DRM FREE WEBINAR– 18th November 2013

The DRM Consortium is holding a free webinar aimed largely at India with the participation of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU).

 

"DRM – Extra Features and Benefits – A Better Choice for Listeners" will be presented by experts from India and senior members of the DRM Consortium from around the world. A short presentation will be followed by questions and answers on the exciting aspects of DRM and the practical ways of making them available in receivers.

 

The webinar will be held on 18th November 1530-1700 India time (1000-1130 GMT/ UTC). Although the event is primarily aimed at the Indian market worldwide participants will be very welcome.

The webinar will tackle issues of interest in India and the current debate on radio digitisation for example: why is DRM superior to analogue, the implementation of the roll out plan in India and why get involved in receiver manufacturing now.

Ruxandra Obreja, Chair of the DRM Consortium, says: "All India Radio recently published a call for a tender for DRM 800 consumer receivers - alongside a tender for professional ones - demonstrating the will to take their digital roll out plan to the next level. This is an excellent sign for all manufacturers as multi-standard chipsets including DRM are already available. This makes the integration of the DRM standard into receivers an easier and more cost-effective process."

To register for this free webinar and view the list of topics please visit our website. All confirmed registrants will receive an e-mail before the webinar with the joining details. Please direct any questions or feedback to projectoffice@drm.org

About DRM

Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) is the universal, openly standardised digital broadcasting system for all broadcasting frequencies.

The DRM standard comprises of two major configurations: 'DRM30' intended for broadcasts on short, medium and long wave up to 30 MHz and providing large coverage areas and low power consumption. The configuration for the VHF bands above 30 MHz is called 'DRM+', tailored for local and regional coverage with broadcaster-controlled transmissions.

All DRM configurations share the same audio coding, data and multimedia services, service linking, multiplexing and signalling schemes. DRM provides high quality sound combined with a wealth of enhanced features: Surround Sound, Journaline text information, Slideshow, EPG, and data services.

For more information and DRM updates please visit www.drm.org or subscribe to DRM news by writing to pressoffice@drm.org. Click here for the Newsletter with all the latest DRM news from around the world.

About the ABU

The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is a non-profit, non-government, professional association of broadcasting organisations, formed in 1964 to facilitate the development of broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific region and to organise co-operative activities amongst its members. It currently has over 250 members in 60 countries, representing the who's who of the broadcasting industry and reaching a potential audience of more than 3.5 billion people.

www.abu.org.my

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E-Mail: pressoffice@drm.org

Site for DRM: www.drm.org

 

(Press Release)

AWR Wavescan QSL: Last week & first week

International news media are carrying the news regarding the transfer of WYFR, the large shortwave station in lower central Florida, to WRMI Radio Miami International in Miami in the United States, at the end of this month. Due to this remarkable radio development, the international DX program, "Wavescan", will interrupt the flow of its regular programming to honor the occasion. The final broadcasts of "Wavescan" over WRMI Miami will be on the air during the last complete week in the month of November, and during the first complete week in December, "Wavescan" will be aired for the first occasion over the large new WRMI which is located a little north of Lake Okeechobee in lower central Florida.

The DX program, "Wavescan" is written in Indianapolis by Dr. Adrian Peterson, DX editor for Adventist World Radio, and it has been produced over the past several years by Jeff White at WRMI Radio Miami International in Miami. This program is on the air from WRMI in Florida, KSDA on the island of Guam, and seasonally by several of the shortwave relay stations in the AWR network, and also over WWCR and WINB in the United States.

All reception reports to "Wavescan" for the last week in November will be QSLed with a special "Last Week" endorsement for WRMI Miami, and all reception reports to "Wavescan" during the first week in December will be QSLed with a "First Week" endorsement for the new WRMI at Okeechobee. These special endorsements will be applied to all QSL cards issued for these special editions of "Wavescan" as heard on any of these stations that carry the program, though, where possible direct broadcast from the old and the new WRMI would also be appreciated. "Wavescan" may also be heard via numerous electronic deliveries, including station websites and iPod deliveries.

