Please take note of this:
Modulo Radio from the South West part of Puglia (South of Italy) will be testing today from 2000 to 0600 (27th Dec.) UTC , on 1431 kHz ,with a power of 225 watts. If you hear the test, please write to: moduloradio@hotmail.com
Antonello Napolitano to MWCircle Facebook group (2025-12-26)
China National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) closed 3 radio services based in Beijing area at 1600UT on December 22, 2025. The 3 services are, Voice of Reading (747kHz), Relax FM (91.5MHz/1251kHz), Hit FM(88.7MHz). The previous announcements of the closing were given in all 3 services.
Announcements of termination;
Voice of Reading: 1201UT on December 22
Relax FM: 0006 and 0405UT on December 22, saying the service will be replaced by CGTN Radio English service
Hit FM: 0144UT on December 22, informing the close of Beijing and Shanghai stations
After termination;
Voice of Reading: 747kHz has been relaying CNR-9 (Voice of Literature) on 106.6MHz. Satellite broadcasting has been stopped.
Relax FM: 1251kHz has not been on air (there is still the possibility of temporary closing for maintenance), FMs in Beijing, Shanghai (87.9MHz) and Chongqing (89.8MHz), as well as Satellite broadcasting have been relaying CGTN Radio English service. Online broadcasting has been stopped.
Hit FM: Both satellite and online broadcasting have been stopped.
The original information in Chinese is found at https://cahcn.github.io/posts/2025-12-23-cmg.html.
Beijing 747kHz is over NRTA No.582b transmitter site at Tiuntan, Dongcheng District, Beijing with 10kW.
Beijing 1251kHz is over NRTA No.582a transmitter site at Panchuang, Haidian District, Beijing with 10kW.
Relax FM is also relaying in Lhasa, Tibet on 100.0MHz.
Hit FM was the domestic service of China Radio International (CRI), relayed in 17 domestic cities in China.
Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan to WOR iog (2025-12-24)
1160 Caribbean Radio Lighthouse
”I’m excited to share with you that $80,000 has now been pledged to purchase our new AM radio transmitter! We have put a down payment on the new AM radio transmitter. Right now, I’m being told that the transmitter won’t be manufactured and ready to ship until at least March 30th.”
(Nathan P. Owens, Station Manager & Engineer via SM)
Re.: https://mediumwave.info/2025/12/13/antigua-barbuda-2/
Via ARC mv-eko Dec 23 in WOR iog (2024-12-24)
Canadian Radio News
Jon Pearkins jon@pearkins.com
The CRTC is expected to announce that they have determined that Wingham, Ontario has the “market capacity” for a new radio station. And, if approved, will begin a Call for Applications for a new station there. (See CKNX item below.)
600 CFQR QC Montréal – The station’s new owner did not respond to the request for comments on the CRTC’s proposed $67,366 payout over the next seven years to several organizations supporting Canadian talent and community radio. Therefore, that requirement is now part of the station’s license.
640 CFIQ ON Richmond Hill – Poster torontostan on sowny.net reports that the land for CFIQ’s transmitter site was “put up for sale” on April 10, 2025 and finally has an interested buyer. He speculates that Corus’ major lenders, currently awaiting CRTC approval to own 99% of Corus shares, will accept the offer for the land and take CFIQ off the air permanently.
670 CHOR ON Ottawa – The University of Ottawa had a licensed Carrier Current campus AM station beginning in 1975 that moved to FM in 1991 and is now licensed as CHUO-FM. The station’s last live broadcast will be on December 15, with “pre-recorded content” running until March 2026 before shutting down. The station claims that the CRTC will not let it sign off until then. A recent vote was held and the university’s student population chose to end funding for the station.
920 CKNX ON Wingham – Wingham’s only AM station will likely be getting new competition thanks to the CRTC’s Call for Applications coming as a result of their market capacity study indicating that Wingham can justify a new radio station. No update yet on CKNX’s attempt to move to FM.
940 CFNV QC Montréal – [See CFQR 600 above.]
1150 CKOC ON Hamilton – Is now simulcasting CHCH-TV’s audio of the CHCH Evening News at 1800 weekdays.
1220 CFAJ ON Saint Catharines – After an extended period of transmitter site work while running on low power, they have returned to 10 kW day and night with their licensed very tight NW day and NNNW night directional patterns.
1290 CFRW MB Winnipeg – First reported back on the air, somewhat intermittently, with a testing audio loop on December 15 with 1 kW, going off the air at 1739. Back on the air by the next day with 10 kW, presumably using their licensed day and night patterns, as Akash, the new owners, purchased the transmitter site from Bell. And began being heard in Europe by several DXers. Akash staff is saying that the station will officially launch in February. Already using the same ‘Connect’ branding/slogan as co-owned CKER-FM Edmonton, AB: “Connect AM 1290.” Another slogan being heard is “Asli Radio,” which means “Real Radio” in Punjabi. On October 16, the CRTC approved the sale of CFRW by Bell to Akash and granted a license that expires August 31 2031. This contradicts the October 10 CRTC decision that states “New licences issued after the publication of this regulatory policy will also receive indefinite licences.“ With its standard Commercial Radio License, CFRW can broadcast no more than 19 hours per Broadcast Week of ethnic programming, defined as not in English, French or Indigenous languages. There is no restriction on the overnight period, Midnight to 6:00 AM, as it is not considered part of the Broadcast Week. CFRW began as CJQM-1470 on November 1, 1963, as a clone of CHQM-1320 in Vancouver BC. But never saw the ratings or advertising success of CHQM. CJQM had lost one million dollars and, in November 1969, became “the only radio station in North America ever to go bankrupt” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto Ontario, February 12, 1970)
Jim Pattison, owner of CJOR-600 Vancouver, BC, received CRTC approval in 1970 to buy the station, and its FM, for $100,000. CHQM kept the 1963 CJQM-FM automation machine, rumored to be Serial #0005 from IGM’s factory in Bellingham, WA, and moved it to Vancouver where it was used on CHQM-
FM beginning in early 1971.
