7 May 2006 Moscow Itar-Tass Russia's radio-broadcasting companies and their personnel are marking the Day of Radio.
In 1895, Russian scientist Alexander Popov represented at a meeting of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society the first-ever radio receiver in the world he had designed. Only 50 years ago, May 7 was proclaimed the Day of Radio. At present, radio remains one of the most popular mass media sources successfully competing with TV and press. According to statistics, 85 percent of adults listened to the radio last year. "Although we get most of the information visually, radio helps us in thousands of situations when we are unable to switch on a TV-set and look through a newspaper," a member of the Radio Guild - the national organization of mass media workers Mediasoyuz, Igor Malov, told Itar-Tass. "Radio is one of the most democratic mass media and the promptest source of information," he said. He believes that "real revolution that may be only compared with the invention of radio will embrace domestic radio broadcasters in the near future." "In the shortest time possible, radio will transfer to digital broadcasting," Malov said. During the day Russia's radio-broadcasting companies will surprise their listeners and make presents to them. For instance, the Voice of Russia will hold a radio-marathon devoted to the Russian language as a tool of inter-ethnic communication. Different Russian-speaking radio stations from the CIS and non-CIS countries will be on air of the Voice of Russia for eight hours. Scientists, politicians, writers, public and cultural figures will discuss on air what role the Russian language plays in the modern world and whether it has chances to become the language of international communication. http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=7715813&PageNum=0 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
