CANADA 610 CHNC (and 1150) Closedown: Ken Baird noted CHNC was missing at 0700 this morning so I emailed them. They confirmed that they have ceased transmissions on 610.
Bonjour !
CHNC a dû cesser sa diffusion simultanée sur les fréquences AM 610 et 1150 depuis hier, le 31 octobre 2010. Pour continuer de capter nos programmes, veuillez syntoniser les fréquences FM:
107,1 New Carlisle
99,1 Carleton
98,3 Chandler
99,3 Gaspé
Vous pouvez également nous écoutez sur le site Internet radiochnc.com, sur Cogéco Câble 99,1 FM et Briand et Moreau Cable 106,3 FM.
Merci de votre compréhension ! Salutations !
Paul Crankshaw via mwcircle yg (1/11-2010)
CANADA
End of an era as CHSC AM-1220 signs off.
This weekend ushered in the end of a St. Catharines radio era as CHSC AM-1220 officially went off the air.
The move follows a Thursday decision by the federal court of appeal not to allow an appeal of its licence quashing.
On July 30, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission denied an application to renew the broadcasting licence of the station.
It said owner Pellpropco Inc. repeatedly showed non-compliance and disregard for its regulatory obligations.
Among many complaints was that it was serving a GTA Italian-speaking audience and providing insufficient St. Catharines content— the jurisdiction it's licensed to serve.
It had ordered the licensee to cease broadcasting at the end of the Aug. 31 broadcasting day.
Pellpropco obtained an interim injunction to stay on the air while the federal court of appeal considered the owner's appeal of the CRTC decision.
The station, launched in 1967, has seen tough financial times.
Coultis Broadcasting Ltd. bought it from Redmond Broadcasting Inc. in 1990.
CHSC had been operating under a bankruptcy protection proposal since 1994. The court deemed it bankrupt Dec. 2, 1999 and KPMG took over the station. Pellpropco acquired it in 2002.
CHSC's former home at 36 Queenston St. and the contents of the building were sold in a bailiff's auction in 2008. The Standard via Andy Reid via dxld yg (5/10-2010)
CANADA
Some may have read on other news boards that CJUL Cornwall ON [1220 kHz] has been closed. Check here http://www.am1220.ca
I can confirm this as I went by Cornwall on Aug 21. They are running a tape loop with JJ Johnston, Manager and Lorne Wiebe News Director explaining the reason etc. Runs about 4 mins.
I wish I could pull that in here in Peterborough but CHSC is blocking it (This stn. too has to leave the air by the end of the month as their lic. was pulled by the CRTC). Andy Reid via dxld yg (22/8-2010)
CANADA 930 CJYQ NL St. John's: Applies for U5 25000/3500, decreasing their nighttime power and going non-directional and relocating that night transmitter. The wording of the application isn’t too clear whether they plan to locate the night transmitter to another second site (they are now a 2-site operation), or consolidate the day and night sites. They state that the night antenna site is unusable due to deterioration caused by the coastal Newfoundland weather.
Source: NRC via Barry Davies, mwcircle yg (8/8-2010)
CANADA CJYQ (Newfoundland 930 kHz) transmitter sites.
I just spend some time to find out more about this story. This may be a surprise, but CJYQ is the most easily audible TA signal in Europe, thus the particular interest.
Newcap Broadcasting applied for a site change, which has been approved: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-253.htm
This is the transmitter site in question, in the western outskirts of St. John's, next to a highway exit (which is featured on Flickr, but unfortunately in both cases with the location of the masts out of frame): http://maps.google.de/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=47.576019,-52.784092&spn=0.00532,0.009559&t=h&z=17
The plan from last year was to move 930 kHz to a transmitter site that was until autumn 2008 (authorization for its operation expired on Oct 7 2008) in use with 5 kW on 560 kHz and had to be shut down as result of a "move to FM" process, with the coverage of new FM outlet apparently being inferior to an extent that it appears to be a case of shooting in one's on feet: http://maps.google.de/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=47.659925,-53.250464&spn=0.002656,0.00478&t=h&z=18
Now I wonder if the change has really been made? If so they plan to abandon the new (rather reused) site already after just one year. Almost unthinkable here in Europe. And I also wonder why they bother at all, since the whole thing appears to be just some tourism promotion now. I would have rather suspected that they would simply shut down the crumbling facility and be done with this mediumwave frequency. Kai Ludwig via dxld yg (25/7-2010)
CANADA
They plan to co-locate with VOCM: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-486.htm
Site located at 47.32.38N 52.46.40W. Per the application, I guess the ex CHVO site was in pretty rough shape. Andy Reid via dxld yg (25/7-2010)
CJYQ-930 St. John's NL has applied to the CRTC to go non-directional and to decrease the night power from 25 kW to 3.5 kW. Day power would remain at 25 kW.
