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Shortwave radio in the news- Is America Losing Its Voice? - UNC Chapell Hill June 19, 2013
- Brazil to Retest DRM, HD Radio - Radio World June 19, 2013
- Annual Field Day event for amateur radio operators this Saturday - Rome News Tribune June 19, 2013
- Amateur radio fans get antennas up for big annual field day - Chinook Observer June 19, 2013
- Elmhurst radio club to compete in national contest - Suburban Life Publications June 17, 2013
- Thanks, Dads - TechCrunch June 17, 2013
- McKenzie: Shortwave radio works when all else fails - The Daily Progress June 17, 2013
- Introducing the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive - Southgate Amateur Radio Club June 4, 2013
- Bouncing Through the Night: Shortwave Memories - My New Orleans May 31, 2013
- HOT SEAT: Interview Tendai Biti on MDC-T policies (Part 1) - SW Radio Africa May 24, 2013
- 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
Tag Archives: BBC
This BBC radio adapts programming to match your environs
Thank to SWLing Post reader Mike for passing this along. The possibilities of adaptive radio broadcasts in distance learning alone are most inspiring: (Source: BBC Technology) A radio that is able to change a broadcast depending on where you are … Continue reading
Posted in New Products, News, Radios
Tagged Adaptive Radio, BBC, BBC Perceptive Radio, BBC TEchnology, Future Media North Lab
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The BBC crosses an ethical line in North Korea
If you’ve been a reader of the SWLing Post for long, you may know I am an avid supporter of free speech via radio and other media; I am also a strong advocate of journalistic ethics. Following, I share choice words about a … Continue reading
BBC: Curators discover first recordings of Christmas Day
An amazing piece of recorded history: (Source: BBC News) Curators at the Museum of London have discovered what they believe to be the first ever recordings of a family Christmas. They were made 110 years ago by the Wall family … Continue reading
Posted in Nostalgia, Slightly Off Topic
Tagged Archives, BBC, BBC News, Christmas, Nostalgia, Wall Family
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International Broadcasters support freedom of information
The international broadcasting arms of France, Australia, the US, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands issued a joint statement in support of press freedoms across the globe. With the exception of the Netherlands (RNW), all of these countries … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasters, News
Tagged BBC, BBG, DW, Free Press, Free Speech, Freedom of Press, Germany, Jamming, NHK, RA, Radio Australia, RFI, RNW
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The BBC in the news
(Source: CS Monitor) Britain’s BBC could be doomed unless it makes radical changes, the head of its governing trust said on Sunday, after its director general quit to take the blame for the airing of false child sex abuse allegations against … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasters, News
Tagged BBC, BBC in turmoil, BBC overhaul, BBC scandal, Lord Patten
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BBC internal memo outlines year three cuts and changes to the BBC World Service
This BBC internal memo, sent to employees by World Service Director, Peter Horrocks, outlines the unfortunate pending cuts and changes in much greater detail than those presented by the press. Here is the memo in its entirety–it concludes with further comments … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasters, News
Tagged BBC, BBC Cuts, BBC Internal Memo, BBC World Service Cuts, BBC World Service Internal Memo, BBC WS
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Shortwave Radio History: 50 years of transmitting at BBC Woofferton
Thanks to the efforts of a dedicated radio historian and author, Jeff Cant, you can download and read an excellent history of the first fifty years of the BBC’s Woofferton transmission station. Cant began his history as an internal document … Continue reading
Guardian article on “the rise and rise of radio”
(Source: Susanna Rustin, The Guardian) What is it about radio that has made it so durable, and able to coexist not only through the age of television, but the age of new media too? As social networking giant Facebook prepares to … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Broadcasters, News
Tagged BBC, Radio 4, Susanna Rustin, The Guardian, Why Radio
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BBC Hindi brings Indian and Pakistani artists to talk music and peace
(Source: indiaPRwire) London, Delhi, London, August 2, 2011 /India PRwire/ — BBC Hindi is launching special programming which will bring together musicians from India and Pakistan. Every day, between 3 and 7 August, the Friendship beyond Borders series on the … Continue reading