Does the United States have a news channel in Russia?
The VOA has been broadcasting in Russian to Russia since 1947.
It was eventually learned through the FOIA, that...a parallel and equally "deep-funded" entity.
And US funded Radio Free Europe started doing the same in 1949, although serious Russian broadcasts gad to wait for the 1951 formation of Radio Liberty, a parallel and equally "deep funded" entity.
WAMU-HD2 will end a long tradition of airing bluegrass music.
WKYS-HD3 has purchased the translator.
The 45 RPM record was a popular English language version, but I do not remember if they were the Drifters.I remember the long-running television PSA for RFE,
with an RFE DJ shown doing an intro to "On Broadway" in some Central/Eastern European language -- On Broadvay! --
and then images of bleak Eastern Bloc city streets were shown while the song played. Very effective,
My bad, you are correct, the article reads:Actually according to your links, WAMU HD-2 will continue to air bluegrass.
But the attached translator at 105.5 was sold to WKYS.
They're the ones providing the signal for Radio Sputnik.
When I went to Cuba, they warned me not to say that I worked for a Compania!
And does anyone think that Radio Martí was not a creation of The Company?
They might both be right!...both the Russians and the US government feel the same way about US media.
They might both be right!
The 45 RPM record was a popular English language version, but I do not remember if they were the Drifters.