10 June 2004 01:24
Some Russian radio and TV available in Belarus
Moscow 10 June: Voice of Russia remains the only Russian state radio company broadcasting on the territory of
Belarus. As the chairman of the company, Armen Oganesyan, told an ITAR-TASS correspondent today, "the company once
had problems with broadcasts on that country's territory, but they have now been resolved".
He explained that broadcasts of Voice of Russia programmes on the territory of Belarus are carried out on medium and
short wave.
At the same time, according to the chairman of the Mayak company, Andrey Bystritskiy, which is part of the
All-Russian State TV and Radio Company (VGTRK) [Russian abbreviation], the radio stations Mayak, Radio Russia and Yunost
are not broadcast in Belarus currently. But he explained that Radio Russia and Mayak can still be heard in Belarusian
regions bordering Russia thanks to the capacities of Russian transmitters.
These Russian radio stations went off the air in Belarus two years ago. Subsequently the Belarusian side also
significantly reduced rebroadcasts of Russian TV channels in the republic. But at the present time Channel One, Russia
TV and NTV television are broadcasting in Belarus in full.
At the same time, as ITAR-TASS correspondent Larisa Klyuchnikova reported from Minsk today, a new TV channel -
Belarus TV - is to appear in the republic at the end of 2004 or beginning of 2005. This was announced by the chairman of
the National State TV and Radio Company, Uladzimir Matveychuk, at a meeting with the country's president,
Alyaksandr Lukashenka. He said the new channel would broadcast to the near and far abroad on events in the country.
Matveychuk informed the head of state of progress with preparations for the signing of an agreement with the VGTRK on
the work of the National State TV and Radio Company with Russian regions.
The report that an agreement with Minsk was being prepared has not so far been confirmed by the VGTRK, but the latter
said that the RTR-Planeta channel was also running on cable networks in Belarus. According to the agency's source,
agreements giving the Russian Kultura channel, part of the VGTRK holding company, the opportunity to broadcast within
the framework of new Belarusian national TV company Lad are also being drafted.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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