Two radio services from Guyanese public broadcaster National Communications Network (NCN) are now available streamed live online from the Homeview Guyana web site at www.homeviewguyana.com.
Online listening of Voice of Guyana and Hot FM requires a subscription of 6 US dollars a month, however it's not clear if that is for both stations or just one. A free 10-minute "sampler" of either stream is offered on provision of an e-mail address (which they assure will not be passed on to a third party). I went for this and after a 30-second wait received a good-quality 8-minute feed of Voice of Guyana at 32 Kbps mono, with no buffering or other interruptions. The web site is in English and also includes a programme schedule, a history of NCN and its forerunners, and full contact details. In the past week Voice of Guyana has been observed most days commencing their own programming at a time varying between 0805 and 0830 UTC, following on from the overnight relay of BBC World Service. This was monitored with fair to poor reception on 3291.2 kHz via a DX Tuners.Com receiver situated near Caracas, Venezuela. In a Voice of Guyana broadcast monitored on Sunday 2 October the announcer mentioned that by the following Sunday they would "probably" be broadcasting from new studios in another part of town, rather than "the old broadcasting house on High Street". The history section of the web site alludes to this, stating that there are plans underway to have NCN's radio and TV services in the same building. Voice of Guyana has no connection with the UK-based web radio Voice of Guyana International. Regards, Dave Kernick ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
