the liberals won
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005Congratulations to the media counsel of Berlin.
Before Condoleeza Rice visited this city the counsel had to redistribute the Berlin frequencies for stations on the FM radio. There was a big competititon between the more conservative “Voice of America” station which had it’s own frequency so far and the liberal “National Public Radio” that wanted to start here. Only one of them was allowed in. Even the US government was very much interested that VOA is able to stay. Outcome: Voice of America lost and has to leave, NPR will be new in the city.
Yes, of course conservative americans being in this city should be allowed to have their radio station too but I am looking forward to the change. Not only because of my political opinions but because VOA did not even use the 24 h that they could have had on their frequency. Most of the time a local rock station used the time that VOA gave them, only some american news in between and some hours in the evening and night were declared VOA time.
So, I’d rather listen to an american station here in Berlin that uses the time that it has as it’s disposal.