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Radio Station "Belarus" Expands Radio and On-Line Broadcast
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Posted by: Khashyar

(news release from the Belarusian Government)

"Radio Station "Belarus" Expands Radio and On-Line Broadcast"

The radio station "Belarus" of the National State Broadcasting Company (Belteleradiocompany) considerably expanded radio and Internet-broadcast. On the first of July, 2005 the volume of broadcast totaled 10 hours: 5 hours of a radio broadcast in the Belarusian, Russian, German and English languages and 5 hours of on-line broadcast in English with the subsequent repetitions of the whole five-hour block (i.e. 23 hours per day).

The broadcast of the radio station covers the territory of 20 countries of Western Europe and Northern Africa. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, Morocco and other states are among them. In the Internet "Belarus" radio station is being received by the entire world. A research work carried out by the employees of the radio station together with the information-analytical centre and direction of on-line broadcast of Belteleradiocompany showed that visits of the Internet-page of the radio station grew in more than three times. Since the beginning of 2005 more than 3.5 thousands visits in Russian, about 4 thousands, in English and more than 2 thousands in Belarusian language have been registered. Thus, visits of English pages have doubled and visits of Belarusian pages have increased by four times.

The direct on-line broadcast in English enjoys the greatest popularity among foreign listeners. Since its opening more than 10 thousands visits from 51 countries of the world have been registered.