Shortwave Radio - Google News for Thursday 4 April 2013
 

Shortwave Radio - Google News

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VOA Reacts to the Sequester - Radio World

Posted: 04 Apr 2013 07:05 AM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...quester/218778


VOA Reacts to the Sequester
Radio World
In addition, “The new broadcast schedule calls for reductions in some
shortwave and medium wave radio broadcasts in Cantonese, Dari/Pashto,
English to Africa, Khmer, Kurdish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Urdu and
Vietnamese.” Though, “Direct radio ...



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A giant cage - The Economist

Posted: 04 Apr 2013 08:33 AM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...it-has-enabled


The Economist
A giant cage
The Economist
Just as earlier communications technologies may have helped topple
dictatorships in the past (for example, the telegraph in Russias Bolshevik
revolutions in 1917 and short-wave radio in the break-up of the Soviet
Union in 1991), the internet would ...

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BBC World Service reduces shortwave broadcasts - Southgate Amateur Radio
Club

Posted: 26 Mar 2013 01:01 AM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...broadcasts.htm


BBC World Service reduces shortwave broadcasts
Southgate Amateur Radio Club
Shortwave and medium wave transmissions in English will be reduced to a
minimum of 6 hours in total each day. Steve Titherington, Senior
Commissioning Editor for BBC World Service, said: “We know that increasing
numbers of people are accessing World ...