Radio Bulgaria – the world service of the Bulgarian National Radio
For almost seventy years the world service of the Bulgarian radio, now called Radio Bulgaria, has been presenting the country’s cultural and national identity to the world. It is a principal source of information from and about Bulgaria for millions of listeners outside its borders. And this is corroborated by the enormous amount of feedback from people of all continents – people who have been listening to us for years, but also more and more newcomers to Radio Bulgaria. This multimillion listening audience is Radio Bulgaria’s best collective correspondent.
In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, and Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish. The Turkish language programmers are also targeted at the population of Turkish ethnic origin in the regions with a compact Turkish speaking population in this country. These programmers total 58 hours a day. Radio Bulgaria’s programmers are also broadcast by over 50 radio stations in more than 30 countries around the globe.
We are now taking the first step in our multimedia development, with the new Bulgarian National Radio web site. This puts a new product on the World Wide Web – information in text, sound and image from and about Bulgaria in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, Albanian as well as Arabic. And this opens up new vistas – with its creative and technical potential, Radio Bulgaria is now able to enrich the media world with a multimedia product in eleven languages, thus molding the modern image of Bulgaria. This in turn will help Radio Bulgaria perform its public mission and uphold the prestige of the Bulgarian National Radio among its constantly growing listening audience worldwide
