On 12/09/2013 09:58 AM, Beloved Leader wrote:
Hat tip, JMG.

Russian news agency RIA Novosti closed down
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25299116


Russia's President Vladimir Putin has abolished the country's state-owned news agency RIA Novosti.

In a surprise decree published on the Kremlin's website on Monday, Mr Putin announced it would be replaced by a news agency called Russia Today.

The new agency will be headed by journalist and keen Kremlin supporter Dmitry Kiselev.

The state-owned Voice of Russia radio station has also been closed. The decree was effective immediately.


Hello, and while I realize this ng is for the HF radio band, I'd like to
point out that VOR is still alive and well on the MW band at 1390 kHz in
the metro Washington DC area. Sincerely,



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J. B. Wood e-mail:

On 12/11/2013 03:28 AM, J.B. Wood wrote:

Hello, and while I realize this ng is for the HF radio band, I'd like to
point out that VOR is still alive and well on the MW band at 1390 kHz in
the metro Washington DC area. Sincerely,


The RRS newsgroup is about DC to Daylight communications with
electromagnetism, there are no frequency boundaries. The article about
RT is BS. The station is still plugging away.

On 12/11/2013 10:13 AM, dave wrote:
On 12/11/2013 03:28 AM, J.B. Wood wrote:

Hello, and while I realize this ng is for the HF radio band, I'd like to
point out that VOR is still alive and well on the MW band at 1390 kHz in
the metro Washington DC area. Sincerely,


The RRS newsgroup is about DC to Daylight communications with
electromagnetism, there are no frequency boundaries. The article about
RT is BS. The station is still plugging away.

Hello, and I stand corrected since I haven't been on this ng much. The
term "shortwave" most often is taken (at least in the US) to refer to
the 1.7 MHz to 3 MHz and the HF (3 MHz to 30 MHz) portions of the EM
spectrum.

One additional comment is that Russia Today (RT) TV english language
broadcasts, like BBC World News and China Central TV, are also available
on many cable TV channels as well as XM/Sirius radio. Funny how the
hosts on those non-BBC channels often have British accents ;-). Sincerely,

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J. B. Wood e-mail:

On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:53:23 AM UTC-6, J.B. Wood wrote:
On 12/11/2013 10:13 AM, dave wrote:

On 12/11/2013 03:28 AM, J.B. Wood wrote:



Hello, and while I realize this ng is for the HF radio band, I'd like to

point out that VOR is still alive and well on the MW band at 1390 kHz in

the metro Washington DC area. Sincerely,





The RRS newsgroup is about DC to Daylight communications with

electromagnetism, there are no frequency boundaries. The article about

RT is BS. The station is still plugging away.



Hello, and I stand corrected since I haven't been on this ng much. The

term "shortwave" most often is taken (at least in the US) to refer to

the 1.7 MHz to 3 MHz and the HF (3 MHz to 30 MHz) portions of the EM

spectrum.



One additional comment is that Russia Today (RT) TV english language

broadcasts, like BBC World News and China Central TV, are also available

on many cable TV channels as well as XM/Sirius radio. Funny how the

hosts on those non-BBC channels often have British accents ;-). Sincerely,



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J. B. Wood e-mail:

delicast.com squidtv.net wwitv.com (something like that) Some of them might have a computer virus/malware, watch out. I use Google Chrome browser with my super duper Sony Google TV. Of course Voice of Russia has a website. http://voiceofrussia.com I think it requires registering and logging in for the Audio.