{"id":34529,"date":"2018-10-18T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34529"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:28:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:28:48","slug":"woofferton-transmitting-station-75-years-of-continuous-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/woofferton-transmitting-station-75-years-of-continuous-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Woofferton Transmitting Station: 75 years of continuous operation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Flickt user Shirokazan via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Porter, who notes:<\/p>\n

Pleased to let you know that Woofferton Transmitting Station celebrated 75 years of continuous operation yesterday 17th October 2018.<\/p>\n

It is now run by Encompass Digital Media to give it its full name!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Woofferton has certainly experienced and propagated a lot of world history!\u00a0 Thank you for sharing Dave!<\/p>\n

If you’d like to dive deeper into the station’s history, check out this book<\/a>\u00a0published around the time of Woofferton’s 50th Anniversary. Also,\u00a0click here to check out Dave’s video tour<\/a> of the\u00a0Woofferton Transmitting Station.<\/a><\/p>\n

Spoiler Alert:<\/strong> As we approach the SWLing Post’s 10th Anniversary<\/em> <\/strong>next month, Dave is generously donating a little piece of Wooferton’s history that one lucky reader will win! Interested?\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who notes: Pleased to let you know that Woofferton Transmitting Station celebrated 75 years of continuous operation yesterday 17th October 2018. It is now run by Encompass Digital Media to give it its full name! Woofferton has certainly experienced and propagated a lot of world history!\u00a0 Thank […]<\/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":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[1283,1284,4716,7365],"class_list":["post-34529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-woofferton","tag-bbc-woofferton-history","tag-dave-porter","tag-swling-post-10-years"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8YV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7343,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/dave-porters-video-tour-of-the-bbc-woofferton-transmitting-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":34529,"position":0},"title":"Dave Porter’s video tour of the BBC Woofferton transmitting site","author":"Thomas","date":"September 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this brilliant video tour of the BBC Woofferton Transmitting Station, presented by Senior Transmitter Engineer Dave Porter (G40YX). 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