Listeners are encouraged to send their reception reports for these broadcasts to the Wavescan address in Indianapolis with address label and return postage, and also to the station that is carrying the programming, and also to the address for the new WRMI. The last edition of "Wavescan" via the old WRMI will be a special tribute to this station, and the first broadcast from the new WRMI will honor this new development.

Dr. Adrian M. Peterson

Co-ordinator - International Relations & DX Editor

Adventist World Radio

N9GWY - Ex KA9YPQ

Board of Directors

Radio Heritage New Zealand

Adventist Radio Stations in Indiana

Board of Directors Emeritus

Adventist World Radio

NASB National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters USA

wavescan@awr.org

adrian.m.peterson@gmail.com

Adventist World Radio

Box 29235

Indianapolis

Indiana 46229

USA

317 891 8540

 

(News Release)

WYFR Facility to Return to Shortwave as WRMI

Legendary shortwave station WYFR in Okeechobee, Florida, which ceased transmissions on June 30, 2013, will resume broadcasting in December as a result of an agreement between Family Stations, Inc, and Radio Miami International, Inc.

According to the agreement, Family Radio will sell the WYFR facility t...o Radio Miami International. Family Radio programming for the Caribbean and South America will return to shortwave via the Okeechobee site, and Radio Miami's programming currently aired on WRMI in Miami will switch over to the Okeechobee facility. The station will also carry programs for other international broadcasters, including Pan American Broadcasting's Radio Africa network. A target date of December 1, 2013 has been set for the resumption of broadcasts. The current WRMI transmission site in Miami will be closed, and the WRMI call letters will be transferred to Okeechobee.

"We are very grateful to Family Radio for entrusting us with this magnificent station," said Jeff White, WRMI General Manager. "WYFR is an important part of the heritage of shortwave broadcasting, and we are very happy that it will continue to serve shortwave listeners around the world." The station first went on the air from Okeechobee in 1977, although the origins of the station and its predecessors go back to 1927. WYFR/WRMI is the largest shortwave station in the United States in number of transmitters and antennas. The facility is comprised of 13 transmitters -- twelve 100-kilowatt and one 50-kilowatt -- and 23 antennas beamed to all of the Americas, Europe and Africa.

White, who is also Secretary-Treasurer of the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters (NASB), said that "many people made this transition a reality, not the least of whom was our former

Secretary-Treasurer and current board member, Dan Elyea, who had been the WYFR Station Manager from the time it was built in the late 1970's until his recent retirement. Dan presented us to Family Radio Vice President Tom Evans. Tom and the Family Radio Board have given us their confidence, and we will do our best to keep this station going for many years to come."

For more information, contact: Jeff White

E-mail: radiomiami9@cs.com

Tel: +1-305-559-9764

(News Release, Nov. 6, 2013)

On the air, 30 years and counting: Hmong radio

SHEBOYGAN — About 10 years ago, while Vue Yang was on the air during his weekly Hmong-language radio show, his heart started to race. Leaving his computer running so the broadcast could continue without him, Yang drove himself to the hospital.

"They gave me a shot, things came back normal and I just came back here," said Yang, 61, as he stood in the radio studio inside North High School's media classroom.

Resd more at .....

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20131027/OSH0101/310270333/On-air-30-years-counting-Hmong-radio?nclick_check=1

BRB B13

PROGRAM             TIME(UTC) FREQ AM/DRM DAYS(mtwtfss) LANGUAGE TARGET AREA

Radio Miraya         0300-0600 9940  AM  mtwtfss Arab/Engl Africa

Denge Kurdistan      0400-2000 11510 AM  mtwtfss Kurdish   Middle East
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo     1130-1200 11570 AM  mtwtfss Hmong     Asia
Que Me               1200-1230 9930  AM  ----f—  Vietnamese Asia
The Khmer Post Radio 1200-1300 9960  AM  mtwtfss Khmer     Asia
The Disco Palace     1530-1630 12115 DRM mtwtfss English   Asia/Middle East
Radio Xoriyo         1600-1630 17870 AM  m---f—  Somali    Africa
Radio Inyabutatu     1700-1800 17870 AM  -----s- Kinyarwanda Africa
Radio Assenna        1700-1800 15245 AM  mtwtfss Tigrinya  Africa
ESAT Radio           1700-1800 15370 AM  mtwtfss Amharic   Africa
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo     2230-2300 7530  AM  mtwtfss Hmong     Asia
 

AIR Imphal celebrates 50 glorious years in service

Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, October 26 2013 : Along with honouring many eminent retired employees of AIR, Imphal and other personalities who were associated since the inception of AIR, Imphal in 1963 and took significant roles in the development of the radio station, the golden jubilee of All India Radio (AIR) Imphal Station was celebrated at the auditorium of MFDC located within Palace Compound here today.

