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MN.23.01.2023 Interview with Dr Graham Mytton
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 23, 2023 20:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsCOVID disrupted just about everything for me. And by New Years Day 2023, I started wondering if there is any value in continuing the Media Network archive I built about international sound broadcasting in the 20th century. What has always kept me going is unearthing the stories of the past and bu...
MN.05.01.2023 Maarten van Delft ID Collection 1988 Caribbean Stations
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 05, 2023 18:03 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsHello, welcome back to Part 2 of the Maarten van delft tapes. This time with unique studio recordings from the Caribbean made around 1988. Here is the link to LIST. Just to recap it is January 2023 and I’m playing around in the Media Network archive vault which sits on my hard drive. In the 197...
MN.03.01.2023 Maarten van Delft ID Collection 1973 Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 03, 2023 20:11 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsHere is s in this episode: Hello, it is January 2023 and I’m playing around in the Media Network archive vault which sits on my hard drive and beckons me to explore forgotten files when I have a moment to spare. In November 2019, a faithful Dutch MN listener Max van Arnhem contacted me with a req...
Media Network Off Air Collection April 2 82
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - April 03, 2022 15:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratingsI am gradually sorting out my off-air radio cassette collection. I realise that if I don't do it now, I will never get around to it. But I also realise that a lot of off-air recordings are disappearing, especially once the radio programme is made, and very few people keep the original interview o...
MN.14.08.1980 Afghanistan and the Soviets
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - June 15, 2021 09:06 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis is the second edition of DX Juke Box that I hosted, having joined Radio Netherlands a couple of weeks earlier. The programme in those days was a mixture of music and tuning tips contributed by others. My goal, together with Wim van Amstel, was to do more investigative reporting. There was no...
RadioMoscowWarmongers
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - February 28, 2021 22:27 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsLook what I found. When I was working for the ORF Shortwave Panorama, BBC Monitoring Service and later Radio Netherlands, I learned the importance of taping everything I was listening to. Radio has no memory. And back in the 70’s and 80’s there was no Wikipedia, no Youtube, no means to check a st...
DXJB.25.09.1980
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - February 28, 2021 22:21 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsAnother early edition of DX Juke Box, with input from my good friend Victor Goonetilleke. I sent him a tape recorder and plenty of cassette. I would phone him and he would record his answers on cassette and send them in. Phone lines were useless in those days. In this edition, Victor was still se...
DXJB.18.09.1980 Early days
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - February 28, 2021 22:14 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsA little over a month after taking over the programme, I was starting to phase out the music in DX Juke Box and bring in more equipment tests to replace the construction lessons. I got a lot of help from Wim Van Amstel. Basically just fooling around. And learning that editing was supposed to be d...
MN.23.01.1986 Radio Fryslan
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - February 28, 2021 22:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsFor some reason this trip up North to Friesland to visit Radio Fryslan was digitized but never uploaded to this Media Network collection. So time to put that right. The picture is the modern studio centre. Very much smaller back then.
MN.01.12.1998 Longwave China
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 30, 2021 21:49 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis edition had another Longwave update. We talk to John Ross Barnard about the attempts to get longwave radio out of the Isle of Man. Delta 171 seems to be a non-starter though. Web TV has challenges too. A personal computer program has been launched for the Lowe HF-150. Phil Murphy has commen...
MN.05.03.1998 Tahiti and Boyd
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 30, 2021 21:26 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn this edition, Lodewijk Bouwens launches DRM at a conference in China on behalf of other Western broadcasters. (This is the earliest announcement we know of concerning digital shortwave radio). We also look at USA Digital Radio. Some good signals came out of RCI in Montreal this week on their 5...
MN.12.02.1998 Campbell Cooper
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 30, 2021 21:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsIgnore all the email address and phone numbers mentioned in this edition of the programme. They are all obsolete. However, we have revived a new email address for reactions on these vintage editions as well as new video editions of the programme for 2021 - please email We started the Feb 1998 ed...
MN.29.01.1998 MW Steve Whitt
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 04, 2021 08:26 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsDuring the lifetime of Series One, we had a great relationship with Steve Whitt of the UK’s Mediumwave Circle. They were kind enough to host our receiver reviews when the radio show ended. And they are . (If you think we should archive those reviews and other DX Publications, please tell us at ) ...
MN.08.01.1998. Moscow Mason Numbers
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 03, 2021 21:56 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis edition of Media Network covered updates on the numbers stations. But we started with news of unusual FM reception in New Zealand from Bryan Clark. Moscow has made a historic cutback to its output. We talk to Elizabeth Fox about broadcasting in Latin America. It was also time to renew the ...
MN.02.01.1998. SW Receiver Survey
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - January 03, 2021 21:19 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsHappy New Year 2021. This is THE place for vintage editions of Media Network, the weekly communications programme as aired on the English Service of Radio Netherlands. This edition broadcast on January 2nd 1998 was unusual in that it was just under 50 minutes long because it fell on a holiday whe...
