At 88, “A Voz do Brasil” draws new listeners, keeps loyal audience
Radio broadcast A Voz do Brasil (“The Voice of Brazil”) is celebrating its 88th anniversary. The program is the oldest still on air in the Southern Hemisphere, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
Centre renamed in honour of advocate
A community centre in Invercargill for people with visual disabilities has been renamed to honour the advocacy of a passionate Southland man. He was also called “the world’s only professional DX-er [DX-ing is the hobby of receiving and identifying distant radio or television signals],” after he asked the stations for which he had already been doing monitoring if he could be put on their payroll as a regular staff member.
Died: Stuart Epperson, Who Put Preachers and Political Talk on the Nation’s Radio Waves
Stuart Epperson, cofounder of a radio empire that brought Christian preaching and conservative talk to the largest media markets in the United States, died on July 17 at the age of 86.
Waves of Liberty / Adéu Liberty
YouTube video featuring Radio Liberty and the former transmitter site at Platja de Pals, Spain.