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Ydun Ritz (2024-08-02)
Droitwich Calling Exhibition.
Salt has often taken the limelight when it comes to telling the story of Droitwich’s history, but we have also had a significant impact on the country over the years with the BBC Radio Transmitting Station at Wychbold.
The station went on air on the 6 September 1934, transmitting the National Programme on Long Wave and a Regional Programme on Medium Wave. The Droitwich signal was so strong, it was said that people struggled to receive signals from more distant stations such as Moscow, Luxembourg and Paris!
Radio sets made from 1934, until a short while after the War, were marked with ‘Droitwich’ on their dial.
When the Station closed in 1989 John Phillips, an employee at the station and radio enthusiast, rescued the ‘obsolete’ equipment from the skip and has brought it to life again through this wonderful homage to BBC radio, which opened in 1991.
Come and visit us to learn all about the era when Droitwich was “On The Dial”.
https://www.droitwichheritagecentre.org.uk/heritage/droitwich-calling
Mike Terry to Longwaveradiolistening iog (2024-08-02)
Great Circle Media flipped Classic Country “The Legend 93.5/930” KAFF/K228XO Flagstaff AZ to News/Talk “KAFF News Radio“.
The new brand builds off the company’s existing KAFFNews.com platform with the station retaining the local 7-9am morning talk show hosted by Jeff Kennedy that debuted in May 2023. The remainder of the lineup will feature “This Morning with Gordon Deal” from 4-7am, the Chad Benson Show from 9-11am, Dave Ramsey 11am to 2pm, Bloomberg Radio from 2-3pm, Tom Sullivan Show from 3-6pm, Fox Sports Radio from 6pm to 12am, and Red Eye Radio and America In The Morning overnight. KAFF will continue to serve as home for Northern Arizona University football and basketball.
“KAFF News Radio” is being led by cluster News & Sports Director Dave Zorn, who adds Program Director of KAFF to his duties. The station will also feature local hourly newscasts from 6am to 5pm.
The format creates a local competitor to Stone Canyon Media Group’s Conservative Talk “97.1 The Big Talker” KBTK.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/276668/kaff-drops-classic-country-for-news-talk/
Lance Venta, RadioInsight (2024-08-01)
Manx radio gold is off air on 1368 medium wave from 00:15am to 04:45am every day.
Tariq Hanif (2024-08-01)