World Radio TV Handbook 2001 Review

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(More customer reviews)Please note the following errors and omissions I've found in WRTH-2001:
MISSPELLINGS. Plenty of them - this is the major sickness of the book. The good intention of its authors to produce original spelling of international names was terribly unsuccessful: in many many cases, non-English characters are either spelled incorrectly or simply omitted, which gives funny and meaningless names of companies, government institutions, provinces and people. Here are some (out of a huge number of) examples:
1. Page 201, Estonia, line 8: "RINGH~~LINGU" should be "RINGHÄÄLINGU".
2. Page 202, Faroe Islands, line 3: "T VARP F ROYA" should be "UTVARP FOROYA".
3. Page 205, France, line 8: "T L DIFFUSION DE FRANCE" should be "TELEDIFFUSION DE FRANCE".Page 206, col. 1, line 2: "RADI T L VISION FRAN`AISE D OUTRE-MER" should be "RADIOTELEVISION FRANCAISE D'OUTRE-MER".
4. Page 209, Germany, line 3: "F R POST" should read "FuR POST".Page 209, Germany, line 8: "DER FFENTLICH-" should read "DER ÖFFENTLICH-".
5. Page 212, col. 2, line 14: "S DWESTFUNK" should be "SuDWESTFUNK".Page 212, col. 2, line 22: "Baden-W rttemberg" should be "Baden-Wurttemberg".
6. Page 226, Hungary, line 3: "MAGYAR R`DI" should be "MAGYAR RADIO". On the next page, so many letters are missing in the broadcasters' names that I can't even figure out the correct ones.
7. Page 79: Transmitting site "Arma" shown on the Russia map should be spelled "Arman".
OMISSIONS.
1. A whole country is missing! The book totally ignores Burundi, as if there were no radio stations in that African nation. The country is present in the TV section, however.If you want to have information about radio in this country, look for it in the "Passport to World Band Radio" handbook.
2. Pages 73 and 75: Kashmir is not shown on any map. Asia map says "see Middle East map", while the Middle East map says "see Asia map".
3. Pages 545 to 552: no shortwave transmitter information is given for US stations, as opposed to Canadians on page 491 and almost all other countries. And they all were there in the last year's edition!

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