DX LISTENING DIGEST 0-111, September 14, 2000 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com {Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only providing full credit be maintained at all stages and we are provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. For restrictions and searchable archive contents see} http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Dxldmid.html THIS WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO 1051: See topic summary at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/wor1051.html MUNDO RADIAL: Emisión de septiembre/octubre a partir del viernes 15 en WWCR-1 15685 a las 2115; pronto disponible el guión GH ON VOA COMMUNICATIONS WORLD. We are guesting with another media news segment on the Sept 16 edition. Full schedule at http://www.trsc.com/cw ** ARGENTINA. 7720-USB, Feeder for Radio Continental, B.A. heard here at 0230 during soccer match: Velez vs Flamengo. // 8098-LSB which was stronger and clearer. The 7720U had some het and sometimes other ute QRM, anyway a QRK4 for them here. Rechecked at 1127 also relaying Continental with promo for ``Encuesta Nacional Agropecuaria.`` (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, Sep 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. RAE has English stuck in a rut for lo many years and can`t move off 11710 for a chance to avoid RHC`s 11705 USB blast at 0100. Also gets it from RCI on 11715. So, RAE is effectively sandwiched (Bob Thomas, CT, Sept 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. The Olympics item in 0-110 from Bryan Clark actually originated with RN Media News page, source somehow missing from BDXC- UK whence we got it; apologies to Andy Sennitt (gh) ** BULGARIA. R. Bulgaria, Sofia, NAm service in English at 0200 on 9400 has heavy RTTY but makes it through. Parallel 11700 suffers from 11705 RHC USB (Bob Thomas, CT, Sept 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. We have been through this more than once in previous months, but scanning 31m before and after 1000 UT Sept 14, we found that annoying pulsating noise in various open spots in the 9600s and 9500s correlating with the sign-on at 0958 of TIFC on 9645v. DGS` transmitters in CR aren`t the only ones making a mess of things, badly in need of repair or shutdown (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA/CUBA. Hi Glenn: Thanks for getting back to me, with that great information. This morning I was able to ID the station on 4260.7. It turns out it is indeed a MW harmonic from 1420. I caught two clear IDs as Radio Pampa at 11:00 GMT. This station is located in Costa Rica. I also heard Radio Rebelde's harmonic 710x6, on 4260. At times when I was listening to R. Pampa, I could hear it in the background. Any way, I appreciate your interest, and response. Take care, (David Hodgson, TN, Sept 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1051, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. Glenn, Below please find the coming B00 sked of Radio Finland. 73 Arto Mujunen RADIO FINLAND ON SW, B00 (OCTOBER 29, 2000 - MARCH 25, 2001) Transmitter site: Pori FREQ UTC TARGET ZONES KW AZIMUTH 6055 0630-0700 27, 28 500 220 6095 0400-0500 29 250 130 6120 0500-2300 18, 27, 28 100 240 6120 0600-0630 27, 28 500 220 6120 1730-2130 27, 28 500 220 6135 1700-1800 29 250 130 6180 0800-0900 ** 19, 29 250 80 6180 1400-1430 19, 29 250 80 6190 2100-2200 29 250 130 9510 0700-0930 27, 55, 59, 60 500 240 9560 0700-0800 27, 28, 37 500 190 9560 0900-1000 * 27, 28 500 190 9580 0030-0100 43, 44 500 75 9630 1500-2000 27, 36, 37 500 225 9655 0100-0330 *** 4, 6, 7, 10 500 310 9715 0500-0600 6, 7 500 325 9745 0500-0630 29 250 130 9815 2130-2230 44, 49, 50, 55, 59 500 90 9830 0200-0330 12-14 500 240 9835 1400-1430 29, 30 500 75 9865 0500-0630 28S, 38, 39, 48, 53 500 175 9885 1430-1500 29, 30, 44, 45 500 75 11690 0030-0100 43, 44, 50, 55, 59 500 90 11755 0500-0630 28S, 38, 39, 48, 53 500 160 11755 0630-1700 27, 36, 37 500 220 11755 1200-1300 28S 500 175 11755 1500-1730 28S 500 175 11755 1700-2100 27, 28, 36, 37 500 225 11870 1430-1500 29, 30, 44, 45 500 75 12015 2130-2230 43, 44, 50, 55, 59 500 90 12035 0100-0330 *** 4, 7, 8, 10 500 310 13685 1030-1300 * 27, 36, 37N 500 225 15400 1300-1400 4, 7-9, 11 500 310 15400 1500-1600 4, 6, 7, 10 500 325 17615 0930-1000 30-33 500 75 17660 1300-1400 4, 7-9, 11 500 310 21670 0700-1000 43, 44, 50, 55 500 75 21800 1000-1200 43, 44, 50, 55 500 75 21800 1200-1300 12-14 500 240 21810 1600-1700 38, 48, 53, 57 500 175 * = Sat-Sun only ** = Sun only *** = Mon-Fri at 0200-0330 (via Arto Mujunen, Finland, Sept 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Analysing this, tho no languages are specified here, it appears the one-hour weekly English broadcasts are included, such as to NAm 0100- 0200 Sunday on new 9655 and 12035. Hope they are back before then on A00 summer times and frequencies (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1051, DXLD) ** GERMANY. I guess you have a sense for funny stories? Here is one from the German mediumwave site Wilsdruff: The new facility for MDR on 1044 includes a system which switches to the Astra DTH satellite signal of MDR info after 40 seconds of silence on the feed circuit. 