Shortwave broadcasts were temporarily suspended in 1986 due to the sudden rise of transmission charges. In 1963, transmission facilities were obtained with considerably greater reach and effectiveness and were able to reach Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of South East Asia. UN Radio initially leased shortwave transmitters from France, Switzerland, Italy and the United States. Lacking its own broadcast facilities, UN Radio initially made arrangements with leading broadcasting organizations to relay its programmes to different regions, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's International Service (1946 to 1952), the European Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Voice of America (1953 to 1985).īeginning in 1960, UN Radio started transmitting its own programmes via short-wave transmissions. News bulletins and feature programmes were broadcast in the UN's then five official languages – Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish – for 9 to 12 hours each day. In 1946, the International Broadcasting Division of the United States Department of State began transmitting the entire proceedings of the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council on shortwave to the rest of the world. ( January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. In November and December 2016, smaller radio stations surveyed by UN Radio said that, because of a lack of resources for the production of their own content, United Nations content was essential, since in many cases it was the sole source of international news.
Resolution 13 (I), mandating the Department of Public Information to establish UN Radio, states that "the UN cannot achieve the purposes for which it was created unless the peoples of the world are fully informed of its aims and activities". UN Radio was established by a UN General Assembly Resolution on 13 February 1946. UN Radio began broadcasting in 1946 from makeshift studios and offices at the United Nations Headquarters in Lake Success, New York, where it transmitted its first call sign: "This is the United Nations calling the peoples of the world." "Radio Nations"' last broadcast was in 1939. The League of Nations "Radio Nations" broadcasts began in 1929, first via the transmitter of the Dutch station PCJJ and beginning in 1932, from the League's own transmitters, HBL and HBP in Switzerland. 4 UN Radio's Anti-Apartheid programme Section.
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