SWISS RADIO INTERNATIONAL SHORTWAVE FREE

In 2014, I chaired and directed a special subcommittee at the then-named Broadcasting Board of Governors to look into the utility and value of shortwave broadcasting as it related to the agency’s mission. This is brought to the public’s attention in “ How Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News Into China.” The basic proposal sounds great in theory, but reality is something else. It is not surprising then to see a new article urging the use of shortwave today to penetrate censorship in China. Shortwave radio was used by nations for engagement, to distribute news and information to faraway places. citizens, a restriction that was not removed until the 1980s. Indicative of the importance of the medium, RCA voting stock could only be owned by U.S. broadcasting assets which became the Radio Corporation of America. He may have failed, but he contributed to forcing a British firm to sell their U.S. Radio broadcasting was seen as such an important and critical element to our national security a century ago that the Secretary of the Navy, a newspaper owner interested in the psychological defense of the nation, tried several times to nationalize wireless transmitters. It was the “new media” embraced to bypass and overcome the censorship of cables, the “old media.” This was particularly true in the United States. State-owned, aimed at French colonial empire.Shortwave radio was a mainstay of international news and information programs. Known from 1945 to 1975 successively as RTF Radio Paris, RDF Radio France, and ORTF Radio Paris Known before early 1970's as shortwave service of Finnish Broadcasting Company. Transmitted via Lahti radio station from 1938 to 1948, Pori shortwave station from 1948 to 1987 and finally then new Pori's shortwave center in Preiviiki district from 1987 to the end of 2006. Current shortwave broadcasts target Ecuador only. International and regional broadcasts ended in 2009. Relayed on Radio Miami International since 2011.

SWISS RADIO INTERNATIONAL SHORTWAVE FREE

Voice of Free China / Radio Taiwan International Inner Mongolia People's Broadcasting Station Both stations purchased by the CBC in 1937. Leased by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in 1933 along with CKGW, and renamed CRCX. Known as CBC International Service until 1970.Ī relay of CINW, based in Montreal, Quebec.Ī relay of CFRB, based in Toronto, Ontario.Ī relay of CBU, based in Vancouver, British Columbia.Ī relay of CFGB, based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador.īased in Bowmanville, Ontario, originally VE9GW, founded by Gooderham and Worts as a relay of CKGW Toronto. Operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Transmitted via CKCX in Sackville, New Brunswick. Broadcast from Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo. Broadcast from Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Broadcast from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Broadcast from São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro.īroadcast from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Operated by Empresa Mineira de Comunicação (Minas Gerais Comunication Company), the public broadcasting company of the state of Minas Gerais.īroadcast from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Targeted to the population of Brazilian Amazon.īroadcast from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Relays via WINB.īased in Santa Ana del Yacuma, Beni Department.īased in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Department.īased in Brasília, Distrito Federal. Based in Hobart, Tasmania.īased in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.īased in Gunnedah, New South Wales. Relayed through Radio Miami International since 2004.

Transmissions of shortwave parallel ceased Sep 1929 when ABC/PMG assumed control Operated by the public Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Relayed through Radio Miami International since 2017. Relayed through Radio Miami International since 2015.

Swiss radio international shortwave