{"id":5855,"date":"2013-03-09T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2013-03-09T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T14:30:15","slug":"australia-network-news-broadcast-group-condemns-china-over-radio-jamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/australia-network-news-broadcast-group-condemns-china-over-radio-jamming\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Network News: Broadcast group condemns China over radio jamming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OHtower\"(Source: Australia News Network<\/a>)<\/p>\n

An international broadcast association has condemned the deliberate jamming of shortwave broadcasts, including those from the ABC’s Radio Australia service, into Asia.<\/p>\n

The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) says English-language broadcasts from Radio Australia, the BBC World Service and the Voice of America are being jammed.<\/p>\n

Chief Executive Simon Spanswick has told Radio Australia\u2019s\u00a0Connect Asia<\/a>\u00a0program research has indicated the jamming signals appear to be coming from within China.<\/p>\n

“It appears to be quite wide,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been talking to some monitors who keep ears on the shortwave bands around Asia and they say that it’s certainly audible well outside China.<\/p>\n

“So, one imagines, even with the geographic scale of China itself, that this is right across the region.” […]<\/p>\n

“What the Chinese have done for a long time is actually broadcast Chinese folk music [see our previous posts on Firedrake<\/a><\/strong>]…what’s happening in this case is that they’re transmitting a different sort of noise.<\/p>\n

“The aim is to simply make it so uncomfortable to listen to that people switch off and don’t bother trying to listen to the program that they wanted to get.”<\/p>\n

The AIB has lodged protests over the jamming with the Chinese embassies in Washington, London and Canberra.<\/p>\n

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(Source: Australia News Network) An international broadcast association has condemned the deliberate jamming of shortwave broadcasts, including those from the ABC’s Radio Australia service, into Asia. The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) says English-language broadcasts from Radio Australia, the BBC World Service and the Voice of America are being jammed. Chief Executive Simon Spanswick has […]<\/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":[1743,1754,1755,1343,1549,1546],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-china-jamming","tag-chinese-jamming","tag-cri-jamming","tag-firedrake","tag-jamming","tag-ra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1wr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5809,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/voa-protests-jamming-of-english-service-to-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":5855,"position":0},"title":"VOA protests jamming of English service to China","author":"Thomas","date":"February 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: VOA) The Voice of America is protesting new jamming of its English broadcasts in China. 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