{"id":31597,"date":"2018-04-12T06:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T10:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31597"},"modified":"2018-04-12T06:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T10:42:55","slug":"bbc-news-video-on-soviet-jamming-of-bbc-and-voa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/bbc-news-video-on-soviet-jamming-of-bbc-and-voa\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News video on Soviet jamming of BBC and VOA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14917\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg 751w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Hirst, who shares this short video from BBC News:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/embed\/p063zvsj\/43730458\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-europe-43730458\/the-soviet-villagers-who-blocked-western-radio-broadcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view via the BBC News website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who shares this short video from BBC News: Click here to view via the BBC News website.<\/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":[3,288,43,304],"tags":[104,752,1549,5458,1817,4289,4093,10],"class_list":["post-31597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-bbc","tag-cold-war","tag-jamming","tag-mark-hirst","tag-shortwave-radio-jamming","tag-soviet-union","tag-videos","tag-voa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8dD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5809,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/voa-protests-jamming-of-english-service-to-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":31597,"position":0},"title":"VOA protests jamming of English service to China","author":"Thomas","date":"February 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: VOA) The Voice of America is protesting new jamming of its English broadcasts in China. 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