Monday, July 10, 2006

New website for Radio Station Belarus

Radio Station Belarus, the international service of the Republic of Belarus, has launched a new website. The site includes online news in text format, audio of the latest broadcasts in English, German, Russian and Belarusian, and a 24-hour live Internet stream.
The Internet stream carries additional programming in English and other languages. According to the website, airtime in English is 2 hours and 30 minutes a week on shortwave plus 30 hours and 20 minutes on the Web.
The schedule of Internet broadcasts is www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/prognet.asp but note that the times are in local time (UTC+3).
(R. Netherlands-Media Network Weblog)

Listed schedules on their website as:
0100-0300 UTC (local time) 5970, 6170, 7210 kHz
0300-0500 UTC (local time) 5970, 6170, 7210 kHz
1900-2200 UTC (local time) 7105, 7280, 7290 kHz
2100-0000 UTC (local time( 7105, 7280, 7290 kHz
Would not consider this a "user-friendly" schedule, as no languages as listed, although English has been logged 1245-1305 UTC.
(GVH)