1044 used to carry the plenary sessions of the Landtag of Saxonia. During these broadcasts already two times the automatic switch shut up the often embarrassing palaver... And back in 1992 DT64 received a letter from England, asking for the strange programming 1044 had on a certain evening. Actually this was a legitimate enquiry: A regional parliament on a 250 kW transmitter, which was heard in whole Germany and far beyond. (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Sept 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. I wonder if the VOG`s 7450 at 0200 which carries English for 8 minutes has another program on same frequency beamed elsewhere that someplace doesn`t like? Aside from co-channel RTTY, from time to time I hear a jammer. More annoying than effective (Bob Thomas, CT, Sept 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH/JAPAN. I have received this Sept 14 notice from NHK World monitoring section, announcing changes in their broadcasts to C & SAm due to the temporary suspension of the Montsinéry relay station: (Ruben Guillermo Margenet, Argentina, DXLD) Temporary Suspension of Relay Transmissions from Montsinéry Radio Japan's Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese shortwave broadcasts via French Guiana to Central and South America have been suspended due to a fire at the transmission facilities in Montsinéry, French Guiana, on 10th September. Substitute Broadcast from Allouis-Issoudun [FRANCE] (UTC) (area) (content) 17:00-18:00 Western South America 21600kHz Japanese 22:00-23:00 Central America 11895kHz Japanese (R1 through) 2:30-3:00 Eastern South America 15590kHz Portuguese Substitute Broadcast from Ascension (UTC) (area) (content) 3:00-4:00 Western South America 9660kHz Japanese (R1 through) (3:30-4:00 Ordinary Swahili broadcast by ISDN) 4:00-4:30 Western South America 9660kHz Spanish 5:00-5:30 Central America 11895kHz Spanish (ISDN) 8:00-10:00 Eastern South America 9530kHz Japanese *Cancelled broadcast (UTC) (area) (content) 10:00-10:30 Eastern South America 15590kHz Spanish 10:30-11:00 Eastern South America 15590kHz Portuguese Please inform us about the reception conditions as soon as possible. [I am not sure what the annotations ``R1 through`` and ``ISDN`` refer to here, as given. Several RFI GUF frequencies spot-checked such as 15515, 21645 are missing and we suspect all transmissions from here are temporarily off, so seek out replacement sites as well for RFI, CRI and the other SRI broadcasts if heard on same frequencies -gh] We apologize for the extra inconvenience. Please listen to our programs on the above frequencies until regular service recovers (Monitoring section, NHK World / Radio Japan, Fax:81-3-3481-1877 E- mail: info@intl.nhk.or.jp http://www.nhk.or.jp/rjnet via Rubén Guillermo Margenet, Argentina, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also SWITZ! ** KENYA. Glenn, Re Kenya item, the KBC Swahili schedule should show 6150 and 7140 irregular for the 0200-2110 transmissions span, not just for those news bulletins (though in practice these 2 HF frequencies are rarely active nowadays and only one is likely to operate at any given time, if at all). Frequencies on the BBCM schedules are always associated with the transmission blocks (which should appear in bold) rather than any specific programmes. Maybe something went wrong with the formatting of this one? Regards, (Dave Kenny, BBCM, Sept 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Perhaps I misinterpreted (gh) ** LIBYA. V. of Africa, 17725, English ID and news heard at these new times: Sept 2 2047-2057; Sept 3 1751-1756; Sept 4 1743-1748 and 2033- 2039. Strong but audio a little muffled. WYFR dominates the frequency 2300-0145* (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1051, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Rabaul, 3385, heard at 1900. Believe this morning broadcast is new; not in DSWCI survey (Chris Hambly, Victoria, Sept 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERÚ. La Voz del Campesino, 6956.57v, Sept 4 0045-0248* OA folk music, Spanish announcements, IDs, s/off with national anthem. Their particular recording of the NA is not performed very well and sounds like a local town band. Irregular, but a regular lately. Also heard Sept 2 2350-2400* and Sept 9 