I am pleased that, unlike RFE/RL's Persian Service which was broadcast to Iran only on shortwave, Radio Farda will be beamed into Iran from powerful medium wave transmitters.
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For your information, Sara is a professional performer of Persian music in the Greater Washington area. She will work from Washington as the music director of Radio Farda, assembling a blend of Western and Persian music that will help attract young listeners to Radio Farda's news and information programs. Mardo and Ali have already forged a close, working partnership of the highest order. We are very pleased to welcome Ali and his colleagues and look forward to working together on the Farda team. They will work in RFE/RL's Washington offices under the direction of Ali Farhoodi, a VOA veteran whose most recent assignment has been as deputy chief of the West Asia Branch. Mardo and our Persian Service broadcasters will be joined by 10 broadcasters from the Voice of America. Steve Fairbanks will take on new duties at RFE/RL, drawing on his analytical and writing skills as one of America's foremost experts on Iranian developments.
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At my request, he spearheaded the start-up of Radio Free Iraq in 1998. He has led our successful Armenian Service, one of his achievements being the introduction of lively, youth oriented programming. Ideally suited for this task, Mardo is a native of Iran and fluent in Farsi. They will work under the direction of Mardo Soghom. The hard-working broadcasters of the Persian Service will join Radio Farda's news team.
Radio Farda will aim to build on this success by attracting new and larger audiences. Its success has been acknowledged even by Iran's hard-line leaders, who regularly denounce its programs - a sure sign that they are listening and concerned with our impact, and the fact that the regime also jams our programs. It has attracted a significant audience in Iran, particularly among influential figures in politics and among its opposition. Under the outstanding leadership of Steve Fairbanks, this service has fulfilled its mission with distinction. This service was established in 1998 at the request of Congress. In preparation for the launch of this new service, RFE/RL's Persian Service - Radio 'Azadi" - will go off the air about December 1. Radio Farda's news and information offerings will project the same seriousness of purpose and adherence to RFE/RL's surrogate mission of promoting democracy, covering local and relevant international news, and living up to our Professional Code, embodying the highest journalistic standards of accuracy and objectivity, as have the programs of our Persian Service. The remainder of the program will be music, a combination of popular Persian and Western songs aimed at attracting young Iranians to Farda's news products. In the event of breaking news or other important events, more news time will be added. Each day Radio Farda will provide more than five hours of original news, features and other information.
Radio Farda is a joint venture between RFE/RL and the Voice of America, under the auspices of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. It will be an around-the-clock radio station for Iran, targeted primarily at Iranians under the age of 30, which is about 70 percent of the country's population.
Radio Farda ' 'Tomorrow' in Farsi - will go on the air in mid-December. I am delighted to inform you about an exciting and important new broadcasting initiative at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Tom Dine sent the following message out to the RFE/RL staff today (Nov 18 2002). BACK TO : INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING (see also Public Diplomacy)
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