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Burmese Junta nobbles shortwave radios donated by China
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 5 2008, 11.53am
The Democratic Voice of Burma reveals that the military authorities disabled the tuning systems on 2000 shortwave radios donated  by China as part of the emergency aid after Cyclone Nargis. The authorities then distributed the radios in the Irrawaddy Delta and sent photos back to the Chinese to prove that they had been distributed. But [...] (more)

Burmese Junta hobbles shortwave radios donated by China
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 5 2008, 11.53am
The Democratic Voice of Burma reveals that the military authorities disabled the tuning systems on 2000 shortwave radios donated by China as part of the emergency aid after Cyclone Nargis. The authorities then distributed the radios in the Irrawaddy Delta and sent photos back to the Chinese to prove that they had been distributed. But [...] (more)

Nigeria gets further Japanese aid to improve mediumwave broadcasting
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 27 2008, 11.29am
The Federal  Government of  Nigeria has secured more financial aid to the tune of N554 million (526 Japanese Yen) for the improvement of the mediumwave radio broadcasting network in the country. This amount will enable the government to expand the Enugu phase two of the network through the provision of a 100 kW transmitter to support [...] (more)

Former RTÉ engineers urge full power on longwave
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 25 2008, 12.25pm
Two radio engineers have called for the Broadcasting Bill to be amended to require Irish public broadcaster RTÉ to operate its longwave radio transmitter [on 252 kHz] at full capacity.  The former RTÉ employees believe the decision by the State broadcaster to end its mediumwave service earlier this year means it must focus on providing a better service [...] (more)

KTWR to celebrate 30th anniversary
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 31 2008, 2.06pm
Shortwave radio station KTWR in Agana, Guam will hold its 30th anniversary celebration with a fiesta at the station from 3 to 5 pm on 12 April. On 13 April, author and international Christian speaker Woodrow Kroll will speak. His “Back to the Bible” broadcasts are heard daily on about 1,000 radio stations in the [...] (more)

Israel Radio to halt all shortwave broadcasts, available on Internet
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 17 2008, 10.56am
Text of report in English by Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post website on 17 March [Report by Greer Fay Cashman: “IBA To Stop Shortwave Broadcasts”] Israel Radio’s shortwave radio broadcasts in all languages will cease on March 31. Shortwave radio broadcasts have been under threat of closure for years, but were saved in the past by a [...] (more)

BBC reports on Japanese broadcasts to abductees in North Korea
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 5 2008, 10.58am
Every day a shortwave radio programme broadcast from Tokyo highlights the plight of Japanese citizens believed to have been kidnapped and abducted to North Korea. It is compiled in a small booth in an office owned by a group which campaigns to keep the issue in the public eye and supports the families of those abducted. JSR Shiokaze [...] (more)

Burmese community leader arrested for listening to shortwave
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 24 2008, 12.07pm
In September 2007, the village tract leader of Kun Mong village tract in Kaeng Tawng sub-township of Murng-Nai township, Burma, was summoned to the base of LIB 569 and detained by the military authorities for regularly tuning to foreign news broadcasts on his shortwave radio. On 19 September 2007, the commander of LIB 569, based about [...] (more)

Shortwave listening as a form of romanticism
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 8 2008, 12.00pm
Shortwave radio seems to have become a subject of fascination in the media recently. The number of mainstream publications that have mentioned shortwave has certainly increased in the past 12 months. The International Herald Tribune is the latest example, devoting space to a somewhat whimsical essay by John Vinocur on a visit to Anguilla. He writes: “Listening to shortwave radio in 2008 [...] (more)

Decision extends HCJB’s shortwave broadcasts; new DRM service starts today
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 26 2008, 10.53am
HCJB Global Voice in Ecuador has been granted an extension to continue using its shortwave radio antennas that are scheduled for dismantling and removal from the mission’s international transmission site near Pifo, a town 18 miles east of Quito. The extension postpones, for at least six months, removals that the station agreed to two years earlier [...] (more)

