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<H1>Radio Sweden ends Medium and Short Wave</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Radio Sweden will terminate its medium and short
wave broadcasts this October 31st in favour of web services</STRONG> - with
Swedish Radio management stating that is the best use of resources and in line
with international trends.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The English-language service is to continue on the web and
on national broadcasts.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The Russian output will be available on the web, as is the
German now.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Among the immigrant languages, Albanian, Assyrian-Syriac
and Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian are to be terminated on the same date. Meanwhile,
Arabic and Somali - the largest immigrant language groups here at present - are
to be boosted. The same applies to Romani - one of Sweden's five official
minority languages.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The Persian service is to include even Dari spoken by the
rapidly increasing number of Afghan refugees coming to Sweden. Kurdish
broadcasts remain unchanged.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Swedish Radio's output</STRONG> in immigrant
languages <STRONG>will be available on the web and broadcast</STRONG>
nationally.</FONT></P>
<P><A href="http://www.sr.se/rs/english/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.sr.se/rs/english/</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>(Mike Terry)</FONT> <BR></P></BODY></HTML>