SOH Protests Interference Against Its SW Broadcast to China
Audience of SOH complained about severe shortwave jamming from CCP Military Radio Equipments.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (PRWEB) August 6, 2005 -- Sound-of-Hope Radio Network
Inc (aka SOH), a global, non-profit radio content-provider for multi-language
broadcasting across North America, Asia, Australia and Europe, recently
condemned severe Short Wave interference from Chinese Communist Party military
sites.
Since June 2004, SOH has established a daily 4-hour shortwave
broadcast programs at 3 frequencies that cover a majority of regions throughout
China. Positive feedback have been received from many listeners in mainland
China who have claimed that SOH offers essential radio broadcast that helps
mainland Chinese people receive the most truthful, factual and accurate
information about China and abroad.
However, over the past several
months, SOH has received significant feedback from China indicating that the
4-hour daily shortwave broadcast is now being seriously interfered by the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The SOH Listeners in China cannot receive
the radio signals as before. Listeners from Dalian City (Liaoning Province)
stated that they could received the SOH broadcast in the past, but recently the
signals are almost completely covered by music, drumming and other programs from
China’s central radio station; listeners from Fuzhou City (Fujian Province)
reported that they could no longer receive the broadcast even in an open field
in the outdoors; listeners from Xinjiang, Sichuan, Shandong Province also
strongly complained that SOH programs are specifically targeted by this annoying
interference, since the radio signals at the same frequencies resumed to normal
status after the SOH program airtime is over.
In 2004, Reporters Without
Borders reported that the Thales Group, a corporation based in France, sold to
China many military-class devices used for radio signal jamming for the
disruption of foreign broadcasts over China. An internal source of information
inside China has indicated that the National Security Bureau, Public Security
Bureau, and the General Military Intelligence Sector II are the official bureaus
in charge of monitor and censor foreign radio broadcasts. These coordinated
actions have severely overlooked and trampled the rights to obtain information
freely for billions of Chinese people.
Currently, SOH has become the top
target for interference by the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has engaged a
full range of interference to block the SOH shortwave programming. The intensity
of the interference has surpassed the partial and temporal interference that
Radio France International, BBC, VOA and Radio Free Asia have experienced.
Due to SOH’s being as exclusive and complete broadcast of the “Nine
Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party” (a series of editorials published
by the Epoch Times Newspaper), as well as the SOH’s exclusive and extensive
reports covering the unprecedented evolving current phenomena of millions of
Chinese people choosing to publicly (or secretly) quit the CCP.
In order
to provide more convenient communication channels for the Chinese people, SOH
also offers toll-free numbers for mainland listeners. This service is greatly
welcomed by many Chinese listeners. After SOH dedicated a full hour to broadcast
the “Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party”, ever more listeners
responded with enthusiasm and gave feedback via the toll-free numbers. However,
these toll-free numbers were cut-off abruptly by the CCP from December 24 to
December 26, 2004.
As a human-right and freedom supportive and
political-neutral broadcasting media, Sound-of-Hope Radio Network strongly
protests the CCP applying intensive interference on the SOH radio signals, as
well as the abrupt termination of toll-free numbers service that SOH utilizes to
communicate with listeners. These actions are against the principle of freedom
of press and seriously breach the regulations of international radio
broadcasting norms. SOH calls for public condemnation of CCP’s deprival of the
rights of Chinese people to obtain information by utilizing Chinese people’s
income tax to establish this radio signal interference. We also calls for the
support of international communities, such as International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) and Reporters Without Borders, to urge China to stop its
interference of SOH radio signals.
Recently, SOH was informed of CCP
special missions to apply spying maneuvers against independent media agencies
abroad. Reliable sources in China learned and reported to SOH that the Pubic
Security Bureau Sector 26 has recruited members from public security departments
of provincial and city levels in nine provinces whose objective is to
infiltrate, collect information, and create conflict and chaos amidst certain
overseas Chinese language media. SOH become one of the main target victims in
this special spying mission.
SOH strongly condemns all these spying
activities in which the CCP has enacted in order to buy, infiltrate, divide, and
suppress independent media abroad in efforts to control overseas Chinese
communities via CCP ideology. We also urge overseas Chinese and freedom
supportive media to guard against CCP conspiracy of CCP’s financial usurp and
infiltrate to media industry.
About Sound-of-Hope Radio Network
(SOH):
Established in U.S., the Sound of Hope Radio Network (SOH) is a
news-and-entertainment radio and internet broadcast content provider offering a
unique and broad perspective on Chinese culture. With local radio programs in
more than 40 cities and a rich pool of web radio programs, Sound of Hope Radio
network has been able to reach millions of Chinese people in China, Europe,
North America Australia and some Asia countries. Currently, SOH also produces
weekly English, French and Spanish programs to introduce Asia culture to more
people. SOH is the only independent radio network that could provide daily 4
hour broadcast in shortwave to mainland China. This daily shortwave airtime
slots are 6am to 7am at 9.635 MHz; 7am to 8am at 7.310 MHz; 9pm to 10pm at 7.310
MHz and 12am to 1am at 11.765 MHz. Please visit www.soundofhope.org for more
info.
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