NYC theater group uses shortwave radio as inspiration for comedy show
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 2 2008, 11.05am
30,000 Kilohertz of Sound is improvised theater that takes place in the dark, utilizing shortwave radio transmissions as inspiration. 30,000 Kilohertz of Sound is a dark show. The audience sits in the theatre with the lights out and listens to comedians improvise scenes based on suggestions via a shortwave radio. The idea of the show came [...] (more)

NYC Theater Group Uses Shortwave Radio as Inspiration
From radio.about.com. Posted January 2 2008, 12.00am
30,000 Kilohertz of Sound is a theater group which creates improvised shows inspired by shortwave radio. Its website, www.30000khz.com, says shows "...takes place in the dark, utilizing shortwave radio transmissions... (more)

The ?commercial broadcasters? of shortwave
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 15 2007, 11.00am
“A portable shortwave radio opens a universe of new experiences. There’s a thrill in exploring the large commercial broadcasters that beam news, music and drama to anyone who cares to listen.” That’s what readers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are told by techno columnist Bill Huxted, who from his photo appears old enough to remember the days [...] (more)

Profile of Edwin Maher, presenter on CCTV-9
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 10 2007, 12.13pm
The China Daily has published an in-depth profile of Edwin Maher, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for nearly 20 years as a weatherman and news anchor. Maher now presents the news on CCTV-9, the international English network of China Central Television. Maher says he picked up China Radio International on his shortwave radio in [...] (more)

Ethiopia: Official doubts government is behind radio jamming
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 27 2007, 1.58pm
Text of report by VOA News website on 26 November Shortwave radio monitors have confirmed that VOA broadcasts to Ethiopia in the Amharic and Afan Oromo languages have been jammed for the past two weeks. VOA correspondent in Addis Ababa, Peter Heinlein, reports Ethiopia’s government denies responsibility for the interference. Listeners to VOA’s Amharic Service began complaining [...] (more)

German radio broadcasts to Ethiopia ?jammed? - hobbyists
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 16 2007, 4.54pm
Shortwave radio hobbyists have reported deliberate interference to the Amharic-language transmissions of Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), beamed to Ethiopia. A US hobbyist noted “jamming” of DW’s signal on 11645 kHz on 14 and 15 November, and to DW’s Amharic broadcast on 15640 kHz on 15 November. (Glenn Hauser, DX Listening Digest, 15 November) A German [...] (more)

Harris Corporation awarded contract to build new Algerian MW stations
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 3 2007, 11.49am
Harris Corporation has been awarded a $15 million contract to deploy two turnkey, mediumwave radio transmission stations for the Algerian Government’s Telediffusion D’Algerie (TDA), the Algerian public broadcasting corporation. The stations, at F’kirina and Sidi Bel Abbes, are part of the government’s program to modernize the country’s television and radio infrastructure. The project, to be completed [...] (more)

Japan awards N686million communication grant to Nigeria
From Media Network Weblog. Posted August 20 2007, 3.04pm
The Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Akio Tanaka, last Thursday in Abuja donated to Nigeria the first phase of transition equipment grants for the mediumwave radio broadcast network worth N686 million (US$5.4 million). The Ambassador said that Nigeria could modernise its transmitting facilities for the mediumwave broadcasting band with the grant. For the first phase, he said, the [...] (more)

Don?t shortchange your shortwave
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 23 2007, 10.09am
“Shortwave radio is an excellent medium for keeping tabs on global events. Signals can be received from around the world at absolutely no cost to the listener, with a wider range of content than most local radio programming. Shortwave transmitters can be operated at a relatively low cost by organizations or even individual hobbyists, lending [...] (more)

Japanese government gives $10m to Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 9 2007, 4.34pm
The Japanese government has signed an agreement with Uganda’s  Ministry of Finance to fund the improvement of the country’s broadcasting network. The project, worth $10m, will see the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) receive transmission equipment and a modern studio. The donation will increase the mediumwave radio network from 25% coverage of the population to about [...] (more)

