
1430-1500 13820 (100°) Europe, Africa, M.East + Asia and the Pacific
1530-1600 11595 (120°) Europe, Africa, M.East
on Aug 29th, 2008 at 16:48
It’s not a press release. The information is exactly as published on their website, except that I added the shortwave frequency. But the whole four hours is not going to be in English - some of it’s in Swedish. Unfortunately due to dealing with some breaking news stories, I did not have time to contact anyone at Radio Sweden, and I know they go home about 5 o’clock
But at least we know something special is planned….
on Sep 1st, 2008 at 16:36
The schedule for the internet broadcast is at the link below, the first half hour is in English, it’s followed by a panel discussion for an hour, presumably internet only, and then the live Swedish shortwave broadcast:
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?nyheter=1&ProgramID=2076&Artikel=2278804