{"id":6844,"date":"2013-07-04T07:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T11:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2013-07-04T07:58:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T11:58:47","slug":"jonathan-remembers-radio-netherlands-worldwide-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/jonathan-remembers-radio-netherlands-worldwide-one-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan remembers Radio Netherlands Worldwide one year on"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RNW’s final broadcast schedule (Source: Jonathan Marks)<\/p><\/div>\n

A few days ago, former RNW employee, Jonathan Marks, was sorting out some papers in his office when something “spooky” happened:<\/p>\n

“one sheet [of paper] fell out of a pile and onto the floor. It was the page of the last day of transmission from Radio Netherlands, English department.”<\/p>\n

“What was weird was that this happened exactly one year ago to the day they pulled the switch. It was 2253 local time on a Friday when Jonathan Groubert, above, made the last announcement from Continuity Studio 4.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jonathan’s full post on his blog, Critical Distance<\/a>, has some fantastic photos, notes, an interview and recording from the final moments of RNW’s final shortwave broadcast.\u00a0Click here to read his post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jonathan’s post reminded me that one year ago, I was on a six week vacation with my family in the Canadian Maritimes. \u00a0I listened to and recorded all of the final RNW shortwave broadcasts in an off-grid cabin on the eastern coast of lovely Prince Edward Island. An SWLing memory I will never forget. You can listen to these field recordings and read my post, “RNW says farewell in style” via this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, former RNW employee, Jonathan Marks, was sorting out some papers in his office when something “spooky” happened: “one sheet [of paper] fell out of a pile and onto the floor. It was the page of the last day of transmission from Radio Netherlands, English department.” “What was weird was that this […]<\/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":[56,305,288,43,1409,5],"tags":[246,63,64,416],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-specials","category-swlers","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-radio-netherlands-worldwide","tag-rnw","tag-rnw-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Mo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1195,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/jonathan-marks-comments-on-rnw-cuts\/","url_meta":{"origin":6844,"position":0},"title":"Jonathan Marks comments on RNW cuts","author":"Thomas","date":"June 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Marks has posted his opinion on the RNW cuts announced yesterday in his Critical Distance Weblog--well worth reading.","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RNW.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":35880,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/radio-netherlands-jonathan-shares-photos-from-bvn-television-and-rnw-newsrooms\/","url_meta":{"origin":6844,"position":1},"title":"Radio Netherlands: Jonathan shares photos from BVN Television and RNW newsrooms","author":"Thomas","date":"February 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Jonathan Marks--former host of RNW's Media Network and curator of the Media Network Vintage Vault--who kindly shares a collection of photos he took in 2001 and 2002 at RNW's headquarters in Hilversum. 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