{"id":36874,"date":"2019-04-10T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36874"},"modified":"2019-04-09T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:49:49","slug":"due-to-rfi-budget-cuts-the-sound-kitchen-leaves-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/due-to-rfi-budget-cuts-the-sound-kitchen-leaves-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Due to RFI budget cuts “The Sound Kitchen” leaves shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Mike Terry on the WRTH Facebook page<\/a>, who notes that RFI’s “The Sound Kitchen<\/strong>” will no longer broadcast on shortwave.<\/p>\n

From The Sound Kitchen<\/em>‘s latest post:<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For our DX enthusiast and shortwave listener friends:<\/strong>\u00a0I am sad to announce we no longer have a shortwave frequency; we have severe budget constraints which no longer permit us to broadcast via shortwave.<\/p>\n

But you can still hear us on World Radio Network.<\/strong>\u00a0As you know, we now broadcast only 1 hour per day, Monday \u2013 Friday, from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC\/GMT.<\/p>\n

For North America:<\/strong>\u00a0WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 06:00 to 06:59, from 10:00 to 10:59 and from 16:00 to 16h59 UTC\/GMT.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/babcock.media\/world-radio-network\/networks\/english-north-america\/<\/a><\/p>\n

For Africa and Asia:<\/strong>\u00a0WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 06:00 to 06:59, from 10:00 to 10:59 and from 16:00 to 16h59 UTC\/GMT.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/babcock.media\/world-radio-network\/networks\/english-africa-asia\/<\/a><\/p>\n

For Europe:<\/strong>\u00a0WRN broadcasts the quotidian RFI English programme three times a day from Monday to Friday, from 07:00 to 07:50, from 12:00 to 12:59 and from 20:00 to 20:59 UTC\/GMT.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/babcock.media\/world-radio-network\/networks\/english-europe\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In Paris<\/strong>, you can hear us on World Radio Paris (http:\/\/www.worldradioparis.fr\/<\/a>) on DAB+, Monday to Friday from 15:00 to 15:59 UTC\/GMT as well as Tuesday through Saturday from 07:00 to 07:59 UTC\/GMT.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full post.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Mike Terry on the WRTH Facebook page, who notes that RFI’s “The Sound Kitchen” will no longer broadcast on shortwave. From The Sound Kitchen‘s latest post: For our DX enthusiast and shortwave listener friends:\u00a0I am sad to announce we no longer have a shortwave frequency; we have severe budget constraints which no […]<\/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":[3,43],"tags":[3786,497,453,3913,3915,3914],"class_list":["post-36874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-mike-terry","tag-radio-france-international","tag-rfi","tag-rfi-the-sound-kitchen","tag-the-sound-kitchen","tag-the-sound-kitchen-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9AK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13617,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/rfi-the-sound-kitchen-now-on-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":36874,"position":0},"title":"RFI: The Sound Kitchen now on shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"June 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Mike who notes that Radio France International's program, The Sound Kitchen, is now available over shortwave radio. 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