{"id":58662,"date":"2024-01-11T06:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58662"},"modified":"2024-01-11T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T10:49:35","slug":"new-series-about-gibraltar-broadcasting-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-series-about-gibraltar-broadcasting-history\/","title":{"rendered":"New Series About Gibraltar Broadcasting History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An aerial view of Gibraltar. Photo by Adam Cli.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes about a new series featuring Gibraltar’s broadcasting history. Tracy writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edition #1 launched last night celebrating 60 years of the founding of GBC.<\/p>\n

The series’ title holds special meaning…<\/p>\n

“Record\u00e1ndote” was the name of GBC’s cross-border radio show sending family messages during the era when Franco had closed “la frontera” between Spain and Gibraltar.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.gbc.gi\/tv\/programmes\/recordandote-gbc-story-1533<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracy<\/p>\n

Thank you, Tracy!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes about a new series featuring Gibraltar’s broadcasting history. Tracy writes: Edition #1 launched last night celebrating 60 years of the founding of GBC. The series’ title holds special meaning… “Record\u00e1ndote” was the name of GBC’s cross-border radio show sending family messages during the era when […]<\/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":[56,3,288],"tags":[9449,9491,7394],"class_list":["post-58662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-gibraltar","tag-gibraltar-broadcasting-corporation","tag-tracy-wood-k7uo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fga","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50580,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/video-story-of-gibraltar-broadcasting-corporations-move-to-a-new-broadcasting-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":58662,"position":0},"title":"Video: Story of Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation’s move to a new broadcasting house","author":"Thomas","date":"October 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes: While searching the revamped Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation's website (gbc.gi) I came across a recent documentary that might be of some interest. 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