{"id":29628,"date":"2017-12-22T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29628"},"modified":"2017-12-13T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:03:30","slug":"norddeutscher-rundfunk-christmas-eve-broadcast-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/norddeutscher-rundfunk-christmas-eve-broadcast-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Norddeutscher Rundfunk Christmas Eve Broadcast schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29630\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jens-rademacher-26525-e1513162795762.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29630\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jens-rademacher-26525-e1513162795762.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jens Rademacher on Unsplash<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Ralf Bender, who shares the following news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello SWLing Post,<\/p>\n<p>I send you a translation of an announcement of a special german broadcast with tradition:<br \/>\nMEDIA BROADCAST broadcasts NDR radio program worldwide via shortwave on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve sailors all over the world look forward to a special service provided by MEDIA BROADCAST for Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). Then NDR Info, the information radio of the NDR, as well as the digital radio program NDR Info Spezial broadcast from 20:05 clock the traditional program &#8220;Greeting on board&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With the popular radio format, family and friends send Christmas greetings to crews and passengers on cargo and cruise ships who travel the world&#8217;s waterways away from home during the holidays. &#8220;Greeting on board&#8221; is broadcast since Christmas 1953. The transmission takes place via the shortwave infrastructure of MEDIA BROADCAST.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schedule-NRD.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29629\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schedule-NRD.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schedule-NRD.jpeg 579w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Schedule-NRD-300x163.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The whole press release can be find here (in german): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioszene.de\/116143\/heiligabend-ndr-kurzwelle-gruss-an-bord.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.radioszene.de\/116143\/heiligabend-ndr-kurzwelle-gruss-an-bord.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take care everyone<br \/>\n73<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ralf Bender, who shares the following news: Hello SWLing Post, I send you a translation of an announcement of a special german broadcast with tradition: MEDIA BROADCAST broadcasts NDR radio program worldwide via shortwave on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve sailors all over the world look forward to a special [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,43],"tags":[4490,6696,4082],"class_list":["post-29628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-grus-an-bord","tag-ralf-bender","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7HS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41099,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/norddeutscher-rundfunk-christmas-eve-broadcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":29628,"position":0},"title":"Norddeutscher Rundfunk Christmas Eve Broadcast","author":"Thomas","date":"December 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post contributor, Harald Kuhl (DL1AX), who shares the following announcement from the NDR regarding the annual Gruss an Bord Christmas Eve broadcast. 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