On 80th birthday, Vatican Radio rides wave of digital technology

By John Thavis
Catholic News Service

Read the story here :
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100669.htm

Reliance's BIG FM to be first Indian radio channel in Bhutan

Entering into a strategic alliance with Bhutan's High 92.7 FM radio channel, Reliance Broadcast Network's radio arm 92.7 BIG FM has become the first-ever Indian radio station to enter Bhutan.

Full story at :
http://m.economictimes.com/PDAET/articleshow/7523195.cms

Comments by Alokesh Gupta :

High FM 92.7 the 5th private radio station in Bhutan was inaugurated on 6th Aug 2010. Owned by Ugyen Dorji, name is similar to the popular Indian radio station in North Bengal by same name. Surprisingly not listed in WRTH2011.

BBC to air Cricket World Cup highlights

www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/news/a304313/bbc-to-air-cricket-world-cup-highlights.html

Timeline of Radio and Television History

http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Courses/ResourcesForCourses/RadioTelevisionHistoryTimeline.html

DRM trial II in Sottens

http://www.opendigitalradio.org/index.php/DRM_trial_II_in_Sottens

BBC veteran Tully slams end of Hindi radio service

Mark Tully, the veteran BBC reporter whose dispatches have been followed by generations of Indians, on Thursday led an angry attack on the corporation's axing of its Hindi-language radio service.

Read the AFP story here : http://tinyurl.com/4pfyzqv

VOA, BBC cease radio shows into China

Major Western media organizations, faced with big budget cuts, are turning to more modern ways to reach out to Chinese audiences, shifting their focus from shortwave radio to digital media.

Full story at :
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110217-263994.html

Deutsche Welle satellite transmissions jammed

Deutsche Welle has experienced jamming of its signals from the Hotbird 8 satellite. The source of the jamming has not been confirmed.

Engineers at Deutsche Welle detected interference of transmissions coming from the Hotbird 8 satellite beginning Monday at 13:07 UTC.

It is believed the DW transmissions are being "jammed" by foreign signals, though the source of the signals can not be confirmed.

Deutsche Welle last experienced jamming in February 2010, which was believed to have emanated in Iran.

The disturbances are affecting DW-TV Europe, DW-TV Arabia, as well as very high frequency (VHF) and shortwave signals in regions including Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia.

TV live streaming on Deutsche Welle's multi-language news website is also affected by the disturbances.

To ensure the transfer of Deutsche Welle content, alternate transmission services have been arranged for Internet and satellite broadcasting. Partner stations that rebroadcast DW have been informed.

Author: Birgit Görtz / dfm
Editor: Martin Kuebler

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14843697,00.html

Solar Flare Suspends Parts of Radio Communications in Korea

http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=112659&code=Ne2&category=2

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Solar flare affects shortwave radio communications in southern China

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-02/16/c_13733621.htm

BBC-DW DRM LOG ON 5845

Screenshots from BBC-DW DRM logs on 5845 kHz at 1730-1800 UTC, 14th Feb 2011. Interestingly txn carried a 0.54 kbps data service "Journaline" offering news text from BBC Eng, DW Eng, BBC Hindi & DW Hindi.

Click on the screenshots to enlarge....

Group Offers Shortwave Radios to Poor Communities

Read the VOA story here :

http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/Group-Offers-Shortwave-Radios-to-Poor-Communities--116112444.html

FRS-Holland Final Anniversary broadcast Febr. 27th

Dear FRS Friend,

At long last Sunday February 27th 2011 the final & 3rd FRS 30th Anniversary broadcast will take place. We will then complete the FRS Anthology !
In two weeks time on the 27th February we will feature the period 1998- 2010. Mind you: we will kick off at already 07.52 UTC=08.52 CET.

Here's the schedule:
07.52- 14.00 UTC 7600//5800 kHz
07.52- 11.00 UTC 48 mb frequency (unknown)
11.00- 14.00 UTC 6085 kHz

Of course we have special QSLs for this broadcast. With the ones issued for the previous two broadcasts, it will form the FRS 30th Anniversary QSL Series.
Hope to have your company on the 27th...it will be great fun: 30 Years of FRS-Holland on SW!

73s, on behalf of the FRS staff

(Peter V., Jan van Dijk, Paul Graham, Dave Scott, Brian & Bobby Speed)

a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format....

FRS-Holland
POBox 2702
6049 ZG Herten
The Netherlands

e-mail: frs.holland at hccnet.nl
e-mail: frs at frsholland.nl

PU's Radio "Jyotigarmye" 91.2 FM to be inaugurated today

The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ms Ambika Soni, is visiting the School of Communication Studies, Punjab University, for the inauguration of `Jyotirgamaya' PU's own Community Radio Station and for the foundation stone laying ceremony of the proposed Educational Multimedia Research Centre.

The details are as follows:
Venue : School of Communication Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Date: 13th February,2011
Time: 4.00 PM

The station is already functioning on a trial basis and a schedule would be fixed after the ceremony.

Related News :

PU Radio: This is "Jyotigarmye" 91.2 FM
http://news.puchd.ac.in/show-news.php?id=24

QSL from AFN Diego Garcia

Radio Taiwan International test to South Asia

Frequency : 9435 kHz (replacing 11550 kHz)
Time : 1600 to 1700 UTC
Dates : February 13 to 16, 2011
Language : English

Reception reports to : paula at rti.org.tw