From wood@stab.sr.seSun Mar 3 01:20:51 1996
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:32:59 +0100
From: George Wood <wood@stab.sr.se>
To: wood@rs.sr.se
Subject: MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers 2242
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:: MediaScan ::
:: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS ::
:: from Radio Sweden ::
:: Number 2242--Feb. 20, 1996 ::
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Satellite, shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio
Sweden.
This week's bulletin was written by George Wood.
Packet Radio BID SCDX2242
All times UTC unless otherwise noted.
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NORDIC MEDIA NEWS:
NEW NEWS NEWS--Radio Sweden's weekday newscast in English is now
available on our World Wide Web site. See:
http://www.sr.se/rs/english/news.htm
RADIO SWEDEN--Unfortunately, our medium wave transmitter on 1179 kHz
is still being repaired. Hopefully it will be back at full power
tomorrow, but in the mean time try shortwave 6065 kHz instead. Updates
on our Web pages.
And Swedish Telecom still doesn't know why our satellite signal sounds
so bad. It's fine when it leaves Broadcast House, but sounds dreadful
on Tele-X (and Astra). It may be the uplink station, or it may be the
satellite. They may know by tomorrow, so keep an eye on our Web pages.
Don't forget our special feature on the tenth anniversary of the death
of Olof Palme, on February 28, 1996. We'll also be putting up the
program in text and found files on our Web pages.
KINNEVIK--An appeals court has ruled that Kinnevik has the right to
call their radio network P6, which Radio Sweden also claims, at least
until the court makes a final decision. ("Topp 40")
Kinnevik's Z-TV channel has switched its location on the Sirius
satellite to 11.862 GHz, and switched to D2-MAC. Kinnevik's remaining
PAL channel, TV3 Sweden, will be following suit on the 5th of March.
Kinnevik's switch to D2-MAC has upset at least 100,000 Swedes who
bought cheap "Swedish dish" packages for the Sirius satellite that are
PAL only. They've protested to the Public Merchandise Complaints
Board, which in several cases has ordered retailers to give customers
free decoders. Unfortunately the board is unable to enforce its
decisions. Critics say Kinnevik should pay the 30 million dollars or
so necessary to provide the now-necessary decoders. (Swedish Radio
News, "Dagens Nyheter", "Aftonbladet")
SPORTS--Kinnevik's new Sportkanalen begins broadcasts via Sirius on
March 22. Rival FilmNet has changed strategy for its SuperSports
channel. It is no longer to be a pay-channel, but will be included in
cable network's basic tiers, like Sportkanalen. Stockholm's Stjaern-TV
has already signed a contract and is now carrying SuperSports.
Negotiations with the other major cable operators are said to be going
forward in a "positive spirit". (Frank Oestergren, "Aftonbladet")
DIGITAL TELEVISION--All this may be a moot point, with the impending
introduction of digital television. Sweden's present terrestrial
channels, two public service and one commercial, could be increased to
8 within a couple of years and 24 by the end of the decade. If today's
analog channels are also converted to digital broadcasting, the total
could reach 50. As Jim Downing reports in today's program, this has
been proposed to the Minister of Culture by a special committee on the
future of broadcasting in Sweden. The committee wants to take the
planned fourth national analog network, and possibly the spectrum for
a potential fifth analog channel, and use them instead for the new
digital transmission.
Here's Jim's report:
If the government follows the committee's recommendations, it could
strike a severe blow to commercial cable and satellite TV stations
who's broadcasts originate from outside Swedish territory. For one
thing, converting the country's present terrestial TV broadcasting
network from analogue to digital would greatly increase the number of
channels available to viewers free-of-charge, thereby making cable and
satellite TV which require the purchase of dishes and decoders less
attractive. Sponsors would also be more interested in buying
advertising time on stations which can reach all of the country's
viewers rather than on stations reaching only a limited number of
viewers.
But the main idea behind the committee's proposal is that by quickly
converting terrestial broadcasting from analogue to digital, society
would be able to keep control over broadcast content from falling into
the hands of purely commercial, market interests.
The state can only set up rules and codes of broadcasting ethics for
stations who's broadcasts originate from within the country's borders
- as is the case with Sweden's present 3 terrestial channels. In
order to get a broadcasting license, all three of them have signed
agreements with the state guaranteeing a certain amount of news
coverage, documentaries, cultural and educational programs along with
pure entertainment programs such as soap operas, TV-series, game
shows, etc.
Sweden's sole terrestial commercial channel TV 4 also has to follow
government-set guidelines on commercials, making sure they are both
truthful and don't push products such as alcoholic beverages,
cigarettes and the like.
Nor can commercials be directly targeted towards children.
Cable and satellite TV channels don't have to follow these guidelines
if they don't want to, as they don't need a government license to
broadcast. But if they begin losing viewers to an increasing number of
cost-free terrestial channels, they'll also opt to go terrestrial and
become subject to government programming rules and regulations.
But converting to digital is costly - not only for viewers who are
expected to have to spend as much as 2 billion dollars for new digital
TV receivers, but for broadcasters as well. And while commercial
interests are always able to whip up new investment capital, how will
Public Service TV with it's already strained budget be able to buy all
the equipment needed to enter the digital market?
Sweden's Culture Minister Margot Wallstr�m says the government and
parliament has thought of that...(and her comments can be heard on the
air and on our Web site).
Sweden could begin digital TV as early as 1997. Britain is to begin
digital broadcasts this Summer. By 1997, there will be 18 terrestrial
digital channels in Britain. Both Finland and the United States are
also preparing digital TV. ("Svenska Dagbladet")
The American decision has been delayed by Congress's insistance that
digital spectrum be auctioned off, while the Federal Communications
Commission wants to give already licenced stations free access to
digital frequencies, to stimulate them to develop new digital
services.
Congress hopes to raise betwen 28 and 31 billion dollars by auctioning
off digital TV spectrum. (AP)
EUROPEAN MEDIA NEWS:
CULTURAL QUOTAS--The European parliament has followed the American
Congress in voting on the media future. But just about the only
simularities are restrictions aimed at preventing children from seeing
sex or violence on TV, as well as differing approaches to regulating
the Internet and online services.
Where the American legislation removes many restrictions on
broadcasting, opening the door to the big media, cable, and telephone
companies to move into each others' territory, the European version
goes in a vastly different direction. Our EU correspondent, Joe
Kirwin, reports from Brussels in today's program.
TV advertisers are also upset about the attempt to extend restrictions
on terrerstrial broadcasting to satellite stations. We also hear
Bernard Adriano of the World Association of Advertisers objections to
attempts spearheaded by Sweden's Minister of Culture to put this
country's ban on commercials aimed at children on a European level.
And Luciana Castellina of the EU parliament's Cultural Committee
disagrees.
In the end, the European parliament overwhelmingly passed the measure.
But what happens now? As Joe Kirwin reported, if the European
Commission refuses to go along with the new legislation, as is likely,
the existing rules will continue to apply.
Like the new American telecommunications law, the EU measure calls for
the installation in new TV sets of "V-chips", circuits that turn off
programs that broadcasters determine are have too much sex or violence
for children. But representatives of Swedish Television and the
private channels TV3 and TV4 have all said the V-chip solution is
unncecessary in Sweden. ("Dagens Nyheter")
Ironically the V-chip provision has been criticised for giving the
United States a monopoly on critical technology, as the "chips" are
only made in the U.S. "If you are making a proposal to prevent the
Americans having a monopoly, and then you are going to give to the
American industry this product, this is a contradiction. It is a
monopoly" one EU official said. (Reuters)
Then again, the "chip" doesn't really exist:
From: Ed Ellers <edellers@shivasys.com>
To: "'wood@rs.sr.se'" <wood@rs.sr.se>
Subject: V-chip clarification
Date sent: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 16:20:22 -0500
I wanted to pass along the word that, despite what so many people
(including President Clinton) seem to think, there is no such thing as
a separate circuit to meet the Telecommunications Act's requirement.
The law requires this capability to use line 21 of the NTSC video
signal -- the same line used for the CaptionVision closed captioning
system -- and applies the requirement only to those TV sets (namely
those with 33 cm diagonal, or larger, screens) that are now required
to have caption decoders. As a result, the new parental blocking
feature will simply be built into the same chip used for captioning.
The Electronics Industries Association issued a standard (EIA-608) in
1993 for extensions to the captioning system, including some service-
and program-related features similar to those provided by teletext in
Europe -- time and date, station and network identification and some
PDC-like recording features. In an October 1992 draft the committee
included features for program ratings that would allow these parental
control features to work, not only with rating levels but with
characterizations for the reason for possible objections (nudity,
violence and language). I'm told that broadcasters objected strongly
to these aspects of the system, for fear that the FCC might require
them to follow a specified rating system, so these features were
removed from the final standard. The Telecommunications Act will
*not* require program producers to rate their shows, though it does
require program distributors to pass the line-21 code if it is
present; there are plans to establish an industry committee to develop
standards for rating TV programs in order to figure out which code to
apply.
Also, since the line-21 codes work well with home VCRs because of the
system's slow data rate, these decoders will also work with programs
recorded off-air and with prerecorded tapes or laser discs.
P.S. On the Disney-ABC merger story, the correct name for ABC's
(former) parent company was Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. This is because
the previous merger was structured as a takeover of ABC by Capital
Cities.
INTELSAT--There's been another major international media story that
will also affect Scandinavia. On February 15th, a Chinese Long March
rocket veered toward the ground and exploded 20 seconds after
lift-off.
A film clip of the crash is included on CNN's WorldWide Web site at:
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/Newsbriefs/9602/02-14/pm.html
The crash is reported to have almost certainly caused casualties. In
January, 1995 a Long March rocket carrying the Apstar-2 satellite
crashed in flames 50 seconds after blast-off, killing six people.
The new rocket was carrying the Intelsat 708 satellite, which was to
have been placed at 50 degrees West, above the Atlantic. Rupert
Murdoch's News Corporation and three partners were planing to use the
satellite to provide signals for a 150 channel digital package of
direct broadcasts to South and Central America. It would also have
been used for voice, data, and video services across the Americas,
Africa, and Europe.
However, and here's the Scandinavian connection, Intelsat says it will
deploy its upcoming 707 satellite, set to launch from French Guiana on
March 2nd, to 50 degrees West instead. Intelsat 707 was to have
replaced the Nordic Intelsat 702 satellite at 1 degree West. It's
redeployment will greatly delay the expansion of satellite
broadcasting to the Nordic region, as the next scheduled Intelsat
launch after that isn't until September.
INTELSAT--Comsat and the U.S. government have proposed that Intelsat
be restructured by spinning off a new publicly traded, for-profit
affiliate from the global satellite consortium. The plan must be
approved by the membes of Intelsat, a consortium backed by 136
governments. The Washington-based group owns and operates the world's
most extensive global communciations satellite system. Comsat is the
largest owner. (Reuters)
HOT BIRD--Yesterday Italy's RAI 3 joined the Eutelsat package at 13
degrees east on the Hot Bird satellite. It's now broadcasting in clear
PAL on 11.530 GHz (V). (Eutelsat)
BBC--The British Broadcasting Corporation has signed its first-ever TV
sponsorship deal for a satellite channel, a move that may foreshadow
commercial backing for its terrestrial programs. Air Canada signed up
as sponsor for the "Naked Hollywood" series, shown on the Pan-European
BBC World 24 hour news channel. (Reuters)
INTERACTIVE TV--Interactive Television is coming to Europe in the
second quarter of 1996 after a deal agreed by television group Nethold
and a joint-venture of Thomson Multimedia and Sun Microsystems. Regis
Saint Girons, vice president Marketing and Sales Europe for Thomson
Sun Interactive, said on February 10 that Nethold Dutch, a South
African group based in the Netherlands, as well as France Telecom had
selected the joint-venture's Open TV system to offer interactive
television.
It was not clear which country would be the first to receive the
service and those involved declined to give details of the deal. Many
European broadcasters are currently preparing to launch digital
television services, both terrestrial and via satellites, because it
offers better quality, more channels and the possibility of additional
services.
One such additional service is interactivity. At the five-day MILIA
multimedia market in Cannes, Thomson Sun of America showed how
interactive television would work. A viewer watching a pop concert on
television could get information about concert venues and make
bookings by using the remote control. At a game show, the viewer could
compete with the real players.
Saint Girons said that the system would use either a telephone line or
a cable network for the return signal. With the technical issues
solved, the real test of interactive television is now in gaining
market acceptance.
Saint Girons said that tests had shown that people liked the extra
features of interactive television but were not willing to pay much
for it. That is why Thomson Sun is talking to manufacturers of
televisions and decoders to get its Open TV system included and make
the market potential as big as possible.
He said that the Open TV software could easily be combined with such
features as access control to subscription channels. Asked whether
viewers would be willing to buy yet another set-top box for their
television, he said that eventually the system would be included in
digital television sets.
Meanwhile, people will have to buy a box which in the United States
will sell at USD 500 to 800. (Reuters)
Thomson Sun Interactive is also talking to France's Canal Plus and
British Sky Broadcasting to get the two stations to licence its Open
TV technology. Canal Plus is expected to launch its digital TV service
this Spring. Saint Girons says BSkyB will use the same technology. But
the two are still far from launching commercial interactive services.
(Curt Swinehart)
Representatives of major German telecommunciations and media groups on
February 12 signed a declaration of intent to establish the television
set-top box distributor MMBG, but without Bavarian media mogul Leo
Kirch. Led by Deutsche Telekom, MMBG is being set up by a group of
European broadcasters and telecoms groups with the goal of setting up
the standard for the set-top box, or decoder, that decodes signals and
allows for filling on interactive digital television.
The plan was nearly foiled last year by Kirch, who decided to develop
and market his own decoder. But Kirch backed down and called a truce
with Bertelsmann and Canal Plus. (Reuters)
NORTH AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS:
TECH TALK--TheTech Talk Radio Network is back on satellite on Anik E2,
transponder 18, sound 5.8 MHz (wideband). (Curt Swinehart)
ASIAN MEDIA NEWS:
APSTAR--The inquiry into the Long March crash will indefinately delay
the planned March launch of Apstar 1A for APT Satellite of Hong Kong,
says China's launch contractor. Apstar 1A is needed to complement
Apstar 1, which was launched by China in July, 1994. It will also make
up for the January, 1995 loss of Apstar 2, which blew up 50 seconds
after launch. (Reuters)
Insurance rates for launches by China's Long March rockets are set to
rise after the latest explosion.
INDONESIA--Indonesian telecommunications firm PT Telkom plans to
launch a Palapa B-5 satellite in 1999. (Reuters)
JAPAN--Japan's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications is preparing
the authorize the C-band for broadcasting. This will allow NHK and NTV
to air programs beyond national boundaries using the C-band JC-Sat 3
satellite. Currently, domestic Japanese satellite TV uses the KU-band.
JC-Sat 3, which was launched last summer, is Japan's first satellite
equipped for C-band, which is widely used in other parts of Asia.
(Curt Swinehart)
The Japanese seem to be taking a step backwards. The rest of the world
is moving from C-band to Ku-band.
AFRICAN MEDIA NEWS:
BURUNDI--A new independent raido station has been licensed in Burundi
to counteract the effects of "hate media" and to work for peace in the
country divided by ethnic hatred. Radio Amwizero (Hope) is funded by
the European Commission. It is intended to counter Radio Democracy, a
hardline Hutu station which is broadcast from mobile transmitters.
(Reuters)
GLOBAL MEDIA:
SPORTS--In the United States, Rupert Murdoch grabbed the rights for
American football for his upstart Fox TV network. In Britain,
Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting and Sky Sports captured British
soccer from the BBC and Independent Television. But concern about
major sports events leaving public service broadcasters and moving to
satellite pay channels is causing a backlash. As we reported last
time, the International Olympics Committee turned down a bigger bid
from Murdoch and granted European rights to the next several Olympics
to the European Broadcasting Union. Some more developments:
On February 6 Britain's House of Lords struck a blow for the rights of
millions of sports fans to see key events on regular TV channels when
it amended a government bill by a huge majority. The amendment places
a duty on the Independent Television Commission to ensure a number of
listed events were not shown exclusively on satellite television.
(Reuters)
South Africa's Sports Minister vowed on February 13 to block any bid
by Rupert Murdoch to buy up the country's soccer TV viewing rights.
Murdoch's News Corp concluded a multi-million dollar deal earlier this
year to buy the rights to South African rugby union matches for the
next five years with an option to extend for another five. Pay TV
station M-Net has secured the rights from News Corp to all major rugby
union matches involving South African sides, except for two home tests
against New Zealand and Australia, which it says it will leave to the
state broadcaster SABC. (Reuters)
In New Zealand, rugby union bosses have defended a controversial deal
that means New Zealanders will have to subscribe to pay-TV if they
want to watch live tests matches for the next three years. The pay-TV
network Sky Television, which bought the rights to the matches from
News Corp announced a compromise deal with state-owned Television New
Zealand. Test matches in New Zealand will be screened live on Sky and
broadcast with a one-hour delay by TVNZ. Tests outside of New Zealand
will also be live on Sky, but delayed up to four hours on TVNZ.
(Reuters)
MURDOCH--News Corp says its profits fell almost 24 percent in the
final three months of last year, and dropped almost 15 percent for the
last half of 1995. The "New York Times" has reported that News Corp
may scale back its online service Delphi, and focus instead on the
Internet. (Reuters and AP)
HOBBY NEWS:
It's time for our annual MediaScan survey of references for the
satellite and shortwave hobbyist in the Online Edition of today's
program. Things are expanding, and besides books, now we have CD-ROMs
and WorldWide Web pages to talk about.
WRTH--This year's "World Radio TV Handbook" is the 50th anniversary
edition. This is the standard reference of the world's broadcast
stations, and is warmly recommended. Besides the excellent reviews of
current receivers, prepared by Jonathan Marks of Radio Netherlands,
along with Willem Bos, Thomas Sundstrom and others, there are the
usual interesting articles. For the first time, this year's edition
carries Internet addresses. Tom Sundstrom's article on the Internet is
excellent, and the only objection we have is that he doesn't mention
these MediaScan bulletins or the MediaScan pages on the World Wide
Web. (But since you're reading this, you know all about that anyway.)
But just like last year, satellite radio listings are lacking. In
fact, while last year's book had a section called "World Satellite
Broadcasts" that section is missing this time. Of course there's also
the WRTH's excellent "Satellite Broadcasting Guide", which tells you
just about everything you need to know about satellites.....except --
neither book actually tells readers anything about the satellite
schedules from stations like Radio Sweden, the BBC, or Radio
Netherlands. All there is are World Radio Network schedules in the
satellite book, but this is just a small portion of the satellite
radio broadcasts available. There is room for improvement here!
The WRTH is also finally getting closer to its goal of releasing its
material on a CD-ROM and putting up a Worldwide Web page. Keep an eye
on:
http://www.wrth.com
As we point out every year, in many countries, for economic (and
perhaps still some for political) reasons, it's difficult to obtain
the WRTH. If you buy a new handbook, you might consider donating your
old book to a Third World DX club. There's a list starting on page 590
in the new WRTH.
PASSPORT TO WORLD BAND RADIO--The WRTH's main rival is Larry Magne's
"Passport to World Band Radio". This serves a somewhat different
purpose. It's not a standard reference of the world's broadcast
stations, instead it's a good guide (especially for beginners) to
shortwave broadcasting.
There are chapters on easy catches and various popular stations, as
well as the usual excellent review of current receivers. But the core
of the book is a database listing of shortwave frequencies, showing
what stations are on through the day. As we've said before, this goes
out of date quickly, and it would be far better if there the book was
slimmer and came out more often. Unfortunately, last year Larry Magne
explained to us that that approach doesn't work economically, which is
a shame. Some kind of CD-ROM or Web site with updates for book
purchasers would be nice, if there was a way to implement it.
INTERNATIONAL LISTENING GUIDE--Bernd Friedewald's "International
Listening Guide" has provided that which both the WRTH and "Passport"
have lacked, regular updates on shortwave frequencies. Now he's
created a database for DOS or Windows on just one diskette. Knowing
Bernd's previous work, this is probably a very useful guide.
Unfortunately our review disk was damaged in the mail. For more
information, contact:
100523.3714@compuserve.com
KLINGENFUSS UTILITY GUIDE 1996--Then there are utility stations, all
the shortwave stations that aren't broadcast outlets or radio
amateurs, like ships, airplanes, RTTY news and FAX pictures from news
agencies, etc. The best guide to these stations comes from Joerg
Klingenfuss, and he's just published his "1996 Guide to Utility Radio
Stations". At 604 pages, this includes 14,500 frequencies, 2000
stations, and 11,100 changes since the last edition. New for 1996 is
the Aeronautical Mobile Service frequency allotment plan. A good solid
work.
THE 1996 SUPER FREQUENCY LIST--This is the CD-ROM version of the
utility guide. It's all here, including broadcasting stations as well
as utilities. Our main criticism of last year's first edition was that
it didn't do more: there was no multimedia, such as recordings of
stations or typical signal modes, or photo material. Also we pointed
out that you couldn't do incremental searches. You could find all the
stations in Sweden, for example, but couldn't narrow the search down
to just the RTTY stations there.
The 1996 book has a better interface, but our objections remain. It
says on the Klingenfuss WWW page that would can do incremental
searches, but if you can, the method is not very obvious, and we never
succeeded. In addition, while you can search by country, this seems to
be by some unknown abbreviation rather than the actual name of the
country in question. Sweden seems to be "S". A search in the
broadcast section for "Sweden" gets you the schedule for All India
Radio, while "Swedish" leads to Radiuo Yugoslavia in German, and
"Radio Sweden" winds up with Radio Liberty.
We get the feeling this is probably a great tool, if the interface was
just a little more understandable.
An interesting further development would be if the CD-ROM could be
used with receiver interface programs as a database. Some freeware or
shrareware programs to decode digital signals might be included, or
even an interface program for the most common receivers.
For more information write to:
101550.514@compuserve.com
or see:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/klingefuss
WWW--There's a new page for Short Wave Listeners at:
http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/
Thorsten Koch, editor of the Internet Guide to Shortwave Broadcasters,
reports that Polskie Radio in Poland has a Web site at:
http://www.radio.com.pl/
The External Service is Polskie Radio 5 at:
http://www.goblin.radio.com.pl/radio/pr-5.html
Thorsten has restyled his excellent guide:
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~thkoch
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Sweden Calling DXers/MediaScan is the world's oldest radio program
about international broadcasting. Radio Sweden has presented this
round-up of radio news, features, and interviews on Tuesdays since
1948. It's currently broadcast on the first and third Tuesdays of the
month.
Radio Sweden broadcasts in English:
To Europe:
17:15 hrs 1179 and 6065 kHz
18:30 1179, 6065, 7240, and 9655 kHz (also Africa/Middle East)
21:30 1179, 6065, and 7230 kHz (also Africa/Middle East) 22:30
1179 and 6065 kHz (also Africa/Middle East) 23:30 1179
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North America:
13:30 hrs on 11650 and 15240 kHz
14:30 hrs on 11650 and 15245 kHz
02:30 and 03:30 hrs on 7120 kHz
Latin America:
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The broadcasts at 17:15 and 18:30 hrs are also relayed to Europe
by satellite:
Astra 1C on ZDF's transponder 33 at 10.964 GHz, audio subcarrier at
7.38 MHz
Tele-X via TV5 Nordic/Femman's transponder at 12.475 GHz, audio
subcarrier 7.38 MHz
Radio Sweden is also relayed to Europe via the World Radio Network on
VH-1's transponder 22 on Astra 1C, audio 7.38 MHz, daily at 22:00 hrs
CET. Radio Sweden can also be heard on WRN's North American service on
Galaxy-5, on WTBS's transponder 6, audio 6.8 MHz, daily at 21:30 and
00:00 hrs Eastern time.
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Sound recordings of interviews from previous programs can be found at:
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Sound files of Mediascan are archived at:
ftp.funet.fi:pub/sounds/RadioSweden/Mediascan.
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