{"id":3568,"date":"2017-02-17T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2017-02-17T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:05:13","slug":"united-nations-information-service-geneva-celebrates-world-radio-day-13-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=3568","title":{"rendered":"UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE IN GENEVA CELEBRATES WORLD RADIO DAY ON 13 FEBRUARY 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Geneva, 10 February &#8211; The United Nations Information Service in Geneva will be celebrating World Radio Day on Monday, 13 February with a series of events, including interviews with the United Nations\u2019 radio partners and a <span class=\"il\">Facebook<\/span> Live virtual tour of the studios at the Palais des Nations.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Activities will highlight the important role played by radio in communicating the work of the United Nations to a wider public.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">UN Radio has come a long way from the<b> 1946<\/b> makeshift studios and offices at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where it transmitted its first call sign:<b> \u201cThis is the United Nations calling the peoples of the world.\u201d\u00a0 <\/b>News bulletins and feature programmes were broadcast in the Organization\u2019s then five official languages \u2013 Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish \u2013 for 9 to 12 hours each day.\u00a0 Arabic was added in 1974.\u00a0 UN Radio EN has 73 partner countries. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>In 2016, the <\/b>UN Radio Geneva team produced close to 1,000 reports, features, interviews and other audio items, mainly in English and French, but also in Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva, 10 February &#8211; The United Nations Information Service in Geneva will be celebrating World Radio Day on Monday, 13 February with a series of events, including interviews with the United Nations\u2019 radio partners and a Facebook Live virtual tour of the studios at the Palais des Nations. \u00a0 Activities will highlight the important role<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=3568\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539,2078],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-geneva-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}