Tuesday, June 08, 2010

All India Radio wins international prizes in Iran

All India Radio Jalandhar & Bangalore stations have won four & threee international prizes respectively at the 11th International Radio Festival held in Iran.
Read the full story here :
Another report with Photo :
Jalandhar AIR programme bags international awards

Monday, June 07, 2010

RTÉ to broadcast over 200 hours of World Cup Coverage

RTÉ Radio will keep listeners up to date with all the developments at soccer's biggest tournament. From early morning until late at night, RTÉ Radio will broadcast regularly scheduled bulletins. Programmes will carry scores, previews, reviews and interviews from South Africa and Ireland.RTÉ Radio Sport will provide reaction from South Africa and panellists at home, including Ossie Ardiles, Graeme Souness and Liam Brady, will share their views.
Throughout the tournament, RTÉ Radio 1's Sport At Seven will be joined in studio by some of RTÉ's pundits to look back over the daytime games and preview the evening matches. Over the course of the month the programme will be remembering key Irish World Cup moments and talking to people for whom the World Cup provided career-defining moments.On Wednesday 2 June, The Tubridy Show will host RTÉ Radio 1's World Cup Draw where a number of daily programmes will be paired with participating countries; the programmes and the presenters will then champion these in the tournament. The Tubridy Show, Today with Pat Kenny, The Ronan Collins Show, Liveline, Mooney and Drivetime with Mary Wilson are eagerly awaiting their selection which will determine who they pin their hopes on in the coming weeks.From the 7 - 11 June, Kathryn Thomas will be presenting The Tubridy Show.
On Bank Holiday Monday, 7 June, Kathryn will be getting into the World Cup mood with a special programme looking back at previous World Cups - Italia 90, USA 94 and Japan/South Korea 02. Together with a panel, Kathryn will relive the goals, the memories, the voices, the songs.RTÉ 2fm's Ballbuster's will be covering the World Cup with their usual irreverence. Intrepid, puntastic reporter, Ian Abrahams, will join Andrew O'Conner and Jacqui Hurley live from South Africa to bring listeners all the latest news and gossip. Impressionist Darren Farley will deliver exclusive access and insight from deep inside the 'Engerland' camp.
(Source : RTE)
Complete details at :

BBC World Service secures live commentary in English and Swahili for all games involving African teams at FIFA World Cup

BBC World Service has secured English and Swahili commentary rights from Fifa for the forthcoming FIFA World Cup in South Africa, it was announced today.Following on from its coverage of the 27th Africa Cup of Nations in Angola in 2010, BBC World Service will be broadcasting live commentary – in both English and Swahili, on FM relays across Africa – of all the qualified African teams' games during the tournament, as well as the climax of the competition including the semi-finals and the final.

The African teams competing in the tournament are: Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Africa. As a result of this agreement with FIFA and the African Union of Broadcasters (AUB), BBC World Service's English language team of Richard Connelly, Farayi Mungazi, Richard Fleming and Piers Edwards will be joined in the commentary box for the duration of the tournament by three sports journalists from across the continent – Arjun Vidyarthi, a sports editor with Radio Africa in Kenya; Malik Jones, a journalist at Gambia Radio and TV Service; and Stanley Katsande, a commentator and analyst on both radio and television for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

These three journalists will act as additional commentators and pundits during the tournament. Jerry Timmins, Head of Region for Africa and the Middle East, BBC World Service, says: "The BBC will be reporting and celebrating every twist and turn of the World Cup with our audiences across sub-Saharan Africa.

"Our commentaries in English for Africa and Swahili will be supplied to over 400 FM stations across Africa and it's great to see journalists from other African stations joining the BBC commentary teams. This is a real partnership helping to bring Africa's World Cup to African audiences."

(BBC World Service International Publicity)

Friday, June 04, 2010

Degen 1106 appears on ebay

Degen 1106 appeared on ebay however ships to Europe only ...

http://tinyurl.com/385g6g2

Changing the Dial

http://www.techcentral.co.za/changing-the-dial/14313/

All-day classical music station launched by RNW

From 3 June, Radio Netherlands Worldwide is offering listeners around the world a new service: classical music radio via the internet. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, it will broadcast classical music by Dutch composers and performers to an international public, and combine it with information about RNW's other activities. In the event of global or national disasters, it will also become an important source of news.

