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Japan to launch new broadcasts to North Korea

Posted by Paul • Thursday, July 12. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio

OneLoveRadio writes that Japan plans to begin daily shortwave programs for abductees in North Korea.

There are estimates of around 60 to 80 Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea, for the purposes of teaching Japanese language and culture to North Korean spies.

Iceland leaves shortwave

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, July 10. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio, streaming

MT Shortwave Central notes that RUV in Iceland ended its shortwave relays on July 1st.

RUV's two stations can still be heard, streaming in the internet: Rás 1 and Rás 2.

Radio Mayak, Russia

Posted by Paul • Monday, July 9. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, streaming

Long-time shortwave radio listeners will remember Russia's Radio Mayak, which at one time was rather hard to avoid on the shortwave bands, having many, many transmitters.

Mayak's shortwave broadcasts are long gone, but for those who would still like to listen to its interesting mix of Russian bands and western pop music, it is streaming over the internet here.

Fairfax purchases Australia's largest commercial talk network

Posted by Paul • Tuesday, July 3. 2007 • Category: domestic radio

ABC News reports that Fairfax, owners of The Melbourne Age and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, is buying the Southern Cross Radio network, which includes high rating stations such as 3AW, in Melbourne, and 6PR in Perth.

This move has been enabled by the Australian federal government's new media laws, which were passed in 2006 and recently came into effect, which do away with the previous cross-media ownership prohibitions.

Zimbabwe to start a new twenty-four hour shortwave news service

Posted by Paul • Sunday, April 15. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio

It's not often that we hear of a new shortwave service starting, but it appears that Zimbabwe might be doing just that, according to VOA. "News 24/7" is scheduled to start on April 18th, and will be funded by Iran.

65 years of VOA

Posted by Paul • Sunday, February 25. 2007 • Category: domestic radio, shortwave radio

The Voice of America turned 65 yesterday.

VOA broadcasts in over 40 languages, and claims that it reaches an audience of 100 million people. Many of its programs are available online as streaming webcasts, and a number are also available as downloadable podcasts.

VOA also has two live audio streams, one for the News Now service, the other for the VOA Africa service.

Program guides for these services can be found here.

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