{"id":50589,"date":"2021-10-21T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50589"},"modified":"2021-10-21T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:10:20","slug":"media-networks-vintage-vault-jonathan-marks-interviews-raes-tony-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/media-networks-vintage-vault-jonathan-marks-interviews-raes-tony-middleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Networks Vintage Vault: Jonathan Marks interviews RAE&#8217;s Tony Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34912\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1049\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial.jpg 1049w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial-624x414.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1049px) 100vw, 1049px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike Barraclough, who, in response to the recent news of <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/radio-waves-radio-facsimile-from-the-1930s-public-radio-saving-print-unlicensed-experimental-lw-radio-and-rip-tony-middleton-milburn-butler\/\">Tony Middleton&#8217;s passing<\/a>, notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Jonathan Marks on Facebook posted a link to Media Network August 26 2010 where he visits RAE. Tony Middleton talks about his work at the English service.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/1083923\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87af8d\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanmarks.libsyn.com\/media_network_argentine_national_radio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to check out this recording at Libsyn.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this, Mike. Jonathan has such an amazing treasure trove of archived MN shows. Check out all of his shows <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanmarks.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Barraclough, who, in response to the recent news of Tony Middleton&#8217;s passing, notes: Jonathan Marks on Facebook posted a link to Media Network August 26 2010 where he visits RAE. Tony Middleton talks about his work at the English service. Click here to check out this recording at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[246,574,1717,9494],"class_list":["post-50589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-media-network","tag-media-network-vintage-vault","tag-tony-middleton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-d9X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12920,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/media-network-vingate-vault-1988-voa-relay-stations-feature\/","url_meta":{"origin":50589,"position":0},"title":"Media Network Vingate Vault: 1988 VOA Relay Stations Feature","author":"Thomas","date":"April 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Marks writes: I published a few more old programmes which I think are relevant to the ongoing discussions in Washington about US International Broadcasting. 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