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Posted on 10/25/2014 8:42:21 AM PDT by mylife
This is one of the most exciting developments I’ve seen in international broadcasting in ages: an around-the-clock, fixed-frequency, commercial shortwave radio broadcaster, transmitting via WRMI.
The new Global24 will begin broadcasting on Friday, October 31, 2014 at 19:00 EDT (0000 UTC November 1st) on 9395 kHz.
Below, you’ll find Global24’s first press release:
(Source: Global24Radio.com)
(Hollywood, FL) Oct. 21, 2014 – Global 24 Radio LLC announced today that its inaugural broadcast will go live at 7:00 p.m., Friday, Oct. 31 (0000 UTC November 1), with a line-up of new and well-known programs and around-the-clock English language programming. The broadcast can be heard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 9395 kHz on WRMI broadcasting from Okeechobee, Florida.
“We’re very excited about launching Global 24 and the important contributions it will make to shortwave radio listening – as both a medium worth preserving and a vital part of the modern media mix for so many listeners around the world,” said Phil Workman, general manager of Global 24. “Our broadcast will appeal to dedicated shortwave listeners (SWL) all over the world looking for breaking news, opinion and music.”
Global 24 aims to revitalize the shortwave medium by bringing general interest news and entertainment into sharper focus for listeners looking for high quality programming on a daily basis. Regular listeners will be informed, entertained and engaged in an ever more complex world.
According to Jeff White, general manager of WRMI, “Global 24 represents another step in the long overdue commercialization of shortwave radio. We are excited to be working with them on their ambitious program to engage and entertain a global audience.”
Additional press releases in coming days will announce our broadcast schedule, our Listeners’ Club, contests, sponsors, our web store, staff and much more. Follow us on Twitter at @Global24Radio or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/global24radio. Visit our website: http://www.global24radio.com to join our email newsletter for the most current updates.
I’m in contact with Global24 and will continue to post updates as they become available.
Simply follow the tag: Global24
very cool, lots of knobs and meters to play with.
Now they probably sell some kind of simulator to pop up on the screen.
I have some old Bearcat scanners I wrote an app for to interface through the serial port.
It sent all the commands, and displayed all the channels on screen. Spent a lot of time on that. Never made any money. Originally in VB6, then ported to C#.
Excellent news! I knew that sooner or later someone (other than Brother Stair) would realize the potential of shortwave broadcasting to inexpensive reach millions of listeners worldwide. Easy-to-use digital shortwave radios are $20 and you don’t need a “data plan” :-)
Looking forward to another voice in the ether that is worth listening to.
I had a Grundig S350, nice radio - but too much station drift.
Now have C Crane SW/AM/FM (item CSW) - more better.
Also, check out eham.net
Exactly.
Brother Stair and The Good News Network are on hard times so airwaves are cheap.
heh heh heh
Thanks. I’ve heard that C Cranes are good.
I’m glad there will be another voice on shortwave. I can’t list everything that was eliminated or cut back. I do stream a lot of stations with the TuneIn app, and it is great, but there is nothing like tuning into radio directly. I remember a few years ago trying to stream anything about the Olympics. I tried to stream Radio Australia but it was blocked because of the Olympics. So I tuned to 9580 and was able to hear the same news program that was blocked. A lot of English language news sources were blocked during the Olympics. I was able to stream some German language sources and get news of the Olympics that way - maybe they figured it was so small of an audience to wasn’t worth blocking German sources. It was real creepy how they could block the news like that. So, if you want to avoid censorship, radio has an advantage, although of course it can be jammed.
I have been upset that so much of shortwave broadcasting from America consists of really fringe and cultic religious programming. I am glad that evidently this new station will be something different from that.
Well you’re able to do things I’ve never even thought of doing.
It is a lot of fun to tinker. Kudos for your realized efforts on the project.
I’m not big into short wave and I didn’t mean to cause folks to think otherwise. I have been fascinated by what short wave made possible.
Radio is amazing to me. During my high school years, I had an old stand up radio, about 36” high. It had a wooden cabinet. Can’t remember all the bands, but I believe it had AM/FM (perhaps not FM), and short wave.
I listened to the English language broadcast during the U. S. S. R. invasion of Czechoslovakia right up until the station went off the air.
It was incredible to listen to history as it played out. Even at 17, I was impressed by the significance of this. The evil empire was plying it’s trade.
They just don’t know how to yell at people to “GET ON THE TELEPHONE” like the late great Dr. Gene Scott did ;-) And the good doctor/stripper/wife replacement just doesn’t have the right stuff either...
He’d play some great bumper music, then I’d tune out once he started ranting again. I fondly remember listening to Superpower KUSW out of SLC and of course “The Rock of New Orleans” WRNO back in the 80s. Airchecks of each can be heard here:
http://midx.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/80s-shortwave-broadcast-recordings/
I had a neighbor who was into Ham radio big time. Built his own stuff. 30 years ago he had a gizmo that would listen to specially encoded signals and write out the text. Slow as hell but it worked.
There is the rub with radio, it is really difficult to jam without a massive overt effort.
Internet is lovely, but so easy to block.
Bring me the critters!
Heck, even my Realistic “Astronaut 8” will get Global 24. First thing I bought as a kid with my own money.
9.395 mhz same as 9395 khz right? 3rd button “SW1”.
Also have a new-fangled Sony digital one. But the Realistic is easier to use. And even has “Band Spread”, like fine-tuning.
will it be co opted by the progressives?
RTTY Radio Teletype.
Run the IF of your radio into any soundcard on a computer, download the free software and viola!
Texting via airwave.
Pictures and video may be sent as well.
Extremely doubtful.
Tune in next week and find out.
can you (or anyone else here) recommend a relatively inexpensive SW radio that is easy to use?
short ping
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