Radju Leħen il-Qala is once again embarking on airing a new schedule! This time the schedule prepared for the Immaculate Conception Feast and Christmas 2012. In this schedule, you will enjoy a variety of programmes that will surely meet all your tastes. From a public demand we will be airing a range of programmes from our archives.

Till the Conception Feast, there will be a continuous live coverage from the Sanctuary of all liturgical celebrations and also all the festive activities, particularly on the 8th December.

RLQ has at its heart all our listeners particularly our elderly and emigrants. Especially for these, RLQ has just installed two new cameras so as to be able to view all activities happening inside and outside the Sanctuary. We are sure that a lot of you would like to be physically present for these celebrations. This service offers the best proximity that one can be.

This audio-visual service at the Sanctuary compliments the service that was launched in the past years to cover the St Joseph Square and the St Joseph Parish Church. These cameras are all joined to the infrastructure that was built in 2008 with the new studios, all thanks to your generosity. All these services depend solely on your donations, so every input is greatly appreciated.

Everyone at RLQ offers his time and services free of charge, so a big thank you goes to all the volunteers and their families for their sacrifices and work. This truly manifests a community radio station with a big heart. Special thanks go to all those that helped bring this schedule to your radio sets: presenters and technicians. Thank you also to Archpriest Fr Joe Zammit, Parish Associate Fr Charles Buttigieg and the presbytery for their continuous support so that this station continues to be a link between Church and home from all the different parts of the world.

At this time of year, the Immaculate Conception brings a lot of attention to the National Sanctuary at Qala. Radju Lehen il-Qala joins all the celebrations from the Sanctuary to its listeners through the Conception Feast and Christmas Schedule. This year, this special schedule will start airing on Saturday, 1st December 2012. Various programs are prepared for our listeners together with live transmissions of all the ceremonies from the Immaculate Conception National Sanctuary.

For the benefit of all our listeners, two further cameras were added to our system to cater for the visual transmissions from the National Sanctuary – one viewing the inside of the Sanctuary and the other one viewing San Kerrew Square (infront of the Sanctuary). To view these cameras, please visit the cameras section on our website. Your donations are very much appreciated.

In the meantime, the printing of the schedule is underway. Thanks goes to A&M printing press especially Tonio Mercieca (photo).

This schedule has been in swing for the last two weeks, based on a four week timetable. This schedule was able to function due to the hard work put in by the many volunteers who give some long hours each day of their precious time. This has been greatly appreciated by the general public and an evidence of this is that all competitions have been keenly followed by the participation of 1 045 competitors, who were in turn able to win many vouchers by our gracious sponsors, whom we would once more give thanks to. This number has been achieved in just one and a half weeks.

Moreover, during this schedule we were greatly honored to have interviewed ‘The Spirit of Smokey’, who are well known all over the world as a top-chart band. During this interview we were informed of the history of the original band, Smokey, which were led by the father of one of these stalwarts. They also regaled us with one of their recent songs. Once again we would like to thank them for taking some time off, of their time.

With the great help of our patron saint, St Joseph, we look forward to being of great service to all our listeners during the remaining half, especially to our elderly, those confined to their beds and all our emigrants. Your feedback is just enough to spur us on.

The beginning of the seventh month of the year, July, marks the start of a new schedule on 106.3FM, that for the last sixteen consecutive years its volunteers have worked hard to come up with a top notch one. This year’s version is spread on four whole weeks that thanks to the efforts of numerous volunteers, we can successfully air a variety of programs, certainly touching upon the different listeners’ tastes.

Radju Leħen il-Qala (RLQ) has made it possible not only to broadcast its programs through radio but has also added its services to its listeners by going visual. As you all know, throughout this year our station has given service by broadcasting visual from our village square, and now we are working on another aspect, that is, installing a permanent camera in our church. This will help our listeners, especially our emigrants, to follow all celebrations and activities being held in our main church. This is another service which RLQ will be working hard on during the upcoming weeks, especially for the benefit of our emigrants who we know will be so anxious to follow all the activities going on during our village festa. This will help them not only to watch all procedures in the village square, but also to follow all function in our church.

All this will be made possible by the stern work done by our administration and our hard working volunteers. This broadcasting is not only done by RLQ during these four weeks leading to the village festa, but we are also at your service both local and foreign throughout the whole year. Let us take this opportunity to give a warm and deserved thanks to our Archpriest and clergy, the administration, all presenters and technicians for all their numerous sacrifices so that once again, it is possible to be able to broadcast such a schedule of such a high level. Another special thanks goes to our benefactors whom we know that only with their great help, can RLQ continue to transmit and be heard in our local homes. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all Ġużeppini a hearty feast.

Radju Leħen il-Qala is kicking off this year’s special schedules with a two-day schedule in celebration of the Liturgical Feast of Saint Joseph. We hope that you join us next Sunday and next Monday from 5am onwards and participate in all our programmes. All transmissions will be broadcasted live on 106.3FM and web streamed live on www.radjulehenil-qala.com.

Click here to view the schedule.

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