{"id":6663,"date":"2013-06-11T19:17:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T23:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2013-06-11T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T23:17:04","slug":"the-voice-of-greece-off-the-air-then-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-voice-of-greece-off-the-air-then-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of Greece: off the air, then on"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"VoiceOfGreece\"<\/a>

Screenshot of my WinRadio Excalibur receiver with frequency centered on the Voice of Greece.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Voice of Greece did go off the air earlier today in conjunction with the closure of ERT, (Greek State TV and Radio)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we monitored Voice of Greece frequencies, we noticed that their AM carrier was still present well past 21:00 UTC (midnight in Greece), though we heard no audio.<\/p>\n

It’s currently 23:10 UTC and I’ve been hearing Greek commentary on 9,420 kHz for almost thirty minutes. I’ll post the recording later.<\/p>\n

I know this: I wish I understood Greek right about now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Voice of Greece did go off the air earlier today in conjunction with the closure of ERT, (Greek State TV and Radio). As we monitored Voice of Greece frequencies, we noticed that their AM carrier was still present well past 21:00 UTC (midnight in Greece), though we heard no audio. It’s currently 23:10 UTC […]<\/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],"tags":[1974,1976,801,800,1975],"class_list":["post-6663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-ert-cuts","tag-ert-greece","tag-vog","tag-voice-of-greece","tag-voice-of-greece-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Jt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6668,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/voice-of-greece-on-shortwave-throughout-the-night-despite-ert-shut-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":6663,"position":0},"title":"Voice of Greece on shortwave throughout the night, despite ERT shut down","author":"Thomas","date":"June 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you listened to the Voice Of Greece in the wake of the Greek National TV & Radio (ERT) shut down last night, you were in for a bit of radio history. 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