Radio X impresses with its high-contrast program with around 25 special shows, its social commitment and its integrative character for the cultural city of Basel, according to a government statement on Friday. The station is also an important training center for young journalists. Radio X would not only propagate integration, participation and accessibility, but also live and implement them in everyday journalistic life with its organizational form. The government considers the intercultural commitment, the dedication to cultural participation and the low threshold to be worthy of support.
Radio X went on air in 1998. According to the press release, the 20th anniversary is a fitting time to award the Culture Prize. It will be presented to Radio X on October 29 at the town hall. The jury for the 2018 Culture Prize consisted of nine people. The prize is being awarded for the 46th time this year. (SDA)
"It is important that newly arrived migrants, as well as those who have lived in Switzerland for some time, find their way around here. For this to succeed, they must have access to information and understand, for example, how the local school system is structured, how tenancy law is regulated and where they can get support," according to a statement from the Basel radio station. Other topics of the info windows are German courses, translation services, equality, religion, health, education, further education, work and taxes. The multilingual info windows can be heard on Radio X starting Monday, October 17. The languages covered are: Arabic, Bosnian, Croatian, English, French, German, Kurdish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Tamil, Tigrinya and Turkish. The German-language info windows will be broadcast Monday through Friday at 11 a.m. The info windows in the ten other languages run during the multilingual broadcasts and can be listened to and read online.
No other country attracts as many Germans as Switzerland. The language and cultural proximity are often cited as arguments. However, in the 10-to-10 edition of August 13, Swiss television reported on the one hand about the decrease in German immigration and on the other hand about increasing returns of Germans to their homeland: Are the two cultures not as close as assumed? How difficult is it for German immigrants to integrate in Switzerland?
According to the press release, the 30-minute program "Kanton XL" takes a humorous and enlightened look at peculiarities in Switzerland and Germany, both in detail and on a large scale. The program addresses similarities and contrasts of both cultures, but also typical Swiss and German objects, rituals or idioms, without pointing fingers. The aim is to strengthen mutual understanding between Germans and Swiss.
With the start of broadcasting on Tuesday, September 3, 2013, Canton XL will be the multilingual program of Radio X, winner of the 2013 Basel Integration Prize (Werbewoche.ch reported), supplement.
]]>The communiqué of the Christoph Merian Foundation (CMS) praises in particular the various foreign-language programs of the non-commercial radio station: These represent the linguistic diversity of the population like no other medium in the region, it said. Around 80 volunteers from the respective language groups make these broadcasts.
The Integration Award was launched in 1999 by the Evangelical Reformed and Roman Catholic Churches of Basel-Stadt, the Novartis pharmaceutical group and CMS. It honors commitment to integration and the peaceful coexistence of different population groups in the region. The jury is recruited from the ranks of the prize founders as well as migrants. The award ceremony has been announced for August 22. (SDA)
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