Thursday, July 27, 2006
The Radio Informer group
The radio informer group is the place to go to discuss radio with fellow hobbiest.There has been 2 new members to the group so why not pop over sign up and start posting your messages. http://groups.msn.com/TheRadioInformer/ |
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Gone! But Not Forgotten.
Radio stations come and go.We hear them one day but next they have gone. Check out the sites from stations that no longer are around. Radio ST Helena Noted from the site reason for closing: "This may be the last time I write a piece concerning our World-wide Transmission for the Radio St. Helena Web Page. It is rather sad but true that on 23rd October 1999 Radio St. Helena will broadcast to the world for the last time. The story behind this is that the company who owns the Transmitter that is used for our shortwave broadcasts, Cable & Wireless PLC, stationed at the Briars, St. Helena, has decided to dispose of this particular piece of equipment because of its age and the unavailability of spare parts. It is being replaced by a small transceiver to operate at a short distance and cannot be used for the same purpose of transmitting to the world." Atlantic 252 longwave This is a tribute site for the irish station that broadcast across the uk on 252 longwave but reception during the night was not good. Reason for closing down: taken from their faq page: "What Happened To Atlantic 252? Atlantic 252 closed down in December 2001 after the parent company sold the station to sports station TEAMTALK." so promps the next station teamtalk 252 teamtalk wasn't on for long really not having much sport and also there was and still is a talksport station with live sport on 1053/1089 am talkSport which goes out across the uk. |
Monday, July 24, 2006
BBC World Service and BBC Arabic on Canalsat Horizons in Africa
credit: http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork Subscribers to Canalsat Horizons in 23 African countries can now access the BBC’s radio services in English and Arabic. Canalsat Horizons is broadcast by Multi TV Afrique, a subsidiary of Media Overseas, Canal+ Group. Multi TV Afrique has reached agreement with the BBC World Service whose radio programmes are now heard on channel 108 (English) and on channel 109 (Arabic) within the Canalsat Horizons package. The 105,000 current subscribers now enjoy a range of BBC programmes including news, documentaries and analysis, 24-hours a day, seven days a week, in English and Arabic. The package is available on a subscription basis in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. |
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