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HF (Shortwave) Radio Broadcasts in A16 (Summer 2016)Statistics per target region, per broadcaster and per language

HFCC/ASBU/ABU database as of 14 April 2016

DRM Transmissions Only All HF Broadcasts (Analog+DRM)

Per Target Region Per Target Region

Target Region* Entries Hrs/Day Min/Week Target Region* Entries Hrs/Day Min/Week

North America 0 0 0 North America 175 1033.01 433862

Central America 0 0 0 Central America 138 751.25 315525

South America 0 0 0 South America 140 455.42 191275

Europe 47 232.71 97740 Europe 825 2254.23 946775

Africa 10 42 17640 Africa 1187 2077.09 872376

Middle East 2 24 10080 Middle East 757 1451.75 609736

Asia 15 29.12 12229 Asia 2123 5058.74 2124670

Australia 0 0 0 Australia 67 321.9 135199

Pacific 12 19.5 8190 Pacific 62 383.69 161151

Per Broadcaster Per Broadcaster

Broadcaster Entries Hrs/Day Min/Week Broadcaster Entries Hrs/Day Min/Week

AIR - All India Radio 2 8.25 3465 ABC - ABC-Radio Australia 19 180 75600

BBC - BBC Worldservice 3 5.55 2331 ADM - Abu Dhabi Media Company 62 174.25 73185

BIX - BitExpress (Germany) 1 24.00 10080 AIR - All India Radio 140 471.83 198170

BTC - Belarusian Tele-radio Company 2 18.07 7588 ALR - Radio Tirana, Albania 7 5.13 2154

KBS - Korean Broadcasting System 1 0.07 30 ANT - ANTI, Milano 7 1.86 780

NEW - Undetermined (for new organization) 9 97.50 40950 ARS - Broadcasting Serv. of Saudi Arabia 97 311 130620

NHK - Nippon Hoso Kyokai 2 0.14 60 AWR - Adventist World Radio 93 49.32 20716

RFI - Radio France Internationale 8 30.95 12999 BAB - Babcock Communications 28 18.33 7698

RNZ - Radio New Zealand 12 19.50 8190 BBC - BBC Worldservice 267 237.84 99893

RRO - Radio Romania International 12 7.50 3150 BCQ - Allan H. Weiner 5 56 23520

RRS - Radio Russia 14 38.00 15960 BIX - BitExpress (Germany) 1 24 10080

TOM - The Overcomer Ministry 2 26.00 10920 BRB - Broadcast Belgium 2 18.07 7590

VAT - Vatican Radio 3 24.47 10276 BTC - Belarusian Tele-radio Company 14 169.05 71001

VOR - Voice of Russia 1 3.00 1260 CAF - Channel Africa 12 12.86 5400

WRN - World Radio Network 1 1.00 420 CBB - Caribbean Beacon 2 24 10080

Total 73 304.00 127679 CHW - Christliche Wissenschaft 1 0.14 60

CNR - China National Radio 230 1794.83 753830

CRI - China Radio International 740 777.5 326550

Per Language DWD - Deutscher Wetterdienst 5 2.5 1050

Language ** Entries Hrs/DayqMins/Week DWL - Deutsche Welle 39 34 14280

German 6 97.50 40950 E24 - Europa 24 (Germany) 1 12 5040

English 30 74.19 31161 ERU - Egypt Radio & TV Union 45 88 36960

Russian 17 39.07 16410 EWN - Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. 12 72 30240

French 9 30.95 12999 FEC - Far East Broadcasting Company 38 42.98 18053

Belarusian 2 18.07 7588 HBN - Republic of Palau 23 66 27720

Tigre 2 10.00 4200 HCA - HCJB Australia 16 14.98 6292

Hindi 1 3.25 1365 HCJ - Voice of the Andes 44 81.63 34285

Italian 1 0.50 210 HLR - Hamburger Lokalradio e.V. 2 36 15120

Chinese 1 0.50 210 HRI - LeSea Broadcasting Corporation 42 82.71 34740

Undetermined 4 29.97 12586 IBB - International Broadcasting Bureau 473 574.29 241200

Total 73 304.00 127679 IBR - IBRA Radio 15 10.5 4410

IMF - International Fellowship of Churches 4 16 6720

INB - World International Broadcasters, Inc. 1 16.5 6930

IRB - Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting 212 301.5 126630

JHR - Hill Radio International 1 8 3360

JIC - Japan International Communications 56 81 34020

JRT - Jordan Radio & Television 6 13.42 5635

KBS - Korean Broadcasting System 94 201.55 84653

LRT - Lithuanian National Radio and TV 4 24 10080

MBR - Media Broadcast GmbH 162 51.97 21828

MLK - Assemblies of Yahweh 1 4.29 1800

MRT - Mongol Radio & Television 7 55 23100

Data compiled with a help of Wplot2000ex MVB - Baltic Radio (Germany) 3 10 4200

MWV - World Christian Broadcasting (USA) 13 13 5460

HFCC, z. s.Vinohradska 28 - dvur12000 Praha 2Czech RepublicIČ: 69780366Tel.: +420 602975856Tel.: +420 774346541http://www.hfcc.orgE-mail: ocip@hfcc.org

* Some broadcast reach into more than one region. Therefore, total sums per column have not been indicated.