Japan launches radio for North Korea abductees
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 9 2007, 9.19am
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Tokyo, 9 July: The government will begin a daily shortwave radio programme late Monday [9 July] aimed at Japanese abductees possibly surviving in North Korea, it said. The 30-minute programme will broadcast voices of the families of abductees and also carry information on the international situation [...] (more)

Texas congressman wants US to fund SW station in Madagascar
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 23 2007, 11.59am
The Dallas Morning News reports that Republican congressman Pete Sessions has issued spending requests for a number of projects. ”He even wants US taxpayers to spend $2.5 million for a shortwave radio station in Madagascar”, says the paper. The request for $2.5 million is on behalf of Madagascar World Voice radio, and is intended to bring to light important projects [...] (more)

Engineering students to design low-cost digital shortwave receiver for HCJB
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 9 2007, 11.29am
Christian shortwave radio worldwide will be getting a special boost beginning in the fall with the help of LeTourneau University and a $25,000 grant from the Iowa-based Rockwell Collins, an aerospace and defence company. The university will use the grant to form an interdisciplinary team of junior and senior electrical engineering students who will design a [...] (more)

Cuban government prevents distribution of radios by RNW
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 7 2007, 9.22am
The Cuban government has prevented the distribution of shortwave radios that had been intended for Cuban listeners of RNW.  The prevention of the import and distribution of the radios in Cuba was unexpected, says RNW Director-General Jan Hoek. “We are disappointed. The Cuban embassy was fully aware of our initiative, with which we planned to reward listeners who [...] (more)

FM frequency in Sana?a ?hijacked? by Christian missionary broadcast
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 3 2007, 11.30am
A shortwave radio station has been broadcasting illegally in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, by hijacking the 88.3 FM frequency. The broadcast delivers a Christian missionary message in Arabic without having any licence or permission from the responsible authorities such as the Ministry of Information, says Abdullah al-Dailami the head of Sana’a Radio. The illegal broadcast has been [...] (more)

Zimbabwe: Launch of 24-hour news station ?postponed indefinitely?
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 25 2007, 5.11pm
The launch by the Zimbabwean government of a new shortwave radio service has once again been “postponed indefinitely”, according to The Zimbabwe Times, a US-based internet news service. The new station had been due to launch on 25 May, Africa Day. The Zimbabwe Times said on 25 May that sources at the Ministry of Information and [...] (more)

Voice of Tibet Foundation launches campaign to protest Chinese jamming
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 25 2007, 12.33pm
The Voice of Tibet Foundation has launched a campaign to protest Chinese radio “jamming” of its broadcasts. It says The Peoples Republic of China has systematically “jammed” Voice of Tibet’s and other “foreign” shortwave radio services for more than 10 years now, and is calling for action and support internationally to protest and demand an immediate stop to [...] (more)

DRM, All India Radio and ABU to launch DRM trial in India
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 24 2007, 9.17am
The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium, All India Radio (AIR) and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) will showcase DRM digital radio transmissions in the mediumwave band using the Single Channel Simulcast (SCS) and Multi-Channel Simulcast (MCS) technologies. The trial, targeted to medium wave radio broadcasters, equipment manufacturers, radio receiver manufacturers as well as retailers is scheduled [...] (more)

Zimbabwe?s News24 to launch by 18 April - minister
From Media Network Weblog. Posted April 6 2007, 2.47pm
Zimbabwe’s Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu has said that the country’s new international shortwave radio station, News24, will start broadcasting before independence celebrations on 18 April. The new radio station will be based in Gweru, and should be available to audiences both in and outside Zimbabwe. “There will be a revolutionary development in the media. We should [...] (more)

Celebrate Radio to expand to FM and shortwave to Asia
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 14 2007, 1.10pm
Celebrate Radio, a 2.5 year old, non-profit international 24/7 radio station on satellite across the UK, Europe and Middle East, on shortwave radio to Latin America and everywhere on the Web, will begin broadcasting on shortwave to India, China and Southeast Asia this summer and syndicate a weekly program to FM stations in the US [...] (more)