0030-0200+ (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. I just had a phone talk with Khanty-Mansiysk transmitting center. They really have an official Radio Mayak relay according to the following schedule: 0000-1900 UTC (one hour later in the winter), 4520 kHz, 5 kW, UGD-type aerial system. (Mikhail Timofeyev, St. Petersburg, Sept 13, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. And an update to a current Russian story: From Sep 12 most of the TV transmissions from the Moscow Ostankino tower are restored. A chronicle of the tower`s return into life as well as detailed descriptions and photos of the transmitter equipment can be found at http://www.tvtower.ru The website also covers aspects like Radio Moscow producing very little stereo programming for many years although the tower was already in 1968 ready for full stereo transmission of six networks; for my knowledge Radio Rossii broadcasts until today straight monaural only (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Sept 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Without searching every page, I didn`t see anything post-fire or even mentioning it on above site (gh) ** RUSSIA. Glenn, On Sept 13, 11825 came on at UT 0059 with those distinctive transmitter test tones, indicating that the transmitter is coming from Russia, or CIS. Regular VOR programming in English came on 0059:45 with IS. Will this be replaced by the Vatican relay, come B00? (Ivan Grishin, Ont., DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA/VATICAN? I was not aware the new 0100-0200 11825 when writing about VoR via Santa Maria di Galeria; no doubt the guess-work this could be the new arrangement already in operation appears well founded. The time is rather unpleasant for a check here in Germany (= 3 AM) but I would prompt to check out the sign on. Russian transmitters used to put the carriers on air rather early, some 15 minutes or so before the program starts, mostly also one of the well-known interrupted test tones (they have different ones, most popular are 800 Hz) will be aired for some minutes. Regarding the audio, most of the typical VoR sound arises already in the studio, while the Grigoriopol` site is to my knowledge satellite-fed, so 11825 could indeed be Santa Maria di Galeria, carrying the very same satellite downlink as Grigoriopol` on 7180. Anyway it seems that Radio Vatican offered airtime for VoR instead of further payments for RV transmissions via CIS sites, actually a good deal for VoR as MCCBN has only two sites at hand anymore who are suitable for transatlantic transmissions, Grigoriopol` in Moldova/ Pridnestrovye and Tbilisskaya between the towns of Krasnodar and Armavir (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Sept 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA/VATICAN. Glenn, I was surprised to learn about possible VoR relays via R. Vatican. This past June a high-ranking delegation from the Frequency Dept. of R. Vatican visited Moscow and held extensive talks with Russian authorities about all kinds of possible cooperation. Previously, when asked to relay VoR, R. Vatican officials answered that throughout history it has been their firm policy not to relay =any= stations. They are only authorized to =buy= air time. Moscow was asking for a local (AM) relay in Vatican. If we actually discover any kind of relay activities, this will have to be sanctioned from the very top of Vatican hierarchy. Vatican is actively seeking rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church, and this relay can be seen as a gesture of good will. It can be perceived as a victory for Russia, as well. Generally, it appears that there is a new policy in Moscow to seek more barter opportunities when it comes to international broadcasting. Russia's active sales of radio time to foreign stations in recent years did not improve situation for Russian SW broadcasting industry. From what I know, it is easy to assume that huge amounts paid for air time have been simply pocketed by the corrupt officials involved. The dollar-paying customers were able to get the best transmitters and antennas available, while the underfunded VoR had to settle for some outdated, poorly performing equipment. I'm afraid that UK's Merlin that represents Russian relay facilities in the West may have become an accomplice, albeit an unwilling [or means unwitting? -gh] one, to many shady deals involving SW and AM transmitters based throughout CIS. Air time exchanges will hopefully make these high scale misappropriations a little more difficult. (anon., WORLD OF RADIO 1015, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWITZERLAND. Hello Glenn. Yes, long time, no hear. As you may know, I'm working only 50% since January - a "semi-retirement" arrangement with SRI. The other 50% is taken up with getting back to nature and lots of hiking and travelling around the country as a "private" individual. My current SRI focus is reporting on lesser-known tourist destinations in Switzerland, both in text and audio. My other job continues to be production of our monthly transcription package called "Swiss Mix", which I have shepherded for the better part of 10 years now. This was previously only available to broadcasters on cassette. But now it's open to anyone via the Internet. The URL is: http://rebroadcast.sri.ch German and Spanish-language services are also available. (Bob Zanotti, Switzerland, Sept 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWITZERLAND [and non]. The fire at Montsinéry, French Guiana was in a transformer supplying high voltage to the transmitters. There was no infrastructural damage to the transmitters or antennas, themselves. There was some water damage to the facility, though, and clean-up and repairs are expected to take a week. In the meantime, 9905 is coming out of Sottens, Switzerland, and 9885 is originating from Issoudun, France. [9885 is normally Switz, 9905 GUF, so surprising they didn`t just move 9905 to France instead of swapping them. Typo in Nebron`s, last issue: NOT 9985 -gh] I can confirm the relay arrangement with Vatican Radio. Effective October 29, the 100 kW at Santa Maria di Galeria will beam SRI at 326 degrees to the UK on 6165 from 1830 to 2030 Z. This arrangement will remain in effect for the winter period. Hope this helps. Best 73, (Bob Zanotti, Switzerland, Sept 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1051, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. The inquiry about unID on 11805 at 1000 came from Alan Glasscoe, Oakland CA, answered in DXLD 0-109. He has another question at bottom under UNIDENTIFIED (gh, DXLD) ** U K. Subject: BBCWS Disrupts Most Audio Streaming Due to Olympics The BBCWS website has become virtually useless for audio streaming news or live content because of their coverage of the Olympics. Until the conclusion of the Olympics on September 30th, no live streaming audio is available from any of the English BBCWS streams on their website, but at the moment, the Yahoo Broadcast streams are continuing, and the blackout has also not yet affected the distribution of their programming to cable systems who carry BBCWS on Second Audio Programs. Additionally, virtually all of the archived news programming, such as The World Today, Newshour, Agenda, and Assignment and even business news programs are not available in streamed format. The message: "BBC World Service apologises for not being able to bring you this programme in audio. This is due to restrictions imposed on audio streaming by the International Olympic Committee. Normal services will resume on September the 30th." Whatever restriction the Olympics Committee is imposing borders on censorship as last time I checked, Newshour wasn't in the business of providing live coverage of Olympics events. In fact, the only portion of the program that touches on sports comes in the last ten minutes and rarely provides live coverage of anything. What particularly annoys me about this is that a quick scan of other international broadcasters as I write this, including Radio Australia and the ABC domestic service shows absolutely no disruptions to their content at all. [I think this may happen too; just wait –gh] I sent a hostile note off to the BBCWS website managers expressing the complete unacceptability of these kinds of restrictions, and as far as I was concerned, I wouldn't mind a bit if the BBC never said a word about the Olympics. More importantly, what kind of contracts is the BBC signing these days? Perhaps the way the likes of Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, and Sierra Leone's factional fighters could stop pesky negative coverage is to buy into a popular sports team and enforce restrictions on everything the BBCWS does, as it seems the Olympics Committee has managed to do (Phillip Dampier, NY, Sept 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1051, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I could not agree more!! Incredible that the BBC WS would allow the IOC to dictate what it does with non-Olympic programming. Streaming still worked by going to http://www.broadcast.com/ and searching BBC, or directly to http://www.broadcast.com/radio/news/bbc/ Then you get a stack of not properly identified icons. The bottom two concern Spanish, and I found the 3rd from bottom brings American stream; 4th from bottom the all-news stream. But by 0130 UT Sept 14, these too had been blocked. Those still wanting to hear BBC on the web may have to explore the domestic