{"id":23861,"date":"2017-02-01T07:50:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T11:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23861"},"modified":"2017-02-01T07:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T11:50:26","slug":"75-years-ago-today-voa-started-german-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/75-years-ago-today-voa-started-german-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"75 years ago today, VOA started German broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Voice of America Bethany Relay Station, May 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Alexander (DL4NO)<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n

Hello Thomas,<\/p>\n

I just heard a short feature on Deutschlandfunk: 75 years ago today VoA started transmitting \u2013 in German.<\/a><\/p>\n

vy 73
\nAlexander
\nDL4NO<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks for the tip, Alexander!<\/p>\n

The Deutschlandfunk article<\/a>, of course, is in German. I found, that Google Translate did an acceptable job translating it into English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alexander (DL4NO), who writes: Hello Thomas, I just heard a short feature on Deutschlandfunk: 75 years ago today VoA started transmitting \u2013 in German. vy 73 Alexander DL4NO Many thanks for the tip, Alexander! The Deutschlandfunk article, of course, is in German. I found, that Google Translate did an […]<\/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":[960,3,305,288,43],"tags":[2268,10,5900,182],"class_list":["post-23861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-alexander-von-obert-dl4no","tag-voa","tag-voa-german","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6cR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40834,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/mark-your-calendars-christmas-on-air-event-to-honor-radio-luxembourg\/","url_meta":{"origin":23861,"position":0},"title":"Mark your calendars! 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