NNN: Vietnam Aims for Global, Multilingual Satellite Broadcast Reach by 2020 Mar 19, 2012 – NAM News Network
HANOI, March 9 (NNN-VNS) -- The plan to broadcast Vietnamese news to the
world has been outlined by the Ministry of Information and Communication in
its Master Broadcasting Development Plan for Radio and Television Services by
2020.
Under the master plan, the Ministry of Information and Communication aims to
broadcast news via satellite to North America, Europe and Asia –
Pacific by 2015 and throughout the world by 2020.
The national television channel will produce up to 20 hours of news coverage
per day while the radio channel will run 24 hours/ day by 2020.
Initially, these channels will air internationally qualified production
programmes in foreign languages for at least 8 hours/ day to give
international communities a better understanding of Viet Nam's current
political, socio-economic development, culture and lifestyle spheres.
The radio channel will primarily use the current Voice of Viet Nam on Channel
5 (VOV5).
Programmes will be aired in multiple languages: English, French, Japanese,
Chinese, Russian, German, Spanish, Indonesian, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, Arabic
and Korean.
The Viet Nam Television Channel 4 (VTV4) will broadcast programmes in
English, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German and Spanish.
Viet Nam Television Corporation (VTC) Channel 10 and VTV4 will air programmes
for Vietnamese overseas.
The Government will also encourage other radio and television stations to
produce programmes to serve international communities and Vietnamese
overseas. -- NNN-VNS
