{"id":40057,"date":"2019-10-06T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T10:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40057"},"modified":"2019-10-06T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T11:11:27","slug":"trans-world-radio-to-retire-shortwave-services-to-south-africa-by-december-31-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/trans-world-radio-to-retire-shortwave-services-to-south-africa-by-december-31-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans World Radio to retire shortwave services to South Africa by December 31, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Source: Trans World Radio via Marcus Keulertz)<\/p>\n

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Due to changes to the media landscape and subsequent decline in demand for shortwave radio broadcasts in South Africa, TWR will be reducing our English morning broadcasts in the 49, 60 and 90 metre bands on October 27th<\/sup>\u00a0–\u00a0followed by a retirement of these broadcasts on December 31st<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We thank God for the impact these broadcasts have had over the last 45 years and wish to remind listeners that you can still enjoy listening to TWR’s English\u00a0programmes on\u00a0Satellite<\/strong>\u00a0(DStv Audio Ch 855),\u00a0Medium Wave<\/strong>\u00a0(1170 AM from 8PM CAT)\u00a0and via our\u00a0TWR Africa App<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0TWR Africa\u00a0Website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For any assistance, or to request\u00a0our new reduced English SW schedule, please reply to this email, and we will gladly assist you.<\/p>\n

#wearetwr<\/p>\n

Blessings and peace,<\/p>\n

Anthony Barkhuizen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Trans World Radio via Marcus Keulertz) Due to changes to the media landscape and subsequent decline in demand for shortwave radio broadcasts in South Africa, TWR will be reducing our English morning broadcasts in the 49, 60 and 90 metre bands on October 27th\u00a0–\u00a0followed by a retirement of these broadcasts on December 31st. We […]<\/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":[56,3,43],"tags":[7311,4082,5208,8053,5733],"class_list":["post-40057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-marcus-keulertz","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-trans-world-radio","tag-twr","tag-twr-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aq5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63997,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/twr-swaziland-eswatini-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":40057,"position":0},"title":"TWR Swaziland \/ Eswatini – Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"September 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following post: Much to the delight of DXers, Trans World Radio began broadcasting from the African country of Swaziland over 50 years ago. 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