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Some 27 months after the illegal occupation and subsequent annexation of
Crimea by The Kremlin, it appears Ukraine has finally got around to creating
UR-1, a radio station broadcasting from Kherson Oblast into Crimea on 101.4 FM.
Apparently the signal is strong in Krasnoperekopsk and Dzhankoy,
but to carry this and TV signals across the entire peninsula a new mast and
transmitter will be erected – somewhere in the Genichesk rayon of Kherson – at
some point.
Several basic questions are therefore raised.
Why has it taken 2 years to bring into being a Ukrainian radio station
intended to broadcast specifically into Crimea – and even today, the day after
its launch, a radio station that does not have the transmission ability to
cover the entire peninsula?
When will the new transmission tower and equipment be erected to cover the
entirety of the peninsula?
How long before 101.4 FM is blocked or the signal significantly disrupted
by the Russians?
How long will it take for the Ukrainian authorities to then licence another
frequency for the Russians to then have to block or significantly disrupt that
frequency too (ad infinitum)? And so it (theoretically) goes on –
and on.
There will be those asking whether Ukraine should have been blocking (or
attempting to block) the previously licenced frequencies of now “occupation
radio stations” in Crimea currently de facto operating outside
of its broadcasting legislation, yet within its internationally recognised
borders. What gains, if any, would there be in doing so?
Would it have been better – even if meaning further delays – in erecting
the broadcasting infrastructure capable of covering the entire peninsula prior
to going “on air”?
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