Photo above from Public Radio of Armenia Facebook page
Extracts below from Radio Websites (August 2014) by Chrissy Brand, for Radio User, 2014.
Where are they now?
This is the
part of the magazine where I track down and remind you of where former radio shortwave
broadcasting giants and minnows have now gone to. The Voice of Russia left shortwave
to park its bus in cyberspace but can be heard on DAB in south east England,
and online at the special UK service website. It’s today’s equivalent of those
mighty shortwave broadcasts that Radio Moscow used to target to listeners in
“Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. If
you go to http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/
you can see how the Voice of Russia still has the variety of exciting programmes
that it used to air on shortwave. With current world politics it will pay to keep an ear to that station.
The
Voice of Armenia still broadcast on shortwave but not in
English, on 4810kHz. The next best thing is that you can watch Armenian television
at http://www.armeniatv.am/en/voice with programmes such as
The Human Factor, Sharp Angle and Inner Kitchen. It’s also available on a
Russian version of You Tube, called Ru Tube http://rutube.ru/ and you can follow the tv
channel on Twitter at @armeniantv
When you mention The Voice of Armenia these days it is more associated with the tv singing show The Voice which started in the USA and has spread globally.
There is sport as well which doesn’t require too much in the way of knowing the local lingo. It all looks slick and there is a even a little English to help us poor saps. The Armenian alphabet and script looks very elegant I must say, as do some of the presenters you’ll see. It’s a long way from the “This Is Yerevan” identification calls that used to echo across the shortwaves with more regularity than they now do, but I enjoy staying in touch with a country I learned so much about through radio.
When you mention The Voice of Armenia these days it is more associated with the tv singing show The Voice which started in the USA and has spread globally.
There is sport as well which doesn’t require too much in the way of knowing the local lingo. It all looks slick and there is a even a little English to help us poor saps. The Armenian alphabet and script looks very elegant I must say, as do some of the presenters you’ll see. It’s a long way from the “This Is Yerevan” identification calls that used to echo across the shortwaves with more regularity than they now do, but I enjoy staying in touch with a country I learned so much about through radio.
Of course, as well as current day audio and video from former international broadcasters, there is an ever-expanding archive being compiled by DXers around the world, and uploaded to You Tube, Vimeo and doubtless other similar video and audio social media sites. You can spend many a happy hour wallowing in the snap crackle and pop of shortwave’s golden era when you search for archive material online.
For example D Firth has a You Tube channel laden with off-air recordings clips from the late 1960s which feature Radio Australia, Radio Moscow, Radio Peking, Swiss Radio International and the Voice of America at https://www.youtube.com/user/dfirth224
Our good friend of the DX
community SWLDX in Bulgaria, along with a regular blog, has over 2,000 videos
online at https://www.youtube.com/user/SWLDXBulgaria which
include vintage as well as current catches. Listen to his 40 minute long audio
from “The Glory Days of Shortwave Radio”, if you fancy a trip down memory lane.
Others I’ve enjoyed recently include John Doe’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/RWObservatory which has current recordings of shortwave stations such as the BBC and Vatican Radio plus some older material including vintage Brother Stair clips – in full preacher mode- from the 1980s.
Others I’ve enjoyed recently include John Doe’s YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/RWObservatory which has current recordings of shortwave stations such as the BBC and Vatican Radio plus some older material including vintage Brother Stair clips – in full preacher mode- from the 1980s.
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