{"id":19405,"date":"2016-06-15T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=19405"},"modified":"2016-06-15T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:08:00","slug":"cutbacks-marty-shares-radio-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/cutbacks-marty-shares-radio-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutbacks: Marty shares radio resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16487\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg-1024x623.jpg\" alt=\"AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg\" width=\"625\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AM-Dial-Digital-Grundig-Mediumwave-MW-lg-768x467.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Marty, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The long wave community is also facing cutbacks in service, this example being in Ireland: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2016\/06\/03\/saving-rte-252-long-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2016\/06\/03\/saving-rte-252-long-wave\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The home page for subscribing to this eNewsletter is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, some SWL Post readers\u00a0might be interested in subscribing to Radio World International, which carries a wide range of general radio-related news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioworld.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radioworld.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/radiosurvivor.com\">Radio Survivor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioworld.com\" target=\"_blank\">Radio World Internetional <\/a>are excellent sources for news about the radio world! Thank you, Marty, for mentioning them here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Marty, who writes: The long wave community is also facing cutbacks in service, this example being in Ireland: http:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2016\/06\/03\/saving-rte-252-long-wave\/ The home page for subscribing to this eNewsletter is: http:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/ Also, some SWL Post readers\u00a0might be interested in subscribing to Radio World International, which carries a wide range of general [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2436,3],"tags":[5163,238],"class_list":["post-19405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longwave","category-news","tag-radio-survivor","tag-radio-world-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-52Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12845,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/cri-rfa-sputnik-and-the-bbc-an-information-battle\/","url_meta":{"origin":19405,"position":0},"title":"CRI, RFA, Sputnik, and the BBC: an &#8220;information battle?&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"March 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Cuff, for sharing this article from The National: Radio wars: information battle heats up as Russia and China muscle in For about 70 years it was the base of the BBC World Service. 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