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The bleeding continues............ "Dear Readers, We're very sorry to inform you that the English service of Radio Netherlands Worldwide will be closing at the end of this month. As a result, this website will see some changes."..... "The last radio show: On 29 June we will broadcast a radio show looking back at the past decades of Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Have you got a memory to share? Please let us know, at the usual address, letters@rnw.nl, or post a comment below this story, as many have already done. We'd love to hear from you." http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/were-changing |
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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2012, 01:53:11 PM » |
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Canada...Vatican...now the Netherlands. Another nail in the non-ham shortwave coffin.
I always enjoyed RNW - in fact it was one of my favorites back in the day. But "the day" is done, and there is absolutely no need for shortwave broadcasting anymore, outside of parts of Africa and Asia. There are 20 Dutch stations available via TuneIn.com (OK, they're broadcasting in Dutch, not English, but still...).
It also looks like there is almost no further need for general-coverage shortwave receivers either. The ham & CB bands have about 90% of the activity on the frequencies between 1.7 and 30 MHz now.
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« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2012, 02:12:55 PM » |
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There are 20 Dutch stations available via TuneIn.com (OK, they're broadcasting in Dutch, not English, but still...).
Not exactly the same thing, but Dutch FM and MW (AM) stations are widely heard OTA in adjacent or nearby countries. The big MW stations are clearly audible in London and southeast England 24/7 via a partial saltwater path. Most of the music on the Dutch stations is familiar English language pop. |
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2012, 02:18:03 PM » |
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There are 20 Dutch stations available via TuneIn.com (OK, they're broadcasting in Dutch, not English, but still...). Not exactly the same thing, but Dutch FM and MW (AM) stations are widely heard OTA in adjacent or nearby countries. The big MW stations are clearly audible in London and southeast England 24/7 via a partial saltwater path. Most of the music on the Dutch stations is familiar English language pop. I was looking on the main page for the Netherlands; each city has many more. There are probably a couple hundred Dutch stations available on TuneIn (I didn't count them all). |
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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2012, 02:31:34 PM » |
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That sounds a little more like it. After reading your post, I was thinking that perhaps there'd been a mass exodus of Dutch stations from Tunein over the last couple of months!
There are also quite a few Dutch broadcasters on Shoutcast and V-Tuners.
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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2012, 12:34:18 PM » |
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Does anyone know whether this also affects RNW's Africa service? The service is in English (and in French), but I think that RNW treats it separately from its general English-language programming.
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« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2012, 07:12:30 AM » |
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I get: "You are not authorized to access this page". I wonder if this is what Kim Andrew Elliott was talking about, when he said he was "on the wrong continent". Talk about Freedom of Speech!  |
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« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2012, 01:42:37 PM » |
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I get: "You are not authorized to access this page". +1 |
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