{"id":360,"date":"2009-10-23T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-10-23T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:01:35","slug":"new-shortwave-station-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/new-shortwave-station-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"New Shortwave Station in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/medianetwork\/new-sw-radio-station-launches-in-nanning-china\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-364\" title=\"bbr2\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bbr2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bbr2\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bbr2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bbr2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not often we see the launch of new shortwave radio stations. \u00a0This one is a part of a the new <a title=\"BBR Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbrmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beibu Bay Radio<\/a>&#8211;a station created by China Radio International and\u00a0Guangxi People\u2019s Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Listeners around the world can hear BBR on 5050 kHz and 9820 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a title=\"RNW Media Network\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/medianetwork\/new-sw-radio-station-launches-in-nanning-china\" target=\"_blank\">RNW&#8217;s Media Network<\/a> for bringing this to our attention&#8211;their full report can be found <a title=\"RNW Media Network\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rnw.nl\/medianetwork\/new-sw-radio-station-launches-in-nanning-china\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often we see the launch of new shortwave radio stations. \u00a0This one is a part of a the new Beibu Bay Radio&#8211;a station created by China Radio International and\u00a0Guangxi People\u2019s Radio. Listeners around the world can hear BBR on 5050 kHz and 9820 kHz. Thanks to RNW&#8217;s Media Network for bringing this to [&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":[3],"tags":[144,140,146,141,145,142,143],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bbr","tag-beibu-bay-radio","tag-china","tag-china-radio-international","tag-dx","tag-guangxi-peoples-radio","tag-new-shortwave-stations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8755,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/nothing-on-shortwave-i-still-disagree\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":0},"title":"Nothing on shortwave?  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I started logging\u00a0a few stations, but the effort\u00a0quickly turned into a full band scan\/survey. \u00a0I logged everything I could easily hear between the 9,390-10,000 kHz portion of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"31-Meter-Waterfall-Spectrum","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/31-Meter-Waterfall-Spectrum-1024x444.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/31-Meter-Waterfall-Spectrum-1024x444.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/31-Meter-Waterfall-Spectrum-1024x444.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":65072,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/taiwan-on-shortwave-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":2},"title":"Taiwan on Shortwave \u2013 Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"January 2, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"by Dan Greenall For nearly a half-century, The Voice of Free China broadcast programs via shortwave to a worldwide audience from Taipei, Taiwan. As a relatively new SWL in the early 1970\u2019s, I was always excited to hear English language programs from that part of the world, far away from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Voice-of-Free-China-QSL.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Voice-of-Free-China-QSL.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Voice-of-Free-China-QSL.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Voice-of-Free-China-QSL.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Voice-of-Free-China-QSL.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":59884,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-giant-antennas-of-shanghai-coast-radio-station-xsg\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":3},"title":"The Giant Antennas of Shanghai Coast Radio Station (XSG)","author":"Thomas","date":"June 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Michael (BD4AAQ) who shares the following guest post: Shanghai Coast Radio Station (XSG): Those Giant Antennas! The 17th of May is the World Telecommunication Day. It is also the open day of Shanghai Coast Radio Station. 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