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<EOT>


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Welcome to program 27 of VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Here is the lineup for today's program:

2:53  MFSK16: Program preview (now)

2:40  MFSK32: Sample of Greek text

  :49  MFSK32 image: VOA Greek Service logo

3:01  MFSK32: "Need to Protect the Internet"

1:45  MFSK64: Radio Free Sarawak/Discovery Channel

2:23  MFSK64 image: "Duck Commander"

  :27  MFSK128: CNBC Saracens deal

  :48  MFSK128 image: CNBC logo

  :45  MFSK32: E-mail address

4:40  MFSK64: BBC Worldwide, Giglio TV, Voice of Greece, All India Radio

2:55  MFSK64/Flmsg: VOA News re Voyager Golden Record

2:17  MFSK32 image: Voyager Golden Record

  :33  MFSK32: Closing announcements

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com

And visit voaradiogram.net

VOA Radiogram now changes to MFSK32...

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This is VOA Radiogram in MFSK32

We continue our experiments with non-Latin alphabets.  Today's

text sample is in Greek. It is information about the VOA Greek

Service's FM radio affiliate in Thessaloniki.

ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ

RADIO City International 106.1, ένας από τους ραδιοσταθμούς της συμπρωτεύουσας που φημίζεται για την ποιότητα των

εκπομπών του, παρουσιάζει στην ολότητά τους τα 8 προγράμματα που παράγει κάθε μέρα η Ελληνική Υπηρεσία, ταυτόχρονα

με τη μετάδοσή τους από τη Ουάσιγκτον.

Next an MFSK32 image of the VOA Greek Service logo... 

This is VOA Radiogram.

This week, more news about international broadcasting from

kimandrewelliott.com.

Below each headline is a shortened URL for the post. The post has

links to each of the stories. Kim's comments are in brackets [ ].

"Urgent Need to Protect the Internet."

http://j.mp/190OMMW

Yale Global, 8 Aug 2013, John Negroponte: "Nation-states are

increasingly attempting to regulate social, political and

economic activity and content in cyberspace and, in many cases,

suppress expression they view as threatening. Justifying their

actions by claiming to protect children or national security,

more than 40 governments have erected restrictions of

information, data and knowledge flow on the internet. Censoring

the internet takes many forms including censorship of opinions

(Vietnam, Saudi Arabia); censorship of specific websites or ISPs

(Australia, Pakistan, Russia); censorship of specific information

(China, Germany); demanding information be taken down (France,

Singapore); demanding users’ IP addresses (more than 50

countries); and erecting regulatory barriers to cross-border,

information flow (Brunei and Vietnam). More drastically, others

including Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and Russia have considered

building national computer networks that would tightly control or

even sever connections to the global internet. ... The open,

global internet is unlikely to continue to flourish without

deliberate action to promote and defend it. Political, economic

and technological forces are seeking to splinter the internet

into something that looks more like national networks, with each

government controlling its own domestic sphere as well as the

flow of data and information among countries."

VOA Radiogram now changes to MFSK64.

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MFSK64, followed by an additional 6 seconds of silence. If the

RSID does not change your mode to MFSK64, please do so

manually...

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This is VOA Radiogram in MFSK64.

News about international broadcasting from kimandrewelliott.com

Radio Free Sarawak back on the air and back in the news.

j.mp/1ewoRFk

New York Times, 16 Aug 2013, Gerry Mullany: "[Clare] Newcastle

Brown has given voice to growing concerns among Malaysians about

environmental degradation. She spreads her message on social

media, her Sarawak Report Web site and broadcasts on Radio Free

Sarawak. ... Radio Free Sarawak [was] helped along by a drive

that put 10,000 shortwave radios in the hands of Malaysians to

hear the broadcasts, an effort aided by local churches and

opposition groups. 'They have verandas where families will sit

together and listen to the radio,' Ms. Rewcastle Brown said. To

increase the audience, they eventually moved the broadcasts to

later in the day to accommodate workers coming home from rice

paddies." [Radio Free Sarawak returned to the air in August after

a hiatus beginning just after Malaysian elections in May.]

