{"id":3396,"date":"2012-04-25T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2012-04-25T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:39:16","slug":"andy-sennitt-looking-back-at-30-years-of-media-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/andy-sennitt-looking-back-at-30-years-of-media-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Sennitt: Looking back at 30 years of Media Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1190\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RNW-Hilver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1190\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1190\" title=\"RNW-Hilver\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RNW-Hilver-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RNW-Hilver-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/RNW-Hilver.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RNW headquarters in Hilversum, Netherlands (photo coutesty: RNW)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Media Network, which covered international broadcasting developments at Radio Netherlands,\u00a0<a title=\"Media Network will be closing on Saturday 24 March 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/media-network-will-be-closing-on-saturday-24-march-2012\/\">recently ended<\/a> a 30-year run on RNW. In a series of four articles,\u00a0Andy Sennitt mentions some of the highlights, and then looks ahead to\u00a0how international broadcasting might develop in the next ten years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/english\/article\/media-network-years-1980s\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1 is now available on RNW&#8217;s website<\/a>. Part 2 will be published on May 1st 2012. <em>This read is definitely worth your time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Network, which covered international broadcasting developments at Radio Netherlands,\u00a0recently ended a 30-year run on RNW. In a series of four articles,\u00a0Andy Sennitt mentions some of the highlights, and then looks ahead to\u00a0how international broadcasting might develop in the next ten years. Part 1 is now available on RNW&#8217;s website. Part 2 will be published [&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":[8,56,305,288],"tags":[239,574,952,951,1097,1098],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-andy-sennitt","tag-media-network","tag-rnw-media-network","tag-rnw-media-network-closing","tag-rnw-media-network-history","tag-shortwave-radio-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-SM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3499,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/andy-sennitt-the-media-network-years-the-noughties\/","url_meta":{"origin":3396,"position":0},"title":"Andy Sennitt: The Media Network years &#8211; the noughties","author":"Thomas","date":"May 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Media Network, which covered international broadcasting developments at Radio Netherlands,\u00a0recently ended a 30-year run on RNW. 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