{"id":62569,"date":"2025-04-11T05:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62569"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:07:59","slug":"radio-world-three-mysterious-new-shortwave-stations-approved-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/radio-world-three-mysterious-new-shortwave-stations-approved-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio World: Three Mysterious New Shortwave Stations Approved in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From Radio World<\/a>: In a rare move, the FCC has approved two new construction permits and granted a full license for international shortwave broadcasting\u2014prompting questions about their true purpose. All three applicants\u2014DPA Mac, Parable Broadcasting, and Turms Tech\u2014claim intentions to use the DRM standard, yet past filings and meeting summaries suggest possible ties to high-frequency financial data transmissions, a purpose not authorized under current broadcast rules. Who are these new players, and what exactly do they plan to transmit?<\/p>\n

Nick Langan unpacks the story in Radio World. Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Radio World: In a rare move, the FCC has approved two new construction permits and granted a full license for international shortwave broadcasting\u2014prompting questions about their true purpose. All three applicants\u2014DPA Mac, Parable Broadcasting, and Turms Tech\u2014claim intentions to use the DRM standard, yet past filings and meeting summaries suggest possible ties to high-frequency […]<\/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":[54,3,43],"tags":[980,4083,10742,634,7024],"class_list":["post-62569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm","tag-high-speed-trading","tag-radio-world","tag-shortwave-trading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ghb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4728,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/radio-world-looks-at-drm\/","url_meta":{"origin":62569,"position":0},"title":"Radio World looks at DRM","author":"Thomas","date":"October 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source:\u00a0Radio World) By: Ernie Franke Once touted as the \u201cSavior of Shortwave,\u201d Digital Radio Mondiale has not lived up to its hype. 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