Japan public broadcaster to help radio service over North Korea abductions
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 13 2007, 6.34pm
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Tokyo, March 13 Kyodo - Japan Broadcasting Corp. will allow a private group to use a transmitting station for a shortwave radio service called “Shiokaze,” which sends family messages to possibly surviving Japanese abductees in North Korea, the public broadcaster known as NHK said Tuesday. As the [...] (more)

Private citizens liberating North Korea with shortwave radio
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 5 2007, 10.21am
The Daily NK carries a report on Open Radio for North Korea (ORNK) written by Kevin Kane, who visited the staztion on 23 March.  ORNK President Ha Tae-Kyoung says shortwave radios are growing in popularity in North Korea and more people are acquiring them through China for about US $5.00. Ha went on to point [...] (more)

RNW to reward Cuban writers with shortwave radios
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 23 2007, 1.55pm
Radio Netherlands Worldwide is inviting people in Cuba to write and send in stories about their country. The writers of the best stories will be rewarded with a shortwave radio, with which they can listen to Radio Habana and other international broadcasters in Spanish. RNW expects to distribute about 500 receivers. This initiative is very important [...] (more)

YLE ends shortwave broadcasts on 31 December
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 29 2006, 12.08pm
The end of the year marks the end of an era in Finnish broadcast history. On 31 December, YLE - the Finnish Broadcasting Company will transmit its final shortwave broadcast. For half a century, shortwave radio was the only way to stay in touch with home. But YLE decided earlier this year to close down [...] (more)

Solar flare disrupts China?s shortwave radio communications
From Media Network Weblog. Posted December 14 2006, 9.32am
Streams of electrically charged atomic particles from the sun caused widespread disruption of shortwave radio communications in China on Wednesday morning. The phenomenon, known as solar flare, occurred at around 10:40 a.m. Beijing Time, according to the China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation. The X3-class flare caused widespread interruption of shortwave communications and broadcasts, and seriously [...] (more)

Japanese order to NHK to focus on North Korea causes controversy
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 10 2006, 9.35am
Japan today officially ordered public broadcaster NHK to give airtime to a dispute with rival North Korea on abductions, despite criticism the government was trampling on freedom of speech. Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga said he handed over instructions for NHK to choose content in its overseas shortwave radio broadcasts “keeping the abduction issue [...] (more)

Radio Netherlands Worldwide strengthens communication with the interior of Surinam
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 3 2006, 2.37pm
Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) has decided to distribute 100 shortwave radios to inhabitants in the interior of Surinam. Last May, these inhabitants were hit by floods, and since then deprived of communication with the capital, Paramaribo, and the rest of the world. In addition, Radio Netherlands Worldwide is making a powerful shortwave frequency available for [...] (more)

Japan: Media panel approves order to NHK to cover N Korea abductions
From Media Network Weblog. Posted November 2 2006, 2.44pm
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Tokyo, 2 November: A ruling party panel effectively approved Thursday [2 November] a plan for the government to order the country’s public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corp., known as NHK, to feature North Korea’s abductions of Japanese nationals in its overseas shortwave radio broadcasts. “We understand the [...] (more)

Japanese government offers to carry NK programme on NHK transmitters
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 14 2006, 10.59am
According to the Asahi Shimbun, The Japanese government is considering ordering the Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) to carry programmes about the North Korean abduction issue on its international shortwave radio service. A citizens group has since last year been broadcasting a shortwave radio programme to North Korea in the hopes that Japanese believed to have been abducted there [...] (more)

Japanese government to support radio broadcasts to North Korea
From Media Network Weblog. Posted October 11 2006, 10.04am
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Tokyo, 11 October: The Japanese government will support private shortwave radio broadcasts to North Korea calling for information on Japanese nationals abducted to the communist country, Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday [11 October]. The government will consider using an international broadcasting service facility [...] (more)

Shortwave radio era looks short-lived - International Herald Tribune
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 24 2006, 2.56pm
Doreen Carvajal writes in the International Herald Tribune: “Perhaps it is fitting that a 50-second video clip of an ear-shattering explosion of 13 shortwave radio antenna towers on the Spanish Costa Brava is getting viewers on the Web site YouTube. It took 32 pounds, or 14.5 kilograms, of dynamite to fell the massive antennas, which [...] (more)