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-486.htm :
St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
Application No. 2010-0975-4
Application by Newcap Inc. relating to the broadcasting licence for the English-language
commercial AM radio programming undertaking CJYQ St. John’s.
The licensee proposes to amend the authorized contours by changing the antenna radiation
pattern from directional to non-directional, decreasing the transmitter power from 25,000 watts to 3,500 watts night time while maintaining it at 25,000 watts day time, and by changing the antenna site.
The licensee states that the previous antenna site is unusable due to deterioration
caused by the coastal Newfoundland weather.
73, Deane McIntyre VE6BPO, Calgary Alberta via mwn editor, mwcircle yg (19/7-2010)
CANADA
This from the IRCA: 1570 QC Laval CFAV new name, from Radio Boomer to 1570 AM , remains oldies. Barry Davies via mwcircle yg (15/7-2010)
CANADA CHHA-1610 Toronto ON has applied to the CRTC to change its power from 10 kW-day, 1kW-night, both non directional to 6.25 kW- unlimited directional, with a null to protect CJWI-1610 Montreal.
The change to a directional antenna was requested by Industry Canada in response to complaints by CJWI. The application by CJWI to move to 1410 has been approved but has not yet been implemented.
The directional antenna proposed is not the usual array of two or more towers, but rather a single tower with a tuned guy wire to create the required directional pattern. I would advise anyone interested in directional arrays to read the engineering brief which is part of
the application, a link to which can be found with the application: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-301.htm#3
Toronto, Ontario Application No. 2009-1739-6
Application by San Lorenzo Latin American Community Centre to amend the technical parameters of the Type B community radio programming undertaking CHHA Toronto.
The licensee proposes to change CHAA's authorized contours by decreasing the transmitter power from 10,000 watts to 6,250 watts day time, and increasing the transmitter power from 1,000 watts to 6,250 watts night time.
The population within the 15 mV/m contour would decrease from 1,315,982 to 1,067,284 in the day time, and increase from 194,073 to 1,067,284 in the night time. The population within the 5 mV/m contour would decrease from 2,828,585 to 2,409,869 in the day time, and increase from 500,010 to 2,409,869 in the night time.
The licensee states that the proposed changes will result in a better quality signal to listeners located in the northwest part of its licensed area who are currently experiencing poor reception of CHHA.
73, Deane McIntyre VE6BPO, May 21, DXLD 10-21 (26/5-2010)
CANADA
While waiting for something to happen on medium wave, I learned that station CJWI is about to move from 1610 Khz to 1410 KHz with a steady 10Kw instead of 1Kw. Sylvain Naud via mwdx yg (25/5-2010)
CANADA 930 CJYQ St, John's: Now iding as "This is Newfoundland Labrador". Station website http://www.thisisnewfoundlandlabrador.ca/ Paul Crankshaw via mwcircle yg (23/5-2010)
CANADA
A power failure at a CBC transmitter west of Winnipeg has hushed the radio broadcast on the AM dial.
Programming can still be heard at 89.3 FM but selecting 990 on the AM side only brings soft static. There is a backup generator at the site in but that too, has failed.
Crews are working to restore power. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/04/27/mb-cbc-transmitter-failure-winnipeg.html#ixzz0mKkJ8qMf CBC News via Mike Terry, mwdx yg (27/4-2010)
CANADA
If you're an AM DXer in the eastern part of North America, you'll be interested to know CINF 690 and CINW 940 Montreal are going off the air permanently as of 7 p.m. tonight (0000 UTC Saturday).
The two stations are victims of the recession, says the station's owner, Corus Quebec. There were eight layoffs at CINF and two at CINW.
As of now, a press release and a recorded message from the station manager is all you get when you go to http://www.940hits.com/
The site for CINF http://www.info690.com/ redirects you to the homepage of Corus Quebec news.