More at :

http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=24..271013.oct13

Photo's at :

http://www.prokerala.com/news/photos/imphal-the-golden-jubilee-function-of-the-all-india-radio-imphal-25206/

 

Golden Jubilee Celebrations of AIR KANPUR

Golden Jubilee Celebrations of All India Radio, Kanpur

http://airddfamily.blogspot.in/2013/09/golden-jubilee-celebrations-of-air.html

In rural India, a hub for tech, mobile innovation gives isolated people a voice

Booting up my laptop in an open-air concrete building on the outskirts of Bhopal, India, I'm astonished. As soon as my computer turns on, I have high-speed Internet access. The former mushroom farm where I sit is now Hackergram, a tech lab and the new hub of the CGnet Swara mobile news service.

 

More at :

http://ijnet.org/blog/rural-india-hub-tech-mobile-innovation-gives-isolated-people-voice

Tuning out: Analogue radio to disappear by 2018

Commercial stations and the BBC expected to confirm the switchover to digital services, 40 years after Britain's first independent station opened

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tuning-out-analogue-radio-to-disappear-by-2018-8859731.html

MBC to open radio station in Nepal

South Korea's second-largest public broadcaster MBC will open a radio station in Nepal next month as part of joint efforts with other Korean firms to help improve the Nepalese people's quality of life, the broadcaster said Monday.

The radio station named "Mustang Broadcasting Community" will open at Mustang in northwest Nepal on Oct. 4 after one and a half years of construction in which many broadcasting and construction experts participated as talent donors, MBC said.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/yonhap-news-agency/130930/mbc-open-radio-station-nepal

Deutsche Welle: Peter Limbourg takes office as director general

On October 1, Peter Limbourg (53) will take office as director general of Deutsche Welle (DW). He was elected as Erik Bettermann's successor in this function by the Broadcasting Board in March 2013. Limbourg was the Senior Vice President of News and Political Information at ProSiebenSat.1 TV Germany until September 30. In the past few weeks, he has already held a series of talks with different editorial teams and departments at Deutsche Welle.

On Wednesday, October 2, Limbourg will officially take on his new position at two staff meetings - at DW's headquarters in Bonn he will be introduced by the Chairman of the Administrative Board Peter Clever, and in Berlin by the Chairman of the Broadcasting Board Valentin Schmidt.

Peter Limbourg said: "It is a great challenge and a fascinating task to be at the helm of Germany's international broadcaster. Deutsche Welle is a media organization that enjoys an excellent reputation with its audiences worldwide. In a world, where a large number of international broadcasters are now promoting a variety of views, it is all the more important for us to persistently stand for our shared values. We will continue to ensure the credibility that DW's staff, with great commitment, has established over the last 60 years by providing quality journalism. We will also consistently enhance DW's multimedia profile."

Limbourg announced that by spring 2014 - after conducting extensive talks with DW's staff, the Broadcasting Board, the Administrative Board as well as political and social groups - he will set out a new strategic plan for Deutsche Welle for the period from 2014 to 2017.

Erik Bettermann's term as director general ends on September 30. He has headed Deutsche Welle since 2001 and has overseen the broadcaster's strategic realignment in the last 12 years.