** HFCC database allows to indicate up to three languages per transmission. Equal fractions of the transmission duration have been counted if more than one language has been specified.

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NBA - National Broadcaster of Bangladesh 48 70 29400

NBT - NBS of Thailand 22 11.25 4725

NEW - Undetermined (for new organization) 64 297.31 124870

NHK - Nippon Hoso Kyokai 132 156.66 65797

NLS - World Christian Broadcasting Corp. 20 20 8400

NSB - Nihon Short-wave Broadc. Co. 8 136 57120

ORF - Oesterreichischer Rundfunk 1 1.25 525

PBS - Philippines Broadcasting Service 6 10.5 4410

PNW - Press Now 9 9 3780

R48 - Radio 48 International (Germany) 1 24 10080

RDR - Resrved for Intl.Radio for Disaster Reli 8 130 54600

REE - Radio Exterior de Espana 20 57.86 24300

RFI - Radio France Internationale 89 102.91 43222

RKW - Ministry of Inf. - State of Kuwait 12 51.25 21525

RLA - Radio-Lead Africa 4 1.86 780

RMI - Radio Miami International 33 316.84 133073

RNO - WRNO Worldwide, Inc. 2 24 10080

RNZ - Radio New Zealand 30 78.67 33040

RRI - Radio Republic of Indonesia 53 144.5 60690

RRO - Radio Romania International 117 86.71 36420

RRS - Radio Russia 105 359.5 150990

RSH - Radio 700 5 57.14 24000

RSO - Radio Sultanate of Oman 44 151.5 63630

RTE - Radio Telefis Eireann 1 0.33 140

RTT - Tunesian Radio & TV 8 25.67 10780

RUI - Radio Ukraine International 16 67 28140

RVA - Radio Veritas Asia 26 17.33 7280

SAB - South African Broadcasting Corp. 3 24 10080

SBC - Sudan National Broadcasting Corp. 8 38 15960

SDA - Adventist Broadcasting Service, Inc. 68 34 14280

SIB - Solomon Islands Broadcasting 2 28 11760

SLB - Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation 34 82.83 34790

SRL - South African Radio League 3 0.43 180

TDA - Telediffusion d'Algerie 31 46.93 19712

TMI - Transformation Media Intl., LP 3 7.5 3150

TOM - The Overcomer Ministry 18 94.97 39886

TRT - Turkish Radio-TV Corp 44 68 28560

TWR - Trans World Radio 64 39.35 16529

TWW - Leap of Faith, Inc. 5 64 26880

VAT - Vatican Radio 153 89.72 37683

VBT - Vanuatu Broadcasting and Television 2 47.97 20146

VOH - High Adventure Ministries 2 18 7560

VOR - Voice of Russia 2 23 9660

VOV - Voice of Vietnam 61 172.87 72604

VTC - VT Communications 1 1 420

WCR - WNQM, Inc. 48 433 181860

WRB - Blue Ridge Communications, Inc. 5 57 23940

WRN - World Radio Network 2 1.14 480

YER - Yemen Radio & Television 7 74 31080

Total 4496 10094.58 4239730

Per Language

Language ** Hrs/DayqMins/Week

English 2420.67 1016680

Chinese (unspec.) 1280.51 537813

Standard Chinese 150.00 63000

Mandarin Chinese 146.93 61712

Cantonese 28.14 11820

Min Nan Chinese 20.79 8730

Hakka Chinese 10.00 4200

Arabic (unspec.) 645.54 271128

Standard Arabic 206.42 86695

Sudanese Arabic 9.00 3780

Algerian Saharan Arabic 5.64 2370.67

Egyptian Arabic 3.00 1260

Russian 529.93 222570

Spanish 327.18 137415

Tibetan 303.96 127665

Japanese 287.05 120563

French 222.65 93514.2

German 196.81 82659

Vietnamese 183.54 77086

Korean 183.02 76870

Mongolian 180.00 75600

