COVID disrupted just about everything for me. And by New Years Day 2023, I started wondering if there is any value in continuing the Media Network archive I built about international sound broadcasting in the 20th century. What has always kept

MN.05.01.2023 Maarten van Delft ID Collection 1988 Caribbean Stations

1 Jan 5th, 2023 57m 17s

Hello, welcome back to Part 2 of the Maarten van delft tapes. This time with unique studio recordings from the Caribbean made around 1988. Here is the link to LIST. Just to recap it is January 2023 and I’m playing around in the Media Network

MN.03.01.2023 Maarten van Delft ID Collection 1973 Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay

Jan 3rd, 2023 47m 22s

Here is s in this episode: Hello, it is January 2023 and I’m playing around in the Media Network archive vault which sits on my hard drive and beckons me to explore forgotten files when I have a moment to spare. In November 2019, a faithful Dut

Media Network Off Air Collection April 2 82

Apr 3rd, 2022 1h 24m

I am gradually sorting out my off-air radio cassette collection. I realise that if I don't do it now, I will never get around to it. But I also realise that a lot of off-air recordings are disappearing, especially once the radio programme is ma

MN.14.08.1980 Afghanistan and the Soviets

Jun 15th, 2021 34m 23s

This is the second edition of DX Juke Box that I hosted, having joined Radio Netherlands a couple of weeks earlier. The programme in those days was a mixture of music and tuning tips contributed by others. My goal, together with Wim van Amstel,

RadioMoscowWarmongers

Feb 28th, 2021 13m 59s

Look what I found. When I was working for the ORF Shortwave Panorama, BBC Monitoring Service and later Radio Netherlands, I learned the importance of taping everything I was listening to. Radio has no memory. And back in the 70’s and 80’s there

DXJB.25.09.1980

Feb 28th, 2021 35m 6s

Another early edition of DX Juke Box, with input from my good friend Victor Goonetilleke. I sent him a tape recorder and plenty of cassette. I would phone him and he would record his answers on cassette and send them in. Phone lines were useles

DXJB.18.09.1980 Early days

Feb 28th, 2021 35m 29s

A little over a month after taking over the programme, I was starting to phase out the music in DX Juke Box and bring in more equipment tests to replace the construction lessons. I got a lot of help from Wim Van Amstel. Basically just fooling a

MN.23.01.1986 Radio Fryslan

Feb 28th, 2021 31m 56s

For some reason this trip up North to Friesland to visit Radio Fryslan was digitized but never uploaded to this Media Network collection. So time to put that right. The picture is the modern studio centre. Very much smaller back then.

Media Network reflects on BBC World Radio Club

Feb 28th, 2021 47m 53s

Going through some cassettes on the last day of February and I discovered several cassettes of BBC's programme for shortwave listeners. World Radio Club and Waveguide. The earliest recording turned out to be from July 1977 which I recorded whil

MN.01.12.1998 Longwave China

Jan 30th, 2021 29m 45s

This edition had another Longwave update. We talk to John Ross Barnard about the attempts to get longwave radio out of the Isle of Man. Delta 171 seems to be a non-starter though. Web TV has challenges too. A personal computer program has been

MN.05.03.1998 Tahiti and Boyd

Jan 30th, 2021 29m 52s

In this edition, Lodewijk Bouwens launches DRM at a conference in China on behalf of other Western broadcasters. (This is the earliest announcement we know of concerning digital shortwave radio). We also look at USA Digital Radio. Some good sig

MN.12.02.1998 Campbell Cooper

Jan 30th, 2021 30m 24s

Ignore all the email address and phone numbers mentioned in this edition of the programme. They are all obsolete. However, we have revived a new email address for reactions on these vintage editions as well as new video editions of the programm

MN.29.01.1998 MW Steve Whitt

Jan 4th, 2021 30m 7s

During the lifetime of Series One, we had a great relationship with Steve Whitt of the UK’s Mediumwave Circle. They were kind enough to host our receiver reviews when the radio show ended. And they are . (If you think we should archive those re

MN.08.01.1998. Moscow Mason Numbers

Jan 3rd, 2021 29m 56s

This edition of Media Network covered updates on the numbers stations. But we started with news of unusual FM reception in New Zealand from Bryan Clark. Moscow has made a historic cutback to its output. We talk to Elizabeth Fox about broadcas

MN.02.01.1998. SW Receiver Survey

Jan 3rd, 2021 48m 15s

Happy New Year 2021. This is THE place for vintage editions of Media Network, the weekly communications programme as aired on the English Service of Radio Netherlands. This edition broadcast on January 2nd 1998 was unusual in that it was just u

MN.26.12.1996 Boxing Day at RNW

Dec 24th, 2020 29m 51s

Christmas and New Year were traditionally quiet times at Radio Netherlands, with a lot of pre-taped specials. We didn't really know whether anyone was listening. But apparently, they were because we had plenty of feedback to report on in this l

MN.25.01.1996 Carleton Vobbe

Dec 24th, 2020 32m 2s

I was delighted to discover in December 2020 that Neil Carleton of Almonte, Ontario, Canada remembers us. We remember him. We originally got in touch with him because of his fascination for stamps connected with radio and his spot on HCJB, Qui

MN.19.12.1996 Radio Safari

Dec 24th, 2020 29m 29s

So whatever happened to the world's first green radio station, Radio Safari? In late 1996, we followed up on a and met up with Andre Waters who had clearly identified a need for such a station in South Africa. But apart from that article and o

MN.07.11.1996 Meyerton Transmitters

Dec 24th, 2020 29m 47s

This programme includes a visit to the shortwave transmitter site at a small town lying 15 km north of in , . But the Wikipedia entry doesn't mention the radio towers that once broadcast the external service of Radio RSA during the apartheid

MN.02.05.1996 Las Vegas NAB 750th

Dec 24th, 2020 30m 15s

I remember this edition of Media Network like it was yesterday. It was edition 750. We had many greetings from around the world. And we reminded people that the programme's success was due to a great deal of help from people like Jim Cutler, Jo

MN.21.03.1996 Bhutan BBS

Dec 24th, 2020 31m 38s

The main part of this edition of Media Network is a rather unique portrait of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service. Thanks to a duty trip by Radio Netherlands producer Dheera Sujan, we were able to visit the national broadcaster in Bhutan, the BBS.

MN.06.03.1997 HAARP COMPLETE

Nov 3rd, 2020 29m 43s

Satellite Radio is going to happen in the US, despite opposition from the NAB. Q-FM is the new name for Radio London. There is the first of many features on the (now defunct) HAARP project. This segment is probably the most extensive feature we

MN.13.03.1997 Yacht Boy 207

Nov 3rd, 2020 29m 36s

We start we extensive tuning tips. High Adventure Ministries Has started transmissions to Europe and opening a postbox in the US. Carl Kruger is hearing Costa Rica. Captain has heard a time signal station from Venezuela on 5 MHz while in the Do

MN.13.02.1997 Before Borat

Nov 3rd, 2020 29m 45s

Lots of calls from listeners at the start of this Media Network. David Ward tells us about a new wind-up radio from Morphy Richards. We compare it with the Baygen motor. Andy Sennitt reports a comprehensive website on AFRTS. http://afrtsarchiv