North Korea

From  KBS World news Jan. 13. 
Radio Pyongyang (targetting the South) goes Off Air as North Shutters Agencies Handling South. 
North Korea has been shuttering or reorganizing its agencies and bodies in charge of South Korean affairs following leader Kim Jong-un’s declaration that he’d given up on the “hostile” South as a partner for reunification at a ruling party meeting last month. 
North Korea’s state-run Radio Pyongyang – which aired broadcasts targeting South Korean listeners – has been off-air since Friday afternoon. Its website was still down as of Saturday afternoon. 
The suspension of Radio Pyongyang appears linked to the closing of agencies that handled interactions with South Korea, given that one such agency reportedly operated the station. 
Radio Pyongyang had carried North Korea’s revolutionary propaganda aimed at South Koreans since the 1960s. The so-called numbers station also broadcast formatted numbers to convey orders to North Korean agents operating in the South. 
The North also erased the Uriminzokkiri or “We Are One” page from its overseas propaganda website Naenara, which uses North Korea’s .kp domain. The page contained content that highlighted Korean reunification. 
Other websites targeting South Korean readers that use .com domains have also been unreachable since Wednesday. They are likely being closed or reorganized in line with the shuttering of agencies dealing with the South. 
The North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Saturday that a meeting of officials in charge of “affairs with enemies” had decided to “readjust” several organizations dealing with the South, including the North Side Committee for Implementing June 15 Joint Declaration, the North Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea’s Reunification, the Consultative Council for National Reconciliation and the Council for the Reunification of Tangun’s Nation. 

Still heard on 11680 and 6100 at 10:55 today in parallel with 819 kHz AM via Kiwi SDR in Oita Japan.
I’m not sure what programme channel this is now.

Alan Holder, G4ZBH Isle of Wight, U.K. to WOR iog (2024-01-13)

[No frequencies mentioned, but as North Korea has some MW AMs beaming south, these may also be affected / Ed]

Pacific Asian Log

The January, 2024 edition of the Pacific Asian Log (PAL) is now available. It can be downloaded from the Radioheritage website https://www.radioheritage.com/ (click on either of the links on the home page). Members of the IRCA groups.io list can also download the PAL from the files page https://groups.io/g/IRCA/files/Station%20Lists%20and%20References/PAL%20January%202024.pdf

As usual, many changes and updates have been incorporated into this latest edition.  They include new web links, updated station listings, and some minor organization and presentation tweaks

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Bruce Portzer to irca iog (2024-01-12)

United Kingdom

Sunshine Radio Ludlow seek permission to close 855. 
Ofcom have approved Sunshine Radio’s request for permission to turn off their AM transmitter on 855. The transmitter can be closed on or after January 19th. 
Details of the rationale behind the decision in their latest Broadcast Update. 
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your-licence/radio-broadcast-licensing/monthly-updates/december-2023

Mike Barraclough to MWlist iog (2024-01-11)

Pakistan

This seems to be a video about the Lawrencepur MW TX. 
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WJmli8BPvAY
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QCJBsOZ-kK0
It uses a Russian ARRT antenna.
33°50’10.50″N 72°29’22.63″E

Does anybody know why such an antenna was built there?
Which connection does Pakistan have/had to Russia/Soviet Union that
time? 
Does anybody know what that strange thing at the transmitter hall is? 
33°50’22.23″N 72°29’32.57″E

Marco (2024-01-11)

Australia

Re.: https://mediumwave.info/2023/12/29/australia-70/
3GL 1341 Reactivation 
Did they launch? Can’t find any web presence for them.

Mauno Ritola to ICDX-AM iog (2024-01-10)


No official launch yet, but a blank website has been set up.  Might be worth keeping an eye on that.
http://3gl.com.au/
1341 signal was good when I was in the Geelong region last week, still playing old pre-recorded IDs and 50s/60s music with no ads or announcers.  TX site at Leopold still only has one mast though, so can’t be running the full 5kW directional pattern.

