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Category: The 2010s

Samoa’s Radio 2AP Redevelopment Project

Enjoy this YouTube video from Australia’s ABC on the redevelopment project at 2AP: Samoa’s newly rebuilt Radio 2AP transmitter is already broadcasting essential information to…

NBC Morobe – The Forgotten Kundu

COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae I grew up in the 90’s listening to NBC Radio – Radio Kundu – which was informative and always…

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…

Gerard Teuma: “Despite Gibraltar’s size, there is a lot of news to report”

Newstatesman Gibraltar 20 January 2015 Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) is Gibraltar’s public broadcaster, and has been providing the Rock’s community with television and radio programmes…

CJCD Yellowknife Turns 40

On November 13, 1979, CJCD first broadcast on 1240 AM in Yellowknife. Now on FM and under different ownership, the station – which retains the…

Tribute to a Century of Broadcasting

On the 100th anniversary of broadcast radio it’s still possible to hear an AM radio station on all 118 AM North American Medium Wave channels…

Te Aroha Sleep Radio 2019

A Te Aroha radio station is sending more than 40,000 people worldwide to sleep Sharnae Hope Almost all of John Watson’s audience nods off to…

Island Base FM to gain 100% independence and expand into international Music Hub

August 26, 2019 Island Base FM is expanding officially into an EVENTS & PRODUCTION company and RECORDING studio while separating itself from the 87.5FM frequency…

The Internet’s Impact on International Radio

Many broadcasters saved money by moving from high-power shortwave transmissions to the web. But at what cost? James CarelessRadioWorldAugust 2019 OTTAWA — During the height…

Sentech Shuts Meyerton Shortwave Site

Planned closure of the South African station comes after years of financial losses By Hans JohnsonRadioWorldJuly 2019 MEYERTON, South Africa — South Africa-based public broadcast…

Love Radio Finds Niche in Shanghai

Since 2005, Love Radio FM103.7 has been playing the best of Chinese and international pop By James CarelessRadioWorldJuly 2019 SHANGHAI — Located on China’s Pacific…

KAOS 88.2 Blenheim

Rocker blasts music for whole town to hear MATT BROWNAug 31 2018 From a spare bedroom in small-town New Zealand, a tiny independent rock radio…

Nautel Memorable Radio: WMTB-LP

Timely and Meticulous Tech Support gets VS300LP On-Air after Hurricane Irma Hurricane Irma knocked out a ton of radio stations in Florida, some with serious…

Happy Days Radio, Palmerston

New broadcast venture By Bill CampbellOtago Daily TimesMay 2017 Veteran broadcaster Lawrence McCraw is about to launch his fifth private radio station. The Palmerston-based station,…

A Tight Squeeze of an Install at K-LOVE

A Tight Squeeze of an Install at K-LOVE Jack Roland, EMF K-LOVE/Air1 Engineer, shared with us some great photos from the delivery of his Nautel…

Radio Veritas Reaches South African AM Dial

Nautel & Radio Veritas Bring the Good News Radio Veritas is no stranger to the South African broadcast landscape. Having started its operations in 1999,…

Australian Sky Sports Radio Boosted

Sky Sports Radio deploys 22 Nautel AM/FM Transmitters: 300 W – 12 kW Sky Sports Radio network in Australia is deploying a new fleet of…

RNZI Mailbox Urban Pacific Radio Noumea

Hello, I’m David Ricquish in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand International and today we continue our look at the changing Pacific… and in…

RNZI Mailbox Urban Pacific Radio Suva

Hello, I’m David Ricquish in the Wellington studios of Radio New Zealand International and today we’re going to have a look at the changing Pacific… and in particular at how it’s becoming increasingly more urbanized… and how radio today is much less laid back than you might imagine.

3NNN Edge FM Deniliquin

An independent broadcaster in Victoria, Australia, has taken a green leap of faith and installed the world’s most eco-friendly transmitter in its class.