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Belarusian 177.38 74501

Hindi 142.62 59902

Urdu 115.20 48384

Uighur 103.48 43460

Persian 100.29 42120

Kazakh 77.83 32690

Bislama 75.97 31906

Dari 68.63 28822.5

Turkish 67.75 28455

Pushto (unspec.) 37.25 15645

Central Pashto 51.50 21630

Southern Pashto 0.75 315

Northern Pashto 0.75 315

Hausa 48.58 20405

Indonesian 42.52 17857

Burmese 40.98 17210

Swahili (macrolanguage) 39.90 16760

Swahili (individual language) 3.00 1260

Ukrainian 36.12 15170

Kurdish 35.00 14700

Sinhala 34.88 14647.5

Portuguese 34.87 14646

Bengali 27.79 11670

Somali 27.36 11490

Romanian 26.57 11160

Tamil 25.00 10500

Afrikaans 24.00 10080

Norwegian 24.00 10080

Nepali 18.42 7735

Central Khmer 18.04 7575

Thai 15.70 6595

Uzbek 14.00 5880

Italian 13.92 5845

Tajik 13.50 5670

Amharic 12.85 5395

Latu 12.00 5040

Tuvinian 12.00 5040

Albanian 12.00 5040

Arbëreshë Albanian 1.00 420

Filipino 11.88 4991

Kinyarwanda 11.07 4651

Esperanto 10.00 4200

Tigre 10.00 4200

Huarijio 9.36 3930

Sindhi 8.41 3532.5

Kirghiz 8.36 3510

Croatian 8.00 3360

Lao 7.54 3165

Bambara 7.43 3120

Imbabura Highland Quichua 7.31 3070

Bosnian 7.00 2940

Azerbaijani 6.50 2730

Adyghe 6.00 2520

Gujarati 6.00 2520

Kanuri 6.00 2520

Latin 5.85 2455

Tigrinya 5.29 2220

Bulgarian 5.00 2100

Serbian 5.00 2100

Oromo 4.57 1920

Hungarian 4.50 1890

Turkmen 4.50 1890

Shona 4.43 1860

Malayalam 4.25 1785

Telugu 4.13 1732.5

Middle Armenian 4.00 1680

Malay (individual language) 4.00 1680

Malay (macrolanguage) 0.21 90

Baluchi 3.75 1575

Dutch 3.54 1485

Czech 3.50 1470

Hebrew 3.50 1470

Afar 2.14 900

Armenian 2.05 860

Mandingo 2.00 840

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Malagasy 2.00 840

Polish 2.00 840

Javanese 1.71 720

Kachin 1.50 630

Macedonian 1.50 630

Panjabi 1.50 630

Shall-Zwall 1.42 595

Falam Chin 1.08 455

Waorani 1.00 420

Cofán 1.00 420

Asho Chin 1.00 420

Kabyle 1.00 420

Georgian 1.00 420

Manumanaw Karen 1.00 420

Pwo Northern Karen 1.00 420

Tachelhit 1.00 420

Sundanese 1.00 420

Tai 1.00 420

Zou 1.00 420

Kok Borok 0.89 375

Dargwa 0.88 367.5

West Central Oromo 0.75 315

Chachi 0.71 300

Shuar 0.71 300

Luri 0.71 300

Lozi 0.71 300

Nyanja 0.71 300

Assamese 0.64 270

Hmong 0.64 270

Dhimal 0.63 262.5

Umbundu 0.54 225

Chokwe 0.54 225

Southern Bai 0.50 210

Dyula 0.50 210

Fulah 0.50 210

Igbo 0.50 210

Iu Mien 0.50 210

Kannada 0.50 210

Lü 0.50 210

Khams Tibetan 0.50 210

Lahu 0.50 210

Lingala 0.50 210

Lushai 0.50 210

Marathi 0.50 210

Masai 0.50 210

Minangkabau 0.50 210

Mon 0.50 210

Peripheral Mongolian 0.50 210

Oriya 0.50 210

Pwo Western Karen 0.50 210

Shan 0.50 210

Tatar 0.50 210

Wolof 0.50 210

Yawalapití 0.50 210

Yoruba 0.50 210

Pulaar 0.43 180

Ndau 0.38 157.5

Madurese 0.36 150

Tagalog 0.36 150

Northeastern Thai 0.36 150

Khmu 0.25 105

Lomwe 0.25 105

Santali 0.25 105

Kulina Pano 0.25 105

Manipuri 0.21 90

Iloko 0.14 60

Makasar 0.08 35

Dzongkha 0.07 30

Tsonga 0.04 15

Tswa 0.04 15

Undetermined&multiple 865.64 363569

Total 10094.60 4239730