The only wire radio station of Moldova broadcasts in Chiscareni, Straseni. Director Larisa Grosu has told IPN she is proud that she is managing this station, but it can disappear if it is not supported.
Radio Chiscareni was founded in 1999. Larisa Grosu took over the station in 2008. She then just returned from abroad and was determined to invest the earned money in a business. She invested 200,000 lei in changing the old wires.
According to Larisa Grosu, now the station survives on the subscription of 20 lei. It has 600 subscribers, but the figure is decreasing as the people go abroad and there are mainly elderly people in the settlement, who do not have money to pay subscription. The collected money is insufficient to pay salaries to the five employees, the rent of the electricity poles and the office and to cover other costs.
Radio Chiscareni broadcasts local news, programs, sermons during religious holidays and weather forecasts. The most important program – “In the quietness of evening” - is transmitted in the evening. Within it, there are broadcast greetings for villagers and music.
Mayor of Chiscareni Silvia Turcanu has told IPN that this radio station is their pride. Owing to it, the people know about the work done by the mayor’s office and the local councilors.
The chairman of the Broadcasting Coordination Council Marian Pocaznoi proposed that this radio station should be transformed into a broadcasting museum so that the people know how a wire radio used in the Soviet period looks like.
