海外からのラジオ放送

1300代の朝鮮語と日本語放送は各波強力に入感している。14日は日本語放送が5回とも同じ番組を出す日である。「ふるさとの風ニュースは4月16日ワシントンDCで開催された日米首脳会談後の記者会見冒頭発言から。ニュース解説は4月28日バイデン大統領の施政方針演説について。ふるさとの唱歌コーナーは「思い出のアルバム」が出ている。いつも曲名はアナウンスされていない。途中カットはなく最後まで出ている。
今週の一曲、朝鮮語はチェッカーズの「涙のリクエスト」と2000年のヒット曲GO!GO!7188で「こいのうた」の2曲が出ている。日本語放送は1968年のヒット曲、水前寺清子の「365歩のマーチ」である。昨年7月と同じ組み合わせである。最後は認定拉致被害者氏名、日本への連絡先や、一日5回のスケジュールアナウンスなどがあり1357に終了している。

1430の9450、9705、1195kHzも良好である。この時間も1330と同じ番組である。そして1457にアニメソング「あかねちゃん」が出ている。

1300の「しおかぜ」はジャミングが強く聞きづらい。金曜日は朝鮮語放送である。

RCI English section: goodbye
By Marc Montgomery
english@rcinet.ca
Posted: Friday, May 14, 2021 09:36
Last Updated: Friday, May 14, 2021 14:02
Canada’s international broadcast service from the English language team of Radio Canada International has come to an end.

RCI, (originally the International Service, CBC-IS) was initially created towards the end of the Second World War. The purpose was to broadcast news and information from home via shortwave to Canadian military personnel fighting in Europe. It also began providing reliable news and information to recently liberated countries and to Germans still in the war.

That reliable news and information was considered of great value during the subsequent Cold War years, as several more languages were added to the service such as Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Hungarian and Polish. Other languages sections included as Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese. With 14 language sections in 1990, and some 200 staff, the full English and French newsroom provided news of interest and importance for each language section specifically targeted to each of the various broadcast regions around the world.

Following a major budget cut of some 80 per cent in 2012, the shortwave and satellite service was terminated along with the majority of staff including the newsroom and some language sections. In recent years, only Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, and Spanish remained along with English and French. RCI was transformed into a much smaller internet-based operation consisting of three people per language section.

In December 2020, the domestic public broadcaster CBC / Radio-Canada announced that the English and French sections of RCI would close for good in May. In their place curated stories from the domestic English and French public broadcaster will be provided.

A manager will now oversee the staff of eight who will adapt curated stories from the CBC and Radio-Canada into Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish, along with Punjabi and Tagalog.

An effort was and is being made by the RCI Action Committee to preserve and even expand the service which has garnered great support from a former prime minister, former diplomats and many academics, but the end date has come. This is the last entry by the RCI English section.

From the English Section consisting of Lynn, Marc, and Levon, we thank you for having shared our stories over these many years.