{"id":18535,"date":"2016-04-26T07:16:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18535"},"modified":"2016-04-26T07:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:19:56","slug":"curating-a-list-of-endangered-shortwave-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/curating-a-list-of-endangered-shortwave-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Curating a list of endangered shortwave stations"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"RCI-Sackville-2012\"<\/a>

That’s my minivan parked in front of the RCI Sackville transmitting station in June, 2012. The site was closed by the end of 2012 and towers demolished shortly thereafter.<\/p><\/div>\n

Recently, my friend and fellow archivist,\u00a0London Shortwave<\/a>, and I engaged in a\u00a0discussion about creating a curated list of “endangered” shortwave radio stations.<\/p>\n

The idea being we could use such a list to focus our efforts and those of the archiving community<\/a> on recording\u00a0broadcasters that were most likely to disappear in the near future.<\/p>\n

London Shortwave published an excellent post about this on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please click here to read his post.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We quickly put this page on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>\u00a0as a starting point.<\/p>\n

We need your help to curate this list! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Please comment either on London Shortwave’s blog<\/a>, or on this post<\/a>, and suggest any additional broadcasters we may have missed. Please include a link to news item(s) which may indicate the broadcaster faces closure.<\/p>\n

Of course, this list and the categories are subjective–we’re simply using our best judgement in this process. Often, broadcasters can shut down with little or no notice.<\/p>\n

Thanks in advance for your help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, my friend and fellow archivist,\u00a0London Shortwave, and I engaged in a\u00a0discussion about creating a curated list of “endangered” shortwave radio stations. The idea being we could use such a list to focus our efforts and those of the archiving community on recording\u00a0broadcasters that were most likely to disappear in the near future. 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