Voice of Turkey
Type | Radio network |
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Country | Turkey |
Availability | International |
Headquarters | Ankara |
Owner | Turkish Radio and Television Corporation |
Launch date | 1937 |
Official website | http://www.trt.net.tr/ |
Voice of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye'nin Sesi Radyosu) is the international service of Turkish state radio on shortwave, Turksat 3A satellite and the Internet.
Current broadcasts
The round the clock Turkish broadcasts by the Voice of Turkey for Turkish nationals living abroad and those of Turkish origin focus on education, culture music and news programmes.
Its transmissions start with a piano tune in the hicaz makam.
Languages
The Voice of Turkey broadcasts on a daily basis for a total duration of 58 hours in 26 languages. These broadcasts in which culture, music and news programmes weigh heavier are carried in these languages ;
Comparison
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:
- Does not broadcast on shortwave as of 2014.
- 1996 figures as at June; all other years as at December.
- Before 1991, broadcasting for the former USSR.
- Before 1996, broadcasting for the former Czechoslovakia.
- 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
External links
- TRT Voice Of Turkey (English)
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