73, Ricky Leong, Calgary via dxld yg (29/1-2010)
CANADA
/ UNID
Hi! What was the station which played nonstop "Final Countdown" music on 31st December 2009 on 1540 kHz? Maybe a North American (Canadian) station closing down AM in 2010? I got the best signal with 293 degrees antenna.
Happy New Year 2010 and Good DX!
73s Hannu Romppainen, mwcircle yg (1/1-2010)
CANADA CJEU is a Canadian radio station broadcasting French-language children's programming on 1670 kHz AM. CJEU is licensed to Gatineau, Québec, next to the capital Ottawa. The first test transmissions were reported heard in many parts of North America on December 10. The license is held by Fondation Radio-Enfant, a non-profit educational agency, and the station identifies as "Radio Enfant". CJEU operates 24/7 at a power of 1 kilowatt both day and night. The radio not only aims its programs at children and youth, but the programs are also made by children to some extent. The station is located at Atelier Radio Enfant Inc, Studio de la Maison de la culture, 855 boul de la Gappe pièce 310, Gatineau, Québec J8T 8H9, Canada. CJEU can also be contacted by email or by phone at +1-819-243-6226. DXing.info (12/12-2009)
CANADA CFUN AM 1410http://www.talk1410.com Vancouver is now fully operational from its new transmitter site in Delta. The old site will be kept operational until December to allow CFUN to remain on the air while engineers tune CKST AM 1040 http://www.team1040.ca/ which is
currently operating at half power from the new site. The old CKST towers, immediately to the north of the new ones, will be cut down next Monday. CHUM Radio engineers expect to have CKST fully operational at its new location by the end of this month. Both stations will broadcast with 50 kW from the new state-of-the-art seven tower site at 49-05-33 122 57. CFUN will radiate directionally from two towers with the same constants day and night, while CKST will be directional from 5 towers with different constants day and night.
Northwest Broadcasters website 10/16/09: http://members.shaw.ca/nwbroadcasters/recentnews.htm via Pat Martin, IRCA via mwcircle yg (18/11-2009)
CANADA
Changes at CFUN: Heard at 1000 UTC"14-10 AM is now "Team 14-10" with ESPN. Paul Crankshaw, mwcircle yg (10/11-2009)
CANADA 1410 CFUN BC Vancouver: Former talk station flipped to all-sports format 11/5; now known as “Team 1410” with all jock talk. Heavy coverage of NHL hockey and Canadian Football League. I’ll miss their Canadian-perspective talk format. Jim Tedford Bothell, WA via NRC via Barry Davies, mwcircle yg (7/11-2009)
Their web page says it will be ESPN. I wonder whats happening to co-owned 1040 CKST, sports on both stations? Barry Davies, mwcircle yg (7/11-2009)
CANADA Just to let you all the AM Dxer's know that AM 790 CIGM 50,000 watt AM transmitter in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada was shutdown on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 5:00 pm EDT and their old website is still active at: http://www.790cigm.com/ - it says a message to let people know it's no longer online.
This evening, I had received one of the following radio stations that were once buried under CIGM:
WAEB News/Talk 790 Allentown, PA - 7:06 PM EDT. I also received a few other stations mixing in and cannot make them out, although I did hear some country music and couldn't catch any station ID's. I also hear a steady humming sound on AM 790. Anybody else hear that hum?
I look forward to your replies soon! Lee- Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (1/10-2009)
Sad to see that more and more MW stations are closed down. The second Canadian AM station leaving mediumwave in a few days. First CKRU 980 in Peterborough and now CIGM 790 in Sudbury! Ydun Ritz (1/10-2009)
CANADA
Today at 4PM, 2000UT Sept 28, CKRU 980 [nee CHEX] signed off air. Peterborough
Ontario's first AM station was its last, as well.
In Eastern and Northern Ontario, all that remains on AM [over 250 Watts] is Belleville, Cornwall, Ottawa x 5 and North Bay. Sudbury will be shutting down soon - in theory! Andy Reid (29/9-2009)
CANADA There have been conflicting reports on different news groups of the closure of CIGM AM 790 Sudbury, in light of the launch of their new FM station, Hot 93.5.
CIGM AM remains on air. I just heard the calls and the new logo; Hot 93.5 @ 0022 Aug 29
UT. They are airing the new FM signal that carries modern rock.