MN.26.12.1996 Boxing Day at RNW
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - December 24, 2020 22:24 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsChristmas and New Year were traditionally quiet times at Radio Netherlands, with a lot of pre-taped specials. We didn't really know whether anyone was listening. But apparently, they were because we had plenty of feedback to report on in this last Media Network of 1996. So join us for some time t...
MN.25.01.1996 Carleton Vobbe
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - December 24, 2020 22:08 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsI was delighted to discover in December 2020 that Neil Carleton of Almonte, Ontario, Canada remembers us. We remember him. We originally got in touch with him because of his fascination for stamps connected with radio and his spot on HCJB, Quito. He must have owned the world's more comprehensive...
MN.19.12.1996 Radio Safari
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - December 24, 2020 21:53 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsSo whatever happened to the world's first green radio station, Radio Safari? In late 1996, we followed up on a and met up with Andre Waters who had clearly identified a need for such a station in South Africa. But apart from that article and our report 12 months later, I can find no record of wh...
MN.07.11.1996 Meyerton Transmitters
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - December 24, 2020 21:40 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis programme includes a visit to the shortwave transmitter site at a small town lying 15 km north of in , . But the Wikipedia entry doesn't mention the radio towers that once broadcast the external service of Radio RSA during the apartheid era. Later it turned into Channel Africa, and spare a...
MN.02.05.1996 Las Vegas NAB 750th
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - December 24, 2020 21:23 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsI remember this edition of Media Network like it was yesterday. It was edition 750. We had many greetings from around the world. And we reminded people that the programme's success was due to a great deal of help from people like Jim Cutler, John Campbell, Lou Josephs, Mike Bird and Victor Goonet...
MN.21.03.1996 Bhutan BBS
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - December 24, 2020 20:47 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe main part of this edition of Media Network is a rather unique portrait of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service. Thanks to a duty trip by Radio Netherlands producer Dheera Sujan, we were able to visit the national broadcaster in Bhutan, the BBS. I remember the reason the station had a ping-pong tab...
MN.06.03.1997 HAARP COMPLETE
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - November 03, 2020 00:24 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsSatellite Radio is going to happen in the US, despite opposition from the NAB. Q-FM is the new name for Radio London. There is the first of many features on the (now defunct) HAARP project. This segment is probably the most extensive feature we did on the HAARP tests in Gakona, Alaska 99573. We ...
MN.13.03.1997 Yacht Boy 207
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - November 03, 2020 00:20 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe start we extensive tuning tips. High Adventure Ministries Has started transmissions to Europe and opening a postbox in the US. Carl Kruger is hearing Costa Rica. Captain has heard a time signal station from Venezuela on 5 MHz while in the Dominican Republic. BBC. Austria is to resume test tran...
MN.13.02.1997 Before Borat
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - November 03, 2020 00:17 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsLots of calls from listeners at the start of this Media Network. David Ward tells us about a new wind-up radio from Morphy Richards. We compare it with the Baygen motor. Andy Sennitt reports a comprehensive website on AFRTS. http://afrtsarchive.blogspot.com/ . Us backed Radio Free Asia is now on...
MN.06.06.1996.Ariane 5 Fails
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - November 01, 2020 22:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsChannel Africa will lose its funding. The future of the Meyerton. The first Ariane 5 self-destructs. There were four satellites called CLUSTER which were lost. In the end they were rebuilt and launched. Dr Richard Thompson from IPS reports we are passed the end of solar cycle 22. We visit Montre...
MN.18.04.1996 Jemstone
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - November 01, 2020 22:02 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe often spoke with Jemstone founder Tudor Lomas. This was the first time he explains what is happening between Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. BBC World Service Arabic TV service has gone off the air because of a break with its partner ORBIT-TV. Professor Doug Boyd says he was surprise...
MN.04.04.1996 News Edition
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - November 01, 2020 21:59 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe get a reaction on what we should be looking for in radios for visually disabled listeners. Sony is trying to boost its MiniDisc system and has a new SW receiver, the ICFSW40. Sky Radio is furious with the Amsterdam cable system for charging too much. The new 16 by 9 format is starting to take ...
MN.16.11.1995 South Africa
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - October 05, 2020 17:34 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis programme paints an interesting picture of Southern African broadcasting. Gene Reich provides a different opening to the programme which comes from Johannesburg, South Africa. We look at both the domestic and shortwave external services. We include a bandscan from 1995 as we scan the FM dial...
MN.09.11.1995 Instore Radio
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - October 05, 2020 17:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe discuss two new communications receivers from AOR , the 7030 and AR5000. We talk with Roger Hillier from AOR UK. The rest of the programme is a major feature we did about the science behind Instore Radio and how music can influence people’s buying habits. The instore networks are still around,...
MN.02.11.1995 Australia in depth
The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025 - October 05, 2020 17:26 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe 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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