The shortwave schedule of China Radio International (CRI) on the timelines of your cities: every broadcast with its language, frequencies, target area and transmitter site, shown in your own time zone instead of UTC.
CRI broadcasts in more than 40 languages. Mandarin and Cantonese cover the Chinese diaspora worldwide; English goes out several times a day; Russian runs for most of the day to Siberia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Asian languages make up a large part of the rest — Vietnamese, Khmer, Burmese, Lao, Thai, Indonesian, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Tamil, Nepali, Japanese and Korean — and European services include German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian and Albanian. CRI is also one of the last broadcasters with a daily Esperanto program on shortwave.
Most broadcasts leave from large transmitter sites in western and southern China, such as Kashgar, Urumqi and Kunming, and reach Africa and the Americas through relays in Mali and Cuba. The schedule is published in UTC and changes twice a year, at the end of March and the end of October. This calendar follows the current season of the EiBi shortwave schedule and puts each broadcast at its local time in each of your cities.
Select a broadcast to see its frequencies in kHz, the target area, the transmitter and the days it airs, with a link to listen on an online SDR receiver.
Yes. CRI runs one of the largest shortwave schedules in the world, in more than 40 languages, covering Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Oceania around the clock.
English broadcasts go out at several times of day for South Asia, East Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. The timeline shows each one at its local time in your cities; select it to see the frequencies.
Each broadcast uses its own frequencies for its target area, mostly between 7 and 17.5 MHz, often several at once. Select a broadcast on the timeline to see them in kHz. They change at the end of March and the end of October.
From transmitter sites across China — Kashgar and Urumqi in Xinjiang, Kunming in Yunnan, Xi’an, Beijing, Jinhua and others — with relays in Mali and Cuba for Africa and the Americas.
In Shortwave. Perfect Clock — a world clock with your calendar across time zones.