Month: November 2023

United Kingdom

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Radio Today this evening has posted that medium-wave services carrying Greatest Hits Radio in Scotland will be turned off by the end of the year, In addition, Bauer will turn off AM transmitters carrying the national brand in Newcastle and South Yorkshire, along with Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland. Messages are currently being broadcast after each top of hour news bulletin suggesting listeners need to retune to keep listening.

Full article
https://radiotoday.co.uk/2023/11/bauer-to-turn-off-am-services-in-scotland-ireland-and-northern-england/

Mike Barraclough to MWlist iog (2023-11-11)

United Kingdom

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I can confirm the closure announcement on GHR is broadcast hourly at :03 past the hour where the weather sponsor would normally be heard.
No date is given however.

I have heard it in
990 Doncaster
1035 Ayr
1152 Newcastle
1152 Glasgow
1161 Dundee
1548 Edinburgh
1584 Perth

I cannot yet confirm if it is heard on 1107 Inverness.
Will confirm as soon as possible.

James Robinson (2023-11-11)

United Kingdom

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Regular message announcements are now being carried on all AM commercial radio stations in Scotland, owned by Bauer Media. Imminent medium wave closures will affect Greatest Hits Radio in Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee/Perth & Inverness. The AM transmitter in Aberdeenshire closed back in November 2018.

Svenn Martinsen to Arctic Radio Club FB group (2023-11-11)

South Africa

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In the Johannesburg area three out of the five MW stations are off  air.

On air:
657 kHz – Radio Pulpit, Meyerton
1548 kHz – Radio Islam, Lenasia

Off air:
576 kHz – Radio Veritas, Meyerton
1422 kHz – Hellenic Radio, Bedfordview
1485 kHz – Radio Today, Johannesburg

In a reply to Costa Constantinides Hellenic Radio wrote:
“We are currently off air because someone broke into Sentech’s transmission room on the grounds where we are situated and removed our ‘unit’ and also copper from our antenna. Unfortunately due to the long weekend it may take longer than expected to repair. However, some good news, we are still streaming.”

Stig Hartvig NIelsen (2023-11-11)

United Kingdom

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Noted on various Greatest hits stations on AM  in Scotland this week announcements being  broadcast of the closure of the AM service very soon. There are a  number iE Inverness Glasgow Perth Edinburgh etc 

David Thorpe to mwcircle iog (2023-11-11)

Space Weather

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ANOTHER CME IS HEADING FOR EARTH: An eruption on the sun yesterday hurled a CME directly toward Earth. NOAA and NASA models agree that it will reach our planet during the late hours of Saturday, Nov. 11th. The impact could produce a G2-class (Moderate) geomagnetic storm with auroras in northern-tier US states.
https://spaceweather.com/

Ydun Ritz (2023-11-10)

Lithuania / Ukraine

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Radio Ukraine International B23 schedule. All times UTC.
RUI continues to relay Ukrainian Radio’s 1st channel in Ukrainian language, except for the following news bulletins and programmes in foreign languages.

Broadcast platforms:
Medium waves – via Radio Baltic Waves International
21:00-03:30 Daily 1386 kHz Viesintos (LTU) 75 kW
24/7 on satellite Astra 4A, 4.8 degrE, 12130 MHz, V, 27.500 Msymb/s, FEC 3/4
24/7 online <http://radio.ukr.radio:8000/ur4-mp3>

01:00-01:08 Daily English – Ukraine: Security issue
01:08-01:24 Wed  English – Ukraine: Global context
01:08-01:24 Fri     English – International dialogue
01:08-01:24 Sat    English – Info Context
01:08-01:24 Sun   English – Ukraine: Global context
03:00-03:08 Daily Slovak (irr.) – Ukraine: Security issue
04:00-04:08 Daily Hungarian (irr.) – Ukraine: Security issue
20:00-20:08 Daily  Romanian – Ukraine: Security issue
20:08-20:20 Mo-Fr Romanian – Good evening, we’re from Ukraine
20:08-20:20 Sun    Romanian – Land of the unconquered
20:20-20:28 Daily  Bulgarian (irr.) – Ukraine: Security issue
22:00-22:08 Daily English – Ukraine: Security issue [instead of Belarusian, which is now in mp3 only; maybe temporarily]
23:00-23:08 Daily Polish – Ukraine: Security issue
(irr.) – irregular, may be replaced by a news bulletin in another language.
Broadcasts in German and Russian were discontinued on October 1 and July 29, respectively.

Web site <https://ukr.radio/RUI_about>
List of programmes <https://ukr.radio/progs.html?channelID=4>
Web player <https://ukr.radio/channel.html?channelID=4>

Alexander Miatlikov, Dnipro Ukraine via WOR iog (2023-11-07)

Canada

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I have noticed the following announcement on 540 kHz 25 past the hour:

“You are listening to CBC Radio One at 540 on the AM band. You can now hear CBC Radio One at 93.3 FM in this listening area. If you have any reception questions tuning in to 93.3 FM please email us at signalreception@cbc.ca.
The 540 AM service will end on November 30th of this year.”

73 de O. J. Sagdahl (2023-11-05)