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Deutsche Welle ('Welle' pronounced with a sound, ) or DW, is Germany's
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 international broadcaster
International broadcasting

International broadcasting is broadcasting that is deliberately aimed at a foreign, rather than a domestic, audience. It usually is broadcast by means of longwave, mediumwave, or shortwave radio, but in recent years has also used direct satellite broadcasting and the Internet as means of reaching audiences....
. It broadcast
Broadcasting

Broadcasting is distribution of Sound and/or video Signalling s which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults....
s news and information on shortwave
Shortwave

Shortwave radio operates in the frequency range of 3,000 kHz to 30,000 kHz . In radio, short wavelength corresponds to high frequency given the inverse relationship between frequency and wavelength, thus, ?shortwave radio? is denominated so, because its wavelengths are shorter than the long wave-lengths used in early radio communications; m...
, Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 and satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 radio in 29 languages (DW Radio). It has a satellite television service, (DW-TV), that is available in four languages, and there is also an online news site.






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Deutsche Welle ('Welle' pronounced with a sound, ) or DW, is Germany's
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 international broadcaster
International broadcasting

International broadcasting is broadcasting that is deliberately aimed at a foreign, rather than a domestic, audience. It usually is broadcast by means of longwave, mediumwave, or shortwave radio, but in recent years has also used direct satellite broadcasting and the Internet as means of reaching audiences....
. It broadcast
Broadcasting

Broadcasting is distribution of Sound and/or video Signalling s which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults....
s news and information on shortwave
Shortwave

Shortwave radio operates in the frequency range of 3,000 kHz to 30,000 kHz . In radio, short wavelength corresponds to high frequency given the inverse relationship between frequency and wavelength, thus, ?shortwave radio? is denominated so, because its wavelengths are shorter than the long wave-lengths used in early radio communications; m...
, Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 and satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 radio in 29 languages (DW Radio). It has a satellite television service, (DW-TV), that is available in four languages, and there is also an online news site. Deutsche Welle, which in English means "German Wave", is similar to international broadcasters such as the BBC World Service
BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasting, currently broadcasting in 32 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays....
, Radio Canada International
Radio Canada International

Radio Canada International is the international broadcasting service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ....
, Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is an independent international broadcast organization that provides uncensored news, information, and analysis to countries where free media is often limited or banned....
, and Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale

Radio France Internationale was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France to serve as a broadcast vehicle for French Equatorial Africa....
.

Deutsche Welle has broadcast regularly since 1953. Until 2003 it was based in Cologne
Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
, when it relocated to a new building in Bonn
Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the Capital of Germany West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
's former government office area. The television broadcasts are produced in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
. Deutsche Welle's World Wide Web
World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain writing, s, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks....
 site is produced in both Berlin and Bonn.

History

Deutsche Welle was inaugurated on 3 May 1953, with an address by German President Theodor Heuss
Theodor Heuss

Theodor Heuss was a Germany politician. He was the first person elected to a regular term as President of the West Germany.Heuss was born in Brackenheim, near Heilbronn....
 as its first shortwave broadcast. On 11 June 1953, the public broadcasters in the ARD
ARD (broadcaster)

ARD , is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in West Germany in 1950 to represent the common interests of the new, decentralized post-war broadcasting services — in particular, the introduction of a joint television network....
 signed an agreement to share responsibility for Deutsche Welle. At first, it was controlled by Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was the organization responsible for public broadcasting in the Germany States of Germany of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 September 1945 until 31 December 1955....
 (NWDR). In 1955, when this split into the separate Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Norddeutscher Rundfunk is a public broadcasting, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR transmits for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein....
 (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Westdeutscher Rundfunk

The Westdeutscher Rundfunk is a Germany public broadcasting institution based in the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in K?ln....
 (WDR) networks, WDR assumed responsibility for Deutsche Welle programming. In 1960, Deutsche Welle became an independent public body, which on 7 June 1962 joined the ARD
ARD (broadcaster)

ARD , is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in West Germany in 1950 to represent the common interests of the new, decentralized post-war broadcasting services — in particular, the introduction of a joint television network....
 as a national broadcasting station.

