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MN.02.11.1995 Australia in depth

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - October 05, 2020 17:26 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
We started the show with some mid-season frequency changes and some reception problems. Maybe the Russian relays of RNW may work better? Hans Bakhuizen reports that 1200 have gathered in Geneva where they are trying to simplify the radio regulations. European international stations want just two ...

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MN.06.06.1995 SpreadSpectrum

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - October 05, 2020 17:21 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Jan Willem Drexhage tells us about new satellite subcarriers. Listeners ask us to explain the Luxembourg Effect which turned out to be a natural phenomenon. We look at the first Boundless Sound conference in Amsterdam, with a memorable montage explaining why TV cannot deal with ideas. Chris Green...

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MN.18.05.1995. KGB

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - October 05, 2020 17:17 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
The programme starts with tuning tips from Arthur Cushen. We went to the Evoluon in Eindhoven to hear about the future of CD Interactive. With Nintendo and Sega switching to hardware cartridges the future for CD-I seemed rather bleak. Andy Sennitt reviews on a book called Tumano . The author is O...

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MN.11.05.1995. Vietnam

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - October 05, 2020 17:13 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
This is a mainly news edition of the programme covering the news that PA6RHN from Eindhoven was a success. will increase its power to 500 watts. Radio Charlie is a special station in Berlin. BFBS in Germany is busy with an anniversary gala in Hamburg. HD TV in the US has hit a snag. We look at t...

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MN 23.05.1995. aum DAB Netherlands

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - September 20, 2020 18:50 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In previous editions of Media Network we mentioned the strange Japanese religious station Aum Shinrikyo. They had hired a huge number of transmitters in Russia, while the broadcasts came from a DAT tape in Moscow. Things changed dramatically in this week in March 1995 when the sect was connected ...

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MN.11.05.1995. Vietnam Revealed

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - September 20, 2020 18:47 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
This is a mainly news edition of the programme covering PA6RHN from Eindhoven was a success. will increase its power to 500 watts. Radio Charlie is a special station in Berlin. BFBS in Germany is busy with an anniversary gala in Hamburg. HD TV in the US has hit a snag. We look at the 20th annive...

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MN.09.03.1995 News Edition NASA

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - September 20, 2020 11:45 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
The Big Bells contest results, we announce the prize winners. Radio Delta 171 having second thoughts about longwave. NASA has been flying a Boeing plane over the VOA Greenville transmitter site to understand electromagnetic interference. DJ Wolfman Jack wants recordings of his early shows from Me...

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MN.09.02.1995 Community Africa

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - September 20, 2020 11:41 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
This programme examines the extensive floods that are threatening the Netherlands and the role played by Dutch local community radio. We also devoted a lot of time in this edition to an extensive report by Veronica Wilson from the AMARC Community gathering in Africa. It includes an interview with...

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MN.02.02.1995 Aurora Jim

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - September 20, 2020 11:35 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
This programme starts with the first extensive interview we did with broadcaster, listener and genuinely nice guy Jim Cutler. How ISDN is revolutionizing the voice acting business? Jim explains the difference between jingles and sweepers and how he makes them in the new era of digital production....

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MN.26.01.1995 Satellite Overview

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - September 20, 2020 11:32 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
This programme gives a good overview of what people were tuning into on the new range of European broadcast satellite. We started with the news that BBC World  DW switched off the Amsterdam cable. WDR is now back instead. Several radio stations have now switched to digital distribution. Low power...

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MN.26.03.1998 Portugal NZDXL

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - August 29, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In their heyday, radio listener clubs did a lot to create awareness about international shortwave broadcasting. In this edition of Media Network from March 1998. This edition looks at the sign-off of Radio Portugal for the last time in English. The Oscars are being streamed on the Internet for th...

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MN.05.06.1997. OpenDay 50th

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - August 29, 2020 16:41 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
We included full plans for the 50th Anniversary Open day on June 7th 1997. We also made a TV documentary called Lifelines (available on line Zomer-TV will resume on July 1st 1997. We look at Voice of Hope via Tbilisi which is new. International Broadcasting Corporation Tamil. There is a special ...

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MN.23.01.1997 Australia

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - August 29, 2020 16:35 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Most of this programme was devoted to the looming threats Interview with former Radio Australia DG Peter Barnett. The station costs US10 million a year to run. Staff suspended some transmissions in protest. There are no votes in Radio Australia”. Book Review. Joerg Klingenfuss has a CD with 2 ½ h...

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MN 29.05.1997. Freeplay Next Steps

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - August 16, 2020 14:16 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Where was the old theme from DXJB used in a film? The photo may be a clue. Hilversum had a serious communications problem just at the moment President Clinton arrived in the Netherlands. We looked at the Baygen Freeplay Radio which has moved on from the days (1995) when Trevor Bayliss was involve...

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MN.22.05.1997. SW12

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - August 16, 2020 14:14 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
We visited Nethold to find out more about digital satellite television in Africa, Diana spoke with Jock Anderson in South Africa. Stocks and Shares has had its transmissions via Meyerton terminated. We look at a new analogue portable from Sony ICF-SW12. We think it is poor value for money. The ti...