More at :
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/all-day-classical-music-station-launched-rnw

Radio show launched for the World Cup

Sports media group 2K Plus International Sports Media is producing a new radio programme for football fans during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The show will also be available online. "Up For The Corner" will be produced in Johannesburg daily Monday to Saturday from 9 June to 12 July. The programme will include post-match analysis from fans at the games, news from the big screen Fan Fest parks around South Africa, reports from the many Christian service and outreach events taking place during the tournament and interviews with Christian players such as Brazil’s Lúcio and Kaká.
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

IBC Tamil to launch on London DAB

A new South Indian radio service is set to launch on DAB digital radio in London in the coming weeks. The station called, IBC Tamil, which currently broadcasts for three-hours per day on multi-cultural station, Spectrum Radio, will run full-time on digital radio. IBC Tamil has been on air for over 11 years and was started as a community radio station for the UK Tamil community. IBC Tamil will replace Q Radio on London DAB multiplex 3. A launch date is yet to be confirmed.

http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsarchive/2010/06/ibc_tamil_to_la.php

New Pacific Asian Radio Guides

New PAL Radio Guides now available online - Mediumwave and Shortwave

New versions of both the PAL Radio Guides covering all AM [mediumwave] and SW [shortwave] radio stations across the region are now available from the Radio Heritage Foundation website www.radioheritage.net.

The Pacific Asian Log [PAL] Radio guides list all known AM and SW radio stations operating in the region with detailed information about operating times, languages, location, and much more...across many thousands of individual stations.

Information in the new Pacific Asian Log Radio Guides is also useful for travellers, travel agents, corporates and others who need to keep clients and staff informed.

The PAL Radio Guides are compiled in Seattle [USA] by our editor-in-chief Bruce Portzer from monitoring reports, official sources and feedback from listeners across the region.

Search the two new guides online now by options such as location and frequency or download copies for your own personal use from www.radioheritage.net.

You can also search our other frequently updated online guides to Australian narrowcast AM radio [Australia 1611-1701 AM] and the New Zealand Low Power FM Radio dial [NZLPFM Radio]

Feedback, corrections and updates from users are always welcome and will be incorporated in future versions. Simply email us with your comments to info@radioheritage.net.

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New website of All India radio Jaipur

All India Radio Jaipur has launched a new website.

Here's the link : http://www.airjaipur.com

Star Radio SW Test Txn Schedule

STAR radio is broadcasting on 104 FM & 4.025 MHz (mega-hertz) Short Wave in the 75-meter Band. For now test transmission on the Short Wave runs from 5 to 9 in the morning and 6-9 in the evening. Call us on 077577142, 077018797 or 06857000. FM frequency 104 in Monrovia and affiliated community radio stations throughout Liberia.
0500-0900 UTC on 4025 kHz
1800-2100 UTC on 4025 kHz

Dalai Lama inaugurates the first Tibetan community FM radio

Phayul Tuesday, June 01, 2010 20:12
Dharamsaala, June 1 - The first Tibetan community FM radio ‘Tashi Delek 90.4 FM’ was launched Tuesday at Upper Tibetan Children's Village school by His Holiness the Dalai Lama who began a two day teaching on Buddhism here for around 2200 Tibetan youth from five countries.
Read the Phayul.com story here :

Nepal :Radio Frequency Monitoring Stopped

Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) has not been able to monitor bandwidths occupied by FM radio stations and telecommunication operators as its mobile monitoring vans have been grounded for the last 30 days.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Radio Tashkent on 87.9 FM

With the FM DX season in full swing logged Radio Tashkent 87.9 in Tashkent on 30th May 2010 0245-0400 UTC with Russian morning program, promo "every morning on 87.9 FM". This is the radio channel for minorities in different languages. In Russian and later in Uzbek. Thanks for Russian FM dxer Victor Rutkovsky for id'ing the languages. Listed in fmscan.org but missing in WRTH 2010.
Distance : 1588 kms (north west 335 deg from Delhi)
Power Output 4 kW
Here's data on the stn from fmscan.org
MHz 87.9v
pCty UZB
program Kanali Toshkent
transmitter Toshkent (Tower)
Pdir Pmax 4 kW
Dist 1588km
azi 335°
dBµV -49fm
Audio Files :
87.9 0345 UTC 30 May 2010 Ujbek
87.9 0246 UTC 30 May 2010 Russian

(Map courtesy fmscan.org/google)