Expansion of supported languages

  • 1953: German
    German language

    German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
  • 1954: English
    English language

    English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
    , French
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
    , Spanish
    Spanish language

    Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
    , Portuguese
    Portuguese language

    Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
  • 1962: Persian
    Persian language

    name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
    , Turkish
    Turkish language

    Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
    , Russian
    Russian language

    Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
    , Polish
    Polish language

    Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
    , Czech
    Czech language

    Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
    , Slovak
    Slovak language

    The Slovak language , sometimes incorrectly called ?Slovakian?, is an Indo-European languages that belongs to the West Slavic languages .The Czech and Slovak languages are Mutual intelligibility which means that even after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia Czech may be used in all official proceedings and documents in Slovakia, and vice ver...
    , Hungarian
    Hungarian language

    Hungarian is a Uralic languages unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries....
    , Serbo-Croatian
  • 1963: Swahili
    Swahili language

    Swahili is the first language of the Swahili people , who inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros Islands....
    , Hausa
    Hausa language

    Hausa is the Chadic languages with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 24 million people, and as a second language by about 15 million more....
    , Indonesian
    Indonesian language

    Indonesian is the official national language of Indonesia. It is based on a version of Malay language from the Riau islands in western Indonesia, today called Riau Indonesian....
    , Bulgarian
    Bulgarian language

    Bulgarian is an Indo-European languages, a member of the Slavic languages linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except Macedonian language, such as the elimination of grammatical case, the development of a suffixed definite article , the lack of a verb infin...
    , Romanian
    Romanian language

    Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
    , Slovenian
    Slovenian language

    Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic languages spoken by approximately 2.4 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia....
  • 1964: Greek
    Greek language

    Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
    , Italian
    Italian language

    Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
    , Hindi, Urdu
  • 1970: Pashtu, Dari
    Dari

    Dari may refer to:* Dari , a historical literary language and the Persian language variant of Afghanistan* Dari , an ethnolect of the Zoroastrians of Yazd and Kerman...
  • 1992: Albanian
    Albanian language

    Albanian is an Indo-European languages spoken by nearly 6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including the west of the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and southern Serbia....
    , Macedonian
    Macedonian language

    Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Bosnian language, and Croatian language languages....
  • 2000: Ukrainian
    Ukrainian language

    Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....


Some language services have been discontinued, both due to financial cuts and an allegedly decreasing demand. In 1998, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch and Italian radio services were discontinued. 1999 was the last year for language services in Japanese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Czech and Hungarian.

German reunification

With German reunification
German reunification

German reunification took place twice after 1945: first in 1957, the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, and again on 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the German Democratic Republic joined the Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state....
 in 1990, Radio Berlin International
Radio Berlin International

Radio Berlin International was the international broadcasting for the German Democratic Republic . It started in May 1959 to counter Deutsche Welle, the West German international broadcaster....
 (RBI) of East Germany ceased to exist. Some of the staff and personnel of RBI joined Deutsche Welle, and it inherited some broadcasting apparatus, including the transmitting facilities at Nauen
Nauen

Nauen is a town in the Havelland district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 38 km west of Berlin , and 26 km northwest of Potsdam.Nauen is well known as the location of a transmission site ....
 as well as RBI's frequencies.

DW-TV began as RIAS-TV, a television station launched by the West Berlin
West Berlin

West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945....
 broadcaster RIAS (Radio in the American Sector / Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor) in August 1988. The fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a physical separation barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic , including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany....
 later that year and German reunification in 1990 meant that RIAS-TV was to be closed down. On 1 April 1992, Deutsche Welle inherited the RIAS-TV broadcast facilities, using them to start a German and English language television channel broadcast via satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
, DW-TV, adding a short Spanish broadcast segment the following year. In 1995, it began 24-hour operation (12 hours German, 10 hours English (in the Philippines it airs some programs on Net-25), 2 hours Spanish). At that time, DW TV introduced a new news studio and a new logo
Logo

A logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo's design is for immediate recognition....
.

Deutsche Welle took over some of the former independent radio broadcasting service Deutschlandfunk
Deutschlandfunk

Deutschlandfunk is a Germany national news and current affairs radio station....
's foreign language programming in 1993, when Deutschlandfunk was absorbed into the new Deutschlandradio
Deutschlandradio

Deutschlandradio is a national German public radio broadcaster. It operates two national networks, Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur....
.

In addition to radio and television programming, DW sponsored some published material. For example, the South Asia Department published German Heritage: A Series Written for the South Asia Programme in 1967 and in 1984, published African Writers on the Air. Both publications were transcript of DW programming.

World Wide Web presence

In late 1994, Deutsche Welle was the first public broadcaster in Germany with a World Wide Web presence
Web presence

Web presence refers to the appearance of a person or organization on the World Wide Web. The phrase can be definite or indefinite .A company has web presence if it is available on the web....
, which at the time was (), although for its first two years the site listed little more than contact addresses. This later evolved into the current 30-language Web site.

The Internet news site offers daily exclusive coverage in seven core languages (Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
, Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
, English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Portuguese for Brazil
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
 and Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
) as well as a mixture of news and information in 23 other languages corresponding to Deutsche Welle's radio programs. Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
 became DW-WORLD.DE's eighth focus language in 2007.

