Month: January 2026

Moldova

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Moldova experienced a major power grid outage today 31st Jan as reported here
https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-blackout-ukraine-power-grid/33665524.html
It seems to have affected broadcasters.

There is no sign of any signal on 621kHz at 1550utc. (not even a carrier trace visible on the BDMR).
There is no Radio Rossi on 999 but this is listed with short hours of broadcasting; Spain in the clear here at 1550utc.
1494 is harder to check as Radio Blackbeard in the Uk is operating here.

Steve Whitt to MWCircle iog (2026-01-31)

United States

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Seehafer Broadcasting Full Service AC 1240 WOMT/107.9 W300EE Manitowoc WI will begin simulcasting on 98.9 WEMP Two Rivers on Sunday, February 1 with a call change to WOMT-FM.
The change will bring an end to the Easy Listening programming currently heard on WEMP.
Vice President of Operations Terry Stevenson said, “For the past two years, our team has been thoughtfully planning not only how to celebrate 100 years of live, local radio — but how to ensure the relevancy, sustainability, and growth of WOMT for the next generation. Simulcasting on both AM and FM allows WOMT to significantly expand both its geographical reach and demographic reach.”
The company also announced that University of Wisconsin basketball and football and Green Bay Packers football will move from WEMP to Classic Rock “Q102” WQTC, while Milwaukee Brewers baseball, Milwaukee Bucks basketball, and local high school sports will remain on WMT.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/337628/womt-adds-full-power-fm-simulcast/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2026-01-30)

Argentina

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It was reported in MV-Eko 66-12 and January’s MWN [and in https://mediumwave.info/2025/11/19/argentina-48/ November 19th, 2025 / Ed] that CNN programming on 950 LR3 would cease on 19th December. It was expected to play music for a while before returning to its former identity as Radio Belgrano in “mid-January”.
The end of CNN on 950 after six years occurred, as anticipated, at 0400 on 20th December.After the witty insertion of a football referee’s full-time whistle, music started with the announcement “Una nueva radio está llegando – streAM 950”. You can hear the end of CNN here https://uk.radiocut.fm/audiocut/lr3-am-950-final-cnn-radio-argentina-y-comienzo-stream-950/ .
Listening today on LU4EEC’s KiwiSDR, the station is playing a mix of music – from excellent retro ska “Calaveras y Diablitos” by Argentine band “Los Fabulosos Cadillacs” to “I don’t like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats (NB no use of Shazam or any artyfishul intellygence, just Mk.1 human ears). The station identifies (not too frequently) as “streAM 950”. In fact I heard the same ID mentioned above that followed the full-time whistle.
I think that this is the long term new format for the station, not just “until mid-January” – see 
https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/la-ex-cnn-se-llamara-stream-950-a-partir-del-ano-que-viene-nid25112025/

Andrew Brade to MWCircle iog (2026-01-30)

Greece

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Today I listened to Radio Dekatria from Greece on 1368 kHz at 1603 UTC. The following announcements by a male speaker were heard:

  1. “Eíkosi téseris óres akoúte ellinikí kalí mousikí apó to Rádio Dekatría.”
  2. “To Studio Dekatría, i téchno mousikí kai i kinimatografía. Máios!”

Translation:

  1. “Twenty-four hours a day you listen to good Greek music on Radio Thirteen.”
  2. “Studio Thirteen: techno music and cinema. May!”

NB: Transcription and translation from Greek by ChatGPT.

According to a list of Greek radio stations at the following link 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Greece Radio Dekatria (which can be translated as Radio 13) broadcasts from Thessaloniki. 
It should also be mentioned that  mwlist.org, lists  on 1368 kHz only one station from Greece: Chalastra Radio.

Antonello Napolitano, DX Fanzine (2026-01-28)

United States

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Nashville area AM radio devastation
{OTA = off the air, tho obviously could also mean ON the air — gh}
A devastating scene of events with the ice storm in the Tennessee, specifically, the Nashville area. Here’s is the staggering amount of stations affected right now using an area Kiwi SDR:
540 WKFN no local feed
560 WNSR OTA
650 WSM on a reduced bandwidth aka backup transmitter? I need help from locals on this one
760 WENO OTA
810 WMGC OTA
880 WMDB OTA
1130 WYXE OTA
1240 WNVL OTA
1270 WQKR OTA or reduced power
1300 WNOM OTA {sic = WNQM of WWCR}
1430 WYGI OTA
1510 WLAC OTA.

I have never seen this kind if devastation in all my years of dxing. Prayers!

Todd Skaine, Minneapolis, MN to WOR iog (2026-01-26)

Argentina

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Radio 26 de Julio (‘R26’), which broadcasts from the town of Glew, Almirante Brown District, Province of Buenos Aires, has moved to the new frequency of 680 KHz, thus abandoning its previous frequency of 1580 KHz. It is worth noting that this is not the first time this change has occurred, as this station had already been operating at 680 KHz towards the end of 2022, later returning to 1580 KHz. It is also important to note that a few months before that, the new AM 680 RADIO ACTIVA appeared on the airwaves, operated by the same owners of RADIO 26 DE JULIO, and which initially began to rebroadcast the latter’s signal.
Its 42-metre-high transmission antenna is located in the vicinity of its studios (Coordinates: 34°53’55.0‘S, 58°23’40.1’W) and it is unknown whether it continues to use the same Adema TXAM-102 1 kW transmitter to broadcast its signals. We would like to thank our friend and reader ‘Gonza’ for the information. He was the first to inform us of the frequency change of this AM station.

Argentina en AM y FM Facebook group (2026-01-19)

Russia

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Radio Maria (Saint Petersburg) on 1053 kHz is back on the air. They’ve been on the air since 05:00 UTC on January 19th.
Transmitter power is 10 kW.
(Radiopriem / Telegram)

RUS-DX #1378, Anatoly Klepov (2026-01-24)