1290 CJBK ON London – Has been Off The Air since June 2023, but the eight towers at the transmitter site
are still standing.
1330 CJYM SK Rosetown – Noted by a DXer in Trondheim, Norway at 0312 on December 3, while reporting the story to their regional on-line newspaper: westerncentralonline.com.
1470 CJVB BC Vancouver – The CRTC has approved the shutdown of the station, with some of its Chinese programming moving to co-owned (Fairchild Radio Group) CHKG-FM Vancouver BC. This required the CRTC to remove CHKG’s condition of service that did not allow Chinese programming from 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM on weekdays. CJVB’s license will be revoked on March 5 to satisfy the station’s request for “a brief transition period prior to the revocation, in order to notify its listeners in advance.”
Only one member of the original CJVB sign-on (June 18, 1972) staff is still alive: Pat Karl is 86 and still in good health.
Via NRC DX News Dec 30 published Dec 22 in WOR iog (2025-12-22)
Winter solstice bandscan
I didn’t make it outside until 0330Z. I fell asleep.
For December, the weather was good. Dry, cloudy, slight breeze.
First LW: The Gang of Three came in with a good signal. Nothing else unusual that I could hear.
As for MW, signals were weak. I could hear the Brits, poorly, and that was it.
Reynir Heidberg Stefansson (2025-12-22)
Krasnodarskiy krai.
We have good news. We have restored broadcasting on medium wave, 1584 kHz.
This is the first band on which Chistaya Volna FM began broadcasting seven years ago.
Radio amateurs listen to us on these frequencies in the evenings. The range of radio waves depends on weather and atmospheric conditions. We were pleased to receive messages from radio amateurs hundreds and thousands of kilometers from our transmitting center. These include the Krasnodar Krai, Rostov Oblast, Ossetia, Crimea, Stavropol, Finland, and, to our surprise, China. Although the quality in the latter countries leaves much to be desired, the mere fact of receiving even a few minutes of a distant station is already a success for a radio amateur.
We are pleased that our station is attracting interest from avid radio enthusiasts. “73”
Source: https://t.me/chistaya_volna_fm_radio
The history and life of the on-air radio station “Chistaya Volna FM” from the Krasnodar Territory since 2019, from radio amateur and radio host Stanislav Zhuchenko.
(Clean Wave FM Radio (Stanislav Zhuchenko / Telegram)
RUS-DX item 21 December via WOR iog (2025-12-21)
Radio Caroline North on Christmas Day
It’s a first for our modern-day Caroline North team – a broadcast from our radio ship Ross Revenge on Thursday 25th December – Christmas Day!
If you are fed up with Christmas telly then tune to 648AM, DAB or go online with apps or smart speakers, and join us from 7am for a full day’s broadcast, which includes the King’s Christmas message at 3pm.
We’re sponsored by Feature Story News this time, and our live Christmas Day schedule includes Tommy Rivers, Grant Benson, Kevin Turner, and Peter Philips.
And we also hope to see you in 2026 for the next Caroline North broadcast from Ross Revenge over the weekend of 10th – 11th January.
The programme of this can you now find on
https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#caroline_north_schedule.html
Nico from Gouda HOL (2025-12-21)
An AM station in Canada has come back on air…..
Akash Broadcasting has launched Connect AM 1290 in Winnipeg MB, 10kW. Programming is Punjabi. Currently there is a test loop.
The stations calls remain CFRW and it broadcasts with 10kWs. CFRW was the former TSN/Funny outlet that was sold by Bell.
https://connectfm.ca
(per Paul Crankshaw MW Circle via gh’s WoR) Andy Reid (2025-12-21)
BBC Radio 5 Live has – at least since December 19th – been observed on 900 kHz by several sources in the UK.
MWCircle iog (2025-12-21)
Asfalttelegrafen/The Asphalt Telegraph was observed opening on their new frequency of 1440kHz from 18:50UT on Saturday 20 December 2025, as follows:
18:50 “Waltzing Matilda” interval signal
18:55 Opening announcements in Swedish and English
19:00 Arctic Radio Club in Swedish and English, starting with ‘Chattanooga Choo Choo’ and featuring several Radio Luxembourg 208 jingles.
This broadcast is scheduled to be repeated at the same time and frequency tonight, 21 December 2025.
Reception was fair via a webSDR in Arvika, Sweden.
David Kernick, Interval Signals Online to MWlist iog (2025-12-21)