Discovery Channel has widest distribution of all channels in

Europe.

http://j.mp/16uwjep

Digital TV Europe, 11 Sept 2013: "The Discovery Channel is the

network with the widest distribution in Europe, according to new

research. The Digital TV Research report surveyed 270 channels

across 212 operators throughout the EMEA region. It found that

Discovery is carried on 171 operators ahead of National

Geographic, Eurosport and MTV, which were on 169, 164 and 160

channels respectively. [Despite reference to EMEA -- Europe,

Middle East, Africa - the study covers only European countries.

The Digital TV Research press release, 11 Sept 2013, also shows

that 157 operators carry CNN International, and 153 BBC World

News.]

This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

This program is produced using Fldigi version 3.21.76AB. This

version can now transmit images in MFSK64 and MFSK128, whereas

previously MFSK32 was the fastest for transmitting images without

slant.

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it does provide more resolution. The following promotion of the

Discovery Channel series "Duck Commander" is 2:19 in duration...

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This is VOA Radiogram in MFSK128

News about international broadcasting from kimandrewelliott.com.

What CNBC is doing to win in the international broadcasting

scrum.

j.mp/16wuwFB

Enfield Independent, 5 Sept 2013: "Saracens have announced an

agreement with global business news outlet CNBC, who will become

an Official Broadcast Partner for the club. The global

partnership strengthens Saracens' links with the City of London

and will help increase awareness of the Saracens brand, and the

values of rugby, to CNBC’s international business audience. The

renowned CNBC brand will appear on Saracens playing jerseys, with

the network also benefiting from player appearances, access to

tickets, hospitality and branding at Allianz Park for two

seasons. ... The agreement allows Saracens to engage with CNBC’s

unmatched affluent and influential business audience around the

world, via its regional television networks in Europe, the United

States and Asia Pacific."

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This is VOA Radiogram in MFSK32.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com

And visit voaradiogram.net

Twitter: @VOARadiogram

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News about international broadcasting from kimandrewelliott.com

BBC Worldwide: More focus on emerging markets and integration of

operating divisions.

j.mp/19XZN46

WorldScreen.com, 12 Sept 2013, Paul Dempsey, president of global

markets at BBC Worldwide, as interviewed by Mansha Daswani:

"[There were] fast-emerging markets in the world where the

appetite for our content was strong, but we hadn’t really focused

on them—particularly Latin America and Asia—and then there were

the more mature environments where we were more established, like

the U.K. and North America and Australia. We felt we had to shift

the organization to allow us to put more focus on the [emerging]

regions. Secondly, the media landscape is getting so much more

complicated that I don't know how in the future it will be easy

for companies to operate with separate operating divisions in any

one market. There’s so much fluidity between the channels you

operate yourselves, third-party sales and the digital markets. We

had areas of global expertise in all of those activities, but on

the ground [were] disconnected and, ironically, incentivized to

try and deliver different things. So as well as going to a

regional structure, we integrated all the activities in the

regions. [That gives you] focus and the ability to respond

quickly to this changing environment." -- [Recommended reading:

this is a comprehensive interview. BBC Worldwide is the BBC's

commercial arm, operating channels and selling programs and

program formats outside of the UK to provide additional funding

for the BBC in the UK.]

BBC Worldwide press release, 21 Aug 2013: "BBC Worldwide today

announced a deal with CCTV, providing China’s state television

broadcaster with more than 65 hours of BBC programmes. The deal

was announced at BBC Worldwide’s China Showcase today. The event,

held for the third time, saw BBC Worldwide unveil hundreds of new

programme offerings from a variety of genres to over 100 industry

partners in the country. The event also served as a forum to

exchange ideas for future collaborations. This new programming

deal with CCTV involves factual programmes, with natural history

making up the bulk of the package."

TV channel "to promote the image of Italy and Italian products"

launches in China.

j.mp/1eEKGTf

Telecompaper, 10 Sept 2013: "The first TV channel in China

entirely dedicated to Italy is launching on 10 September. Giglio

TV is the result of a partnership between Italy's Giglio Group

and Chinese broadcaster CIBN Oriental Network, owned by China

Radio International. The aim of the new channel is to promote the

image of Italy and Italian products to Chinese consumers. It will

be available on a variety of distribution platforms: satellite,

cable, IPTV, web, mobile and tablet, via an integrated platform

that currently reaches over 150 million users."