Though seemingly, not as strong as in the past, CIGM is still on the air. Andy Reid, Canada (30/8-2009)
CANADA
The AM 790 transmitter in Sudbury is still in operation as of August 29, 2009 and is simulcasting CIGM-FM 93.5 FM.
The old AM 790 transmitter is expected to shutdown by the end of the year, although no date has yet been confirmed.
Please contact the station at http://www.hot935.ca
Thanks. Lee (30/8-2009)
CANADA DXmidAMerica also reports: 790 CIGM Sudbury, ON now Silent 8/28. Barry Davies via MWC (28/8-2009)
CANADA 790 CIGM [Sudbury ON] remains on air simulcasting their new FM Hot 93.5. I am able to hear it after dark with the FM ID and rock music. Andy Reid (26/8-2009)
CANADA 790, CIGM leaving the air this weekend? Bjarne Mjelde via dxld yg (24/8-2009)
CANADA
Don't believe.......
"980 KRUZ AM, Peterborough ON seems to have left AM........" 980 CKRU is still on air till the fall - if everything goes as planned. Andy Reid, Canada (23/6-2009)
You are right Andy, station still on AM for 2 or 3 months, depending on, how well the new FM frequency 100.5 MHz will work.
Confirmed in a phone call to the station today. Ydun Ritz (24/6-2009)
CANADA 980 KRUZ AM, Peterborough ON seems to have left AM and is now on FM 100.5 MHZ, at least since Saturday June 20th, when I first heard them announce "the new old Kruz FM" - online of course. So far no confirmation from station or from Corus Radio. Ydun Ritz (23/6-2009) Top
CHANNEL ISLANDS
Hello Ydun, it seems that news item was rather misleading as its probably only one programme that has changed, they [BBC R Jersey] even still relay R5 after 0100
according to the schedule! Dave Kenny BDXC (27/11-2010)
CHANNEL ISLANDS
Hello Ydun,
That report about BBC R Jersey closing 1026 khz is completely wrong, the transmitter is still on the air.
I think all that has changed is that overnight 1026 now carries local programming for the south west instead of relaying BBC R5 (now that R5 can be heard on DAB in the channel islands).
Analogue TV txs have been switched off in parts of the country but not radio!
73s Dave Kenny (22/11-2010)
CHANNEL ISLANDS
ISLANDERS are missing out on receiving some digital channels because there are fewer frequencies available in the Channel Islands.
On Wednesday, [Radio] Jersey’s analogue signal [1026 kHz/ed] was switched off for ever, allowing Freeview digital channels to be broadcast across the Channel Islands for the first time.
But while Islanders are now receiving an additional 13 channels on top of the four that they had before, viewers in the UK are receiving significantly more than that.
Meanwhile, another effect of the digital switchover is that Islanders will no longer be able to listen to Five Live on the radio in the evenings. Previously, Radio Jersey’s medium wave signal carried Five Live in the evenings.
However, because Five Live is one of the radio stations that is available with the new digital television signal, BBC Jersey have decided to now instead carry regional evening broadcasting on MW – the same as they currently do on FM. This Is Jersey (20/11-2010) Top
CHINA
Tentative B-09 China Radio International schedule [MW].
