“The History of a Day:” <I>The Day</I> and Radio Kyiv 98 FM launched a joint project
Shortly before the New Year celebrations, the newspaper Day and Radio Kyiv 98 FM began a joint action — a historical quiz named “The History of a Day.” On December 15 to 26, from 8 to 11 a.m., Radio Kyiv listeners and The Day readers are answering questions about “interesting Kyiv” in a live broadcast. There are three questions on the air every morning, and the correct answer to each of them will fetch the connoisseurs a Day Library book.
“It is such a pleasant, easy and interesting check of the mini-erudition that every Kyivan should have,” says Olha Herasymchuk, programs manager of Radio Kyiv 98 FM, “and as we are combining such things as knowledge of your city and prizes for this, it is at least a positive thing which we all lack very much now. The Day Library books are splendid gifts for our audiences who know their city as the back of their hand. We are trying every day to work in this key, and we have a program named ‘Unknown Kyiv,’ in which we tell about some small interesting things which are perhaps bypassing the people but without which you cannot feel like a true Kyivan.
“We were very glad to accept The Day’s proposal on cooperation because we, different mass media, are making a joint effort, presenting Kyivans with unexpected pleasantries in the shape of beautiful books and we are thus maintaining the live spirit of our native and ancient city of Kyiv.”
“It is not accidental that The Day chose nobody else but Radio Kyiv as a project partner,” says the newspaper’s editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna.
“I recently spoke to a well-known Latvian journalist Atis Klimovich. I was pleased that he reads our newspaper, knows it very well and believes that The Day is the only newspaper he knows (not only in the post-Soviet space) which can be called historical. I took it as a good compliment, for I have said more than once: mighty history is far more important for our unconventional country than its petty (as of today) politics. This is why focusing on history in any way is of The Day’s supertasks. And we could not help remembering that our Kyiv is, to quote Serhii Krymsky, a second Jerusalem. In the times of trouble, our city should give its residents still more spiritual energy, while we should, naturally, protect it. Besides, to love it, one should know it. So it was only natural for us to choose as a partner and make an offer to Radio Kyiv. I am glad that the radio station supported our historical quiz because Radio Kyiv is very lively and it is developing very interestingly. In particular, I like the program ‘Let Us Dance in Ukrainian.’ It is good that more and more people are in need of lively music, lively history, a lively newspaper, and a lively radio.”
Please call 454-00-33 on December 15 to 26, from 8 to 11 a.m., to Radio Kyiv 98 FM’s live broadcast studio and get our books as a gift for successfully answering questions of the historical quiz “History of a Day.”
