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Comment on Radiofax audio archive to mark 20 years since closure by SRG

SRG — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:33:01 +0000

What do you mean 20 years since closure?! Pan American Broadcasting still sells air time for Radio Fax marketed as Reflections Europe http://www.panambc.com/europe.htm
Three SW frequencies mentioned by Pan American can be found on this QSL card http://willphillips.org.uk/radio/radio-fax/

Comment on New company building a search engine for television by Stive willson

Stive willson — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:52:59 +0000

Television is a way to get all current new all over the world. But using search engine for television is on of talent full idea and it make easy to get more broadcasting TV channel. So Boxfish company does right activity for earn their more benefit.

Comment on Mali: Soldiers shut down news media by Helen Suhov

Helen Suhov — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:18:35 +0000

Its horrible! How about immunities? How about the democracy and freedom of words? Where they are?

Comment on Polish radio announces end of English on shortwave by Keith Perron

Keith Perron — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:19:48 +0000

Stations like Polish Radio and other Eastern European that left SW is not surprising. They don’t have any relevance. There just not needed. What does Polish Radio offer the audience? When you consider their target area, they can better serve them by using other means. If these stations wanted to remain relevant, they would have re-targeted there programs to East/South East Asia, Pacific, Africa and part of Latin America. But these broadcasters have only themselves to blame in targeting regions where SW audiences have dropped off.

Comment on Dutch commercial stations applaud higher pirate fines by Kai Ludwig

Kai Ludwig — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:50:26 +0000

As a final note what I just heard from the Münster region: Little has changed since this tougher policy has been announced, the pirate operations still take place almost every weekend. For them 97.0 MHz is a popular frequency, to an extend that reception of the Nordhorn transmitter of Deutschlandradio Kultur on 97.1 MHz gets almost routinely ruined. At times even the signal of the Bielstein (Teutoburger Wald) transmitter of WDR 3 on 97.0 MHz is disturbed within its primary service area. Comments of joy about this situation had already to be noted, obviously related to the circumstance that the programming of these radio stations is devoted to what is called high culture.

In Germany pirates running an FM exciter with a few dozen watts are considered daring high power operations. Thus it appears to be in place to explain that some of the operations discussed here use equipment of the same class than regular 100 kW ERP facilities, i.e. 10 kW transmitters and antennas with a couple of bays. So they are real high power, producing ERPs well into the two-digit kilowatt figures, inevitably ruining legitimate services around.

For now good bye.

Comment on Polish radio announces end of English on shortwave by Kai Ludwig

Kai Ludwig — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:10:26 +0000

The risk of such an approach is that others may announce it for you. This happened in this very case where German, Ukrainian and Hebrew will be taken off shortwave as well. It appears that the German service announced it yesterday for the first time, at a time when the news was out in Germany already for three days. Ooops.

Comment on Polish radio announces end of English on shortwave by SRG

SRG — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:35:20 +0000

Very smart of Polish radio to wait until the last moment to announce such a news. This way the listeners won’t have a chance to protest. Other international broadcasters that still use SW might find this example helpful, as they are developing strategies for getting rid of the hated medium.

Comment on Radio Seagull to use 1395 kHz in daytime from 1 April by Andy Sennitt

Andy Sennitt — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:32:27 +0000

Thanks Ruud,

You have also played a part in the success of the Weblog with your comments, as have a lot of my regular readers. The policy, as it was with the Media Network radio show, is to concentrate on factual information rather than speculation. For most of the time I think we have achieved that.

Comment on Radio Seagull to use 1395 kHz in daytime from 1 April by ruud

ruud — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:08:35 +0000

Dear Andy,

Thank you so much for all the news and information you provided with this blog for many, many years.
It was my daily routine to check it out, and I met many items that were new for me.
I will certainly miss it.
Hope you have a good rest indeed and I look forward to your future activities.

Maybe we meet at the May 11 event.

Thank you and goodbye.
Ruud Poeze

Comment on Sky reveals NOW TV brand for new internet TV service by David

David — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:31:26 +0000

nowtv.com doesn’t seem to be reachable (and wasn’t yesterday), whereas http://www.nowtv.com is, at least when I try from my PC