0000-0057 - Cambodian 684dof-hai, Russian 1521htb-xin, Vietnamese 603dof-hai
0100-0157 - Russian 1521htb-xin
0200-0257 - Russian 963por-fin
0300-0357 - English 738msk, Russian 963por-fin
0400-0557 - Vietnamese 684dof-hai, 603dof-hai
0700-0757 - English 1215fla-alb
0800-0857 - English 1215fla-alb, Russian 1323htb-xin, 1116har-hei, 963hua-jil
1100-1157 - Burmese 1269xua-yun, Cantonese 603dof-hai, English 1269xua-yun,
Esperanto 1017cah-jil, Japanese 1044hnl-jia, Korean 1323hua-jil, Russian 1521htb-xin,
1323htb-xin, 963hua-jil, Vietnamese 1296kun-yun
1130-1157 - Filipino 1341hdu-gua
1130-1227 - Thai 1080xua-yun
1200-1257 - English 1341hdu-gua, 1269xua-yun, 1188kun-yun, 684dof-hai, Japanese
1044hnl-jia, Korean 1323hua-jil, 1017cah-jil, Russian 1521htb-xin, 1323htb-xin, 963hua-jil,
Vietnamese 1296kun-yun
1300-1357 - Burmese 1188kun-yun, English 1341hdu-gua, Hindi 1422kas-xin, Japanese
1044hnl-jia, Korean 1323hua-jil, 1017cah-jil, Russian 1521htb-xin, 1323htb-xin, 963hua-jil
Vietnamese 1296kun-yun, 603dof-hai
1330-1427 - Thai 1080xua-yun
1400-1457 - English 1422kas-xin, Japanese 1044hnl-jia, Korean 1017cah-jil, Nepalese 1269xua-yun, Russian 1521htb-xin, 1323htb-xin, 963hua-jil, Sinhalese 1188kun-yun, Urdu 1422kas-xin, Vietnamese 1296kun-yun, 684dof-hai, 603dof-hai
1430-1457 - Filipino 1341hdu-gua
1430-1527 - Lao 1080xua-yun
1500-1557 - English 1323htb-xin, 1188kun-yun, 558lon, Japanese 1044hnl-jia, Russian 1521htb-xin,?1323htb-xin, 963hua-jil, 963por-fin, Urdu 1422kas-xin, Vietnamese 684dof-hai, 603dof-hai
1600-1657 - Albanian 1215fla-alb, English 1323htb-xin, 1080xua-yun, 963por-fin, 558lon,
Hindi 1422kas-xin, 1269xua-yun, 1188kun-yun, Russian 1521htb-xin
1700-1757 - Bulgarian 1458fla-alb, English 1323htb-xin, 1080xua-yun, 558lon, Esperanto 1215fla-alb, Russian 1521htb-xin
1800-1857 - Italian 1458fla-alb, Russian 1521htb-xin, Romanian 1215fla-alb, 963por-fin,
1900-1957 - Russian 1521htb-xin
1900-2057 - German 1440mar-lux
2000-2057 - French 963por-fin
2001-2059 - Hungarian 1458fla-alb
2100-2157 - English 1386ltu, Korean 1323hua-jil, 1017cah-jil
2100-2257 - German 963por-fin
2130-2229 - Polish 1458fla-alb
2200-2257 - English 1440mar-lux, Korean 1323hua-jil, 1017cah-jil
2201-2301 - Serbian 1215fla-alb
2230-2330 - Czech 1458fla-alb
2300-2357 - Cambodian 684dof-hai, English 1440mar-lux, Vietnamese 603dof-hai
Transformed from B-08 file in http://www2.starcat.ne.jp/~ndxc/ no reliable data info of Pori and Luxembourg MW relays available. Some CRI relays via Russia like Samara and St. Petersburg site ceased probably in B-09 season.
MW relay stations
arm-rus Armavir, Krasnodar Russia
2.2 km large Zarya antenna, 27 masts.
45 28 32.93 N 40 05 38.13 E
cah-jil Changchun, Jilin
44 01 44.64 N 125 24 58.32 E
dof-hai Donfang Gancheng, Hainan Isl
18 53 17.38 N 108 39 20.83 E
fla-alb Fllake, Albania
41 21 52.04 N 19 30 35.46 E
har-hei Harbin Xinxiangfang Chenggaozizhen, Heilongjiang
45 41 33.98 N 126 49 05.99 E
hdu-gua Huaxian Guangzhou, Guangdong Sheng
23 24 20.17 N 113 14 16.99 E
hnl-jia Changzhou Heng-lin-chen, Jiangsu Sheng
31 42 28.09 N 120 06 38.76 E
htb-xin Hutubi, Xiniang
1521 44 09 50.36 N 86 53 43.75 E
1521 44 09 41.57 N 86 54 13.53 E
1323 44 09 26.24 N 86 53 35.69 E
hua-jil Huadian Yumuqiaozi, Jilin
963 2mast 43 07 15.60 N 126 30 56.74 E
1323 4mast 43 07 26.51 N 126 31 25.54 E
kas-xin Kashi, Xiniang
8mast 39 21 02.83 N 75 46 36.04 E
4mast 39 21 06.03 N 75 46 00.65 E
kun-yun Kunming, Yunnan
1188 24 53 03.48 N 102 29 16.76 E
1296 24 52 33.38 N 102 29 17.35 E
mar-lux Marnach, Luxembourg
50 02 45.43 N 06 04 41.94 E
por-fin Pori Preiviiki, Finland
61 28 50.46 N 21 34 08.35 E
xua-yun Xuanwei, Yunnan
26 10 51.00 N 104 02 03.00 E Wolfgang Buschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews (25/10-2009)
CHINA
I have recently returned from a trip to Beijing. Brought my Sangean 606 ATS with me, but it was of not much use. Unfortunately, the hotel where I stayed, wasn't a good dx-place, because of a lot of electrical noise. Besides that, I was too exhausted to listen to the radio, when back from my expeditions to various parts of Beijing and nearest surroundings :-) First of all fullfilling an old dream, once climbing the Great Wall. CRI on 846 kHz was of course audible with very good signal!
