DW will end radio in Persian, Russian, Indonesian, and close SW relays in Sri Lanka and Portugal

The May edition of Journalist magazine in Germany, via Nils Schiffhauer, via Kai Ludwig, reports that Deutsche Welle will close its Sines, Portugal, and Trincomalee, Sri Lanka shortwave transmitter sites (Trincomalee also medium wave). Radio programmes in Persian, Russian and Indonesian will be cancelled before the end of this year. It appears that the DW radio operations at Bonn will be hit particularly hard by cuts, with employees having to move to DW TV in Berlin.

(Source : kimandrewelliott.com)