preliminary results of a monitoring project concerning http://www.egradio.eg
The official web
site of ERTU also provides audio streams of Arabic and foreign language
programmes. Three of them, named Persian, Swahili and English, seem to promise
streams in those languages but it is more complicated.
1. External
Services in English and other languages
http://www.egradio.eg/radio.php?PubPnt=English&ChnName=13
(English) did not carry any signal at any time checked, not even the 1 kHz test
tone.
(Swahili) and
(Persian) seem to be in parallel and carry a number of foreign language
services, including English at 0200-0330 and 1215-1330. KiSwahili is carried
0400-0600 and 1600-1800, Persian at 1330-1530. Exact times for Hausa
(1800-[2100]), Portuguese ([2215-]-2330) and Arabic (2330-) are yet to be
established. In between some broadcasts and especially the hours until noon UTC
you will only hear a 1 kHz test tone.
2. Domestic Services in English,
French and other languages
Domestic programmes in English (but including a
BBC News Hour) and French are found at
While
on 3 August much of the chat in both languages was not political, there was a
programme in English taking telephone calls on topics brought up by the
moderator. There was some controversial comment on the recent political history
of Egypt, that the moderator tried to calm down, while comments on the destitute
situation of the Egyptian education systems went out uninterrupted.
On 3
August the BBC Newshour had a very critical report on the Egyptian Government’s
crack down on suspected dissidents, but the programme was not interrupted.
The lyrics of some of the English songs were very explicit, some thing
you would not expect on a state broadcaster of a state fighting against Muslim
extremism. While the West seems to think of itself as „developed world“, from
the viewpoint of its critics it is not „civilised“. It is with great interest
that I heard a new expression for the West used in a Buddhist talk: „advantaged
world“.
European languages are also heard at
Taken
the broadcasts of 3 August, the German domestic programme found here at
1200-1300 and the German shortwave programme at 1900-2000 on 9665 kHz are
produced independently although the domestic programme could have been used as
external service (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, August 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
