{"id":7088,"date":"2013-08-21T16:56:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:56:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:56:20","slug":"voice-of-russia-to-cease-shortwave-radio-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/voice-of-russia-to-cease-shortwave-radio-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Russia to cease shortwave radio service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Voice of Russia Antenna site in Wachenbrunn, Germany (Source: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

It appears the Voice of Russia will cease shortwave radio service on January 1st, 2014. According to this article on RiaNovosti<\/a>, the shortwave service is closing due to “funding \u00a0cuts.”<\/p>\n

I have listened to the Voice of Russia since they were known as Radio Moscow in the Cold War era. But they’ve been around much longer than the Cold War, indeed, they’ve been on the air since 1922 with their first transmitter station (RV-1) in the Moscow region.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I’m sad to see them leave the shortwave spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears the Voice of Russia will cease shortwave radio service on January 1st, 2014. According to this article on RiaNovosti, the shortwave service is closing due to “funding \u00a0cuts.” I have listened to the Voice of Russia since they were known as Radio Moscow in the Cold War era. But they’ve been around much […]<\/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":[56,81,3,26,43],"tags":[768,2093,408,2092,2094],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-moscow","tag-russia","tag-voice-of-russia","tag-voice-of-russia-cuts","tag-vor-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Qk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8131,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/n-news-agency-voice-of-russia-shortwave-service-to-close-jan-1-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":7088,"position":0},"title":"N News Agency: Voice of Russia shortwave service to close by Jan 1, 2014","author":"Thomas","date":"December 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Russian language N News Agency reports: \"The Russian government\u2019s international radio broadcasting service Golos Rossii (Voice of Russia) will stop its shortwave broadcasts from January 1st next year. 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