[HCDX] Iran is partly funding new Zimbabwe radio station

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Iran is partly funding new Zimbabwe radio station
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2007/iran_zimbabwe_radio.htm
If you wondered how Zimbabwe, whose economy is in a desperate 
state, can afford to set up a new international radio station, the answer 
is simple - it can't. But President Robert Mugabe has found a donor 
who can - Iran.

Reports vary on the exact cost of the project - the BBC reports US$39.6 
million and ABC Australia $48 million, rather than the $35 million 
reported by the Herald yesterday. But inflation is so high in Zimbabwe 
that it's very difficult to perform an accurate conversion - the figure in 
local currency is quoted by the BBC as Z$8.9bn.

Iran is understood to have assisted in refurbishing the studio facilities in 
Harare that will be used by the station, and is now said to have agreed 
to do the same in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo. The Herald 
quotes the Iranian ambassador, Rasoul Momeni, as saying "We are 
going to strengthen our relationship, especially in technically upgrading 
radio and television stations."

The transmitters near Gweru are widely reported to have been donated 
by the Chinese government, so apparently Zimbabwe is able to count 
on both countries for technical assistance. No frequency details have 
yet been published, and the website of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting 
Corporation has been unavailable for some time.

We would expect test transmissions to commence at least a few days 
prior to 18 April, the date by which Zimbabwe's Information Minister 
says the station will be operational.


Zimbabwe's News24 to launch by 18 April
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2007/news24.htm
Zimbabwe's Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu has said that the 
country's new international shortwave radio station, News24, will start 
broadcasting before independence celebrations on 18 April.

The new radio station will be based in Gweru, and should be available 
to audiences both in and outside Zimbabwe.

"There will be a revolutionary development in the media. We should be 
able to tell our own story," Ndlovu is quoted as saying.

The Herald says the government is spending US$35 million on the 
project.

  

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