Japanese government provides assistance to Radio Nepal
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 13 2006, 1.50pm
A memorandum of understanding was signed today between the Government of Japan and the Nepali Ministry of Finance, confirming Japan’s grant of US$8.1 million to the Government of Nepal for the improvement of shortwave and mediumwave radio broadcasting stations. Japanese Ambassador to Nepal, Tsutomu Hiraoka, and Vidyadhar Mallik, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, signed and exchanged the [...] (more)

Earth storms lead to space storms, scientists say
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 13 2006, 10.22am
Thunderstorms on Earth can lead to storms in the outer reaches of the atmosphere that disrupt radio transmissions and other electronic communications, US researchers said yesterday. The discovery could lead to more reliable global-positioning satellite (GPS) navigation and shortwave radio transmissions by improving forecasts of high-altitude disturbances that can disrupt them, said University of California-Berkeley [...] (more)

More on new Internews radio station in Indonesia
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 26 2006, 6.49pm
The original story from Internews did not mention the frequency or power of the transmitter that will carry Punokawan AM. We contacted Teddy Wahyu, the Media Coordinator for Internews Indonesia, and he tells us that the frequency will be 1425 kHz and the power 500 watts. More on this story: Internews setting up emergency mediumwave radio station in Indonesia  (more)

Internews setting up emergency mediumwave radio station in Indonesia
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 25 2006, 12.24pm
On 27 May, an earthquake off the coast of Yogyakarta Province, Central Java, Indonesia killed more than 5,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. On 19 July, Internews made the first of a series of equipment donations to community radio stations in the disaster zone. Soon after the earthquake, in order to get emergency [...] (more)

WRNO Worldwide says it?s broadcasting to Middle East
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 17 2006, 10.35am
CBS Channel 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth says “An American broadcaster wants to make a difference during the Middle East crisis. His shortwave radio station is headquartered in Fort Worth, but millions of people all over the world are tuning in to hear a message of peace and understanding. Dr Robert Mawire, chairman and CEO of [...] (more)

Burg radio mast that once carried the Deutscher Soldatensender demolished
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 29 2006, 10.20am
The 210 metre high mediumwave radio mast at Burg in eastern Germany, that once carried the programmes of the Deutscher Soldatensender on 935 kHz and  Deutscher Freiheitssender 904, has been demolished. Photos of the demolition, and text and audio in German, can be found on the website of Radioeins rbb. (more)

US goes high-tech to spread its message
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 17 2006, 12.21pm
“Around the globe, America’s message - once available to the world largely through shortwave radios - is reaching new target audiences thanks to modern technologies like cell phone text messages, streaming audio and video, podcasts, online chat and satellite television.” That’s how J Scott Orr of the Newhouse News Service introduces a feature in which the [...] (more)

Indian website says VOA is planning to close more language services
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 4 2006, 11.27am
The Voice of America (VOA) has decided to shut down its daily 90-minute short-wave radio service in Hindi citing budgetary cutbacks, and the emergence of TV and the Internet in India as the leading media to disseminate news. Private FM radio stations have also affected its listenership, according to Jagdish Sareen, editor, VOA Hindi, quoted by the Indian website DNA. The decision by the (more)

Who's still listening to shortwave radio? Well, cows for a start...
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 28 2006, 11.20am
Those broadcasters who wonder if it's worth continuing to use shortwave will be interested in a story published today in Tasmania. It's about farmer Alan Braid, who uses shortwave radio, amongst other things, to entertain his cows. Apart from a collection of cows, Mr Braid has about 400 radios. He says his radio in the dairy is usually tuned to local station 7NT, but ABC programmes for Tasmania (more)

North Korea jams Japanese shortwave broadcasts tracing missing nationals
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 9 2006, 10.43am
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Tokyo, 9 May: Shortwave radio broadcasts by a Japanese group investigating missing Japanese believed to have been abducted by North Korea have been jammed by North Korea since Friday [5 May], Japan's top government spokesman said Tuesday. "Unknown transmission emitted from within North Korea has been confirmed and is believed to have been (more)

