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What's
going on?
It is the first time that Radio Taiwan International
English Service has held Listeners' Club meetings since
it was restructured in 1998. RTI has received an
increasing number of letters from South Asian region
over the last six years, showing that more and more
listeners in South Asia tune in to RTI.
When RTI made a decision to hold listeners' meetings in
South Asia, the English Service had a debate over where
the meetings would be held since RTI listeners are
scattered all over India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka and Nepal. After much consideration, RTI decided
to go to Delhi and Calcutta (Kolkata).
48 listeners attended the RTI Listeners' Club meeting in
Kolkata on Feb. 19, 2006. Two participants came all the
way from Chennai which is some 1,600 kilometers away
from Kolkata. Believe it or not, it took them two days
to get to Kolkata to take part in the meeting and of
course, another two days to get back. Some from
Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh stated their willingness
to take part as well. The meeting was held at the
conference room of the Peerless Inn which is centrally
located and is within a walking distance from the bus
station.
The meeting was a tremendous success
The meeting began with a brief introduction of the three
RTI personnel, Chairman Lin Feng-jenq, Vice Manager of
Programming Department Wayne Wang and Carlson Wong,
followed by the video presentation introducing RTI.
During the Question and Answer period, listeners
responded with constructive suggestions. The highlight
of the event is that RTI announced the establishment of
RTI Listeners' Club in Kolkata with the hope of bringing
together listeners around the region.
The President of RTI Listeners' Club in Kolkata is
Swopan Chakroborty.
We were overwhelmed with joy by the enthusiasm of RTI
listeners in India and hope that it is a good start.
After all, well begun is half done and we do hope to see
our listeners soon.
We would like to remind our South Asian listeners that
RTI has opened a post office box in Delhi (RTI, P.O.Box
4914, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi, 110029, India) for
years to help you save postage So write to us!
The following is the Coverage of RTI Listeners' Club
meeting
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Dear Dxers,
48 Dxers enjoyed a day-long meeting on 19th
February 2006 with Radio Taiwan International's
Chairman Mr.Feng Jeng Lin, Vice Manager of
Programming Department Mr. Wayne T. F. Wang and
Senior Staff of English Section Mr. Carlson Wang
at The Peerless Inn, 12, Jawaharlal Nehru Road,
Kolkata. At 11:30 a.m the Dxers entered the
hotel and registered themselves. Everybody was
given a special commemorative picture postcard.
At the beginning of the meeting Radio Taiwan
International's Chairman Mr.Feng Jeng Lin
welcomed all and mentioned India and Taiwan both
being democratic countries respect each other.
Mr. Carlson Wang translated the Chairman's
speech in English. A 15 minutes' long
documentary on RTI was shown next. Then it was a
tea/coffee break. In the next session Dxers
voiced their proposals when Mr.Feng Jeng Lin and
Mr. Carlson Wang commented on the proposals and
noted these down.
Among the Dxers were Mr. Swopan
Chakraborty(Official Monitor of RTI), Mr.
Rabishankar Basu, Mr. Pranab Kumar Roy, Mr.
Hiranmoy Mondal, Mr. Anandamohan Bain, Mr. Dipak
Das, Mr. T. Jaisakthivel, Mr. Bhudeb Sarkar, Mr.
Subir Basu, Mr. Rajdeep Das, Mr. Tanumoy
Chakraborty, Mr. Bishan Ghoshal, Mr. Talat
Mahmood (excuse me, I can not recollect others'
names).Dxers mainly requested to improve
propagation condition so that the programs
become audible. They also drew the attention to
the jamming on the RTI frequencies. Requests for
airing regional language programs (Bengali &
Tamil) was also placed. Some listeners wanted to
have colourful program schedule. The Chairman of
RTI assured the Dxers to look into the proposals
and to do something positive. This
questions-proposals-answers session went on in
two halves - pre and post lunch. Then some
mementos were distributed and finally a
listeners' club was formed and Mr. Swopan
Chakraborty was given the chair of the president
of the club. After another Coffee break the
meeting was over.
Sincerely yours,
Rajib Bandyopadhyay |
Background Info
RTI Chairman Lin Feng-jeng officially announced the
founding of RTI Listeners' Club in Kolkata on Feb.19,
2006. The President of the Club has the following
responsibilities:
· Help promote RTI
· Help arrange Listeners' Meeting
· Monitor RTI Frequencies
· Keep RTI informed of DX activities around Kolkata
The President of the Club is Mr.Swopan Chakroborty.
Mr.Chakraborty is also one of the two RTI official
monitors in India.
Snapshots
RTI KOLKATA MEET PHOTO'S -
CLICK ON THIS LINK
(RTI)
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