The XEGL 1270 AM of Navojoa, Sonora suffers theft in its facilities and damage to its transmitter, suspected of a direct attack. (translated from Spanish/Ed)
Christian Eduardo Reyes Rosales to La Radio de Ayer y Hoy en México FB group (2024-03-30)
Month: March 2024
United States
Darren Girdner’s G2 Media Group is selling his three stations in Fort Smith AR to Melinda Leigh and Edwin Martin’s Black Diamond Properties LLC for $1.3 million. The deal includes Red Dirt Country “Red Dirt 96.7” 1580 KAGE/96.7 K244FJ Fort Smith, Southern Gospel “98.7 The Cross” 1650 KFSW/98.7 K254AM Fort Smith, and Rock/Country “Mix 105.1” KXMX Muldrow OK.
Punjabi American Media acquires 1510 KSPA Ontario CA from Intelli Inc. for $100,000. The buyer owns seven stations in California running their South Asian programming.
Pamela McClatchey’s McClatchey Broadcasting sells Christian 1590 KELP/95.9 K240ER El Paso TX to On Earth Media LLC for $634,744 including the station real estate. McClatchey, who is also on the board of Sky High Broadcasting’s 89.3 KELP-FM Mesquite NM will also transfer that station to the members of the buyers of KELP/K240ER.
David Leroy Billy is using power of attorney to acquire Standards 1280 KPRV Poteau and Classic Country/Classic Hits 92.5 KPRV-FM Heavener OK from his father Leroy Billy due to poor health.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/266658/station-sales-week-of-3-29-2/
Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-03-29)
Space Weather
X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE AND CME: Yesterday, giant sunspot AR3615 produced another X1-class solar flare. The explosion on March 28th at 2053 UT ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere and caused a deep shortwave radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean: map. Of greater interest is a CME emerging from the blast site. NOAA analysts are modeling the CME to check for a possible Earth-directed component.
https://spaceweather.com/
Ydun Ritz (2024-03-29)
United States
John Garabedian’s RCRQ Inc. closed on its $575,010 purchase of 740 WJIB/101.3 W267CE Cambridge/Boston and relaunched the station.
With a refreshed logo and minor positioning shift from “The Memories Stations” to “The Memories Channel”, WJIB continues to feature its broad Soft Oldies format as it did under previous owner Bob Bittner. Garabedian is voicing promos for the station introducing new features including a request and dedication phone line. He also announced that the station will remain commercial-free, but he will not start a new fund-raiser for WJIB until 2025. He has also begun streaming the station online at WJIB.com.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/266748/john-garabedian-introduces-the-memories-channel-on-wjib/
Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-03-28)
Afghanistan
New name for Radio Afghanistan.
For the past few days I’ve been monitoring the former Radio Afghanistan at 17:30-19:30UT, in the couple of hours when it’s audible on 1107kHz via webSDRs in Cyprus/Delhi/Qatar. The broadcaster’s formal name is Radio Television Afghanistan but all the on-air ID’s I’ve heard are as “Milli [national] Radio” or sometimes “Afghanistan-pause-Milli Radio“.
Their website at https://rta.af seems to be completely devoted to TV with four video services being live streamed but no radio audio.
David Kernick, Interval Signals Online to WOR iog (2024-03-28)
Faroe Islands
Faroes 531kHz
The transmitter remains silent still today.
I received an email from the station yesterday saying, “the transmitter is not transmitting for the moment due to a error”
Steve Whitt to mwcircle iog (2024-03-27)
Colombia
This Colombian station HJNB Onda 5, Bucaramanga (Santander), currently only broadcasts its daily programming via Online and social networks. Therefore and now, it does not use the 1300 Khz dial on which it previously operated. There are speculations such as that the transmitter is damaged and another more relevant one is that there was no agreement to renew the lease contract with the current Concessionaire assigned by Mintic.
Rubén Medina (2024-03-27)
Colombia
The Colombian channel HJHX 960 AM is inactive. This dial was occupied by Blu Radio Santanderes, Bucaramanga (Santander), who migrated to 1080 AM. To date, no regional or national radio media uses this 960 Khz Santander frequency.
Rubén Medina (2024-03-27)
United Kingdom
BBC 198kHz may continue at least a year.
https://keeplongwave.co.uk/2024/03/26/longwave-closure-may-be-postponed-until-at-least-2025/
Pekka Sorjonen to nordx iog (2024-03-27)
United Kingdom
Radio Caroline North 60th Anniversary Broadcast
Our Easter broadcast is happening between Friday 29th and Sunday 31st March – live from our radio ship Ross Revenge.
You’ll hear some great music from the 60s to early 90s – plus a chance to win a fabulous PURE internet radio (details below), courtesy of Felixstowe & Offshore Radio – find them on Facebook and at Felixstowe Museum.
Listen on 648 AM across England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond, on 1368 AM in the North/North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, worldwide online here via our Caroline North Player, on smart speakers and the Radio Caroline app.
We’d love to hear from you during the broadcast via memories@radiocaroline.co.uk and remember, it’s the only email address that gets you straight through to our ‘North’ broadcasters.
https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html
Ydun Ritz (2024-03-27)