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Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) is the state broadcaster in Albania , founded in 1938 under Italian rule and operated from Tirana . RTSH runs a national Television station (TVSH) and two national radio stations (using the name ''Radio Tirana''). An international service broadcasts radio programmes in Albanian and seven other languages via Mediumwave (AM) and Shortwave (SW). Since 1993 , RTSH has also run an international television service via Satellite , aimed at Albanian-language communities in Kosovo , Macedonia , Montenegro and northern Greece , plus the Diaspora in the rest of Europe . RTSH is funded by a combination of commercial advertising, a licence fee of US$0.50 {Link without Title} a year and grant-in-aid from the Albanian government. COMMUNIST RULE Under Communist rule, the English-language external service was broadcast on the same mediumwave Wavelength as BBC Radio 1 - 247 metres (1214KHz). The service was renamed "Radio One Tirana" to use this coincidence to the Albanian state's advantage. The service broadcast Propaganda , "news" and commentary aimed at young listeners in the UK and Ireland read by announcers who were expelled or resigned one time members of the Communist Party Of Great Britain . This service had the added advantage of Swamping signals from the BBC 's popular music service that may have reached Albania. One feature was ''"Frank and Ernest"'', which listed the "crimes" of the US government and the "collaboration" of the UK therein. One preferred angle was to list, in some detail, the wanton and perverted private behaviour of the American First Lady behind her Husband's back. Whilst this may have had an effect on some listeners, it appears that the majority found the Radio Tirana output to be either very funny or an unwanted distraction from the BBC service. Radio One Tirana also provided weather forecasts that, for various reasons, were designed to be inaccurate and thus disrupt economic activity in the UK. The service had to walk a fine line between being anti- West whilst also being anti- Soviet . As such, Radio One Tirana kept close to the official policy of the People's Republic Of China , which was also both anti-West and anti-Soviet whilst still being communist in tone. During the 1980s and 90s their international service was broadcast on 1395kHz and was received with very strong signals in the UK during the evening and through the night. REFERENCES
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