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  • Radio Romania 96

    Radio Romania 96

    Radio Romania has celebrated 96 years since it first entered the listeners houses from Romania and abroad. On November 1 1928 the Romanians were able to listen to the first broadcast of the public service of the Radiotelephonic Company, today known as the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation and also as Radio Romania. In the same year 1928, conductor and song-writer Mihail Jora set up the Radio Orchestra, today known as the National Radio Orchestra, which has celebrated the same anniversary. According to its CEO, Razvan Ioan Dinca, Radio Romania channels are presently boasting over 3 million daily listeners. He also says that after so many years of activity on the domestic and international arena, this radio station has to reinvent itself and become more attractive for the younger generation, very well anchored in the online world.

    Răzvan-Ioan Dincă:” We have to think on how to reinvent the radio so that it may reach out to the young people as well. And an essential step in my opinion is to turn the on-air content into digital, which I think we have achieved this year by completing all Radio Romania webpages, including the regional ones. We are going to reintegrate all of them into one portal, which has to comprise all the news that we do on-air. I believe this will make the station more attractive to a younger audience.”

    Dincă has praised the activity of Radio Romania Music and Radio Romania Culture, two channels broadcasting relevant cultural content, which enjoy solid audience rating, but also the covering of major sporting events, which took place this year.

    At the same time he has given assurances that in the context of the presidential and parliamentary election due later this year, Radio Romania will continue to be a platform of equidistant expression for the candidates and urged them to convey relevant messages for the listeners.

    Răzvan-Ioan Dincă: “The message I convey to those participating as candidates is a serious message on one hand, when I say that we are equidistant and we have a platform, which disseminates their messages towards three million-three million and a half listeners. On the other hand in a less serious note, I would like to say that whenever we measure audience rating during elections, we see that this is going down a little bit. So, we are politely asking those who are running in the parliamentary and presidential election to make the content of their promotional clips – which, under the law we must broadcast and allot certain slots in our programmes – relevant, to share with us interesting things, things that are going to raise the audience rating.”

    As a token of appreciation for the crucial role the public station has had in the history of Romania, in December 2019 the Romanian Parliament declared November 1 as the National Radio Day.

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  • Listener’s Day on Radio Romania International

    Listener’s Day on Radio Romania International


    Dear friends, on Sunday, November 1, 2020, on the Romanian Radio Day, we will also be celebrating Listener’s Day here on Radio Romania International.



    2020 has been a special year for the entire world. Our lives have been turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic. The restrictive measures taken by the authorities and the existence of an invisible enemy have fundamentally affected our habits. Physical distancing, wearing protective masks, strict hygiene rules, online courses, work from home are now our daily routine.



    Isolated in our homes during the periods of lockdown, unable to see our friends and relatives, to go to a restaurant or show or to travel abroad, we needed and still need real, verified information. Unfortunately, during the pandemic, fake news, disinformation, sensational news, unverified information, released deliberately or not, mainly through social media networks, have simply skyrocketed.



    In this year’s edition of Listener’s Day on RRI we invite you to share with us what sources of information about the pandemic you use and how you manage to discriminate between real and fake news. Please, also tell us your opinion about the role of the public radio during a pandemic and about the role of international broadcasters in this period of extended social uncertainty.



    We are looking forward to receiving your answers, which we will include in our special program ‘Listener’s Day’ to be aired on November 1, 2020. You can send your written or pre-recorded opinions by e-mail at engl.rri@gmail.com. You can also send your pre-recorded opinions via WhatsApp, using the number +40744312650. Thank you very much!


  • November 1, 2017

    November 1, 2017

    Radio Romania anniversary — Radio Romania marks 89 years of existence on Wednesday November 1. In the beginning, its name was Radio Bucharest, and it only broadcast for several hours a day such programs as newscasts, dance and classical music shows and of course weather reports. At present Radio Romania is the most important media institution in Romania, thanks to the big number of listeners who tune in daily to its broadcasts, the campaigns in which it gets involved and the large-scale cultural projects that it develops. Radio Romania is not only a public institution but also a cultural and educational phenomenon, said the president and director general the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, Georgica Severin. The culture minister Lucian Romaşcanu joined the personalities who congratulated Radio Romania on its 89th anniversary, saying that Radio Romania is a friend. Concerts by the Radio Chamber Orchestra and the Radio Choirs were scheduled for Wednesday, as well as a recital by the Radio Big Band at the Henri Coanda International Airport in Bucharest. The Parliament Palace will be host to a concert by the Radio Traditional Music Orchestra. Wednesday is also a Doors Open Day at Radio Romania.