services. Tho, Radio FiveLive webcast is blocked with a well-produced ``Your Olympic Station`` barker loop saying listen to the radio instead. The main BBCWS Olympique Programme will be daily at 0905-1100 from Sept 15; on Sept 14, we found 15190 Ascension for S America audible before 1000 (and scheduled until 1100 on weekends), as were 5965 Canada and 6195 Antigua after 1000 with World Update. BBC On Air shows the Americas stream, like all the others, will have Olympics during these two hours instead. One BBC-overnight affiliate, KWGS in Tulsa, however, announces it won`t be able to carry BBC for the duration (Glenn Hauser, Sept 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1051, DXLD) ** U K. However, the domestic streams seem to be up. (I just listened to a few seconds of Radio 4.) Of course, a lot of the talk features of the BBCWS are also on Radio 4 and the musical stuff is frequently on Radios 1 (Rock)/3 (Classical). Also, some stations which carry BBC at certain hours may still be available on the 'net. Hmm--well today's Outlook seems to be on RealAudio on the Outlook-specific webcast (Joël Rubin, NY, Sept 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Earlier: Well they censored out Outlook on the web Wednesday, I assumed because of copyright considerations involving the music. I've heard some plays (after Letter from America and the news at 2105 GMT/BST) censored from the Radio 4 webcast and I believe some live sports don't show up on the webcast of Radio 5. Of course, no Infinity (CBS) radio station has a live webcast due to orders from "Black Rock" as the Saarinen-designed CBS building (I heard they're going to sell it) on 52nd St. at Sixth Avenue in Manhattan is known. (Joël Rubin, NY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Asked Radio Free London if they had started broadcasting. Reply dated Sept 13: We are on 5805, 24 hours a day until this Sunday --- Snail mail: RFL, 101b, Kings Cross Road, London WC1X 9LP. E- mail: RFL@England.com Telephone: 07930 11 34 30 Web site: http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/villa/2375 Real Audio: http://members.xoom.com/rfl819/rflweb.ram Chat: http://www.onelist.com/ (Baiju, UAE, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Glenn, your European readers / listeners might be interested to learn that WWV and WWVH [Time & Freq Standard Stations] could both be heard on 10 MHz, recent West European mornings. The female-voiced WWVH out of Hawaii is a bit of a rarity as far as I am concerned in South-West Ireland, though male-voiced WWV from Colorado is not. However, the latter's current strength into my location is unusual [S7-S9, 06 Sept 0730 UT; S5-S7, 12 Sept 0700 UT]. And hearing them both clocking in on the same freq is a real SW treat. For anyone who had not noticed it before, the simultaneous reception of the two stations nicely illustrates that they are synchronised not to step on one another's voice-messages. The IDs, minute-by-minute time- readouts, etc., were heard in the clear from each station but the tones marking the minutes were indistinguishable. [Finbarr O'Driscoll.....Ireland.....13 Sept 2000]. {The brackets are his instead of parentheses; bracketing normally reserved for The Editor, forcing the latter to bump up to braces -gh} ** U S A. Subject: Third generation of "Rambling with Gambling" is demographically incorrect for WOR. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/12/nyregion/12RADI.html September 12, 2000 After 75 Years, a Radio Show Is Dropped By TERRY PRISTIN John R. Gambling, the host of a talk show that had been heard on WOR-AM radio continuously for 75 years, went off the air yesterday, prompting an outpouring of calls and e-mail messages from listeners upset at the passing of an institution in New York radio. "Rambling With Gambling," the morning program started by Mr. Gambling's grandfather, John B. Gambling, in 1925 and later presided over by his father, offered a low-key and amiable alternative to more provocative radio fare. Mr. Gambling's departure stunned the radio industry. Tom Taylor, the editor of M Street Daily, a radio newsletter, said, "It's a little bit like driving through Midtown and seeing that one of the lions in front of the public library is missing." Since taking over the show as co- host in 1985, Mr. Gambling had continued the tradition of news, interviews and lighthearted talk that began with his grandfather during the early days of radio. The program withstood assaults by new formats and changing musical tastes. But Robert Bruno, WOR's vice president and general manager, said that "Rambling With Gambling," though successful, had a disproportionate number of listeners who were older than 54, the upper limit of the age group that advertisers