{"id":7317,"date":"2013-09-17T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7317"},"modified":"2013-09-17T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:49:07","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-bbc-world-service-hausa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-bbc-world-service-hausa\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: BBC World Service Hausa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BBC-Hausa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7318\" alt=\"BBC-Hausa\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BBC-Hausa.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BBC-Hausa.jpg 240w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BBC-Hausa-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>For your listening pleasure: the BBC World Service Hausa language service recorded on 17,885 kHz on September 16, 2013, starting at 19:30 UTC. This BBC WS broadcast originated from a 250 kW transmitter located on\u00a0<a title=\"Ascension\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ascension_Island\" target=\"_blank\">Ascension Island<\/a> in the south Atlantic ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"AScension Island\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BBCWSHausa17.885MHz16SEP131930Z\/BBCWSHausa-17.885MHz-16SEP13-1930Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/BBCWSHausa17.885MHz16SEP131930Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: the BBC World Service Hausa language service recorded on 17,885 kHz on September 16, 2013, starting at 19:30 UTC. This BBC WS broadcast originated from a 250 kW transmitter located on\u00a0Ascension Island in the south Atlantic ocean. Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the [&hellip;]<\/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":[56,746,43,1167],"tags":[2153,104,2151,2152],"class_list":["post-7317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-ascension-island","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service-hausa","tag-hausa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1U1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20848,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/august-28-bbc-atlantic-relay-station-special-drm-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":7317,"position":0},"title":"August 28: BBC Atlantic Relay station special DRM broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"August 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: DRM Consortium) DRM will be part of a big anniversary on a small island in the Atlantic Ocean. 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