{"id":1095,"date":"2011-04-28T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T11:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2011-04-28T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:41:02","slug":"radio-world-takes-a-tour-of-voa-greenville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/radio-world-takes-a-tour-of-voa-greenville\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio World takes a tour of VOA Greenville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1096\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/VOAgreenville.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1096\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1096\" title=\"VOAgreenville\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/VOAgreenville-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"VOA transmitter site in Greenville, NC\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/VOAgreenville-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/VOAgreenville.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radio World photo by James O\u2019Neal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwonline.com\/article\/119514\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the full article in Radio World Online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Click here to read the full article in Radio World Online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,288],"tags":[10,379,182],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-radio-history","tag-voa","tag-voa-greenville","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1646,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/north-carolina-public-television-features-voa-greenville\/","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":0},"title":"North Carolina Public Television features VOA Greenville","author":"Thomas","date":"August 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an excellent video about the VOA Greenville transmitter site produced by North Carolina Public Television. What I love most is the time they took to explain the importance of shortwave radio across our globe, how it is an existing technology that governments and regimes cannot easily block or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43092,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/radio-marti-has-cancelled-programming-at-voa-greenville-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":1095,"position":1},"title":"Radio Marti has cancelled programming at VOA Greenville site","author":"Thomas","date":"May 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who shares the following news item from Glenn Hauser's World of Radio: Radio Marti has cancelled all programming via Greenville between 0400 and 1000 UTC effective from 2 May. 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