The Local (Rome), 12 Sept 2013: "The initiative was launched at

the Italian embassy in Beijing and aims to 'promote Italy and its

culture in the country', the foreign ministry said in a

statement. ... Ambassador Alberto Bradanini said the move had

'strategic and cultural' value. The programming available to

Chinese viewers will include everything from fashion to food,

cinema and documentaries, Bradanini said."

Voice of Greece shortwave service, now operated by redundant ERT

employees, will be turned into scrap metal.

j.mp/19ayBOr

radiofono.gr, 17 Sept 2013: "The degradation of Greek Radio is

going on, having shortwave radio 'Voice of Greece' as a victim.

This includes 39 shortwave antenna masts hosted in Avlis, which

the government plans to sell as scrap metal. The shortwave

service started 75 years ago and it is still transmitting in 5

frequencies that cover the globe with shows in Greek for

expatriates and foreign language news. The facilities are

currently controlled by redundant ERT employes and broadcast the

guerrilla service of the Greek National Radio ERA. Eighteen

months ago, shortwave facilities in Thessaloniki were dismantled.

... The union body of ERT notes that this is an area of 1160

acres, featuring 39 metal masts, with a height between 30 and 70

meters each, that function as the shortwave aerials that transmit

the 'Voice of Greece', the ERA-pénte, across the world. 'Greek

shortwave started operating in 1938 and later was also used sent

information to the Greek soldiers fighting Fascists in Albania.

The only ones who dared to turn it off were the Nazis during the

occupation. Since the liberation, it never stopped to link the

country with Greek seafarers and the Diaspora. The Voice of

Greece broadcasts information, entertainment, culture and

tradition from Greece with programs in 12 languages, all over the

globe'." [Voice of Greece might still be audible this weekend.

Try 7450, 7475, and 9420 kHz.]

Against the trend, All India Radio orders two 100-kW shortwave

transmitters.

j.mp/16eJXOu

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, 19 Aug 2013, Clare Hill:

"India’s national radio broadcaster has ordered two 100 kW

shortwave transmitters from the Swiss-German-Chinese group

Ampegon. The new systems will replace existing analogue

transmitters with simpler and more efficient analogue-digital

ones. They will be used for both DRM digital and analogue

transmission. All India Radio (AIR) is said to have plans to

upgrade 36 of its AM medium wave and four its AM shortwave

transmitters to DRM. ... AIR will install the transmitters near

New Delhi, with plans for them to be operational by October. The

acquisition contrasts with the long-term decline and switchoff of

SW in Europe and North America, as well as broadcasters such as

the BBC and Deutsche Welle switching off their foreign SW

services in India to reduce costs. However shortwave is still

considered to be the superior medium in reaching remote areas and

poor people. Shortwave’s very long distance reach (international

and even intercontinental) [and when] natural disasters bring

local transmitters down, it is a key communication tool."

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style="color:#FF0000;font-family:sans-serif">News / Science & Technology</h2><h2 style="font-family:sans-serif">Voyager Carries Gold Record into Interstellar Space</h2><b>Richard Paul<br>September 18, 2013</b>

Last weekend, the Voyager spacecraft, launched from Earth in 1977, left the solar system and headed into interstellar space. As it did, the ship carried an unusual calling card, designed to introduce Earth to any alien being that the Voyager might pass.

Traveling now billions of kilometers out in space are the voices and sounds of humans and animals living on Earth in 1977. They are bolted to the side of Voyager 1 in the form of a gold-plated phonograph record containing the sounds of our planet.

Tim Ferris mixed the audio that went on the record.

"The record is a conventional long-playing phonograph record except that it is made of copper and it is covered in gold and then it is put inside a titanium case to protect it," he said.

Ferris was one of a small group of people who worked to convince NASA to attach the record to Voyager's side. The original idea, according to Annie Druyan, another member of the group, came from astronomer Frank Drake, at the University of California.

