isis, upcoming elections and state jamming of VOA signals.
Weekend broadcasts will begin on Saturday and Sunday, August 18 and 19, at 7 p.m. Zimbabwe time (1700 UTC) on 909 medium wave from Botswana and shortwave frequencies 4930, 13755 and 15775 kiloHertz.
VOA’s Studio 7 for Zimbabwe has been on the air since January 2003 and posted strong audience growth through 2005 and 2006 to establish an audience of more than 1 million listeners in the Southern African country. Jamming of Studio 7’s medium-wave signal began in mid-2006 and the government has acknowledged that it is responsible.
Studio 7 will add audience participation to the mix with callbacks to listeners who would like to express their views on news topics, especially in the run-up to the general and presidential elections to be held in March 2008 following local ballots in January.
Since its inception, Studio 7 has established itself in Zimbabwe as a balanced and reliable source for news and analysis of the evolving crisis which has pitted the government and ruling Zanu (PF) party of President Robert Mugabe against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and a broad array of reform-minded civil society organizations. – Staff reporter
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