[HCDX] Finland: Last Nuntii Latini and Russian

["Eike Bierwirth" <capercaillie@xxxxxxx>]

For those who speak Russian, YLE Radio Finland still had interesting broadcasts on SW. I have tuned to the last SW programme in Russian on December 31, from 1315 to 1355 UTC on 9595 kHz (giving a nice 54433).

The broadcast featured (after the usual news) a special programme dedicated to their disappearance on SW. They interviewed a Finnish member of the European parliament, who in former times was the Director of YLE. In the beginning, they discussed the future of YLE and its Russian service. It will continue via satellite, internet, and local mediumwave (i.e. 558 kHz).

The interesting question whether the audience of the Russian service will be significantly lowered by the SW closure was not explicitly answered, as politicians love to. The rest of the interview dealt more or less with a 2006 review, especially of Finland's role in the EU etc.

In contrast to decisionmakers, the hosts of the programmes seemed to take care about their shortwave listeners and gave a proper farewell, encouraging everybody to continue listening via internet, satellite and MW, knowing the problems this can pose deep inside Russia.

After the end of the Russian programme at 1355, the supposedly last ever profane shortwave broadcast in Latin was aired. The Nuntii Latini are famous for latinising modern words unknown to the ancient Romans - in this edition, "president of the USA" (upon the passing of G. Ford), tsunami (they DO decline this Japanese word following the rules of Latin grammar!), and European Union. However, the news were cut in-half as the transmitter respectlessly was switched off at 1358, in the middle of the sentence.

Happy new year,
Eike.
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