From Andy Sennitt at Media Network -

Sources at Radio Cairo say major budget cuts looming

Tarek Zeidan reports from Cairo: "According to a source working in
Radio Cairo, there'll be a huge budget cut starting 1/11/04 and several
overseas sections of Radio Cairo will be closed for good...including
the Portuguese section beamed to Brazil and several other sections
...the remaining sections will be English, French, Spanish.... I don't
know about the German and the Russian sections.

"It was really obvious that something is going on specially when all
the media followers here in Egypt noticed that the close down of ESC2
(Egyptian Satellite Channels 2) on 15/10/04 as everyone was wondering
why ESC2 is not working on the Nile Sat...it turned out to be as a part
of the changes that will take place in the media scene soon.

"That means a lot of shortwave frequencies used to carry the Voice of
Egypt will be in the clear and no more Radio Cairo in Afar, Fulani..etc.
Further details will be given soon...hopefully I'll be able to get the
exact affected sections soonest."

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