Radio Romania International

Radio România Internaţional

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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. Prior to 1989, the station was known as Radio Bucharest.

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 RealAudio), 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.

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)
0000-1000 Freq[kHz]: 9730, 11800
0100–0200 Freq[kHz]: 6150, 9510
0400–0500 Freq[kHz]: 6115, 9515, 9690, 11895
0630–0700 Freq[kHz]: 7180, 9690, 15135, 17780
1100-1200 Freq[kHz]: 15130, 15150, 17670, 17680
1300–1400 Freq[kHz]: 15105, 17745
1800–1900 Freq[kHz]: 7120, 9640
2130–2200 Freq[kHz]: 6055, 6115, 7145, 9755
2200–3200 Freq[kHz]: 5930, 7430, 9790, 11700
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

See also

• External program hours - Comparison with some other external radio broadcasters

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