Radio Romania International

Radio Romania International (Romanian: Radio România Internațional, or RRI) is a Romanian radio station owned by the Romanian public radio broadcaster Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune (SRR, the national public radio in Romania) that broadcasts abroad. It was created in 1927 and was known as Radio Bucharest before 1989.

According to Romanian Law No. 41/1994, republished, the SRR produces and broadcasts programs in the Romanian language and other languages for a worldwide auditorium to promote the image of Romania and its internal and external politics. As a result, inside the SRR is Departamentul Radio România Internațional (Department Radio Romania International), which owns two radio stations.

Stations
As of March 2001, RRI 1 has broadcast daily shows under the heading “Romania Live”: a summary of the shows produced by the lead departments in the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation. This summary is broadcast around the clock via satellite, on the internet (in RealAudio), and on short waves (to Central and Western Europe and Israel), 8 hours per day. RRI 1 has daily broadcasts around the clock in Romanian and three 30-minute broadcasts in the Aromanian language.

RRI 2 produces and broadcasts shows under the heading "Radio Bridges" in twelve foreign languages: Arabic, Aromanian, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Russian, and Ukrainian, which total 25.5 hours per day.

The station is available on mediumwave, shortwave, and FM, in addition to satellite. RRI has 51 hours of radio program every day, which amounts to more than 18,600 hours of radio production every year.

Broadcasts
RRI continues to use the analog and digital shortwave Digital Radio Mondiale. RRI broadcasts on shortwave with 300 kW from Galbeni (46.7514°N, 26.8557°W), Tiganesti (44.7494°N, 26.1028°W) and with 100 kW from Săftica (44.6373°N, 26.0746°W) in Romania.

The RRI programmes in English, Romanian may be received on only one frequency instead of two, as of August 1, 2023.


 * English Language Broadcasts (UTC):


 * 0000–0100 Freq [kHz]: 11620
 * 0300–0400 Freq [kHz]: 9740, 15330 (DRM)
 * 0530–0600 Freq [kHz]: 11960, 21550
 * 1100–1200 Freq [kHz]: 17630, 17670
 * 1700–1800 Freq [kHz]: 13750 (DRM)
 * 2030–2100 Freq [kHz]: 11975 13650
 * 2200–2300 Freq [kHz]: 9790, 11800


 * Romanian Language Broadcasts (UTC):


 * 0000–0200 Freq [kHz]: 9730
 * 0400-0500 Freq [kHz]: 11740
 * 0700–0800 Freq [kHz]: 13750, 15200
 * 0800–0900 Freq [kHz]: 13790, 11650
 * 0900–1000 Freq [kHz]: 17630 11650
 * 1200–1300 Freq [kHz]: 9490
 * 1300–1500 Freq [kHz]: 11950
 * 1600–1700 Freq [kHz]: 9590
 * 1700–2000 Freq [kHz]: 11975

Hours valid from March 31 to October 27, 2024.

RRI broadcasts through the Eutelsat 16A satellite at 11512 MHz, vertical polarization, azimuth 16 degrees east, signal speed: 29,950MSym/s, Standard: DVB-S2, Modulation: 8PSK, Audio PID 510. The satellite transmits unencrypted signals of RRI channels for Europe.