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Incredible India Radio Goes Ga Ga _________________________________ 'Incredible India Radio Goes Ga Ga' is a one of three new columns just released at www.radioheritage.net, global media platform for the New Zealand based non- profit Radio Heritage Foundation. Imagine living in a city of 20 million people with no more than a dozen radio stations on the air, most playing the same kind of music, and only being allowed to hear one news service....and this being a big improvement on the situation some five years ago when only a couple of state run stations were on air. This is Mumbai, January 2007. India, today's IT, out sourcing and call center world capital, has discovered the power of deregulated radio, some 85 years after broadcasting began in the 1920's...and the airwaves jangle with jingles, the RJ's spin Bollywood hits and the advertising industry is gripped with fever [Richard Branson's Virgin Radio holds 20% of Fever FM] and hype as media moguls buy, sell, merge and purge their radio assets. RJ's? Delhi-wise, that's a 'Radio Jockey', and they're getting as famous and popular as film stars, and that's big news and big bucks in India. At www.radioheritage.net, read all about how one in six of the global population now enjoys radio, how overseas investors such as Branson and the BBC are staking out claims on the airwaves, and how everything from 40 WorldSpace satellite radio channels to DRM and mobile phone downloads are bringing radio to 1.1 billion listeners. Sabah and Singapore ___________________ Two new Wavescan Series columns from Dr Adrian Peterson of AWR explore the heritage of radio broadcasting in part of Borneo, and in Singapore. 'Radio in Sabah' also covers the 'old' North Borneo and Labuan, one of the original Malay Straits Settlements. Some rare photos of the Australian Army's WWII entertainment stations on Labuan Island and on North Borneo make fascinating viewing. As well as the early days, the column at www.radioheritage.net also reviews broadcasting in Sabah, now part of today's Malaysia. The second in the Singapore Radio series by Adrian, looks at the BBC Far East Relay stations and the troubled history of the first one, planned in 1937 and caught up in the Pacific conflict just four years later. Some nice illustrations from the SEAC Radio Times newspaper in 1947, give an idea of the short period when this station broadcast from Singapore before moving to Ceylon. Now located at Kranji, the BBC Far East Relay continues to provide important shortwave coverage of the South East Asian region. Even though the BBC now uses local FM relays and internet streaming of programs, there's a renewed acceptance by the BBC that shortwave radio maintains coverage at times and in places where newer technology fails. As usual, these columns from Adrian at www.radioheritage.net are both heavily researched and documented pieces, and, as part of our archives policy, all these detailed notes are included for reference. >From Singapore, Sabah and India, these three new columns at www.radioheritage.net make entertaining reading and add to the growing Asian content in the archive program of the Radio Heritage Foundation. The Radio Heritage Foundation is an independent and registered non-profit organization sharing the stories of radio broadcasting from within the wider Pacific and Asian region. Enjoy much more content at www.radioheritage.net and also use the Pacific Asian Log Radio Guides - every mediumwave and shortwave radio station in the region - more than 50,000 data entries kept up to date. Including India, Sabah and Singapore on the air in 2007. -------------- Lynn. Lafayette, LA Check out the IRCA web site at http://www.ircaonline.org ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
