{"id":3230,"date":"2012-04-07T21:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2012-04-07T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T01:12:30","slug":"rcis-sackville-towers-to-be-featured-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/rcis-sackville-towers-to-be-featured-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"RCI’s Sackville towers to be featured in film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(Source: CBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A Moncton artist is now working against the clock to film the Radio-Canada International shortwave towers in her latest film project.<\/p>\n

Budget cuts at CBC<\/a>\u00a0announced last week mean the towers, near Sackville, N.B., will soon be shut down, but it’s not known exactly what will happen to the towers themselves.<\/p>\n

Amanda Dawn Christie said she remembers coming and going from Moncton and the towers signifying that she was almost home.<\/p>\n

“Whenever I would drive in, I would just be filled with this exhilaration and I don’t know if it’s the high voltage. Like, some people get headaches and nauseous; I would get exhilarated,” she said. “So I don’t know if it was my interest or if it was the high voltage, but I definitely had this sense of ‘wow.'”<\/p>\n

She said she’s heard similar stories as she’s started interviewing people for her feature film.<\/p>\n

Christie’s been studying the towers for years.<\/p>\n

She even created a sculpture on the marsh near the towers \u2014 a kitchen sink designed to catch radio waves \u2014 a phenomenon often reported by locals.<\/p>\n

Now she’s collecting stories of people who call the towers their landmark, or a tightrope school because of the wires, or the connection to Africa or the Arctic.<\/p>\n

Christie said she’s particularly fond of the sight at dawn and dusk.<\/p>\n

“The sky’s kind of pink and blue, and the lights are on but you can still see all the towers and the wires. It’s very magical,” she said. “If you don’t know what it is, you’re filled with wonder. And the thing is, if you do know what it is, you’re still filled with wonder.”<\/p>\n

Instead of the shortwave towers, RCI will broadcast internationally online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In truth, even when RCI’s Sackville, NB site is\u00a0decommissioned, I doubt the towers will be brought down immediately<\/em>. It’s actually quite an engineering feat to dismantle these. I would hope RCI offers other broadcasters the opportunity to dismantle and use them. VOA (or the IBB) had success doing this at their Greenville, NC transmission site (Site A).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: CBC) A Moncton artist is now working against the clock to film the Radio-Canada International shortwave towers in her latest film project. Budget cuts at CBC\u00a0announced last week mean the towers, near Sackville, N.B., will soon be shut down, but it’s not known exactly what will happen to the towers themselves. Amanda Dawn Christie […]<\/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":[8,56,3,43],"tags":[631,1040,30,920,1043,1048],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-canada-international","tag-radio-canada-international-cuts","tag-rci","tag-sackville-nb","tag-sackville-new-brunswick","tag-shortwave-radiio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-Q6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16757,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/spectres-of-shortwave-near-completion\/","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":0},"title":"Spectres of Shortwave: near completion","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who shares this CBC New Brunswick article about Amanda Dawn Christie's film, Spectres of Shortwave: (Source: CBC) Amanda Dawn Christie launching documentary about demise of RCI towers Documentary 'Spectres of Shortwave' to be finished in time for possible premiere at Toronto's Hot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SackvilleCurtainAntennas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SackvilleCurtainAntennas.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25363,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/requiem-for-radio-amanda-dawn-christies-performance-piece-honoring-rci-sackville\/","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":1},"title":"Requiem For Radio: Amanda Dawn Christie’s performance piece honoring RCI Sackville","author":"Thomas","date":"April 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: CBC News) Moncton artist bringing back sounds of former Sackville Radio-Canada towers A Moncton artist has brought back to life the sounds of the 13 CBC Radio-Canada International shortwave towers that once stood in Sackville, N.B. on the Tantramar Marsh. \"It's kind of like you're conjuring ghosts of radio\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Amanda-Dawn-Christie-Requiem-Radio-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Amanda-Dawn-Christie-Requiem-Radio-1024x768.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Amanda-Dawn-Christie-Requiem-Radio-1024x768.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23934,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/rci-sackville-land-sold-to-mikmaq-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":3230,"position":2},"title":"RCI Sackville land sold to Mi’kmaq group","author":"Thomas","date":"February 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: CBC News) A Mi'kmaq group has bought the land outside Sackville where 13 Radio Canada International towers stood for decades, CBC-Radio Canada confirmed Friday. 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