Posts from ‘November, 2003’

Mike Brand reports: After having a conversation this afternoon with Yoel Tzur, one of the managers of Arutz 7, and one of the Arutz 7 ten, awaiting their sentences at the end of this year for illegal broadcasting, he informed me that the Arutz 7 ship has been broken up. He told me that the [...]

Spotted on www.anoraknation.com:
My colleague Andy Green and I paid a spontaneous visit to the world-famous Athlone transmitting site in Ireland midlands the other day. We just happened to be passing, called them up and invited ourselves in. The site currently carries RTE 2FM on 612kHz at 100kW. Until 1979 it carried Radio Eireann, and had [...]

At 1300 UTC today, Dutch radio station Radio 192 began broadcasting the top 10,000 hits of all time. The station believes that never before has such a long hitlist been broadcast, and will attempt to get two entries in the Dutch version of the Guiness Book of Records - the longest hitlist and longest continuous [...]

Mickey Delmage reports: I was listening to RTE Ireland 9850 kHz, 1810 UTC. They are playing a loop tape stating that RTE are currently reviewing their shortwave service and would like to hear from shortwave listeners. They want to know if one has access to the Internet, satellite, where and how one listens [...]

Maltese-based international broadcaster Voice of the Mediterranean (VOM) closed down its Internet broadcasts yesterday amid allegations of wrongdoing at the station, which have been denied by its management. The shortwave transmissions are continuing for now, but are expected to close by the end of December. The station was supposedly jointly financed by the Maltese and [...]

In a news briefing today at Bagram Air Base, the US military in Afghanistan announced that the coalition plans to distribute more than 200,000 shortwave radios to people across Afghanistan. “Truth is one of the most effective weapons against the terrorists and anti-coalition forces that are attempting to reinfect Afghanistan,” said spokesman Maj. Bryan Hilferty. [...]

The owners of the radio ship MV Communicator say that the ship passed yesterday’s seaworthiness test carried out in IJmuiden by a Dutch surveyor, and has been issued with a loadline exemption certificate.
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SES ASTRA, has announced four new contracts for the provision of one-way satellite broadband services at 19.2° East and 28.2° East. These high-speed satellite Internet services via ASTRA specifically target those households in Germany, Hungary and the UK which do not have access to terrestrial broadband services.
In Germany, SES ASTRA has contracted BBV-Computer-Dienst, [...]

Paris-based technicians at Radio France have gone on strike following the failure to negotiate a new pay deal with management. There are currently disparities between the salaries paid to these staff and colleagues working for regional stations. According to Radio France general manager François Desnoyers, 35 of the 47 technicians rostered to work on Wednesday [...]

Several of the BBC’s flagship news programmes on radio and TV were disrupted this morning when its West London news centre was hit by the double whammy of a power failure and a fire alert. The disruption forced the Today programme off the air for 16 minutes, ironically during an interview with the Culture Secretary [...]

Tony Currie of Radio Six informs me there will be a live test transmission tonight, Friday 28th November between 2100 and 2130GMT using a 100kW transmitter in Milan on 5775kHz. He is anxious to receive listener reports to tony@radiosix.com. More information in our Weblog entry for Sunday 16 November and on the Radio Six [...]

It has been announced that the official rebranding of Dutch commercial broadcaster Radio 10 FM as Radio 10 Gold will take place at 1010 AM Dutch time (0910 UTC) on Monday 1 December. Talpa Radio International director Erik de Zwart will do the honours. The decision to change the name of the station, currently branded [...]

Life Radio announces a test transmission on Sunday 7 December 2003 at 2000-2030 UTC on mediumwave 1386 kHz via the transmitter of Radio Baltic Waves International at Sitkunai, Lithuania. Life Radio is a lay organization dedicated to spreading knowledge about the Roman Catholic Faith by means of radio. Reception reports and comments are very welcome [...]

The launch of regular broadcasts on 252 kHz longwave by Irish public broadcaster RTÉ has been put back another three months. Originally planned for 1 October 2003, RTÉ then announced a new target date of 1 Jan 2004. Now the RTÉ Web site says “At present test transmissions are being carried out with a planned [...]

After a break of two years, on 12 December this year the Gerbrandy tower in IJsselstein, better known to most people as Lopik, will again be transformed into the ‘biggest Christmas tree in the world’. A foundation set up to raise sponsorship money has collected approximately € 65,000 this year. Local residents, as well as [...]