German and Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an news are DW-WORLD.DE's central focus, but the site also offers background information regarding Germany and German language courses
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
.

The site can be viewed in a special version for devices and its radio and television broadcasts are available on line.

Recent events

In 2001, Deutsche Welle (in conjunction with ARD and ZDF
ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television television channel based in Mainz. It is run as an independent non-profit agency established by joint contract between the States of Germany ....
) founded the German TV subscription TV channel for North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
n viewers. The project was shut down after four years due to low subscriber numbers. It has since been replaced by the DW-TV channel (also a subscription service).

DW-TV currently broadcasts on satellite television in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 (Sky
Sky Digital (UK & Ireland)

Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and satellite radio service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at Astra 28.2?E and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5?E....
 Channel 794), and cable television (Virgin Media Channel 830). It alternates every hour between English and German with the news (Journal) on the hour.

Unlike most other international broadcasters, DW-TV doesn't charge terrestrial stations for use of its programming, and as a result its News Journal
DWMJ-TV

DZEC-TV is a UHF television station owned by Eagle Broadcasting Corporation. It is commonly known as Net 25. This station studios are located at #882 Maligaya Bldg....
 and other programs are rebroadcast on numerous public broadcasting
Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic mass media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public....
 stations in several countries, including United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
.

Deutsche Welle is still suffering from financial and personnel cuts. Its budget was decreased by about €75 million over five years and of the 2,200 employees it had in 1994, 1,200 remain. Further cuts are still expected.

In 2003, the German government passed a new "Deutsche Welle Law", which defined DW as a three-media organization -- making the Deutsche Welle website an equal partner with DW-TV and DW-RADIO. The website is available in 30 languages, but focuses on German, English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese for Brazil, Chinese and Arabic. Persian became the eighth focus language in 2007.

In April 2007, DW launched its own channel on the video platform YouTube
YouTube

YouTube is a Video hosting service website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005....
.

In March 2009, DW-TV is expanding its television services in Asia with two new channels namely DW-TV Asia and DW-TV Asia+.

Shortwave relay stations


Domestic shortwave relay stations


Transmitter sites

The Jülich radio transmitter site began operation in 1956, with eleven 100 kW Telefunken transmitters.

The Wertachtal site was authorized in 1962 and began service with four 500 kW transmitters. By 1989, there were 15 transmitters, four of which relayed the Voice of America.

The Nauen transmitter site was inherited from Radio Berlin International. RBI's Russian-made three 500 kW and one 100 kW transmitters were replaced by four Telefunken 500 kW transmitters and four rotatable transmitters.

External shortwave relay stations

  • Trincomalee
    Trincomalee

    Trincomalee is a district, a bay and a port city on the northeast coast of Sri Lanka, about 110 miles northeast of Kandy. The town is built on a peninsula, which divides the inner and outer harbours....
    , Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
    • 3 x 250 kW shortwave transmitters
    • 1 x 400 kW mediumwave transmitter
    • 20 antennas (to be verified)


  • Kigali, Rwanda
    Rwanda

    The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
    ": A relay station in Kigali, Rwanda, provides coverage for Africa, but the site was destroyed by 1990s civil war
    • 4 x 250 kW shortwave transmitters


  • Sines, Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
    • 3 x 250 kW shortwave transmitters


A relay station in Malta has three SW and one 600 kW- MW transmitter and gives partial coverage of the Americas, Southern Asia, and the Far East. It was established in the early 1970s in exchange for a grant of nearly 1 million GBP.

Deutsche Welle shares a transmitting station in the Caribbean with the BBC, and has a relay-exchange with the CBC that allows DW to use two 250 kW transmitters in Sackville.

Relay stations leasing transmitter time to DW

DW leases time on the following relay stations
  • Novosibirsk
    Novosibirsk

    Novosibirsk is Russia's third-largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast....
    , Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Irkutsk
    Irkutsk

    Irkutsk is one of the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from Moscow....
    , Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Alma Ata, Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan

    Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....
  • Kranji
    Kranji

    Kranji is a suburb in northwestern Singapore, located about 22 kilometres from the Downtown Core....
    , Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
     (BBC Far Eastern Relay Station)
  • Bonaire
    Bonaire

    The Island Territory of Bonaire is one of five islands of the Netherlands Antilles of the Netherlands Antilles, consisting of the main island of Bonaire and, nestled in its western crescent, the uninhabited islet of Klein Bonaire....
    , Netherlands Antilles
    Netherlands Antilles

    The Netherlands Antilles , previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, is part of the Lesser Antilles and consists of two island group in the Caribbean Sea: Cura?ao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, located southeast of the Virgin Islands....
     (Radio Netherlands
    Radio Netherlands

    Radio Netherlands Worldwide is a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands....
    )
  • Talata Volonondry, Madagascar
    Madagascar

    Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar , is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the List of islands by area, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are Endemism to Madagascar....
     (Radio Netherlands
    Radio Netherlands

    Radio Netherlands Worldwide is a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands....
    )
  • Dhabayya, United Arab Emirates
    United Arab Emirates

    The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....


