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Month: June 2020

UK Newspaper The Times Launches News Radio Station

AFP – Agence France Presse June 29, 2020 The British newspaper group that owns The Times and the Sunday Times on Monday launched a news…

The Birth of a Station

THE hush of early morning is broken only by the staccato beat of an isolated gasoline engine in a tent in an alfalfa field just…

Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company – The most democratic station in the country?

21 April 2016By Antonia Quirke As the presenter reads news items coming in from Shetland to Japan and Ecuador, I realise there’s no heirarchy. It’s 8am on…

Lure of the Trail – Programme 13 – Urewera Country

In the late 1930s the New Zealand Department of Tourist and Publicity produced a series of radio programmes to encourage New Zealanders to holiday within…

World’s Greatest Radio Listening Post

RADIO fans take pride in the number of stations they can “log” and verify, especially if these are at a great distance. Contests for the…

Remembering Rediffusion: Malaya

Rediffusion (Malaya) Sdn Bhd17, Jalan Pahang53000 Kula LumpurMalaya    Tel : 603-4424544 On the 4th of August 1949, Rediffusion services started in Kuala Lumpur and by…

Manx Radio History

Manx Radio is the national public service broadcaster of the Isle of Man and broadcasts from its own studios at Broadcasting House in Douglas.  The…

Remembering Rediffusion: Hong Kong

Rediffusion ( Hong Kong ) Limited Rediffusion House 81 Broadcast DrKowloon TongHong Kong Tel: 4424544 History Radio Rediffusion was established in Hong Kong in 1949…

KZOO Radio Celebrates 50 Years of Radio Broadcasting in Hawaii

Looking To The Next 50 Years By David FuruyaPresident and Owner of KZOO RadioJanuary 15, 2014 KZOO Radio is proud to celebrate 50 years of…

Remembering Rediffusion: Trinidad

REDIFFUSION (TRINIDAD) LTD. Maraval Road,   Port of SpainTrinidad.   Tel. 6565 Looking back at Rediffusion Trinidad Rediffusion in Trinidad was a fundamentally different proposition from it’s…

Rare QSL from WSZD Ponape

PONAPE Eastern Caroline Islands WSZD – March 1967 Radio Station WSZD was a government owned broadcaster serving Ponape in the US Trust Territory of the…

KUAM Isla 63 AM Guam Ceases Broadcasting

CHamoru radio trailblazer Isla 63 AM to cease broadcasting on May 1 Monday, April 20th 2020, 12:23 PM ChSTBy KUAM News KUAM Isla 63 AM…