Polish Radio External Service

Polish Radio External Service

Type	international broadcasting
Country	Poland
Availability	global
Owner	Polskie Radio
Key people	John Beauchamp (English Service Editor)
Launch date	1936
Former names	Radio Polonia, PR5
Official website	http://external.polskieradio.pl/, http://thenews.pl

Polish Radio External Service (till January 2007 as Radio Polonia) (Polish: Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy) is the official international broadcasting station of Poland.

Polish Radio External Service (PR ES) is a part of Poland’s public radio network - Polish Radio. Its aim is to broadcast programs on developments in Poland, Polish foreign policy, the economy, business and foreign investments. Polish Radio External Service provides objective and impartial information about Poland and its stance on international affairs. It shows Polish society, its daily life as well as scientific and cultural achievements. Polish Radio External Service ended their English language shortwave broadcasts in 2012 and announced that they would be ceasing all shortwave transmissions on October 27, 2013 from which point they will only be broadcasting over the internet and through partnerships such as the World Radio Network.^[1]

History

• 1936 – Polish Radio launches shortwave broadcasts of brief programmes in English and Polish
• 1945 – after the end of World War 2, the shortwave channel Warszawa III resumes external broadcasts
• 1959 - Polish Radio starts broadcasting in Esperanto
• 1990 – Polish Radio starts broadcasting for Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
• 2000 – Radio Polonia begins daily Real Audio broadcasts in several languages via the World Radio Network
• 2007 - Radio Polonia changed name into Polish Radio External Service
• 2012 - English language shortwave transmissions end.
• 2013 - Remaining shortwave services close on October 27.
• 2014 - Polish Radio External Service changed name into Radio Poland

Programmes

Polish Radio External Service broadcast 11 hours a day in seven languages: Polish, English, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew and Belarusian. There was also a weekly Yiddish-language broadcast called "new waves". Shortwave transmissions were reduced between 2007 and 2012 and by 2013 PRES was broadcasting two times a day with programmes in Polish, Belarusian and Russian. On October 27, 2013, all shortwave transmissions ceased and PRES became an online only entity.

Polish Radio External Service brings:

• news bulletins
• news analysis
• press reviews
• correspondent’s dispatches
• interviews and discussions
• features

Listen

Listeners in Europe can tune in via satellite on Eutelsat 13 E, 10892 MHz, FEC 3/4, SR 27500, Horizontal, PID audio 0119

Polish Radio External Service can be heard in English on the World Radio Network (WRN) through terrestrial relays, on cable and via satellite.

On cable: PR ES in English is also available to 4.5 million homes on cable in London, Dublin, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Strassburg, Geneva, Tokyo, Washington D.C. and many other cities. You can also hear it on hotel cable in the Netherlands and Hong Kong.

Internet

• "Radio Poland - English Service" (English)

48 kbps aac+:
http://player.polskieradio.pl/-5
http://player.polskieradio.pl/-15
rtmp://stream85.polskieradio.pl/pr5/pr5.sdp
http://mp3.polskieradio.pl:8958
http://stream3.polskieradio.pl:8958

48 kbps wma10:
mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/zagranica_wma10
mms://stream1.polskieradio.pl/zagranica_wma10

96 kbps mp3:
http://mp3.polskieradio.pl:8908
http://stream3.polskieradio.pl:8908

96 kbps wma9:
mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/zagranica
mms://stream1.polskieradio.pl/zagranica

• "Radio Poland DAB+" (Belarusian, English, Ukrainian, Russian)

48 kbps aac+:
http://player.polskieradio.pl/-13
rtmp://stream85.polskieradio.pl/pr5/pr5_dab.sdp

48 kbps wma10:
mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/zagranica_dab_wma10
mms://stream1.polskieradio.pl/zagranica_dab_wma10

96 kbps mp3:
http://mp3.polskieradio.pl:8912
http://stream3.polskieradio.pl:8912

96 kbps wma9:
mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/zagranica_dab_wma9
mms://stream1.polskieradio.pl/zagranica_dab_wma9

• "Radio Poland East" / "Радио Польша" (Belarusian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian)

48 kbps aac+:
http://player.polskieradio.pl/-16
rtmp://stream85.polskieradio.pl/pr5/pr5_wsch.sdp
http://mp3.polskieradio.pl:8964
http://stream3.polskieradio.pl:8964

48 kbps wma10:
mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/pr5_wsch_wma10
mms://stream1.polskieradio.pl/pr5_wsch_wma10

96 kbps mp3:
http://mp3.polskieradio.pl:8914
http://stream3.polskieradio.pl:8914

96 kbps wma9:
mms://stream.polskieradio.pl/pr5_wsch
mms://stream1.polskieradio.pl/pr5_wsch

WRN satellite relays

• Europe

In English WRN Europe Eutelsat 28A 28.5°E SKY digital
In English WRN English Hot Bird 13°E, 12.597 GHz

• North America

In English Telstar 5 97° W, 12.177 GHz, pol. V

• Asia, Australia

In English AsiaSat 100.5° E, 4.000 GHz, European Bouquet package

• Africa

In English PanAmSat 4 68.5° E, Multichoice package

WRN terrestrial relays

America

In English:

• America - short wave - 9395 kHz (Okeechobee, Florida, azimuth 181°, 100 kW) - Global 24 Radio via WRMI (19:00-20:00 UTC)

Europe

In Belarusian:

• Belarus, Lithuania - medium wave - Radio Baltic Waves 1386 kHz (Sitkunai, Kaunas County, Lithuania, 75 kW) (20:00-21:00 UTC - in winter & summer)
• Lithuania - Vilnius - Radio znad Wilii 103.8 FM
• Poland - Gdansk, Katowice, Kielce, Krakow, Lodz, Opole, Poznan, Szczecin, Torun, Warsaw, Wroclaw - Radio Poland DAB+ (15:30-16:00 CET)

