RadioGuy wrote:


tommyknocker wrote in message
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RadioGuy wrote:


philly45 wrote in message
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Will Radio Netherlands be ending their broadcasts to the East Coast of
the
US?

Still broadcasting to East Coast North America but with weird hours and
frequencies; 1 hour progarams on weekdays, 1.5 hours on weekends (weird
frequencies) and repeat broadcasts.

I believe that the East Coast broadcast is at 0000 on 9845. I know that
Spain for one has their sole NAm broadcast on at the same time, so I
listen to the West Coast stream at 0400 on either 6165 or 9590 (although
I find that 6165 has less fading). I'm in California, so this works out.
I'm not sure what is weird about this; RN broadcasts are timed to be at
8pm local time in each time spot (East, Central and West).

Howdy:

What's I found weird is dropping their 1.5 hour brodcast to 1 hour weekdays
and running a 1.5 hour broadcast on Saturday and Sunday. I am not
considering their 1200U and 0400U broadcasts.

Ah, ok.

The 1 hour weekday broadcast begins at 0000U on 9845; what I found unusual
is a repeat broadcast at 0100U on 6165. I got into the habit of tuning into
RN at 2330U for their 1.5 hour broadcast on 9845 or 6195 kHz for years.

I know that Spain used to have three broadcasts for NAm at 0000, 0100
and 0400 for Eastern, Central and Western time zones respectively. Maybe
RN has the same idea. And yes, I know that after the change back to
Standard Time I was baffled to not find RN on 9845 at 2330; I had to
look on their website for the new schedule since Passport 2004 wasn't
out yet.

Unusual for me is the 1.5 hour broadcast at 1900U on Saturday and Sunday on
15315, 17725, and 17810 kHz---I don't much recollect tuning RN on those
channels at those times before.

The fact of the matter is that RN is suffering from budget cutbacks and it
is being reflected in their new schedule. It's sad, RN was a great
broadcaster with wonderful programming and staffed with good folks but times
are changing---thus my original post.

I don't think that RN will completely go away like Radio Swiss Intl or
cut out NAm freqs like BBC and DW, but they may get down to only one or
two broadcasts to NAm a day like Spain.

Keep in mind that "budget cutbacks" is different from "arrogant liberal
morons running things" like the BBC or "stupid meddling politician
problems" like VOA.


As the headline of 'On Target' aptly stated, "New Times, Anticipating
Change".

RG