After his military service, Peter Limbourg studied law in Bonn and passed the First State Examination of Law in 1987. From 1988 to 1989 he completed a journalistic traineeship at the German television news agency Deutsche Fernsehnachrichten Agentur (DFA) in Bonn and London. He worked as a reporter in Leipzig in the former GDR before becoming the Europe and NATO correspondent for DFA and SAT.1 in Brussels in 1990. In 1996 he became the Head of the ProSieben studio in Bonn, and in 1999 was appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of N24 and Head of the Political Department at ProSieben, a position which he also took on at SAT.1 in 2001. In 2004/5 and 2008/9 Limbourg was the CEO of Pool TV, a joint venture of private television stations in Berlin. From 2008 to 2010 he was the Editor-in-Chief responsible for N24's programming. He was anchor of SAT.1 news from 2008 and Senior Vice President of ProSiebenSat.1 TV from 2010 to September 30, 2013. Born in Bonn, Limburg spent his childhood and youth in Rome, Paris, Athens and Brussels. He is married with three children.

(DW Press Release)

The Next Generation of Shortwave Transmitters

At IBC 2013 Ampegon proudly introduces the next generation of shortwave transmitters

 

Turgi, Switzerland, September 10, 2013. Ampegon engineers have set new standards in shortwave transmitter technology introducing advances in the transmitter control system, the motor drive tuning system as well as the measurement acquisition system.

 

More at ....

 

http://www.ampegon.com/news/?id=12

TWR Test

Trans World Radio is running a test in analog mode on 11825 kHz (300 kW) from Yerevan at 1330-1530 UTC today (26th Sept) and Saturday (28th Sept) . Please monitor to assess signal strength and coverage.

DRM test scheduled on 10 to 12 October 1500-1530 UTC on 15445 KHz via KTWR, Guam.

Comcon and RFmondial to deliver DRM professional monitoring receivers for India’s digital radio program

New Delhi (India), Hannover (Germany) (10/09/13)

Comcon, a leading solution provider to the broadcast and media industry in India, will deliver 36 DRM professional monitoring receivers manufactured by Germany's RFmondial, a leading manufacturer of DRM transmitter and receiver equipment. The delivery is one important component within the US$ 300 Million worth investment program of India's public radio All India Radio (AIR) to switch from analogue to digital radio broadcasting. Currently in production, the professional monitoring receiver model RFmondial RF-SE will be operational at 36 transmitter sites until the mid 2014.

RF-SE is a professional digital radio monitoring and measurement receiver, which is available in different models depending on the desired application. The outstanding reception characteristics are based on a high-performance frontend with preselector filter banks and a digital direct-down conversion system approach. After the well-proven digital base-band decoder various modular blocks like RSCI capability, audio and multimedia decoder, alarm feature, and RFmonitor connector are available to suite the specific needs of the desired application. Furthermore, the advanced graphical user interface is accessible via a web-browser and hence provides the operator access to all measurement data, but also to audio and multimedia streaming of

the current radio program on air.

More at :

http://tinyurl.com/36rfse

NordAM back on air ....

Dear listeners and friends,

remember us? Remember NordAM? We hope you do. Yep, we're back and are happy to announce that the next broadcast of NordAM will be on the air on Sunday !

If you like to tune in, you can do so and you'll enjoy great indie / pop and rock songs (and a little bit of chatter in German aswell).

This is what we call our schedule for the next two or three weeks:

Sunday, September 15, 2013:

1400 UTC (16:00 CEST) on 6005 kHz + online

2000 UTC (22:00 CEST) on 3985 kHz + online

We even have some further shows in stock that will be on air on the following Sundays.

We use Radio 700's transmitters in Kall-Krekel, Germany (with 1000 Watts). Furthermore, we can be heard on Radio 700's online live streaming. Just go to http://bit.ly/nordamradio or join our Facebook

page at www.facebook.com/nordamradio

We invite you to send us your comments and reception reports.

Detailled and correct reports will be verified with our QSL card (by regular mail or email, as you like). Please send all your letters and reports to: nordam @ shortwaveservice.com or visit our Facebook site.

We are excited to read where our little "student-radio-project" can be received. Feel free to forward these information to your DXing friends.

Let's meet in the 49 and 75 metre-band next Sunday!

Best wishes,

Torben & Daniel

P.S: More details about Radio 700: www.radio700.eu. Our transmission is made possible thanks to www.shortwaveservice.com (see this page for technical details and schedule updates!).