{"id":63067,"date":"2025-06-05T05:53:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63067"},"modified":"2025-06-05T05:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:53:53","slug":"twr-guam-to-end-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/twr-guam-to-end-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"TWR Guam To End Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Guam Transmitting Site (Source: TRW)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Tracy Wood, who write:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is sad but expected news. Guam is seeing a lot of land acquisition pressure due to greater military and commercial activity on the island.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twr.org\/story\/transition-for-twrs-guam-station<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Tracy Wood, who write: This is sad but expected news. Guam is seeing a lot of land acquisition pressure due to greater military and commercial activity on the island. https:\/\/twr.org\/story\/transition-for-twrs-guam-station<\/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":[5209,5208,10834],"class_list":["post-63067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-guam","tag-trans-world-radio","tag-trw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gpd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63154,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ktwr-guam-dan-suggests-you-log-a-piece-of-radio-history-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":63067,"position":0},"title":"KTWR Guam: Dan suggests you log a piece of radio history…today!","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas Regarding your recent post on June 5: https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/twr-guam-to-end-broadcasting\/ KTWR, Trans World Radio has recently announced they will be ending their shortwave broadcasts from Agana, Guam by October 31, 2025. 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