Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Shortwave Relay Stations

Shortwave Relay Stations

The shortwave international broadcasts were heard worldwide via broadcast facilities in Flevoland, Bonaire and Madagascar. In the last decade, the shortwave broadcasts were supplemented by an extensive network of partner stations. In 2005, this was approximately 5500 partners, of which half are partners that use the station's music output (classical, jazz and world music).

Radio Nederland carried speech programming on shortwave and satellite in the English, Spanish, Indonesian, French and Papiamento languages. Additionally, there were programme productions and websites in French, Arabic and Mandarin. Certain programmes were heard on local/national networks, such as CBC Radio, ABC NewsRadio and SAfm.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide had a weekly reach through all its language services, and music programmes, of around 50 million listeners a week.