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Deutsche Welle and Bangladesh Betar Sign Comprehensive Partnership Agreement

March 9, 2010

DW-RADIO to broadcast live two times daily from Bangladesh.

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Thanks to a new partnership agreement with Bangladesh Betar (BB), Deutsche Welle’s Bengali radio service will be broadcast by Bengali’s public broadcaster in the future. Representatives from both organizations signed an agreement on March 9, 2010 in Dhaka.

Following this agreement, Bangladesh Betar will broadcast DW programming between 8:00 am and 8:30 am as well as 8:00 pm and 8:30 pm using six transmitters in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur. Deutsche Welle will set up satellite equipment in these locations to make reception and rebroadcasting possible.

In addition, the two partners agreed to extend a successful training program for journalists with DW-AKADEMIE. The two broadcasters will also continue their journalist exchange program that was established in 1975.

“We are excited to continue our partnership with BB,” says Gerda Meuer, Managing Director DW-ACADEMIE at Deutsche Welle. “We have worked with them on many fronts for more than 30 years and are sure that this new agreement will be beneficial to both parties.”

This agreement marks just another milestone in the relationship between Deutsche Welle and Bangladesh Betar and it is something that will help Germany’s international broadcaster to expand its Bengali radio services in Bangladesh via FM.

The agreement was signed in the presence of Excellency, the Honorable Minister Mr. Abdul Kalam Azad (MP) by Mr. Md. Mahbubul Alam, Bangladesh Betar Director General and Ms. Gerda Meuer, Managing Director of DW-AKADEMIE.

Radio in Bangladesh is a very important form of media and it reaches a large percentage of the 153 million people daily. International broadcasters can only be active in this market with cooperation from the national public broadcaster Bangladesh Betar, which was founded in 1971.