NEW PAN-EUROPEAN RADIO STATION TO LUNCH IN APRIL
December 13th 2007 00:09
A new pan-European radio station, to be set up by a multinational group of broadcasters and funded by the European Commission, will start up next year.
The European Radio Project, a consortium of 16 radio stations from 13 member states. will broadcast from April 2008 , according to EUobserver.
The project, to be officially signed off on Friday will see the European Radio Project group jointly producing daily half-an-hour EU ‘hard news’ shows, weekly magazines and coverage of big European cultural events.
The programs will be broadcast on the usual frequencies of the participating radio stations, as well as through a new European Radio Project, internet site, which will be in the air from June onwards.
Original content for the radio shows will initially be produced in five ‘core’ languages - English, French, German, Spanish and Polish - and will be translated into Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese and Romanian. More core languages and translated versions will be added in the coming years so that by 2012, all official 23 EU languages should be covered.
Deutsche Welle will ensure the editorial coordination of the project, while Radio France will be responsible for financial affairs and Radio Netherlands will run the web portal of the euro-station.
- From MediaBlab
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