6 - 2009 - Archive copies of DX MAGAZINE - wwdxc

Along with news, Deewa provides information about health, shelter, food, social issues, education, science and
culture. The program reaches people in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps and elsewhere. Up to 300
people routinely call in to Deewa during shows.
“Deewa is full of information,” said Syed Inam Rahman of the Centre for Media and Communications, International
Islamic University of Islamabad, Pakistan. Rahman estimated the majority of people in Charsadda and Peshawar
districts listened to Deewa regularly.
The newest block of programs will focus on news and current affairs, including regional and international news,
reports from a network of more than 20 local free-lance journalists, segments on Muslims in America and on youth,
a world press round-up and interviews with significant personalities.
The second hour will be a topical call-in show featuring a wide variety of issues affecting those in the targeted
region. The final hour will be a repeat of the previous day’s morning call-in show, until July 4, when it will become a
live news and current affairs program.
Deewa Radio is distributed on shortwave, FM, and by the Internet at
(VOA press release June 5 via DXLD)
WTFK! A press release took two days, as usual without the necessary details of times and frequencies so anyone
could actually HEAR the subject of the item. This is considered only PR for the non-listener!
The Deewa Radio website schedule, in script but the numbers
altho backward are pretty clear:
1300-1500 7455 9565 11510
1500-1600 7455 5835 11510
1600-1700 7455 5835 9310
1700-1900 7455 5835 9310
The original times must be UT, because in the text at the left of each entry pm times are given which are 5 hours
later, and in parentheses 4.5 hours later, i.e. Pakistan when it was on standard time, and Afghanistan, respectively.
Deewa was faced with whether to shift the real timing of the broadcasts one hour earlier due to DST in Pak, or leave
them the same due to no DST in Afghanistan. We see which one won out.
But that only covers six hours, so the new ones are missing, less than a day before their dbut. While the A-Z
schedule shows 1200-1800 on 7495 9310 9380
9780 --- simple as that.
Well, which is (was) it, 13-19 or 12-18 UT Probably the latter due to DST in Pakistan of UT +6 shifting everything
one hour earlier, but notice that only ONE of the frequencies, 9310, matches in the two versions. Why hasn`t
Deewa`s own website in Pashto been kept accurate They are running off any would-be listeners who may be
trying to consult it.
WRTH A-09 update agrees with 12-18, on the same quartet of frequencies but breaks down all the site shuffling that
goes on during these four sesquihours:
BBG – VOA DEEWA RADIO (Gov)
kHz: 7495, 9310, 9380, 9780
Summer Schedule 2009
Pashto Days Area kHz
1200-1230 daily WAs 9310/KWT
1200-1500 daily WAs 9780/Ira
1200-1800 daily WAs 7495/Ira, 9380/TH
1230-1300 daily WAs 9310/TH
1300-1700 daily WAs 9310/Ira
1500-1700 daily WAs 9780/TH
1700-1800 daily WAs 9310/KWT, 9780/W
The press release refers to adding a repeat of the morning call-in show. You may notice that there has been NO
morning broadcast --- on SW, so was it on FM only Is that 100.5 only, from where and does it cover the entire
area We are still left wondering just when the additional three hours will be appearing, before 1200 or after 1800
Local morning might make more sense. And whether they will be on SW, and if so, WTFK (gh, DXLD)
Glenn: Thanks. I'm sure a memo went around with the actual times and frequencies but, as the only IBB employee
specifically prohibited from receiving any frequency information, I can't help. I suspect the frequency schedule at
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