"We wanted to convey to the extraterrestrials that we imagined what it was like to be alive in the beautiful Spring of 1977, and it seemed to Frank that at the time that the best way to compress as much information as possible in a very small space was to do it on a
phonograph record," she said.

And there's plenty of information there. The record contains greetings in 59 human languages. It has 118 pictures of life on earth, and 27 pieces of music exemplifying the diversity of human creation. Ferris mixed the audio that went on the record.

"There is music on the record from Europe and the United States," he said. "But also from Africa, the South Pacific and South America... Georgia, Russia, all these places - China, India."

The technology they used may seem archaic today. But actually, Margaret Weitekamp, a curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, says it has advantages over some of today's gadgets.

"It's a really durable technology that has proven to be a great way to record sound," she said. "If you have digital sound, you have to have the right software in order to decode it or it doesn't work."

And she says, if a spacecraft were launched today with a message for aliens, it might still be a wise technology to use. So that's the medium. As for the message they chose, Ferris says you couldn't have picked anything better.

"You can't say that an Indian raga or a piece by Bach or a Japanese Shakuhachi piece 'means' something that you can put into words. It is its own end product," he said. "It means really what it is. Similar to things in nature. A flower isn't a way of expressing
something else. It is the end product. It is what it is."

<a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/voyager-gold-record-music-interstellar-space/1752640.html">www.voanews.com/content/voyager-gold-record-music-interstellar-space/1752640.html</a>
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<EOT>

Richard
Paul
September 18, 2013

Last weekend, the Voyager spacecraft, launched from Earth in 1977, left the solar
system and headed into interstellar space. As it did, the ship carried an unusual
calling card, designed to introduce Earth to any alien being that the Voyager might
pass.

Traveling now billions of kilometers out in space are the voices and sounds of humans
and animals living on Earth in 1977. They are bolted to the side of Voyager 1 in
the form of a gold-plated phonograph record containing the sounds of our planet.

Tim Ferris mixed the audio that went on the record.

"The record is a conventional long-playing phonograph record except that it is made
of copper and it is covered in gold and then it is put inside a titanium case to
protect it," he said.

Ferris was one of a small group of people who worked to convince NASA to attach
the record to Voyager's side. The original idea, according to Annie Druyan, another
member of the group, came from astronomer Frank Drake, at the University of California.

"We wanted to convey to the extraterrestrials that we imagined what it was like
to be alive in the beautiful Spring of 1977, and it seemed to Frank that at the
time that the best way to compress as much information as possible in a very small
space was to do it on a phonograph record," she said.

And there's plenty of information there. The record contains greetings in 59 human
languages. It has 118 pictures of life on earth, and 27 pieces of music exemplifying
the diversity of human creation. Ferris mixed the audio that went on the record.


"There is music on the record from Europe and the United States," he said. "But
also from Africa, the South Pacific and South America... Georgia, Russia, all these
places - China, India."

The technology they used may seem archaic today. But actually, Margaret Weitekamp,
a curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, says it has advantages
over some of today's gadgets.

"It's a really durable technology that has proven to be a great way to record sound,"
she said. "If you have digital sound, you have to have the right software in order
to decode it or it doesn't work."

And she says, if a spacecraft were launched today with a message for aliens, it
might still be a wise technology to use. So that's the medium. As for the message
they chose, Ferris says you couldn't have picked anything better.

"You can't say that an Indian raga or a piece by Bach or a Japanese Shakuhachi piece
'means' something that you can put into words. It is its own end product," he said.
"It means really what it is. Similar to things in nature. A flower isn't a way of
expressing something else. It is the end product. It is what it is."

www.voanews.com/content/voyager-gold-record-music-interstellar-space/1752640.html

VOA Radiogram now changes to MFSK32

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Next is an MFSK32 image of NASA's Golden Record attached to both

Voyager 1 and 2...

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Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com

And visit voaradiogram.net

Twitter: @VOARadiogram

Thanks to colleagues at the Edward R. Murrow shortwave

transmitting station in North Carolina.

I'm Kim Elliott. Please join us for the next VOA Radiogram.

This is VOA, the Voice of America.

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