{"id":36325,"date":"2019-02-26T08:10:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36325"},"modified":"2019-02-26T08:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:10:36","slug":"channel-africa-and-other-broadcasters-affected-by-closure-of-meyerton-shortwave-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/channel-africa-and-other-broadcasters-affected-by-closure-of-meyerton-shortwave-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Africa and other broadcasters affected by closure of Meyerton Shortwave Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meyerton Shortwave Station<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ga\u00e9tan Teyssonneau, who notes that Channel Africa will end their shortwave service on March 31, 2019. The Meyerton Shortwave Station is closing which will effectively end Channel Africa’s shortwave service but also end Africa relays for a number of other major international broadcasters.<\/p>\n

Alokesh Gupta reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“It is confirmed that Sentech of South Africa is ending SW broadcast from 31 March 2019. So Channel Africa (Old Radio RSA), BBC, NHK, VOA, AWR. Deutche Welle & South Africa Radio League etc.broadcasting via Meyerton transmitting site will be only in memory shortly informs Jeff White in the AWR Wavescan program of 24th Feb 2019. (Via Jose Jacob)<\/p>\n

Meyerton Short Wave Broadcasting Relay station is operated by SENTECH in South Africa, the signal distributor for the South African broadcasting sector. The organisation began operations in 1992 as the signal distributor of the SABC. Sentech now operates as a commercial enterprise.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Channel Africa is asking for your feedback and will even have management live in-studio on the dates below:<\/p>\n

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Click here to view contact details on the Channel Africa website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ga\u00e9tan Teyssonneau, who notes that Channel Africa will end their shortwave service on March 31, 2019. The Meyerton Shortwave Station is closing which will effectively end Channel Africa’s shortwave service but also end Africa relays for a number of other major international broadcasters. Alokesh Gupta reports: “It is confirmed […]<\/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":[960,3,43],"tags":[104,4168,7643,329,7640,7641,7642,1545,10],"class_list":["post-36325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-channel-africa","tag-channel-africa-shortwave-closure","tag-dw","tag-gaetan-teyssonneau","tag-meyerton-shortwave-station","tag-meyerton-shortwave-station-closure","tag-nhk","tag-voa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9rT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36679,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/bloemendal-shortwave-stations-final-transmission-end-of-march\/","url_meta":{"origin":36325,"position":0},"title":"Bloemendal shortwave station’s final transmission end of March","author":"Thomas","date":"March 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC) The South African Radio League report Sentech will close its Bloemendal Shortwave Broadcasting station on 30 March, which means that today's Amateur Radio Today will be the last programme to be transmitted on the 7 and 17 MHz broadcast bands. 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