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>S T R E A M T I M E  - - - F R E E  M E D I A  F O R  I R A Q
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>P U B L I  C   A N N O U N C E M E N T   July 15th 2004
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>Radio on Internet from Baghdad has begun International crew of media 
>activists create new outlet for people in Iraq.
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>On Wednesday 14th. of July, between 11 a.m. and 1.30 p.m (CET) the first 
>live streaming radio transmission has been realized by Streamtime from 
>Baghdad. Streamtime is a loose network of media activists dedicated to 
>assist local media to get connected. Two weeks before, the first ever 
>internet radio program came from the village of Halabja, which suffered a 
>poison gas attack by order of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. 
>Streamtime will produce further programs from Baghdad on Sundays and 
>Wednesdays, starting between 11 and 12 a.m. Central European Time.
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>Salam Khedher, who returned from Switzerland to start an  station called 
>Radio Nas, presented the program from a private house with internet 
>connection in Baghdad. In the 2 hour program, interrupted for 20 minutes 
>by a power cut, children, a businessman, a man who makes a living 
>installing sattellite dishes were speaking to the world through a hand 
>held microphone, connected with a computer.
>
>Radio activist Michel, from Radio Lora in Zuerich, operated the GNU/Linux 
>software called Dynebolic, to make the sound heard on the internet. 
>Servers in Europe were used to distribute the stream. The stream was 
>picked up by various radio stations in Europe: Naples (It), Zuerich (CH), 
>Munich (DE), Sheffield (UK), Bern (CH) and Amsterdam (NL) and broadcast 
>either directly, or in an edited version. Ironically when in Baghdad 
>electric power returned after the cut, the radio in Sheffield couldn't 
>transmit the program due to ... a power cut in Sheffield.
>
>In different languages Arabic, English, German and Spanish, the people in 
>the studio talked first of all about their security problems. A big 
>explosion killing 10 people had occurred a few hours before. The 
>significance of the 14th of July for Iraq -and France- and children's 
>dreams of electricity, 'running water and a swimmingpool.
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>Salam Khedher informed listeners about Radio Nas, which is about to start 
>regular broadcasting soon. Michel explained the essence of the 
>www.streamtime.org project: solidarity between free media makers around 
>the globe.
>
>In a chat parallel to the transmission the people involved from the 
>various locations followed interactively the how's and why's of hick-ups, 
>bugs, buffering problems, up-and-down connections, and of course the 
>program itself.
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>The program can be listened to or downloaded from the following sites:
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>http://www.streamtime.org
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>http://kriegste.vh.guad.de/theorie/audio/wet_040714.mp
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>info: (irakdesk /at/ xminy.nl) and (radiob04-list /at/ yahoogroups.com)
>
>Jo van der Spek, Streamtime
>Amsterdam July 15th 2004

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