Friday, March 17, 2006
Happy Paddys Day
Happy Paddys Day
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Don't Forget The New Site
Why not check the new site by clicking here with news updates on the front page and in the news section A links page to radio resources and an extra page for timezones ,propogation reports,weather and more... Before leaving the news site tell me what you think of it by going to the poll at bottom of the front page thanks. |
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Talk Radio 702 back on its usual frequency
credit: Medianetwork Weblog South African commercial station Talk Radio 702 has returned to its scheduled frequency of 702 kHz. The station carries the following announcement on its website: Talk Radio 702 has confirmed it will be broadcasting from 702 KHz from Monday, 13 March. The station has been broadcasting on 540 KHz after a fire at the transmitter in Ga-Rankuwa, North West of Pretoria, on Saturday 4 February. Icasa (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) immediately granted the station permission to broadcast on the 540 KHz while an investigation was conducted and repairs were carried out at the transmitter. "The building and transmitter have been repaired in order to restore the service," said Michelle Potgieter, Sentech's general manager for sales and marketing. “We are ready to broadcast from 702 KHz on Monday from 12 noon," she said. Sentech has stated that the cause of the fire was electro-mechanical. Station manager for 702, Pheladi Gwangwa said, "We are thankful to our listeners and clients for their support and loyalty over the past month. We are satisfied with the report we have received from Sentech as to the cause of the fire and look forward to providing our listeners with the latest news and information on 702 KHz". Talk Radio 702 has applied to ICASA to allow the station to continue broadcasting on 540 KHz as a back-up for its primary signal on 702 KHz and to allow for the smooth migration of its listeners back to 702 KHz. |
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Dutch government plans to withdraw four mediumwave licences
Credit: medianetwork weblog A spokesperson for the Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands (Agentschap Telecom) has confirmed that it intends to withdraw four of the six mediumwave licences issued in 2003 to Quality Radio bv, the company run by Ruud Poeze. The affected frequencies are 828, 1035, 1224 and 1557 kHz. Quality Radio will retain two mediumwave licences - for 1395 and 1584 kHz. In fact, on 16 August 2005 Quality Radio was given four weeks to activate the four frequencies or lose them. The spokesperson explained that the Ministry of Economic Affairs, of which Agentschap Telecom is part, does not like having to go to court if it can be avoided, and allowed Quality Radio a further six months, but still to no avail. The licences have not yet been officially withdrawn. Quality Radio will be officially informed of the decision by letter, and will then be given six weeks to lodge an appeal. If the licences are surrendered, they will remain available for commercial use. Agentschap Telecom is quite keen on the idea of using these frequencies in DRM mode, and the spokesperson said that there is quite a lot of interest amongst potential licencees who want to offer DRM services. # posted by Andy @ 10:17 UTC |
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