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Shortwave radio in the news- Travel Gadgets: Shortwave radio is the way to go - Times LIVE May 17, 2012
- Tamil Gov't Starts Radio Broadcast to Sri Lanka on May 18th - 3rd Anniversary ... - EIN News (press release) May 16, 2012
- Templeton Award to the Dalai Lama - Voice of America May 16, 2012
- Shortwave Gathering Identifies Broadcast Opportunities - Radio World May 15, 2012
- Greenwich Boasts Historic Communications Feat - The Daily Greenwich May 15, 2012
- Gerry Jackson, founder, SW Radio Africa - The Guardian May 14, 2012
- In Zimbabwe's Media, It's All About Robert Mugabe - NPR May 13, 2012
- Zimbabwe exile shortwave station wants more information about license denial - Radio Survivor May 12, 2012
- Murrow Shortwave Site Rededicated - Radio World May 9, 2012
- Villagers treasure Shortwave radio - The Zimbabwean May 9, 2012
- RNW Media Network
- This is a searchable archive of over 15,000 international media stories published from Oct 2003 - March 2012
- Kenya: CCK to take back unused frequencies
- Rwanda: Parliament radio goes on air
- Radiofax audio archive to mark 20 years since closure
- Swaziland to ban anti-Mswati tweets
- Web address controversy deepens after US warning
- New company building a search engine for television
- EU willing to support Portuguese on Euronews
- Kenya to ban analogue TV imports
- Christian TV Network bosses accused of massive fraud
Category Archives: Radio History
Andy Sennitt: The Media Network years – the noughties
Media Network, which covered international broadcasting developments at Radio Netherlands, recently ended a 30-year run on RNW. In a series of four articles, Andy Sennitt mentions some of the highlights, and then looks ahead to how international broadcasting might develop in the next … Continue reading
Grandfather of WWV’s atomic clock
I just discovered a film produced by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) Film Unit in the 1950s explaining the principles behind the first accurate atomic clock. The clock was designed by Louis Essen and built at the National Physical Laboratory in … Continue reading
Posted in Nostalgia, Radio History, Videos
Tagged Atomic Clocks, CHU, How Atomic Clocks Work, National Physics Laboratory, NPL, WWV, WWVB
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Andy Sennitt: The Media Network years the 1990s
Media Network, which covered international broadcasting developments at Radio Netherlands, recently ended a 30-year run on RNW. In a series of four articles, Andy Sennitt mentions some of the highlights, and then looks ahead to how international broadcasting might develop in the next … Continue reading
Andy Sennitt: Looking back at 30 years of Media Network
Media Network, which covered international broadcasting developments at Radio Netherlands, recently ended a 30-year run on RNW. In a series of four articles, Andy Sennitt mentions some of the highlights, and then looks ahead to how international broadcasting might develop in the next … Continue reading
Your shortwave could have delivered the newspaper?
(Source: Smithsonian Magazine) The introduction of broadcast radio caused some in the newspaper industry to fear that newspapers would soon become a thing of the past. After all, who would read the news when you could just turn on the … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Radio History
Tagged Newspapers, Radio Fax, Radio History, RTTY, Shortwave Radio, Technology, Wireless
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Willis Conover’s Jazz: A secret weapon in the Cold War
David Goren, Shortwaveology author and producer for Jazz at Lincoln Center, released a JazzStories Podcast today featuring VOA broadcaster, Willis Conover. Willis Conover is a noted name in both Jazz music and international broadcasting. His characteristic deep and articulate voice guided many … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Broadcasters, Radio History, Shortwave Radio
Tagged David Goren, Iron Curtain, JazzStories, Shortwaveology, VOA Jazz, Willis Conover, Willis Conover VOA
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Adam Long of the Reduced Shakespeare Company: Reduced History of the BBC World Service
Enjoy this very witty and accurate take on the history of the BBC World Service: Adam Long of the Reduced Shakespeare Company wrote this, the Reduced History of the BBC World Service, to celebrate the World Service’s 80th anniversary. It … Continue reading
BBC World Service: Celebrating 80th birthday live on air
(Source: BBC World Service) BBC World Service brings you a special day of programming on 29 February to celebrate 80 years of international radio broadcasting. We’ll begin the day with a live broadcast of the daily news meeting– which usually takes … Continue reading
CIA: A History of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service
I just stumbled upon this fascinating history of the CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service and thought SWLing Post readers might enjoy browsing it as well. This is a history of the early, pre-CIA, years of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. It … Continue reading
Profiles in Amateur Radio
Ken Reitz, Features Editor for Monitoring Times magazine, has published a new eBook called, “Profiles in Amateur Radio.” It features stories and biographies from a lengthy list of radio personalities/figures (including yours truly!). A common theme in many of these personal … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Radio History
Tagged Amazon Kindle, Ken Reitz, Profiles in Amateur Radio, Shortwave Radio
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