Posts from ‘October, 2003’

It’s Halloween, and this year it’s marked by what a Harvard scientist is calling unprecedented, and a statistical anomaly. A second giant solar flare has erupted on the Sun and sent another Coronal Mass Ejection heading towards earth. The X10-class flare was detected by an orbiting GOES satellite at 3:37 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Oct. [...]

Mike Brand reports: Israeli Justice Minister Yosef (Tommy) Lapid did not present his expected “pirate radio” bill to the Knesset on Wednesday. The bill would forbid advertising on unlicensed radio stations. Early last week the Cabinet decided, with support from the Likud and Shinui ministers, to back the legislation. This led to the decision of [...]

The Court of Appeal in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has passed its final verdicts on 69 appellants in a criminal case involving around 150 people. They were found guilty of being involved with Nam Cam, the 56-year-old mafia boss in Ho Chi Minh City, who made a lot of money from running gambling dens, [...]

The Irish government is today introducing a new Broadcasting Bill which proposes to replace the current RTÉ Authority and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, which regulates independent broadcasting, with a single body to be called the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The Bill also creates a fund giving commercial broadcasters, as well as public broadcaster RTÉ, [...]

Struggling Dutch commercial station RTL-FM may be forced to vacate the frequency it currently occupies on Amsterdam’s cable system. The frequency, 94.6 MHz, was previously allocated to the now defunct Country FM. According to the Programme Advisory Council for Amsterdam (APR), although RTL-FM inherited the assets of Country FM when that station closed on 10 [...]

Lou Josephs in Washington reports the following observations at 1200 UTC:
No 16 meters
No 19 meters
no 22 or 25 meters
9 mhz 31 meters only hearing relays from CBC Sackville
No Australia or other hf broadcasters
6 mhz Could barely hear RN via Sackville.
Basically inaudible.
Update at 1630 UTC:
Awful condtions
NO WWV at all on any freq.
15190 is [...]

Russian Press Minister Mikhail Lesin has congratulated the Voice of Russia (formerly Radio Moscow) on its 74th anniversary. He described the station as “one of the most authoritative broadcasting companies both in Russia and abroad,” stating that it holds third place in terms of size amongst the international broadcasters, and has a worldwide audience of [...]

Satellite operator SES ASTRA has teamed up with network and communications specialist AVC to launch the UK’s first nationwide consumer broadband internet-via-satellite service. It is a high-speed package offering “in excess of” 512 kbps download speeds, and will be available across the UK at a “competitive price” from 1 January 2004. The service is primarily [...]

Jonathan Marks’ 23 year career as a full-time employee of Radio Netherlands officially ended on Tuesday 28 October 2003, though his involvement with the station is far from over. Nevertheless, his departure from the role of Creative Director provided friends and colleagues with the chance to say thanks to Jonathan for everything he has done [...]

We have today published a new version of this page with the latest updates from BBC Monitoring.
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The World DAB Forum has given its Web site (www.worlddab.org) a makeover to make it easier to navigate and more appealing for visitors interested in learning the latest information about DAB Digital Radio.
The site is used by a wide range of professionals - from broadcasters and manufacturers to government officials, regulators, analysts [...]

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. announced on Monday that it now has more than 1 million subscribers, putting it on track to reach its target of 1.2 million by the end of 2003. XM and its rival, Sirius Satellite Radio, provide nationwide satellite-delivered music, talk and news channels in the US. Customers must buy a [...]

As Liberia attempts to recover from years of violent civil war, there are accusations of corruption at the very top of the state-run Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS), and infighting amongst staff.
One group of LBS employees have produced what they term is “evidence” of financial malpractice by Director-General designate J Allison Barco. For his part, Barco [...]

A coronal mass ejection is expected to hit the earth’s atmosphere within hours. This could cause a geomagnetic storm lasting for anything up to two weeks. Shortwave reception is therefore likely to be below par in the coming days. An HF blackout was already reported at the weekend. For more about coronal mass ejections, see [...]