{"id":7466,"date":"2013-10-02T06:39:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2013-10-02T06:41:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:41:12","slug":"us-shutdown-afn-diego-garcia-reduces-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/us-shutdown-afn-diego-garcia-reduces-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"US Shutdown: AFN Diego Garcia reduces broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AFN-Diego-Garcia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7467\" alt=\"AFN-Diego-Garcia\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AFN-Diego-Garcia-300x127.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AFN-Diego-Garcia-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AFN-Diego-Garcia-100x42.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AFN-Diego-Garcia.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The American Forces Network&#8217;s Pacific transmitting site, Diego Garcia, will have reduced radio broadcasts due to the US government <a title=\"Other shutdown items\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">shutdown<\/a>. The following is a statement from <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AFN-Diego-Garcia\/200133586714459\" target=\"_blank\">their Facebook page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In light of the government shutdown, because of mandatory staff reductions at the AFN broadcast center, AFN will reduce television services to the news and pentagon channels only. AFN radio will carry some football games live on the voice. We&#8217;ll keep you updated as the situation progresses.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AFN Diego Garcia broadcasts on 12,579 kHz and\u00a04,319 kHz . <em>Many thanks to Sudipta Ghose for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Shutdown\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/shutdown\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for other posts<\/a> regarding the US government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Forces Network&#8217;s Pacific transmitting site, Diego Garcia, will have reduced radio broadcasts due to the US government shutdown. The following is a statement from their Facebook page: &#8220;In light of the government shutdown, because of mandatory staff reductions at the AFN broadcast center, AFN will reduce television services to the news and pentagon [&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":[56,3],"tags":[1078,2206,1079,2205],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-afn","tag-afn-diego-garcia-shortwave","tag-american-forces-network","tag-shutdown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Wq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4487,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/afn-afrts-drops-key-west-transmitters\/","url_meta":{"origin":7466,"position":0},"title":"AFN (AFRTS) drops Key West transmitters","author":"Thomas","date":"September 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Due to budget cuts, the American Forces Network (AFRTS) has decommissioned their Key West, Florida SW frequencies of: 5446, 7811, 12133 kHz Since the Navy provides the shortwave service as a supplementary or backup\u00a0service for their ships that don't have the Navy's Direct-to-Sailor (DTS) capability, I'm not terribly surprised they're\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","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\/2012\/04\/AFN-AmericanForcesNetwork.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3339,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/searching-for-a-shortwave-station-with-variety-try-the-american-forces-network\/","url_meta":{"origin":7466,"position":1},"title":"Searching for a shortwave station with variety? 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