{"id":3761,"date":"2012-06-12T08:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2012-06-12T08:20:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:20:54","slug":"vatican-radio-to-end-shortwave-broadcasts-to-europe-and-americas-july-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/vatican-radio-to-end-shortwave-broadcasts-to-europe-and-americas-july-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Radio to end shortwave broadcasts to Europe and Americas July 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article from the Italian news source, AGI<\/a> (quoted below) is\u00a0brief\u00a0and vague, but according to the\u00a0Director of Vatican Radio,\u00a0they will, “end all […] medium wave broadcasts and […] shortwave ones to most of Europe and the Americas.”<\/p>\n

We will post more info once available–follow the tag Vatican Radio<\/a>:
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(Source: AGI<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Vatican City – Vatican Radio will end its short and mediumwave broadcasts on 1 July, strengthening its web service.<\/p>\n

Spokesman of the Holy See and Director of Vatican Radio, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, announced: “From 1 July Vatican Radio will end all its medium wave broadcasts and its shortwave ones to most of Europe and the Americas, which are regions of the world where the rebroadcasting of programmes by the local Catholic radio and internet access are more developed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article from the Italian news source, AGI (quoted below) is\u00a0brief\u00a0and vague, but according to the\u00a0Director of Vatican Radio,\u00a0they will, “end all […] medium wave broadcasts and […] shortwave ones to most of Europe and the Americas.” We will post more info once available–follow the tag Vatican Radio: (Source: AGI) Vatican City – Vatican Radio […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[904,1186,1187,1188],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","tag-shortwave-radio-broadcasters","tag-vatican-radio","tag-vatican-radio-cuts","tag-vatican-radio-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-YF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3766,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/vatican-radio-from-short-waves-to-new-communications-strategies\/","url_meta":{"origin":3761,"position":0},"title":"Vatican Radio: “from Short Waves to new communications strategies”","author":"Thomas","date":"June 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to SWLing Post reader, Mike, for the tip: (Source: Vatican Radio) Announcing Vatican Radio\u2019s intention to reduce its Short and Medium Wave transmissions to most of Europe and the Americas, starting July 1st, the Director General, Fr Federico Lombardi, today spoke of what he called, \u201cA new chapter in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/radio_vaticana-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24546,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/could-nhk-japan-purchase-santa-maria-di-galeria-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":3761,"position":1},"title":"Could NHK Japan purchase Santa Maria di Galeria site?","author":"Thomas","date":"March 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: CatholicCulture.org via London Shortwave) As Vatican Radio ends short-wave broadcasts, others expand As Vatican Radio closes an era by ending its short-wave transmissions, other broadcasters are stepping up their involvement in the short-wave field, notes Sandro Magister of L\u2019Espresso. 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