On October 8th I visited CRI English Section and got a very warm welcome. I saw the studios and the editorial section; was interviewed to the program "Beyond Bejing". Have been a more or less regular listener to CRI since 1974, so it was quite nice to see some of the faces behind the voices. Ydun Ritz (12/10-2007) Top
COLUMBIA Sonriele a Jesus Radio is now re-broadcast on 1430 KHz via 1430 AM Bogota (Emisora Kennedy), Monday to Sunday at 0030-1130 UTC. At other times the station continues with it’s regular programming. The station has website at http://www.1430amradio.com/ Rafael Rodríguez R. vía Yimber Gaviria, Lista ConDig via DXing the Finnish Way (10/3-2010)
(Sonriele A Jesus Radio is a new catolic station in Bogota and claims transmitting 24 hours on 1580 kHz, but Candela is recently been logged there. This station is in Facebook, here. It’s website at www.sonrieleajesusradio.org seems not to be working at the moment. / finndxer) Top
CROATIA
Dear DXers, Voice of Croatia (Glas Hrvatske) on 1134 kHz via Zadar, 600 kW now airs on a new time segment: 1600-2245z.
Regards, Dragan Lekic, Serbia via dxld yg (8/5-2010)
CROATIA
As of March 01, 2010 Zadar MW transmitter, carrying VOICE OF CROATIA on 1134 kHz instead of 1400-0630 UTC now operates only between 1600 and 2300 UTC! DrAgan via dxld yg (4/3-2010)
CROATIA I was informed by OIV, that the mediumwave transmitter of Radio Osijek on 1557 kHz was switched off too.
73, Patrick Robic (23/4-2008)
CROATIA
Hi Ydun!
My observation were verified today by the transmitter operator OIV, that the mediumwave frequencies 774 kHz / 783 kHz / 1125 kHz and 1143 kHz were closed down. So the only remaining mediumwave frequencies for Glas Hrvatske are 1134 kHz (1250-0530 UTC) and 594 kHz in DRM (0700-1500 UTC).
73, Patrick Robic, Austria (21/4-2008) Top
CUBA New mediumwave transmitters planned in Cuba.
The Radio Cuba Company in the eastern province of Las Tunas has just finished an important large investment process which improves the radio and television services in the territory. The company is working on the placement of repeaters on mediumwave for the signals of Radio Chaparra, the community radio station in the municipality of Jesus Menendez, and for the national Radio Rebelde.
Source: periodico26.cu via Media Network weblog (10/8-2010)
CUBA Received this letter from RHC:
“YEAR 52 OF THE REVOLUTION.”
Dear Friend:
May I get in touch with you once again to say hello and inform you that I’ve retired, so now I’ll be able to spend more time with my grandchildren.
I want to tell you that, one of the greatest pleasures in my lifetime is to have worked in Radio Havana Cuba for more than 40 years and particularly, to have been in regular contact with you, esteemed listeners and friends.
I’m retiring but I’m happy because the group I leave behind share similar feelings and the privilege of communicating with the friends of Cuba in every continent. The new Head of the Department is Rosario Lafita Fernández, with 30 years of experience in the job, who will continue the beautiful work I’ve done with so much love.
With the assurance that you’ll stay in contact with our beloved shortwave station.
Lourdes López.
Lourdes Lopez answered listeners' letters at RHC. Ydun Ritz (16/2-2010)
CUBA
The main damage [by hurricanes Gustav and Ike] to the national radio system occurred as a result of the total destruction of its medium-wave towers (2) and the television tower on the Isle of Youth, affecting radio and television services. A similar situation occurred in Pinar del Río, to the towers of facilities in San Cristóbal, La Palma and Los Palacios and their three television centers. In Havana, the centers in Artemisa and Bauta were damaged.
More on http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/septiembre/mar16/38datos-i.html Ydun Ritz (18/9-2008) Top