Month: June 2024

United Kingdom

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Manx Radio – ‘Sixty years as the ‘nation’s station’
Yesterday June 29th marked 60 years of Manx Radio – the first legal commercial radio station in the British Isles.
The national public service media provider of the Isle of Man, it broadcasts from its own studio complex at Broadcasting House in Douglas.
More on this interesting journey can be found here
https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/sixty-years-as-the-nations-station/

Ydun Ritz (2024-06-30)

Philippines

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DWAN on 1206 kHz in Manila (formerly MMDA Traffic Radio) went back on the air on June 20 after being silent since 2010. A new 25 kW transmitter has been installed.

Svenn Martinsen to DXing.info FB group (2024-06-20)

Canada

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CBC/IRC has closed 2 more low power repeaters in Chapais QC:
CBJ-2 1140 French
CBMD 1400 English
Both were closed because the power at the nearby Chibougamau FM site was significantly increased.  It now provides coverage to Chapais as well.

Andy Reid (2024-06-29)

Denmark

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World Music Radio and Radio208 today received a renewal of the Medium Wave license as of July 1st and for the next 12 months.
WMR is broadcasting on 927, 5930, 15700, and 25800 kHz, while Radio208 is on 1440 and 5970 kHz – both stations are on the air 24/7 on all frequencies – and are availabe also via online streaming.

Ydun Ritz (2024-06-28)

Spain

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Translated from Spanish:

Hello again, more news:
RNE Cabra 972 kHz is off.
COPE Sevilla 837 kHz has finally repaired the disastrous sound that it had for many months.

Jorge Trinado Luque to iberiaDX iog (2024-06-26)

Canada

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Corus Entertainment has pulled the plug on the programming at two of its AMs in Canada.

All-Traffic “AM 730” CKGO Vancouver has begun simulcasting News/Talk 980 CKNW. CKGO has featured a Traffic format since 2006 outside of some Sports play-by-play including the CFL’s BC Lions, who had moved to CKNW for the start of this season, and Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps.

News “Global News Radio 880” CHQT Edmonton has given way to a simulcast of News/Talk 630 CHED.

The cuts come as part of an ongoing efficiency review across the company. The elimination of the formats included staff cuts in both markets.

Corus released the following statement regarding the moves:
“As part of our efficiency review across Corus, we have made the difficult decision to reduce our AM radio programming in Vancouver and Edmonton.
As a result, certain roles have been impacted.
Effective immediately, AM 730 CKGO in Vancouver will cease to operate as an all-traffic station, and 880 CHQT-AM Edmonton will cease to operate as an all-news station.
To minimize disruption to our audiences and advertisers, for a temporary, interim period, our powerhouse news-talk station 980 CKNW Vancouver will share programming content with its sister station CKGO, and our heritage news-talk station 630 CHED in Edmonton will share programming content with its sister station CHQT.
Following that interim period, Corus will only operate one AM news-talk station in each of Vancouver and Edmonton.”
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/273363/corus-eliminates-programming-on-ams-in-edmonton-vancouver/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-06-27)

India

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Cricket Commentary on Akashvani.
Running Commentary of  Semi Final 1 is scheduled from 0000 UTC (5.30 am IST) & Semi Final 2 from 1400 UTC (7.30 pm IST). Hence these stations will sign on before 0000 UTC (5.30 am) ie about half an hour earlier than normal days and will also sign off only around midnight (ie 1830 UTC) ie late than usual.

Monitored list of stations is as follows:
Those given with *  has DRM Simulcast  on – 9 KHz from AM frequency kHz  AM Mode Station DRM
531 Jodhpur
558   * Mumbai Simulcast
576 Alappuzha
585 Nagpur
603 Ajmer
612  * Bengaluru Simulcast
621  * Patna Simulcast
630 Thrissur
648 Indore
675 Bhadravathi
684 Kozhikode
711  * Siliguri Simulcast
720  * Chennai Simulcast
738  * Hyderabad Simulcast
747  * Lucknow Simulcast
756 Jagdalpur
765  * Dharwad Simulcast   Chennai Pure DRM on 783
792  * Pune Simulcast
801  * Jabalpur Simulcast
810  * Rajkot Simulcast
819 * New Delhi Simulcast
828 Silchar
837  * Vijayawada Simulcast
846  * Ahmedabad Simulcast
864 Shillong
873 * Jalandhar Simulcast
900 Kadapah
927  * Visakhapatnam Simulcast
936  * Tiruchirapalli Simulcast
945 Sambalpur
963 Jalgaon
972 Cuttack
981 Raipur
1026 Prayagraj
1035 Guwahati Simulcast   Mumbai Pure DRM on 1044
1089 Udupi
1107 Kalburgi
1143 Ratnagiri
1161 Thiruvanthapuram
1179 Rewa
1215 Puducherry
1242  * Varanasi Simulcast
1251 Sangli
1260 Ambikapur
1269 Agartala
1287 * Panaji Simulcast
1305 Parbhani New Delhi Pure DRM on 1377
1386 Gwalior
1467 Jeypore
1530 Agra
1593 Bhopal 

Jose Jacob, VU2JOS to dxindia iog (2024-06-26)

United States

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Seven Mountains Media Conservative Talk 1230 WVNT/103.5 W278CQ Parkersburg WV has begun stunting with a loop of *NSYNC’s “Pop” as it prepares to flip to CHR “Pop 103.5” on Friday, June 28 at 10:00am.
WVNT becomes the latest of Seven Mountains’ Talk stations to flip to CHR following similar moves last year in Altoona, Johnstown, State College, and Franklin/Meadville PA. WVNT will change call letters to WPKB ahead of the flip.
More to the story here https://radioinsight.com/headlines/273281/wvnt-about-to-pop/

Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-06-25)