    Conference — Over 600 people are participating, as of Wednesday, in a 2-day conference devoted to French-speaking women, which is hosted by Bucharest. The conference entitled “Creation, innovation, entrepreneurship, economic growth and development: women are rising!” is being attended by officials from 48 French-speaking countries. Talks will focus on women’s rights and their access to the labor market as well as on their contribution to innovation and entrepreneurship. The Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said in the opening of the conference that the role of women in the economy was relevant for the present and the future. He also hailed the proposal aimed at setting up a network of French-speaking women entrepreneurs during the conference in Bucharest. The conclusions of the Bucharest conference will be included in a Strategy of the Francophony for equal opportunities for men and women.



    Drills — Two Romanian military ships are joining the NATO maritime mine counter-measures group and will be participating between October 31 and November 14 in an operation meant to monitor maritime traffic in the Black Sea. The mission takes place in accordance with the commitments Romania made to NATO. The Romanian frigate “King Ferdinand” will ensure the command of this group, which also includes the “Lupu Dinescu” minesweeper, alongside ships from Bulgaria and Turkey. According to the Romanian Navy forces, after the deterioration of the security situation in Romania’s eastern vicinity, the number of NATO military exercises and mission in the Black Sea has significantly increased starting in 2014.



    US Attacks — The Romanian President Klaus Iohannis firmly condemned Tuesday’s attack in New York and reiterated Romania’s solidarity with the US in such difficult moments. Bucharest will do its best to fight terrorism, which cannot be justified in any way, President Iohannis went on to say. 8 people were killed and 11 wounded by a 29-year old man from Uzbekistan who had reached the US in 2010. He drove a truck into a bike path on the Hudson riverfront. The American authorities consider the gesture a terrorist attack. The US President Donald Trump ordered the authorities to tighten verification procedures for foreigners entering the US.



    Patriot missiles — The draft law on Romania’s purchasing the first Patriot missile defense system is to be approved on Wednesday by the Romanian Government, says the defense minister Mihai Fifor. The document is to be presented in Parliament in the coming two weeks. Minister Fifor pointed out that this first system costs 764 million dollars and that the American side signed the letter of acceptance. The purchase of Patriot missiles is part of the project aimed at modernizing Romania’s antiaircraft defense. To this end, in the next 10 years, Romania will spend around 4 billion dollars on Patriot missiles. (news translated by L. Simion)

  • 89 Years of Radio Broadcasting

    89 Years of Radio Broadcasting

    Ten years after WWI and the unification of Greater Romania, the most
    efficient and popular means of communication was first introduced in Romania:
    the radio. On November 1, 1928, the newly founded Romanian Radio Broadcasting
    Corporation aired its first broadcast. From the very beginning the radio was
    described as a means of public information, education and entertainment.

    This
    year Radio Romania celebrates 89 years of continuous radio broadcasting.
    Despite having to constantly adapt its editorial policies, the public radio
    survived each radical change on the political spectrum, from the interwar
    democracy to right-wing dictatorships around the Second World War, and from the
    communist dictatorship to the democracy restored after the anti-communist
    revolution of 1989. For years now the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation
    has been considered one of the most trustworthy and reputed media institutions
    in Romania, due to its large number of listeners.

    Radio Romania addresses all
    generations and caters for all tastes, addressing society as a whole. It
    consists of channels with nationwide coverage, Radio Romania News and Current
    Affairs, Radio Romania Culture, Radio Romania Music and the Village Antenna, as
    well as regional and local studios, Internet platforms and a children’s and
    youth station. The Romanian public radio has started broadcasting abroad ever
    since the 1930s.

    Today, Radio Romania International tries to keeps both
    international audiences and Romanians living abroad up to date with news from
    Romania and our traditional values. RRI broadcasts in 11 languages: Arabic,
    Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Russia, Ukrainian
    and starting this year, Hebrew, as well as in Romanian and the Aromanian
    dialect. Its target audience virtually includes the entire world, from Alaska
    to Australia, from Argentina to the Russian Far East.

