{"id":9715,"date":"2014-05-23T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9715"},"modified":"2014-05-23T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:03:18","slug":"radio-thailand-no-mention-of-military-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/radio-thailand-no-mention-of-military-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Thailand: no mention of military coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RadioThailand_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9716\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RadioThailand_Logo-300x205.png\" alt=\"RadioThailand_Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RadioThailand_Logo-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RadioThailand_Logo-100x68.png 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RadioThailand_Logo.png 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This morning, I was able to catch the first thirteen minutes of\u00a0<em>Radio Thailand<\/em>&#8216;s English language service on 9,390 kHz\u00a0shortwave. I was curious if <em>RT<\/em> would mention the <a title=\"Thailand Coup\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/thailand-coup\/\">Thailand military coup<\/a> or at least broadcast a\u00a0sanctioned message from the military authorities. Yet\u00a0I heard no mention of the coup whatsoever. And why not? Yesterday,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">General Prayuth Chan-ocha\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Read this in an ABC report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-05-22\/thailand-coup-as-army-takes-control-of-government\/5471734\" target=\"_blank\">ordered all domestic TV and radio outlets to halt normal broadcasting<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0and only include content the military provides.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I was only able to record the first 13 minutes of the <em>RT<\/em> evening news as\u00a0we had a powerful thunderstorm that\u00a0forced me to unplug my external antenna. You&#8217;ll note the static crashes in the recording. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The format sounds like a typical <em>RT<\/em> broadcast, save the lack of national news; instead, the hosts jump straight into global news, mentioning Nigeria, the Philippians, and the economy. <a title=\"download the MP3 by clicking here\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioThailand9.39MHz23MAY141230Z\/RadioThailand-9.39MHz-23MAY14-1230Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the recording<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioThailand9.39MHz23MAY141230Z\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a contrast, here is a recording <a title=\"The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SRAA contributor, Frank<\/a>, made of <em>Radio Thailand<\/em>\u00a0<a title=\"click to download as an MP3\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/Radio_Thailand_14_May_2014\/Radio_Thailand_in_English_%26_German_14_May_2014_9390kHz_1900GMT.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">on\u00a0May 14th<\/a>, prior to the coup:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/Radio_Thailand_14_May_2014\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to hear how the nature and content of RT&#8217;s news changes with time while the country is under martial law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I was able to catch the first thirteen minutes of\u00a0Radio Thailand&#8216;s English language service on 9,390 kHz\u00a0shortwave. I was curious if RT would mention the Thailand military coup or at least broadcast a\u00a0sanctioned message from the military authorities. Yet\u00a0I heard no mention of the coup whatsoever. And why not? Yesterday,\u00a0General Prayuth Chan-ocha\u00a0ordered all [&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":[56,81,960,3,1167],"tags":[1136,2916,2616,2147,2915,84],"class_list":["post-9715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-free-press","tag-general-prayuth-chan-ocha","tag-press-freedom","tag-radio-thailand","tag-thailand-coup","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2wH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9703,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/thailand-military-suspends-tv-and-radio-programming\/","url_meta":{"origin":9715,"position":0},"title":"Thailand military suspends TV and radio programming","author":"Thomas","date":"May 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Thailand's army chief, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, declared a coup today (Thursday, May 22), and detained key party leaders while suspending the constitution in \"a bid to restore order\" after nearly six months of\u00a0ant-government protests. 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