"Satellite TV is to the future what shortwave radio was to the past"
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 6 2006, 11.05am
That's the view of Kenneth Y Tomlinson, Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) which oversees US international broadcasting. In a commentary published in the Wall Street Journal, Mr Tomlinson explains the BBG's strategy in broadcasting TV programmes to Iran. He says that, from September, daily output will be increased from one hour a day to four. He adds that funds in a supplemental (more)

HCJB to end English broadcasts from Ecuador
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 5 2006, 5.10pm
Radio Station HCJB, the Voice of the Andes, will air its final English-language broadcasts on international shortwave radio from Ecuador on Saturday, May 6, even as the station’s English Language Service shifts its emphasis toward teaching English as a second language. English was one of the first two languages, along with Spanish, to air when the station began broadcasting in Quito on Christmas (more)

Podcasting radio network begins broadcasting on shortwave!
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 29 2006, 10.57am
In a complete reversal of the usual trend, the Enigma Radio Network has announced that starting today its podcasts will be heard throughout most of the world on shortwave radio. The Daily Dig, a 3-5 minute world news programme, can be heard on 15825 kHz on WWCR, Monday through Friday at 1:05 PM Eastern time (1805 UTC until 2 April, thereafter 1705 UTC). This news programme covers all of the day’s (more)

Deal for mediumwave radio station station signed in Oman
From Media Network Weblog. Posted March 25 2006, 4.08pm
Omani Information Minister Hamad bin Mohammed Al Rashdi has signed two new agreements. The first, with Bahwan Contracting Company, is to establish a new complex of digital TV studios in Muscat. The project will be implemented within 30 months. The second was signed with Bahwan Trading Company and a US specialist company to establish a mediumwave radio transmitting station in Al Buraimi. The (more)

Frequency coordination a success, broadcasters told
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 15 2006, 9.17am
Frequency coordination has improved listening quality of shortwave radio services, broadcasters attending the 4th Global Shortwave Coordination Conference in Hainan were told yesterday. Li Zhi, Director-General of the Administrative Bureau of Radio Stations, Radio and Television of the People’s Republic of China (RTPRC), said in his opening address that the coordination conferences had played a (more)

China to host high frequency coordination conference
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 10 2006, 1.57pm
The fourth Global Shortwave Coordination Conference, to be held in Sanya, Hainan Island, China from 13 February, is expected to address the frequencies for more than 7,200 daily shortwave broadcasts for the new season which commences at the end of March 2006. Hosted by RTPRC-China, the five-day event will bring together more than 150 shortwave radio frequency managers representing around 87 (more)

Somalia/Ethiopia: Voice of the Somali People to launch - website
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 26 2006, 3.35pm
Text of report by Ethiopian opposition Radio Freedom audio website on 24 January Announcement of new Somali radio station is posted on the website version of a shortwave radio station, (Clandestine) Radio Freedom Voice of the Ogadeni People in Somali. This is to notify all Somali speaking people that a new Somali radio station will be opened. The new radio station, called Voice of the Somali (more)

Trans World Radio transmitting tower in Benin is up
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 10 2006, 2.18pm
Trans World Radio Africa reports that the tower of its new mediumwave/shortwave radio station in Benin has been erected. The foundation, main floor and some of the top floor of the transmitter building have also been constructed. However, the Higher Authority of Audiovisual Communications (HAAC) and the Department of Communications in Benin have not yet issued the mediumwave and shortwave radio (more)

Dutch military abroad receive shortwave radios for Christmas
From Media Network Weblog. Posted January 10 2006, 1.17pm
All members of the Dutch military serving abroad received a shortwave radio in their Christmas parcel. That was announced today by the Dutch Ministry of Defence. According to a spokesman, this was the first time that a shortwave radio had been included among the gifts. As of 3 January, a total of 1560 Dutch military were serving abroad, spread over 13 countries. The biggest missions are in (more)