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MN.15.05.1997 Offshore Jingles

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - August 16, 2020 14:07 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
The History of Offshore Radio Jingles was a brilliant collaboration between Keith Skues (photo credit Offshore Echoes) and the Society of Jingles and Themes in Breda. We take a listen. The top end of the shortwave receiver market has slowed. So, we look review the AKD Target HF-3.  We talked to t...

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MN.06.02.1997.Delta 171 Penguins

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - August 16, 2020 14:04 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
We follow-up on the Delta 171 Radio longwave project. They now have announced an address: P.O. Box 7065 Amsterdam has big plans. Radio Caroline may return from Ireland. Peter Moore also has plans. The DX-files. We plan to explain, We also look at Antarctica. 2020 update: The website penguincentra...

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MN.31.07.1997.Newsreview

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - July 31, 2020 23:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Radio Netherlands opens a new satellite service to stations for 16 hours a day. Lee Martin has an office in New Jersey. Iran has opened a massive new shortwave site, though no-one is sure how many transmitters are ready. Radio Prague has announced possible cutbacks. Thieves have stolen a lot of c...

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MN.04.09.1997.Funkausstellung

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - July 31, 2020 22:21 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
A reportage from the International Audio and Video Electronics show in Berlin. This year was the launch for the DVD format, with a vast improvement on VHS. Philips has a rival system called MPEG-Multichannel audio. I remember Professor Doug Boyd was involved to set up the new DRM standard, which ...

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MN.24.07.1997.CNN Center Atlanta

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - July 31, 2020 22:16 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Diana Janssen and Jonathan Marks arrived in Atlanta at the weekend. That was a big mistake – the centre of downtown Atlanta was deserted, except for people queuing to visit the Coca Cola museum on the Sunday afternoon. We talked to Ted Turner to discover his philosophy for international broadcast...

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MN.01.05.1997.Satellites in London

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - July 31, 2020 22:13 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
We report from the Cable and Satellite congress in London. Analogue is still alive in Holland and Germany. Digital is still very expensive. Rupert Murdoch has not announced which receivers he will chose for his BSKYB service. Increasingly satellite signals are scrambled. We explain the conditiona...

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MN.24.04.1997.African Media

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - July 31, 2020 22:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
A salesman calls: It seems more than 800 people are building the new satellite service. It is getting ready for launch in July 1998. We also look at the work of AMARC in Africa. It seems the so-called Francophone countries are well ahead of other countries. Nigeria is well behind. The Catholic ch...

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MN.17.04.1997. 50th RNW

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - July 31, 2020 22:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
This programme was broadcast on the station’s 50th anniversary. We learned that World Service of the Christian Science Monitor is getting out of shortwave. Monitor Radio is going away on June 30th 1997. WCSN has already been sold. It cost them US$6 million dollars to run the service. TWR has expa...

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MN.20.02.1997 Alaska KHNS

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - July 31, 2020 22:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
The main feature this week was on public radio in Alaska. In the news, it seems NHK is cutting some of its radio programmes. However, in Australia the situation is the opposite. Although cuts need to be made it seems Radio Australia is favoured by the government instead of the Australian external...

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MN.31.07.1986.CaptainMidnight.Woodpecker

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - June 14, 2020 09:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Analogue satellite stations are scrambling as a result of the HBO Captain Midnight incident. Now the mystery has been solved. John Campbell reports that there are still pirate radio stations operating from Ireland, including Radio Rainbow. Richard Ginbey has new recordings of Voice of the Black C...

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MN.27.10.1986.STADAMS.RadioTruth

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - June 14, 2020 09:18 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Another news edition of the programme. We reported that VOA Europe has been saved. Director Frank Scott in Munich explains how they plan to save money. Plans in French and German have been shelved. A reporter from Radio Marti has been asked not to ask any more questions at US presidential press c...

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MN.21.05.1993.dianaross.kurdistan

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - June 14, 2020 09:16 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
We always had fun with openings on Media Network in an era when programmes had signature tunes, ours included. So we had the BeeGees and Diana Ross open this edition. Radio Netherlands launched a European Press Review – a project which was doomed to failure. Marcel Rommerts reports on new relays ...

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MN.20.12.1984. Radio Monique

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - June 14, 2020 09:14 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
An early edition of the show. We were more reliant on off-air recordings because the phone was poor quality and very expensive.  Radio Monique, from the Ross Revenge ship in the North Sea has appeared on-air as expected. All the usual discussions about where the programmes are being made. The FM ...

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MN.14.09.1989.AudienceResearch

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - June 14, 2020 09:12 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
A news edition of the programme. This year (1989) we’re starting to see the spectrum analysers on radio, ten years after frequency readouts appeared in 1980. The Italian Radio Relay Service is expanding with PLAY DX with Dario Monferini. There’s news of a clandestine Radio Venceremos from El Salv...

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MN.14.08.1986.EAP and Laser 558

The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - June 14, 2020 09:09 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
This edition of programme was subtitled “Crime Time”, a tongue in cheek look at the offshore pirate radio ship Laser 558, later sold to East Anglian Productions. I spoke with Ray Anderson, who said that Laser was going to Gibraltar. The UK Customs authorities have been very active in trying to pr...

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