{"id":39506,"date":"2019-09-09T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=39506"},"modified":"2019-09-09T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:52:19","slug":"former-rmp-site-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/former-rmp-site-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Former RMP site for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Porter, who notes that the former RMP site is now on the market. (Go ahead…you know you want it!)<\/p>\n

Click here to view the real estate listing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who notes that the former RMP site is now on the market. (Go ahead…you know you want it!) Click here to view the real estate listing.<\/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],"tags":[104,4716,7995,34],"class_list":["post-39506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-bbc","tag-dave-porter","tag-rmp","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ahc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33060,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/bbc-rmp-transmitting-site-up-for-sale-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":39506,"position":0},"title":"BBC RMP transmitting site up for sale (again)","author":"Thomas","date":"July 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Dorset Echo via Dave Porter) It helped the BBC broadcast its radio programmes across Europe. 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