are most eager to reach. "We knew it was the right decision for the station," said Mr. Bruno, "no matter how painful and wrenching it would be for John, for us and certainly for our listeners." He said that the station had heard from about 2,000 of the program's unhappy fans yesterday. Mr. Gambling, 50, said yesterday that he had received an "overwhelming" number of sympathetic calls and messages, including from dignitaries like Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. He said four advertisers had told him they would stop buying time on the station. The station's decision not to renew his contract, which he learned about last week, caught Mr. Gambling off guard, he said. He started working for WOR 22 years ago as a station announcer and joined his father, John A. Gambling, as co-host of "Rambling With Gambling" in 1985. He has been sole host of the show since 1990, when his father retired. Mr. Gambling said he offered something that is increasingly rare. "Most of radio is angry, most of broadcasting," he said. "I don't understand it. It doesn't need to be. Why is everybody so angry? I'm not. I think there is a huge population that's not angry, and those are the people who listen to me." Mr. Bruno said that Mr. Gambling could have remained on the program until the end of the year, but decided to make a more abrupt exit after station executives told him their decision was irrevocable. Radio industry analysts said most talk shows drew an older audience. "I don't think that younger people find them that relevant to their lives," said Thom Moon, director of research and development at Duncan's American Radio, a Cincinnati company. He said that advertisers prefer to reach younger listeners because they "are convinced that once you hit 50, you never change your brand of anything." Avoiding hot-button topics, the Gambling show was comfortable and nonthreatening, said Mr. Taylor, the newsletter editor. "It was like your favorite pair of shoes," he said. He said that WOR was taking a risk that it will alienate loyal listeners without picking up new ones. "People are saying variations of, `My mom called me today in tears,' " he said. Mr. Bruno said he was determined not to lose the older listeners and had no intention of replacing Mr. Gambling with someone like Howard Stern, or making other big changes. He said the new program would probably have two hosts and feature more live guests, more defined subject matter (that is, less rambling) and more calls from listeners. "We want to pick up the pace," Mr. Bruno said. "We know we have a niche in the marketplace. We're not dirty talk, or all sports or all news. We're not edgy, but we're a good place to come for your information presented in an entertaining way." Mr. Gambling said he was already talking to other potential employers and hoped to be back on the air shortly. Meanwhile, he said, he would establish a Web site to keep in touch with his listeners and pursue other business interests. And how does he feel about the station that employed three generations of his family? "I'm not angry," he said. "I'm disappointed that it ended on their terms." (NY Times via Joël Rubin, WORLD OF RADIO 1051, DXLD) I believe 75 years ago, a mere 5 years after the inauguration of KDKA, WOR was owned by and broadcast from Bamberger's Department Store (later bought by Macy's) in Newark, NJ (Joël Rubin, NY, Sept 12, DXLD) ** U S A. TONIGHT (Thursday) @ 9:00 p.m. EST [sic, means EDT or 0100 UT Friday?? -gh] on HateWatch Radio... The Aryan Nations Trial: $Millions$ of Reasons Not to Hate** TONIGHT @ 9:00 p.m. on The Next Movement, HateWatch's LIVE web radio show, http://www.img2.com we talk with Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Mr Potok, an expert on hate groups and editor of the SPLC's Intelligence Report, discusses the landmark $6.3 million civil award in the recent Aryan Nations trial. You can listen to the Next Movement TONIGHT at 9:00 p.m EST on http://www.img2.com. We invite you to weigh in with your comments and questions by calling the show 1-877-986-9200 (toll-free in the US) or 1-559-221-9061 (outside the US). We look forward to hearing from you! _____________ HateWatch, (http://hatewatch.org) is nonprofit organization dedicated to combating online bigotry and promoting civil rights for all. (via Joël Rubin, Sept 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. See RUSSIA; SWITZERLAND UNIDENTIFIED: 17700; on @ 0243 UTC with unfamiliar IS, preceded by steady tone for at least 15 minutes. Language unidentifiable. Suggests All India Radio, but different IS. First heard 8/31/00. Thanking you in advance, (Alan (Glasscoe, Oakland CA, Sept 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe Iran in Hindi, as once registered? (gh) ###