{"id":12509,"date":"2015-02-27T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2015-02-27T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T11:17:11","slug":"radio-canada-international-celebrates-70th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/radio-canada-international-celebrates-70th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Canada International celebrates 70th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RCI.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2004\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RCI.png\" alt=\"RCI\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RCI.png 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/RCI-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, David Iurescia, reminds us that February 25th, 2015 was <em>Radio Canada International<\/em>&#8216;s 70th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>While we can no longer hear RCI on shortwave, David points out that we can listen to some of the anniversary specials (interviews and programs) online\u00a0all week:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2015\/02\/26\/rci-celebrates-its-70th-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2015\/02\/26\/rci-celebrates-its-70th-anniversary\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for the tip, David!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post reader, David Iurescia, reminds us that February 25th, 2015 was Radio Canada International&#8216;s 70th anniversary. While we can no longer hear RCI on shortwave, David points out that we can listen to some of the anniversary specials (interviews and programs) online\u00a0all week: http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2015\/02\/26\/rci-celebrates-its-70th-anniversary\/ Many thanks for the tip, David!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[631,30],"class_list":["post-12509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-canada-international","tag-rci"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3fL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12564,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/radio-canada-international-70th-anniversary-was-bittersweet-for-some\/","url_meta":{"origin":12509,"position":0},"title":"Radio Canada International 70th Anniversary was bittersweet for some","author":"Thomas","date":"March 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"RCI Action We recently noted that Radio Canada International (RCI) celebrated its 70th year anniversary. \u00a0While it was certainly an amazing milestone--dating back to WWII--it was a bittersweet celebration for some. Check out this article on the RCI Action blog: \"The flood of wonderful memories, fueled by the old and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The transmitter building of Radio Canada International, Sackville, NB.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RCI-Sackville-Front-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RCI-Sackville-Front-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/RCI-Sackville-Front-1024x682.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12566,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/special-broadcast-70th-anniversary-of-radio-canada-international-via-pcj\/","url_meta":{"origin":12509,"position":1},"title":"Special Broadcast: 70th Anniversary of Radio Canada International via PCJ","author":"Thomas","date":"March 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: PCJ Radio International) This year marks the 70th Anniversary of Radio Canada International. On March 16, 2015 from 0100 to 0200UTC PCJ Radio International will present a special tribute program for their 70th Anniversary. The program will include a recent interview with Eric Koch who was a presenter in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RCI-Logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RCI-Logo-300x268.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12603,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/richards-cbc-radio-canada-qsl-and-interview-with-rci\/","url_meta":{"origin":12509,"position":2},"title":"Richard&#8217;s CBC Radio-Canada QSL and interview with RCI","author":"Thomas","date":"March 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post and SRAA contributor, Richard Langley, who writes: \"[C]oncerning the RCI anniversary, attached are scans of a QSL card from the CBC International Service for reception on 20 April 1964 when I was in high school. That was on the Knight-Kit Span Master regenerative receiver I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Interviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Interviews","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/interviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"radio_canada1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/radio_canada1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/radio_canada1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/radio_canada1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/radio_canada1.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17475,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/radio-canada-internationals-71st-anniversary\/","url_meta":{"origin":12509,"position":3},"title":"Radio Canada International&#8217;s 71st anniversary","author":"Thomas","date":"February 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0David Iurescia (LW4DAF), who writes: Today February 25 th is the 71th anniversary of Radio Canada International. They published this: http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2016\/02\/25\/history-feb-25-1945-canadas-voice-to-the-world-official-start\/ Earlier this month, I listened\u00a0to a 2012 spectrum recording of the 31 meter band--RCI's north Quebec service was transmitting on 9,625 kHz. 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