Directors General

  • 12 October 1960 - 29 February 1968: Hans Otto Wesemann
  • 1 March 1968 - 29 February 1980: Walter Steigner
  • 1 March 1980 - 8 December 1980: Conrad Ahlers
  • 19 December 1980 - 30 June 1981: Heinz Fellhauer (interim)
  • 1 July 1981 - 30 June 1987: Klaus Schütz
  • 1 July 1987 - 30 June 1989: Heinz Fellhauer
  • 1 July 1989 - 31 March 2001: Dieter Weirich
  • 1 April 2001 - 30 September 2001: Reinhard Hartstein (interim as deputy intendant)
  • 1 October 2001 - present: Erik Bettermann


Deutsche Welle services

  • DW Radio: shortwave, cable TV, satellite, and digital radio (DRM
    Digital Radio Mondiale

    Digital Radio Mondiale is a set of digital radio technologies designed to work over the bands currently used for AM broadcasting, particularly shortwave....
    ) broadcasting in 29 languages, with a 24-hour service in German and English
  • DW-TV: satellite television broadcasting mainly in German, English (some programs aired on Net-25
    DWMJ-TV

    DZEC-TV is a UHF television station owned by Eagle Broadcasting Corporation. It is commonly known as Net 25. This station studios are located at #882 Maligaya Bldg....
     in The Philippines), Arabic and Spanish. French and Italian will be coming soon in 2009. Portuguese and Chinese will be aired on 2010.
  • DW-WORLD.DE: 30-language website


Slogan

  • DW-TV - At the Heart of Europe
    Europe

    Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
    . (English)
  • DW-TV - Aus der Mitte Europas. (German)

DW-TV programs


Business

  • Global 3000 (Globalization Program)
  • Made In Germany (German Business Magazine)

Cars and sports

  • Bundesliga Kick Off! (The Soccer Magazine)
  • Drive It! (The Motor Magazine)
  • Kick off! Report (German version of Bundesliga Kick Off!)
  • Motor Mobil (Germany Auto Magazine)

Culture

  • Arts.21 (The Cultural Magazine)
  • Kultur.21 (German version of Arts.21)
  • Kino (The German Film Magazine)

Documentaries and features

  • Faith Matters (The Church Program)
  • In Focus (Documentaries and Reports)
  • Im Focus (German version of In Focus)
  • Germany 60 Years (60 Years of Germany)
  • 60 x Deutschland (Germany version of Germany 60 Years)

Lifestyle and entertainment

  • Faith Matters (Religion)
  • Hin & Weg (German Travel Magazine)
  • Discover Germany (The TV Travel Guide)
  • Euromaxx (Lifestyle Europe)
  • Germany Today (Window on Germany)
  • Deutschland Heute (German version of Germany Today)
  • In Good Shape (The Health Show)
  • Pop Xport (The German News Magazine)
  • Talking Germany (The German Way of Life)
  • Typisch Deutsch (Living in Germany)

News and politics

  • European Journal (The Magazine From Brussels)
  • Journal News (The News Program)
  • People & Politics (The Political Magazine)

Talk show

  • Quadriga (The International Talk Show)

Science

  • Tomorrow Today (Science Journal)
  • Projekt Zukunft (German Science Magazine)


See also

  • Voice of Indonesia
    Voice of Indonesia

    Voice of Indonesia is an autonomous division under Radio Republik Indonesia . The organization is a public broadcasting service. It is a national radio station that broadcasts all over Indonesia and abroad to serve all Indonesian citizens anywhere in the country and abroad....
  • Radio Canada International
    Radio Canada International

    Radio Canada International is the international broadcasting service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ....


Books used as references in this article

  • Wood 2000
Wood, James. History of International Broadcasting. 2000, IET. ISBN 0852969201


  • McPhail 2006
McPhail, Thomas L. Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends. 2006, Blackwell Publishing. 357 pages. ISBN 1405134275


  • Wallis and Baran 1990
Wallis, Roger, and Stanley J. Baran. The Known World of Broadcast News: International News and the Electronic Media. 1990, Routledge. ISBN 0415036046

External links

  • Study and Research in Germany - Deutsche Welle portal
  • Deutsche Welle International Weblog Award
  • , a compilation on Wikia.com
    Wikia

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