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After years of threats, it looks like Israel's international shortwave broadcaster, Kol Israel, will cease shortwave broadcasts of all languages other than Farsi on March 31st.

English, French and Spanish broadcasts can continue to be heard over the internet, with the following schedule:

Time (UTC)	Language
0430-0445	English
0445-0500	French
1030-1045	English
1100-1115	French
1800-1815	French
1815-1830	Spanish
1830-1845	English

The Israel Broadcast Authority (IBA) website still carries the for the last two days of broadcasts. If you're interested in catching them, the English schedule is:

Time (UTC)	Frequency
0430-0445	9345, 7545, 17600
1030-1045	15760, 13855
1830-1845	6985, 7545, 15640, 9345

The IBA also operates a number of domestic radio networks, which are available to international listeners via the internet:

• Reshet Aleph: talk and cultural programming


• Reshet Bet: news, current affairs and sport


• Reshet Gimmel: Israeli music


• Reshet Dalet: Arabic language station

The BBC has announced that it will be closing shortwave transmissions to the Carribean and reducing transmissions to East and South-East Asia, from March 23rd and March 30th, respectively.

There will no longer be any shortwave broadcasts to East and South-East between 10am and 5pm, and midnight and 2am, local time. Listeners are expected to use satellite, the internet or local FM repeaters, although we're not quite sure how they are supposed to do this if they're hiking through a remote jungle.