Shortwave ReporterAll Quiet on the Western Front
American Diplomacy December 2011 2012 Challenges and Opportunities in the Five-Year Strategic Plan for U.S. International Broadcasting by Alan L. Heil Jr. As the Voice of America marks its 70th anniversary, what lies ahead for all of the world’s publicly-funded overseas networks in the year ahead? For Western broadcasters collectively, 2011 was the most potentially [...]
Radio: delights and downside
philSTAR.com The Filipino Global Community PASSAGE By Ed Maranan (The Philippine Star) Updated January 16, 2012 12:00 AM Many years ago, during the time of martial law, our radio was always tuned to one local FM station that purveyed classical music and preached Christianity in equal doses (it still does). Radio was very much [...]
World Service awards £200m TX contract
Radio Today Published on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 12:02 pm Babcock International Group has won a 10-year contract to continue providing radio and TV transmission and distribution services to the BBC’s World Service. The deal sees the firm manage more than 150 FM relays around the world as well as 180,000 hours of shortwave [...]
SW Broadcasts via GCN’s iPhone/Android Apps
Jan 9 2012 Genesis Communications Network (GCN), a U.S. provider of shortwave and internet radio programming, has made it’s live and archived content available via your portable device. Some of the more notable programs available from GCN include The Power Hour, The Alex Jones Show, Call To Decision, Radio Liberty and Katherine Albrecht. A complete [...]
Now Online: 1961 Radio Moscow Broadcasts
Southgate Amateur Radio News last updated on: Thursday, January 5, 2012 A 50 year old LP of Cold War shortwave radio broadcasts from the former Soviet Union is now available on the web. The YouTube description reads: “Radio Moscow and the Western Hemisphere,” 1961 Cook Labs. This LP compiles several different shortwave radio broadcasts from [...]
Special DX test from Costa Rica
Southgate Amateur Radio News Last updated on: Saturday, December 31, 2011 Radio Miami International, in cooperation with its client Radio Republica, will be conducting a special DX test at 2000-2100 UTC and 2300-2400 UTC on 7 January, and 0200-0300 UTC on 8 January, 2012 on the frequency of 5954 kHz from Cariari, Costa Rica. (These [...]
Radio Literacy program instills a desire for education in Zabul
dvids.com 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division story by Sgt. Christopher McCulloughSmall FORWARD OPERATING BASE LAGMAN, Afghanistan – It’s said that education is power and nowhere is that truer than in Zabul province, Afghanistan, where for a time the Taliban controlled the populace by means of intimidation which included preventing people there from [...]
Korean defectors skeptical of footage showing mourners
ABC News (Australia) Stephen McDonell reported this story on Friday, December 23, 2011 08:09:00 PETER CAVE: In North Korea the enormous propaganda effort to manage the death of Kim Jong-il has been there for the world to see with televised images of mourners collapsing in unison and sobbing uncontrollably. But those seeking to correct the [...]
Guardsman Finds New Use for Old Radio Technology
ISAF 2011-12-13 Story by Sgt. Francis O’Brien, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs ZABUL PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Dec.15) — The song “video killed the radio star” was the first video played on MTV in 1981 and launched a music revolution. Soldiers of the Virginia Army National Guard’s 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team are deploying technology [...]
Mugabe’s double-speak over violence
The Zimbabwean 14 Dec 2011 Robert Mugabe surprised delegates at the Zanu (PF) conference here last week when he blasted them for using violence to win elections. The 87-year-old, long accused of relying on violence in his 31 year rule, had a dig at some of his lieutenants, saying they used violence to cow the [...]
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