{"id":24546,"date":"2017-03-08T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24546"},"modified":"2017-03-08T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:36:15","slug":"could-nhk-japan-purchase-santa-maria-di-galeria-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/could-nhk-japan-purchase-santa-maria-di-galeria-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Could NHK Japan purchase Santa Maria di Galeria site?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: CatholicCulture.org<\/a> via London Shortwave)<\/p>\n

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As Vatican Radio ends short-wave broadcasts, others expand<\/h3>\n

As Vatican Radio closes an era by ending its short-wave transmissions, other broadcasters are stepping up their involvement in the short-wave field, notes Sandro Magister of L\u2019Espresso.<\/p>\n

Msgr. Dario Vigano, the prefect of the Vatican\u2019s new Secretariat for Communications, has cut off short-wave broadcasts\u2014long the heart of the Vatican Radio operation\u2014in a move to cut costs and move toward emphasis on communicating through the internet. But Magister observes that short-wave transmissions retain their \u201cunique ability to arrive as a free and true voice even in the most geographically and politically inhospitable places of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Italian Vatican-watcher reports that other broadcasters are expanding their short-wave offerings. BBC has invested \u00a385 million (almost $105 million) in a drive to expand its short-wave capacity. And Japan\u2019s NHK network has inquired about purchasing the broadcasting station at Santa Maria di Galeria, just outside Rome, that Vatican Radio will no longer use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read this article at\u00a0CatholicCulture.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: CatholicCulture.org via London Shortwave) As Vatican Radio ends short-wave broadcasts, others expand As Vatican Radio closes an era by ending its short-wave transmissions, other broadcasters are stepping up their involvement in the short-wave field, notes Sandro Magister of L\u2019Espresso. Msgr. Dario Vigano, the prefect of the Vatican\u2019s new Secretariat for Communications, has cut off […]<\/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":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[2704,1805,6020,1186,1187,1188],"class_list":["post-24546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-london-shortwave","tag-nhk-radio-japan","tag-santa-maria-di-galeria","tag-vatican-radio","tag-vatican-radio-cuts","tag-vatican-radio-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6nU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3766,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/vatican-radio-from-short-waves-to-new-communications-strategies\/","url_meta":{"origin":24546,"position":0},"title":"Vatican Radio: “from Short Waves to new communications strategies”","author":"Thomas","date":"June 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to SWLing Post reader, Mike, for the tip: (Source: Vatican Radio) Announcing Vatican Radio\u2019s intention to reduce its Short and Medium Wave transmissions to most of Europe and the Americas, starting July 1st, the Director General, Fr Federico Lombardi, today spoke of what he called, \u201cA new chapter in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/radio_vaticana-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3761,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/vatican-radio-to-end-shortwave-broadcasts-to-europe-and-americas-july-1st\/","url_meta":{"origin":24546,"position":1},"title":"Vatican Radio to end shortwave broadcasts to Europe and Americas July 1st","author":"Thomas","date":"June 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This article from the Italian news source, AGI (quoted below) is\u00a0brief\u00a0and vague, but according to the\u00a0Director of Vatican Radio,\u00a0they will, \"end all [...] medium wave broadcasts and [...] shortwave ones to most of Europe and the Americas.\" We will post more info once available--follow the tag Vatican Radio: (Source: AGI)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vatican_radio-300x278.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":64114,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/vatican-radio-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":24546,"position":2},"title":"Vatican Radio – Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"October 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor\u00a0Dan Greenall, who shares the following post: When I began shortwave listening back in 1969, Vatican Radio was one of the first stations I came across. 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