Lucas to ICDX-AM iog (2024-01-10)

United States

Galaxie Broadcasting Classic Country “Cow Country1420 WGXI/98.5 W253CW Plymouth WI has begun simulcasting on Yellow Dog Broadcasting’s nearby 950 WCLB/107.3 W297 W297CK Sheboygan.

The flip comes with the end of the LMA of WCLB to Marty Schibbelhut’s Martini Media, who had operated the station as CHR “Z107” since December 2018. 
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/263223/cow-country-expands-into-sheboygan/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-01-10)

Mexico

R. Educacion celebrates centenary in 2024.

Translated from Spanish: 
In 2024, Radio Educación, an institution of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, will celebrate the centenary of its foundation, as a key piece of cultural dissemination and the first public medium in the country. 
The station will celebrate the 100 years of its founding in 1924, as CYE (Culture and Education), which had the purpose of being: “A great spoken library”, as projected by José Vasconcelos from the Ministry of Public Education, considering the scope and possibilities of the newly discovered radio. 
As part of the celebration, the first cultural and educational station in Latin America will offer a series of cultural events for its audiences, such as exhibitions, concerts, capsule series on its history, forums, colloquiums, listening sessions, the unveiling of a lottery ticket commemorative, the production of a radio documentary and an audiovisual documentary with the support of @Prende.mx, a public medium of the Ministry of Public Education that is dedicated to the design and production of educational materials, in addition to documentary and iconographic research in collaboration with Memónica (www.memoricamexico.gob.mx) which is a public service and open access repository, whose main objective is to make digital files related to the history and cultural expressions of Mexico available to the public. Radio Educación will report on these and other activities through its official broadcast channels and on its signals. 
The centenary will be an occasion to celebrate, reflect and prospect the transformations necessary for Radio Educación to continue as the most important producer of radio content, since it delivers an average of 30 thousand programs annually to more than 150 stations and institutions throughout the country, increase its coverage, grow its audience and place itself at the forefront of public communication due to the quality of its services and innovation. 
Likewise, the radio station will produce and broadcast various special content, including a new series on theater; programs around the life and work of Felipe Carrillo Puerto and the launch of the podcast series “Communities in Movement”, in co-production with the National Population Council (CONAPO) to offer guidance on health care, and human rights. sexual and reproductive in young people. 
Noticiarios Pulso, for its part, is preparing to cover the federal electoral process with the journalistic rigor that characterizes it and the responsibility of bringing solid information to the citizens who tune in through more than 50 stations that are linked in the country. and about 30 that broadcast it in the United States, through Radio Bilingüe. 
Additionally, Mexico’s cultural radio will officially launch its new signal, Cultura Michoacán, which is in the testing stage and strengthens the transformation of the former 1060 AM into a radio group that today has six signals in four places of the Mexican Republic. 
Radio Educación broadcasts in Mexico City through 1060 AM and 96.5 FM; Signal Cultura Sonora, on 104.3 FM, in Hermosillo (1 hour less); in Mérida, Yucatán, on the Kukulkan Signal, on 107.9 FM; in Culture México International Signal (6185 Short Wave on the 49 meter International band); for everyone, through www.radioeducacion.edu.mx

Social networks: Facebook: /radioeducacion, X (formerly Twitter): @RadioEducacion, Instagram: @radioeducacionmx, and YouTube: @radioeducacion1060am.

Pedro Sedano, AER 04/01/2024 to WOR iog (2024-01-09)

United States

Silent Las Vegas AMs. 
Silents KDWN and KXST were granted construction permits today. They will triplex at the KXNT site. 
KDWN [720 kHz / Ed] will be 25 kW day and 4 kW night DA-N. 
KXST [1140 kHz / Ed] will be 12 kW day and 100 watts night DA-2.

Dennis Gibson to irca iog (2024-01-09)