** NETHERLANDS. RNW: The State We’re In to finish We have some bad news: The State We're In is being terminated. As many of you may know, Radio Netherlands Worldwide was hit with a drastic 70 percent cutback last year by the Dutch government. We were assured at that time by Radio Netherlands' outgoing management that the show was still going to be an integral part of Radio Netherlands, but those assurances didn't hold.
Subsequent changes in the organization's mandate towards a tighter focus on nations in the developing world, and a much slower-than-expected transition to new management have made it impossible for us to continue. The State We're In exits with its head held high: it was the most broadcasted, downloaded and decorated program in the long history of Radio Netherlands Worldwide, and won praise from radio industry leaders from around the world. It was heard in top public radio markets the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and in select markets in India and Africa. Our overall audience reach was 12 million people. We will miss you and all the engaged, thoughtful responses you had to what we put on the air. It was a privilege bringing these stories - which sometimes included stories you told us - to light. FYI: Our last original program will be produced at the end of October. There will be some repeat shows after that. Greg Kelly, Editor TSWI (Source : RNW via http://sw-radio.blogspot.com/2012/10/rnw-state-were-in-to-finish.html via Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, October 5, dxldyg via DXLD) Original site, with comments: http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/state-we%E2%80%99re-finish (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. MASS-DELETION OF RNW CONTENT Hadn't it been promised on the farewell programme of RNW English that they will go away but what they produced will stay (put more elegantly than this, can't recall the wording)? That promise lasted only four weeks. Looking up the records of a CMS link checker, I just noticed that apparently a sweeping deletion took place on 27 July, eliminating most or even all of the archived content. And a quick look at the remaining website still shows the old template but with many redirects to the frontpage with the little they still have to offer. Could someone please put this pet out of its misery? And what will become as of 28 Oct of the legacy broadcasts in Spanish and, if indeed still on air, Dutch that at present still go out via the doomed Bonaire transmitters? Looking up the preliminary HFCC data suggests that they will disappear altogether (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jonathan Marks recently remarked about salvaging some historical audio files before it`s too late (gh, DXLD) I haven't checked the past few days, but I believe the 0930 Dutch transmission for Suriname ended last week, leaving the hour of Spanish at 1100 as the only remaining RNW broadcast on SW. I suspect this transmission will not be around in B-12 (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, Oct 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