In English:

• Ireland – RTE Radio 1 Extra (Sunday 19:00-20:00 local time)
• Poland - Gdansk, Katowice, Kielce, Krakow, Lodz, Opole, Poznan, Szczecin, Torun, Warsaw, Wroclaw - Radio Poland DAB+
• United Kingdom - London - Radio Spectrum DAB ONE (19:00-20:00 local time)

In Polish:

• Lithuania - Vilnius - Radio znad Wilii 103.8 FM (18:30-19:00, 23:00-23:30 local time)
• Ukraine - Lviv - Radio Nezalezhnist 106.7 FM (18:30-19:00 local time)

In Russian:

• Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), Lithuania - medium wave - Radio Baltic Waves 1386 kHz (Sitkunai, Kaunas County, Lithuania, 75 kW) (17:00-17:30 UTC - in winter & summer)
• Poland - Gdansk, Katowice, Kielce, Krakow, Lodz, Opole, Poznan, Szczecin, Torun, Warsaw, Wroclaw - Radio Poland DAB+
• Russia - Moscow - WRN Russian 738 kHz (Kurkino, North-Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow, 5 kW) (03:30-04:00, 06:00-06:30, 09:00-09:30, 12:30-13:00, 15:30-16:00, 18:00-18:30, 20:00-20:30, 22:00-22:30 local time)

In Ukrainian:

• Poland - Gdansk, Katowice, Kielce, Krakow, Lodz, Opole, Poznan, Szczecin, Torun, Warsaw, Wroclaw - Radio Poland DAB+ (19:30-20:00 CET)
• Poland - Rzeszow, Tarnow, Subcarpathian Voivodeship - Radio Rzeszow 90.3 90.5 96.4 99.2 102.0 102.9 103.7 106.7 FM (Tuesday-Friday 01:05-01:35 CET)
• Ukraine - Berdiansk, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Chernyhiv, Dnipropetrovs'k, Donetsk, Drogobych, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Konotop, Kotovsk, Kramatorsk, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih, Kyiv, Lubny, Lutsk, Lviv, Lysychansk, Mariupol, Melitopol, Mykolaiv, Nikopol, Odessa, Pology, Poltava, Rivne, Romny, Shostka, Sumy, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Vinnytsya, Volodarka, Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr - Radio Era (Kyiv) (19:30-20:00 local time)

North America

In English:

• Canada – CBC Overnight
• United States – KUAZ, Phoenix; National Public Radio; SIRIUS digital radio for drivers; WBFO, Buffalo; WCPN, Cleveland; WDET, Detroit; West Virginia Public Radio Network; WLRN, Miami

Comparison

Estimated total direct programme hours per week of some external radio broadcasters for 1996

Broadcaster	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	1996[2]
VOA, RFE/RL & Radio Martí	497	1,495	1,907	1,901	2,611	1,821
China Radio International	66	687	1,267	1,350	1,515	1,620
BBC World Service	643	589	723	719	796	1,036
Radio Moscow / Voice of Russia[1][3]	533	1,015	1,908	2,094	1,876	726
Deutsche Welle	0	315	779	804	848	655
Radio Cairo (ERTU)	0	301	540	546	605	604
IRIB World Service / Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran	12	24	155	175	400	575
All India Radio	116	157	271	389	456	500
NHK World Radio Japan	0	203	259	259	343	468
Radio France Internationale	198	326	200	125	379	459
Radio Netherlands Worldwide[1]	127	178	335	289	323	392
Israel Radio International[1]	0	91	158	210	253	365
Voice of Turkey	40	77	88	199	322	364
Radio Pyongyang / Voice of Korea	0	159	330	597	534	364
Radio Bulgaria[1]	30	117	164	236	320	338
Radio Australia	181	257	350	333	330	307
Radio Tirana (RTSH)	26	63	487	560	451	303
Radio Romania International	30	159	185	198	199	298
Radio Exterior de España[5]	68	202	251	239	403	270
RDP Internacional[1]	46	133	295	214	203	226
Radio Havana Cuba	0	0	320	424	352	203
Rai Italia Radio[1]	170	205	165	169	181	203
Radio Canada International[1]	85	80	98	134	195	175
Radio Polonia[1]	131	232	334	337	292	171
Radio RSA / Channel Africa	0	63	150	183	156	159
Sveriges Radio International[1]	28	114	140	155	167	149
Magyar Rádió[1]	76	120	105	127	102	144
Radio Prague[4]	119	196	202	255	131	131
Voice of Nigeria	0	0	62	170	120	127
Radio Belgrade / International Radio of Serbia	80	70	76	72	96	68

Source: International Broadcast Audience Research, June 1996

The list includes about a quarter of the world's external broadcasters whose output is both publicly funded and worldwide. Among those excluded are Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea and various international commercial and religious stations.

Notes:

1. Does not broadcast on shortwave as of 2014.
2. 1996 figures as at June; all other years as at December.
3. Before 1991, broadcasting for the former USSR.
4. Before 1996, broadcasting for the former Czechoslovakia.
5. REE ceased all shortwave broadcasts in October 2014 but announced in December that it would resume shortwave transmission in Spanish only for four hours a day in order to accommodate Spanish fishing trawlers who were otherwise unable to receive REE at sea.

See also

• Polskie Radio, the Polish publicly funded radio broadcaster
• Eastern Bloc information dissemination

References

External links

• Polish Radio External Service Website (Polish) (English) (German) (Russian) (Ukrainian) (Belarusian) (Hebrew)
• Listen to Polish Radio External Service online (Polish) (English) (Russian) (Ukrainian) (Belarusian)

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