Isango Star Radio Partners With German Radio

The Managing Director of Isango Star Jean Lambert Gatare, has said that Deutsche Welle Radio will be broadcasting its Swahili and French news on Isango Star radio from January 23, 2012.

Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany’s international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages.

Gatare was announcing the new development of the Radio he heads where he also said that the radio was changing to 91.5FM.

“We changed the frequency for two main factors; first of all we wanted to expand radio broadcasting areas where different people were not able to listen to us, in Musanze Ditrict in Northern Province,” Gatare said.

“Another factor are the complaints of our radio frequency interruptions into other radios’ frequencies due to stronger wave signals.” Gatare added.

Isango Star Radio, started there are two years, with journalists from other radios and is emerging among popular FM radio stations in the country.

Deutsche Welle has broadcast regularly since 1953. Until 2003 it was based in Cologne, when it relocated to a new building, the Schürmann-Bau, in Bonn’s former government office area.

The television broadcasts are produced in Berlin. Deutsche Welle’s website is produced in both Berlin and Bonn.

Deutsche Welle was inaugurated on 3 May 1953, with an address by German President Theodor Heuss as its first shortwave broadcast.

On 11 June 1953, the public broadcasters in the ARD signed an agreement to share responsibility for Deutsche Welle.

At first, it was controlled by Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). In 1955, when this split into the separate Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) networks, WDR assumed responsibility for Deutsche Welle programming.

In 1960, Deutsche Welle became an independent public body after a court ruled that broadcasting from Germany was part of the federal government’s foreign-affairs function.

On 7 June 1962, it joined the ARD as a national broadcasting station.

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