Wednesday, October 27, 2004

swissinfo/Swiss Radio International (SRI) is to broadcast its last shortwave
and satellite radio programmes on October 30, 2004. As SRI goes off the air
after nearly 70 years, a chapter in Swiss radio history comes to an end.
swissinfo/SRI will in future focus exclusively on its multimedia news and
information platform, www.swissinfo.org, which is available in nine
languages.

Swiss Radio International first broadcast to the world on shortwave in 1935.
The station made a name for itself as a neutral voice of authority during
the Second World War and throughout the Cold War. Programmes were broadcast
in nine languages (German, French, Italian, Romansh, English, Spanish,
Portuguese, Arabic and Esperanto). During this time, SRI established itself
as one of the most high-profile and popular international radio
broadcasters.

(see more about this at http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/ )

Greetings! What a shame. Losing another shortwave station of their quality is
not an easy loss. I hate to see shortwave get the short end of newer
technologies, but alas, change is inevitable. Jon.