Beijing Xinwen Guangbo

Infobox Radio station
name = Beijing Xinwen Guangbo


city = Beijing
area = Beijing
branding = Beijing Xinwen Guangbo
slogan =
airdate =
owner = Beijing Ren Min Guangbo Dian Tai
frequency = 100.6 MHz
828 kHz
format = "news"
website = http://am828.bjradio.com.cn/
callsign_meaning = "Xinwen" means news

Beijing Xinwen Guangbo (Chinese: 北京新闻广播) is also known in English as "Beijing News Station". The radio station broadcasts on AM 828 kHz and FM 100.6 MHz in Beijing, China. The station is part of the Beijing Ren Min Guangbo Dian Tai group.

Local Beijing News

Although this channel covers news of interest to China, there is a special emphasis on news within Beijing itself, especially surrounding activity leading up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Examples of stories that have played are:
* Kidnapping of a local restaurant owner's son by thieves who wanted money in return. [ An article that was played sometime in May 2007 on the radio station ]
* Use of Chinglish/Engrish on many Beijing road signs. The news reported that there were major efforts to clean this up before the Olympics. [ An article that was played also in May 2007 ]
* Beijing traffic reports (frequent updates similar to WINS Radio in New York City). See also Beijing Jiaotong Tai.

China News Focus

At a national level, this channel tends to focus on activity happening in China. Examples of articles around this are:
* Three Gorges Dam faces new challenges.
* The recent college entrance exams that determines the future of many young people of whether they get to go to school or would they have to start working.
* The Qinghai-Tibet Railroad was opened back in July 2006 and coverage of how much traffic was on that train.
* The Mid Autumn Festival starts in October. This includes coverage of the opening of chartered flights to Taiwan for this festival.
* National Day in China
* In February 2007, there was much coverage of the Spring Festival.
* June 25–July 1, 2007, there was coverage of the "Hong Kong 10^th Anniversary" (Program Name: "Xiang Gang Shi Nian"). On this week, almost all other news has been pre-empted including the 2007 London Car Bombings coverage. [ Beijing Xinwen Guangbo is still reporting the 10^th anniversary on July 1, 2007 [http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=zh_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fam828.bjradio.com.cn%2F Beijing Xinwen Guangbo front page] ]

International News Focus

:"See also China Radio International (same news, but in English as well as other languages)"
At an international level, this channel tends to focus on China's point of view of world events. Although the news may be the same as played on radio stations in the United States or Europe, the focus is usually on China's view of the same event:
* China's position on the Iran Nuclear Standoff. If this same article were played on a U.S. radio station, the tone would be much more negative than when the article is played here, symbolizing China's stand on the issue. There was no mention of any problem during the entire article other than the "U.S. wants Iran to ....." (the tone used in most cases).
* Chinese hostages in Africa (while International, U.S. stations would tend not to broadcast this at all).
** In fact, the radio station broadcast that China was willing to "do whatever it takes" to get the prisoners back. This probably included bargaining with the hostage takers, although they never mentioned how this was going to be handled. On a U.S. radio station, this would have been handled as a "... we don't bargain with terrorists", indicating that China handles such crisis in a different manner than the United States.
* Tensions with China on the Yasukuni Shrine visits by the previous Japanese prime minister (also a non-U.S. concern). There was only one report done on this on National Public Radio sometime around the event.

References

External References

* [http://am828.bjradio.com.cn/ Beijing Xinwen Guangbo]
* [http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=zh_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fam828.bjradio.com.cn%2F Beijing Xinwen Guangbo (translated to English)]