{"id":946,"date":"2010-11-17T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2010-11-18T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T11:25:09","slug":"new-shortwave-radio-station-radio-free-sarawak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/new-shortwave-radio-station-radio-free-sarawak\/","title":{"rendered":"New shortwave radio station: Radio Free Sarawak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/RFS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-949\" title=\"RFS\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/RFS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>The independent radio station, <a title=\"Radio Free Sarawak\" href=\"http:\/\/radiofreesarawak.org\/aboutus\/\">Radio Free Sarawak<\/a> has started broadcasting via shortwave on 7590 and 15680 kHz. RFS broadcasts are targeted to communities in Sarawak, East Malaysia at 6:30-7:30 and 18:00-19:00 local time (or 22:30-23:00 and 10:00-11:00 UTC respectively).<\/p>\n<p>Per the RFS webite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Radio Free Sarawak is the independent radio station that brings you the  news you want to hear, not what others want you to hear.  No one  controls us, except you, the listeners of Sarawak .  So tune in and  enjoy the news, interviews, reports and comment that you will never get  to hear on any of the other government-controlled radio stations in  Sarawak.  There will be plenty of our best music too, all presented to  you in Iban by Papa Orang Utan, our own man from the jungle of Sarawak!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Radio Free Sarawak has been broadcasting daily since November 14th&#8211;you can listen to past episodes <a title=\"Radio Free Sarawak\" href=\"http:\/\/radiofreesarawak.org\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to <a title=\"myke.me\" href=\"http:\/\/myke.me\">Myke<\/a> (via FB) for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Radio Free Sarawak\" href=\"http:\/\/radiofreesarawak.org\/\">Radio Free Sarawak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Article in <a title=\"FMT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/fmt-english\/politics\/sabah-and-sarawak\/12869-radio-free-swak-goes-on-air\">Free Malaysia Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Radio Free Sarawak\" href=\"http:\/\/radiofreesarawak.org\/aboutus\/\">About RFS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Radio Free Sarawak\" href=\"http:\/\/radiofreesarawak.org\/\">Listen online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The independent radio station, Radio Free Sarawak has started broadcasting via shortwave on 7590 and 15680 kHz. RFS broadcasts are targeted to communities in Sarawak, East Malaysia at 6:30-7:30 and 18:00-19:00 local time (or 22:30-23:00 and 10:00-11:00 UTC respectively). Per the RFS webite: Radio Free Sarawak is the independent radio station that brings you 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[335,333,334],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-new-shortwave-station","tag-radio-free-sarawak","tag-rfs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2012,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/radio-free-sarawak-is-back-on-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":946,"position":0},"title":"Radio Free Sarawak is back on shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"October 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Free Malaysia Today) KUCHING: Radio Free Sarawak is back after an almost four months hiatus. 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