[HCDX] HCJB Tops .........

[Robert Wilkner <rlcw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*HOME* * MISSIONS ** GENERAL * 	
*: : VIEW*

HCJB Tops Brazilian Survey in Ecuador

Portuguese-speaking participants in an annual survey conducted by the 
Santa Rita DX Club in Brazil indicate that Radio Station HCJB in Quito, 
Ecuador, continues to be one of their favorite shortwave radio stations.

2038-01-18 19:14

The flagship station of HCJB World Radio continues to be one of their 
favorite shortwave radio stations according to the recently released 
results of an annual survey conducted in Brazil.

Portuguese-speaking participants in the 2004 survey conducted by the 
Santa Rita DX Club placed Radio Station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador as the 
?Most Listened-to Shortwave Station? category followed by Chile-based 
Voz Cristá (Christian Voice) which placed first in 2003. This is the 
second year in a row that a religious station has led this category.

?The good results we see in this survey are a reflection of the hard 
work our Portuguese producers put into their programs,? said Radio 
Director Doug Weber in Quito. ?They really make an effort to know who 
their audience is and that is apparently paying off in listenership.?

According to HCJB World Radio, respondents also selected ?A Voz dos 
Andes? (Voice of the Andes) -- as HCJB is called -- as ?Best Shortwave 
Station.? The BBC, which ended Portuguese-language transmissions to 
South America earlier this year, had led the survey in 2002 followed by 
HCJB. The club?s 1999 survey showed HCJB in fourth behind three 
government stations: BBC, Radio France International and Radio China 
International.

For the sixth consecutive year, respondents named HCJB Portuguese 
program producer Eunice Carvajal as having the top DX program. HCJB 
explained that DX is a telegraph term for distance, and DXers enjoy 
listening to signals from distant stations.

Although Carvajal is the sole program producer at the ministry?s studios 
in Quito, most of the programs are produced at HCJB World Radio-Brazil?s 
studios in Curitiba and elsewhere.

Carvajal said the Santa Rita Club results are especially valuable 
because of the participation by non-club listeners who tune in to the 
station primarily for program content, unlike hobbyists who listen 
primarily to request a QSL card, confirming that they heard the 
station?s signal.

Currently, Portuguese-language programs air from Quito 7.5 hours a day 
in three programming blocks. Preaching, interspersed with music, 
proclaims the message of salvation through Jesus Christ to listeners 
across Brazil.

Carvajal added that shortwave continues to play a key role in reaching 
the world for Christ.

?I believe those who say shortwave radio is dead or dying should go on a 
trip into the jungle area of Brazil,? she said. ?They will see that 
[there are many] communities that are very isolated from one another and 
find out that the only way to communicate is by shortwave.?

Also ranking high in the survey, were two producers, Ingrid Winter and 
Pastor Mario Miki in Curitiba. Winter was named ?Best Female Announcer,? 
and Miki again placed second in the ?Best Male Program Host? category as 
he did in 2002.

---[Start Commercial]---------------------

World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom

---[End Commercial]-----------------------
________________________________________
Hard-Core-DX mailing list
Hard-Core-DX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/
_______________________________________________

THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed
and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License
published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt