From wood@stab.sr.seTue Apr 2 17:38:22 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:53:35 +0100
From: George Wood <wood@stab.sr.se>
To: wood@rs.sr.se
Subject: MediaScan/Sweden Calling DXers 2244
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:: SWEDEN CALLING DXERS ::
:: from Radio Sweden ::
:: Number 2244--Mar. 19, 1996 ::
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Shortwave and other electronic media news from Radio Sweden.
This week's bulletin was written by George Wood.
Packet Radio BID SCDX2244
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--- Sorry about the one day delay in sending this out. I've been at
home with a sick child.
NORDIC MEDIA NEWS:
RADIO SWEDEN--We're happy to note that Radio Sweden's pages on the
Worldwide Web have been honored as being among the top Web sites. The
recognition comes from Pointcom, which reviews what it considers to be
the best 5 percent of the Web.
So, if you have Internet access, set your browser for:
http://www.sr.se/rs
You can find texts of our daily newscasts, and text and sound from our
Friday reviews of the week gone by, and lots more, including a vastly
expanded version of MediaScan.
Our new schedule that goes into effect on March 31st has some major
changes, and you can check those out on our Web pages shortly. But for
those of you who don't have access to the Internet, here's that new
Radio Sweden schedule. All times are UTC unless otherwise specified:
Europe:
18:30 hrs on 1179, 6065, 9655, and 11615 kHz
19:30 hrs on 1179 and 6065 kHz
Weekends only at 20:30 hrs as well as daily at 21:30 hrs on 1179,
6065, 9430, and 9655 kHz
At 12:30 and 18:30 hrs we'll be on satellite to Europe on Tele-X on
the Channel 5 transponder, and on Astra on the ZDF transponder.
We'll also continue to be heard in Europe via the World Radio Network
at 20:00 hrs UTC on the VH-1 transponder on Astra. In all three cases
the sound channel is 7.38 MHz.
North America:
11:30 and 13:30 hrs on 11650 and 15240 kHz
02:30 hrs on 7290 kHz
03:30 hrs on 7155 kHz
We'll continue to be heard in North America on satellite via WRN on
Galaxy 5 transponder 6, audio 6.80 MHz. On March 31st the time will
seem to shift to 8:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, as Europe switches to
Summer Time, and one week later when North America gets around to
moving to Daylight Saving Time, that will restore it to 9:30 PM
Eastern Time.
Latin America:
00:30 hrs on 6065 kHz
01:30 hrs on 7290 kHz
Asia/Pacific:
12:30 hrs on 13740 and 15240 kHz
13:30 hrs on 9835 kHz
01:00 on 7120 and 9435 kHz
SWEDISH RADIO--Sweden's public service radio broadcaster, Swedish
Radio (home of Radio Sweden) is suing Kinnevik for broadcasting its
Norwegian network "P4 Hele Norge" to western Sweden from a transmitter
in Gothenburg. When Kinnevik took over the Radio Rix network recently,
it found itself with two stations in Gothenburg, and began using one
to relay its Norwegian network. Swedish Radio says there's no licence
to broadcast Kinnevik's P4, and in addition the name already belongs
to one of Swedish Radio's own national networks. ("Radiotidningen")
Swedish Radio has already sued Kinnevik to stop calling its Swedish
network P6, the name used by Swedish Radio and Radio Sweden for our
Stockholm International FM service. That suit has forced Kinnevik to
change the name of its P6 network to Radio Rix.
BANDIT RADIO--Luxembourg's CLT, having bought Stockholm's English
language hard rock station, Bandit Radio, has decided English doesn't
pay, and has fired 12 DJs and switched to Swedish. (TT) CLT's second
channel (the former Radio Q) continues to play continuous music broken
only by IDs as "FM 104.7".
KINNEVIK--We reported last time that Nethold/FilmNet had changed its
strategy for its SuperSport channel. Because of the expected
competition from rival Kinnevik's planned Sportkanalen ("the Sports
Channel"), Nethold made SuperSport free, and besides digital MPEG,
it's also being broadcast in the clear on Astra in D2-MAC.
That move has forced Kinnevik to retrench. It's Sports Channel was
supposed to start on Friday with a 7 day a week service on its own
transponder on the Sirius satellite. Instead, apparently because of
SuperSport, Kinnevik's channel will take the Rupert Murdoch approach,
and will take over weekends on the transponder carrying the existing
women's channel TV-6 and shopping channel TV-G. This is supposed to
give the Sports Channel a headstart over SuperSports as regards
getting onto the crowded cable networks. But there is a problem. The
cable operators have contracts to broadcast TV-6 and TV-G. There is no
agreement covering the Sport Channel, and some say they may exile the
upstart to a remote channel. (Frank Oestergren, "Aftonbladet")
While Stockholm's Stjaen-TV net seems to be putting SuperSport and its
companion channel Hallmark on its basic tier, Sweden's largest cable
operator, Swedish Telecom's Svenska Kabel-TV, is taking a difference
route. SuperSport is being carried free on the network's information
channel until March 24th, after which it is apparently being made a
pay channel, despite being free on satellite. There doesn't seem to be
any sign of Hallmark.
SWEDISH TELEVISION--Lars Wahlin, a Swede living in Denmark, has
written saying that he would like to watch the public broadcaster SVT
1 and 2, rather than the commercial Swedish broadcasters TV3, TV4, and
Channel 5, all of which are readily available through-out Scandinavia
on satellite. Lars thinks it is strange that the only SVT satellite
relays are via Norway, and viewing cards are not available (except to
EU bureaucrats in Brussels), while Norway's NRK is available to
Swedes.
Some weeks ago we took up this question with Swedish Minister of
Culture Margot Wallstrom, specifically about the 10,000 or so Swedes
who have have to pay their TV licences, but who are out of reach of
SVT's terrestrial transmitters. She assured us that digital television
will be the answer.
SVT is already part of a digital package on the Tele-X satellite.
Although MPEG receivers are still not available to consumers, they
soon will be, and we can only hope that the SVT programming will be
available then in the clear.
DENMARK--The Danish public broadcaster, Danmarks Radio, says it will
launch a second TV channel in a bid to capture more viewers. Since the
advent of commercial television, with TV2 in 1986 and Kinnevik's TV3
in 1989, the state broadcaster DR-TV has been steadily losing viewers.
The existing public channel, DR One, is to be modified with light
entertainment shows, films, and news aimed at younger viewers. The new
DR One will appear at the end of August.
At the same time, DR-TV will launch DR Two, a satellite and cable
channel which will carry material aimed at an older audience, with
more cultural programming that terrestrial TV offers. In the start-up
period DR Two will only be on the air in the evening, and is expected
to reach 60 percent of the Danish population. DR One will also be
carried on satellite, and Swedish and Norwegian TVRO viewers will be
able to watch both channels with the proper subscription smartcard.
This fall DR-TV, the Danish soccer association, the semi-commercial
TV-2, and the national telecommunications operator TeleDanmark, plan
to launch the country's first Danish-language sports pay- TV channel.
(AP, TT)
EUROPEAN MEDIA NEWS:
SPORTS--In other sports controversies, this past weekend Rupert
Murdoch introduced pay-per-view television to Britain by charging for
the Bruno- Tyson fight, something which has upset many Sky Sports
subscribers, and according to reports, not that many people choose to
pay the extra money to see the fight. (James Robinson)
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, there's a lot of opposition to plans
for a pay channel called Sportnet carrying live soccer. Owned jointly
by the Dutch soccer association and a consortium including Philips,
the new channel aims to be on the air by mid-August. (Reuters)
BBC--The BBC says it will launch two more satellite/cable channels to
join BBC World and BBC Prime before the end of the year. Apparently
these would be an educational channel called BBC Learning and a nature
channel. Sports would not be a high priority for a new BBC channel,
presumeably because of the many existing sports channels already on
the air. However, BBC World and BBC Prime are now carrying
comprehensive international sports results on their Teletext pages.
("What Satellite TV")
BBC World is to start terrestrial broadcasts to Berlin. The German
authorities have awarded the BBC the vacant channel 41, as well as a
cable channel in Berlin/Brandenburg. The cable channel will reach
around 1.2 million homes, and the terrestrial frequency almost 4
million. The BBC's rivals for the frequency were Super RTL,
Nickelodeon, TM3, The Box, and Cable One. ("Ariel" via Richard Buckby)
CNBC/SUPER CHANNEL--The business channel CNBC (on Astra) and the
general entertainment channel NBC Super Channel (on Eutelsat II-F1)
have now completely split their programming, after several weeks
during which the business programming took over more and more on the
Astra transponder.
MTV--MTV has admitted it has only attracted 5000 paying subscribers in
Germany since it encrypted its German service last July. ("What
Satellite TV") The fact that Germans can watch rival Viva 1 and Viva 2
for free many have something to do with this.
WEATHER CHANNEL--Landmark Communcations, owner of the Travel Channel,
is planning to launch a 24 hour weather channel on cable networks this
Summer. It may be in the clear on satellite in the same way as the
Travel Channel. ("What Satellite TV")
SEGA--The Sega Channel is preparing for a launch this Summer on
satellite (via Sky) and cable to the UK. ("What Satellite TV")
THE EU VS MAASTRICT--We're reported before about the apparent conflict
between the clause in the Maastrict Agreement guaranteeing equal
access to services for all citizens of the EU, and nation-only
royalties agreements. That's the excuse British Sky Broadcasting gives
for not letting people outside Britain and Ireland subscribe, and also
the reason there are so many pirate decoder cards for Sky in
circulation.
The April issue of "What Satellite TV" magazine has an excellent
article called "Costa del Sky" about the British expatriates in Spain
who watch BSkyB, using unauthorized cards, and the issues involved.
One point made in the article is that European royalties are exclusive
and sold per country. Since FilmNet and TV1000 often show the same
films, we wonder how exclusive those agreements have to be. And since
German TV rights are for German language, rather than Germany,
Switzerland, or Austria alone, we wonder if the claim there are no
European English-rights can possibly be true (Super Channel certainly
seems to have European-wide rights for its programming.)
The European Commission has intervened, but unfortunately not to
implement the free access promised by Maastrict, but rather against
the symptom, the pirate cards, as Joe Kirwin reports from Brussels in
today's program.
DIGITAL BROADCASTING--The EU's competition commissioner Karel Van
Miert says he will look closely at the recent deal between France's
Canal Plus and Havas, Germany's Bertelsmann, and Rupert Murdoch's
British Sky Broadcasting for digital satellite television to Europe.
The partners say they will invest almost one billion dollars to
develop theme-oriented channels for European audiences, using a single
digital decoder standard, called SECA. The new company will be 30
percent owned each by BSkyB, Canal Plus, and Bertelsmann, with the
remaining 10 percent stake held by Havas. (Reuters)
Previously BSkyB had seemed to be dragging its feet on digital
broadcasting, preferring to let other companies pioneer the new
technology and the new market. "What Satellite TV" reports that Sky
has said it wouldn't introduce digital broadcasts until the autumn of
1997 at the very earliest, and quotes Sky chief executive Sam Chisholm
as saying:
"We're keen on it (digital broadcasting) but we don't want to be the
pioneers with the arrows in our backs."
The new alliance will be competing with Nethold, which apparently
plans to have its own decoder for digital transmissions. Also on the
outside is German media tycoon Leo Kirch, who defected from the
alliance in favor of his own D-Box decoder. According to one report,
Kirch may get together with Nethold, and possibly even Silvio
Berlusconi's Finninvest, to form a rival digital standard block. The
three already own Italy's Telepiu pay TV group. (Curt Swinehart)
Telepiu says it is commercially launching its DStv digital pay
television package in September, with a line-up of 50 TV and 40 radio
services. Some of the channels will be foreign TV stations, but all
will be dubbed into Italian, except for CNN International and live
newscasts. Telepiu hopes to have at least 150,000 subscribers by the
end of the year, a goal that should be helped by its securing the
exclusive rights to all Italian soccer for the next three years.
("Tele-satellit")
Luxembourg's CLT says it feel betrayed by its shareholder Havas, and
will try to form its own alliance, with France's TF1 and American
media groups. In response, Canal Plus now says it just might try to
buy CLT. The digital deal also seems to include BSkyB taking a 25
percent of the German pay channel Premiere, owned by Bertelsmann,
Canal Plus, and Kirch. But now it emerges that Kirch may veto that
part of the deal. (Reuters)
ASTRA--European digital television will probably use the existing
Astra 1E satellite, as well as the upcoming Astra 1F, who's scheduled
launch on a Russian Proton 1D rocket from Kazakhstan has been delayed
until mid-April. This follows the discovery of a leak on one of the
satellite's two healium tanks. (Reuters)
Astra transponder 58 is carrying a promotional video, in PAL, for the
just launched German Canal Plus digital service "Multi-Thematique".
The MPEG-2 service itself is on Astra transponder 72, and carries 8
channels:
Channel J for Children, Channel Jimmy with music from the 50's and
60's, a travel and cultural channel similar to Arte called Voila, a
science fiction channel called Cyber-TV, the film channel Kino Kino,
science and technology programs on Planet, Cineclassics, a German
version of the Spanish classic film channel found on transponder 40,
and the nature channel Seasons. (James Robinson)
CANAL SATELLITE--Canal Plus' French digital package Canal Satellite is
due to launch on April 27. The company hopes to have between 150,000
and 200,000 subscribers by the end of the year. The package will also
carry some existing analog channels, and 20 radio services. (Reuters)
EUTELSAT--A consortium of French broadcasters, including TF1, France
Telecom, France Supervision, Arte, and La Cinquieme says it will be
launching an in- the-clear digital TV packafge from Eutelsat this
month. ("What Satellite TV")
DIGITAL RADIO--Digital Music Express is finally launching its UK
service, but it won't be promoted until the Autumn. "We previously
agreed this start date with Sky (which is handling the subscriptions",
says DMX marketing manager Bob Brocklebank. "But we can't start
actively marketing DMX yet because, quite frankly, we couldn't meet
the demand that would result."
He says DMX currently has 400 subscribers in the UK, but is looking
for between 5000 and 8000 by September. Pace and Grundig are both
planning to exhibit DMX receivers at the Cable and Satellite Show in
April. ("What Satellite TV")
NORTH AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS:
SEX--The Federal Communications Commission has announced that cable
operators carrying the Playboy Channel and other adult-oriented
channels will be required to completely scramble the sex networks or
to carry the material only between 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM. TCI and Time
Warner, the largest cable operators in the US, do not have the
appropriate scrambling technology, and have opted to channel
programming to late evening and early morning hours. ("Daily Variety"
via "Tele-satellit")
ECHOSTAR--The Echostar-2 satellite is to launch via Ariane in
September of this year. It will be Echostar's second DBS satellite.
Echostar-1 was successfuly launched from China on December 28, 1995,
and is now fully operational to subscribers around the US with more
than 100 channels of video and audio programming. ("Tele-satellit")
MCI/MURDOCH--MCI and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp say they have ordered
two high-powered satellited from Loral Corp. to deliver DBS services
starting next year. The companies are paying 400 million dollars for
the satellites, including launching and insurance costs, says Susan
Mayer, a senior vice president at MCI.
MCI Chairman Bert Roberts says the order puts "right on target our
plans" to deliver DBS services to businesses and consumers by the end
of 1997. The first 32 transponder satellite is expected to be lianched
at the end of 1997, and the second in early 1998. In January, MCI bid
more than 682 million dollars to win the last American DBS licence at
an FCC auction. At the time, MCI and News Corp said they intended to
spend more than 1 billion dollars to build and launch the satellites.
DirecTV and USSB are already operating an American DBS service (and
claim 1.3 million subscribers), as are Primestar (with 1 million
claimed subscribers) and Echostar (which just began operation). Five
other companies have licences for national DBS services. (AP and
Reuters)
DIRECTV/MICROSOFT--On March 11 DirecTV (a unit of Hughes, which in
turn is owned by General Motors) announced an agreement with Microsoft
to enable personal computers to receive digital video programming and
new interactive data services via DirecTV. Subscribers with a digital
broadcast-enabled personal computer will be able to access all of the
video programming packages currently available on DirecTV, in addition
to a new catagory of data services, including selected Internet
content and multimedia magazines.
Microsoft is developing specifications for a new version of the DSS
decoder that can be integrated into computers running Windows 95. (Dow
Jones)
LATIN AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS:
INTELSAT--On March 14th, Ariane successfully placed into orbit the
Intelsat 707 satellite. This was supposed to have replaced Intelsat
702 at 1 degree West, offering many new channels to Scandinavia.
Instead, because of the recent failure of the Chinese to launch
Intelsat 708, the new satellite will replace 708 over the Atlantic.
(Reuters, AP)
Rupert Murdoch, TCI, and two partners had planned to use the 708
satellite for a direct to home service to Latin America. Now they say
they will be using Panamsat instead, and they're being sued by
Intelsat's American member Comsat for breach of contract. Comsat is
also suing Panamsat for conspiring with Mexico's Grupo Televisa (an
alliance partner which owns 40 percent of Panamsat) to benefit
themselves by arranging for Panamsat to provide the service in
Comsat's place. The suit seeks damages of at least 250 million
dollars, plus punative damages. (Dow Jones)
ASIAN MEDIA NEWS:
BBC--BBC World Service Television, kicked off the northern beam of
Asiasat- 1 by Rupert Murdoch in April 1994, to appease the Chinese, is
also following Murdoch to Panamsat. Beginning April 1st BBC World will
be returning to East Asia on a digital transponder on Panamsat-2. Last
month the BBC announced it will be moving its South Asian service to
Panamsat-4, when the remaining contract for the Asiasat southern beam
expires on March 31st. (BBC)
MORE MURDOCH--Speculation continues that Rupert Murdoch is poised to
strike a deal with China's state broadcaster, China Central
Television. The "Financial Times" reports that Murdoch's Star-TV is
close to a deal with CCTV and the Hong Kong-based Carefree Development
to establish a Chinese satellite channel or cable network to be known
as Phoenix. Another report, in the "South China Morning Post", says
the new Phoenix channel will be carried on the recently launched
Asiasat-2 satellite, and distributed to cable networks in China.
(Reuters)
MORE CHINA--HBO Asia is reported to be negotiating to set up a
licensing arrangement or a joint-venture partnership in China that
would let it distribute a new movie channel tailored for that country.
HBO Asia and CCTV are discussing various proposals with the Ministry
for Radio, Film, and Television, says William Hooks, present and chief
executive officer of HBO Asia. He says a Chinese HBO channel would
most likely start as a four to eight hour block of HBO Asia
programming, with the rest of the 24 hours filled with original
programming from HBO's as-yet-undetermined Chinese partner or other
programmers. ("Wall Street Journal")
NBC--On April 15 NBC is launching its Asian entertainment channel,
based in Hong Kong. NBC Asia will include programming from NBC Super
Channel in Europe, and wil include a daily half hour of regional news,
a weekly hour- long Asian lifestyle show, and a morning dose of Tai
Chi exercises. More Asian content will be added later. Last June NBC's
sister channel CNBC launched a 24 hour business channel in Asia,
paralleling the European launch of CNBC. (Reuters)
INDIA--The new Insat-2C satellite is said to be ushering in a telecom
revolution in India. Unlike the earlier Insat-1D, 2A, and 2B
satellites, 2C does not carry a transponder for weather data, as there
are enough Indian satellites doing that job. Instead it has 24
transponders more powerful than on any earlier satellites. In another
first, 2C will be co-located alongside another Indian satellite, 2B,
at 93.5 degrees East, to provide more channels from one location in
the sky. It also carries India's first Ku-band transponders for
telecommunications. Two of the 12 C-band transponders will have
extended coverage from southeast Asia to the Middle East to the
subcontinent, while the remaining 10 will be focused on the
subcontinent itself. There are also 6 transponders termed "extended
C-band". Three Ku- band transponders will be used for business
communications in major cities, data networking, and satellite news
gathering. There is also one S-band transponder for the broadcast
satellite service. (PTI)
INDONESIA--All four Ku-band transponders on the newly launched Palapa
C1 satellite are reported to be faulty. Defective batteries are blamed
for the failure, which causes the transponders to fail when the
satellite moves out of direct sunlight. The failure means there will
be no Ku-band transmissions from the satellite, which carries the 4
Ku-band transponders in addition to 24 C-band and 6 of "extended
C-band" transponders. (Will someone please tell us what "extended
C-band" is supposed to mean?)
C1 is the first of a new generation of satellite carrying 34
transponders, compared to the B series' 24. Offering an Asia-wide
footprint, it was launched on February 1. (Reuters and
"Tele-satellit")
Palapa C1 is replacing Palapa B2P at 113 degrees East. The new
satellite seems to have gone into operation, with Euronews (?) in
French, two Indonesian or Malaysian channels, and CNN International
being reported by Phil Pittard in Australia to the TVRO Satellite
Technology Internet mailing list. (Curt Swinehart)
CHINA/THAILAND--Thailand and China have indefinately postponed talks
on a dispute over overlapping orbital slots, at Beijing's request, a
senior Thai official says. The dispute centers on the orbital
positions between China's Apstar-2 and Thailand's Thaicom-3
satellites. China has insisted on placing Apstar-2 at 121 degrees
East, with would interfere with Thaicom-3, set to be launched later
this year, and positioned at 120 degrees East. The two countries had
agreed tp resume talks in Thailand from March 13-14, after failing to
settle the dispute in a previous round of discussions in China in
January.
The explanation given for the Chinese postponement is the need to
investigate the recent destruction of a Long March rocket carrying the
Intelsat 708 satellite. (Reuters)
GLOBAL RADIO:
BBC--The BBC has announced that it will cut operating costs by 10
percent on the World Service radio network, in an effort to meet a 30
million dollar cutback imposed by the Conservative government. The
World Service, which broadcasts in 42 languages, attracts an estimated
audience of 140 million listeners. According to Sam Younger, managing
director of the BBC's radio arm, no decision has been made on what
services would be closed if the planned governmetn reductions went
ahead. He says top priorities are to strengthen key languages like
Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. The BBC also hopes to deliver programs on
shortwave, FM, and via the Internet. (Reuters)
CYBERSPACE:
CD-ROM--Last month I reviewed The 1996 Super Frequency List from
Klingenfuss Publications. My biggest criticism was that I couldn't get
the program to do incremental searches, I could get a list of utility
stations in Sweden, or a list of RTTY stations, but not a list of RTTY
stations in Sweden. My point was not that this couldn't be done, just
that it wasn't obvious to me how to do it.
Now Michiel Schaay, who produced the data for the broadcast database
part of the CD-ROM has kindly written to explain exactly how this can
be carried out. It involves using a feature in the "Search" menu
called "word search", and while a little complicated turns out to work
very well, as long as the user is familiar with the ITU abbreviations
for countries. It would be better if the program actually used the
names, since the ITU abbreviations can be pretty obscure.
Some of the other search terms are also hard to guess. In the
broadcast database, a search for "Radio Sweden", followed by
"English", followed by "Europe" yielded only one entry, while "Radio
Sweden", "English", and "Africa" turned up nothing. The reason, it
turns out, is that most of the Radio Sweden English broadcasts to
those areas are coded under the name "Eur., Afr., M. East" which is
certainly not obvious or intuitive. This is a very good program,
better than last year's version, but there is room for still more
improvement next time.
NHK--An American Internet user has established a Web page with details
of Japan's NHK's TV broadcasts to the US and Europe. Check out:
http://www.holli.com/~swjohnst/welcome.html
("Tele-satellit")
GLOSSARY--The Glossary of Satellite Terms can be found at:
http://www.miralite.com/Gloassary.html
(Curt Swinehart)
TELE-SATELLIT--Tele-satellit is now offering satellite news in
Russian. It can be found at Tele-satellit's home page at:
http://www.tele-satellit.com
VHF--VHF Communications Magazine can be found at:
http://clearlight.com/~vhfcomm
ITALY--Italy's RAI can be found at:
http://www.rai.it
Radio Studio Piu (is this related to Telepiu?), is at:
http://www.gardanet.it/studiopiu/
(Fabrizio Skrebec)
LITHUANIA--Here are the e-mail addresses for Lithuanian stations not
included in the WRTH96:
Laisvoji Banga (Vilnius-based private radio company):
laisvojibanga@post.omnitel.net
Tau (Kaunas-based private radio company):
merica@launas.omnitel.net
Lithuanian Radio and Television Center (state owned transmitting
station network):
lrtc@aiva.lt
(Sigitas Zilionis)
SATELLITE RECEIVERS--SCT, the British agents for the top-of-the-line
Monterey Chaparral satellite receivers, now has its own Web site, at:
http://www.sct.co.uk
("What Satellite TV")
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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
kHz
Asia/Pacific:
12:30 hrs 9835, 13740, and 15240 kHz
01:30 hrs 7120 kHz
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:
00:30 hrs on 6065 and 9850 kHz
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.
Our new World Wide Web page is at:
http://www.sr.se/rs
A multimedia version of this bulletin can be found at:
http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/scdx.htm
Sound recordings of interviews from previous programs can be found at:
http://www.sr.se/rs/english/media/media2.htm
Sound files of Mediascan are archived at:
ftp.funet.fi:pub/sounds/RadioSweden/Mediascan.
You can also find the programs among the offerings of Internet Talk
Radio at various sites, including:
ftp://town.hall.org/radio/Mirrors/RadioSweden/MediaScan
Radio Sweden news (recorded at 01:30 hrs UTC daily) as well recordings
of MediaScan are available in the Real Audio format via
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George Wood wood@rs.sr.se
Radio Sweden http://www.sr.se/rs
S-105 10 Stockholm tel: +468-784-7239
Sweden fax: +468-667-6283
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