    Nearly nine decades since
    its first broadcast, Radio Romania continues to innovate, to reinvent itself
    and to adapt to the ever-increasing market competitiveness and legislative
    changes. One such change was the recent scrappage of the radio license fee,
    traditionally covered by taxpayers, which now means the institution is fully
    funded by the state, amidst criticism from the political, civil and
    journalistic fields over editorial interference.

    Similarly, other voices from
    outside or within the institution have over the years signaled controversial
    managerial practices of successive administrations. Thanks to its
    professionals, however, Radio Romania remains the leading media institution in
    the country to date. (translated by Vlad Palcu)

  • October 31, 2016 UPDATE

    October 31, 2016 UPDATE

    STRIKE – The Romanian healthcare staff affiliated to the Sanitas trade union federation went on an all-out strike on Monday, discontent with the salary imbalances in the system. They say they will not give up the strike unless their claims are met. According to the trade union organization, only one third of the medical staff will continue working and emergencies will be dealt with immediately. This is the last stage of the protest actions initiated by Sanitas federation, which started in September. The Sanitas leaders and the Health Ministry representatives held talks on Monday but negotiations ended with no result. The Labour Ministry representatives told the Sanitas leaders that the strike did not comply with the legal conditions for starting a labour conflict.



    ROME – The Romanian Embassy in Rome took notice of the death of a Romanian citizen on Monday morning, 24 hours after the quake that shook Italy on Sunday morning. The Romanian Foreign Ministry pointed out that the cause of the Romanian citizen’s death would be established in the coming period. So far no Romanian citizens have been hospitalized following Sunday’s quake in Italy, shows a Foreign Ministry communiqué.



    MOLDOVA – The President of the neighbouring Republic of Moldova will be decided in the November 13 election runoff, between the pro-Russian Socialist Igor Dodon and the candidate backed by pro-European parties, Maia Sandu. According to official figures, in the first round held on Sunday, Dodon came out the first of the 9 candidates, with 48% of the votes, followed by Sandu, with 38%. The turnout rate was the lowest in the history of parliamentary and presidential elections in the Republic of Moldova. The observers of the OSCE concluded that the election was democratic and the fundamental human rights and freedoms were observed.



    LONDON – The Romanian defense minister, Mihnea Motoc, on Monday delivered a speech, in London, at the multinational ballistic missile defense conference in which he referred to the most important aspects of cooperation between Romania and the US in the ballistic missile defense field, focusing on the base in Deveselu (in the south). He underlined Romania’s important role in the process of ensuring NATO’s defense capability against ballistic missiles by assuming to host elements of the US anti-missile defense shield deployed in Europe. Minister Motoc also highlighted the defensive character of the capability meant to protect the Allied population and territory against threats from outside the Euro-Atlantic space. Minister Motoc met with Vice Admiral James D. Syring, the director of the US Missile Defense Agency, saying that the common project in the ballistic missile defense domain led to an increased security of Romania and the Euro- Atlantic space and to the strengthening of the Strategic Partnership between Romania and the US.



    RADIO ROMANIA – On November 1 Radio Romania marks 88 years of existence. The first official radio broadcast was aired on November 1, 1928 featuring professor Dragomir Hurmuzescu, a physicist and a promoter of Romania’s radio broadcasting. Ever since it was set up, the Romanian public radio has been a promoter and supporter of the Romanian culture and civilization, and has contributed to shaping Romanians’ civic spirit and community cohesion. At present, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation has three national stations and several regional stations and also an international station broadcasting in ten foreign languages, in Romanian and in the Aromanian dialect. On Monday, Radio Romania opened its doors to the public. Listeners had the opportunity to see the live transmission studios and to meet the producers of radio shows and newsreels.



    MILITARY DRILL – Romanian military alongside American soldiers will participate, between November 1-12, in the Patriot Shock V drill to take place in the Training Camp and Surface to Air Firing Range in Capu Midia, in Constanta county (southeast). The Romanian Defense Ministry shows that Patriot Shock V is a bilateral Romanian-American exercise of the surface to air missile structures of the Romanian Air Force, unfolding at tactical level with troops on the ground.(translation by L. Simion)