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Welcome to program 28 of VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Here is the lineup for today's program (produced with Fldigi

3.21.76AG):

3:33  MFSK16: Program preview (now)

5:38  MFSK 16/32/64/128 images: Large diamond

3:45  MFSK32: BBC World Service archive

4:04  MFSK64: Deutsche Welle, Radio/TV Martí, with image

1:32  MFSK128: Willis Conover Facebook page, with image

  :44  MFSK32: Email address

2:02  MFSK64: ISON comet, with image

2:29  MFSK64/Flmsg: Ultra-compact galaxy

  :37  MFSK32: Closing announcements

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Next on VOA Radiogram will be the transmission of the same photo

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Each photo transmission is 1:20 to 1:30 in duration.

Photo caption: A 59.6-carat pink diamond that will be auctioned

by Sotheby's in Geneva at an asking price of $60 million...

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This is VOA Radiogram in MFSK32.

News about international broadcasting from kimandrewelliott.com.

A shortened URL for each post is below the headline.

Listeners are helping BBC validate World Service archive

metadata.

j.mp/1apoo24

BBC Internet Blog, 24 Sept 2013, Tristan Ferne: "The BBC World

Service Archive prototype allows you to search, browse and listen

to over 36,000 radio programmes from the BBC World Service

archive spanning the past 45 years. For a limited time you can

explore this archive and help us improve it by validating and

adding topic tags that describe the programmes. ... So far, users

of the prototype have listened to around 12,000 of the 36,000

programmes that are available and tagged or edited about 7,000 of

these. This has generated over 70,000 individual metadata 'edits'

(votes, new tags etc). We've even had some dedicated listeners

send us recordings of programmes that were missing from the

archive. We are currently analysing the data so far to see how

good the tags are by comparing professional archivists, listeners

and our algorithms."

The overlooked history of the international TV distribution

business.

j.mp/14IjsEA

Connect 2 Media & Entertainment, 25 Sept 2013, Dom Serafini:

"[O]ne can find plenty of historical references about TV

technology, production, advertising and broadcasting. But for

academia, it's as if 50 years of international TV distribution

business never existed. And yet, international program sales made

commercial television viable and fostered its growth outside the

United States. If it weren't for American international

distribution, Canada couldn't have supported its first commercial

TV stations that later formed the CTV network. If countries such

as Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil hadn't started to export

Telenovelas in the 1950s and 1960s (first selling scripts, then

kinescoped versions and later, in 1965 versions on two-inch

videotapes), Latin America's TV industry couldn't have developed

as it did. If not for TV content sold internationally, Italy

couldn't have introduced commercial television in Europe. And

yet, very few records remain of those milestones."

VOA Radiogram now changes to MFSK64.

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

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News about international broadcasting from kimandrewelliott.com

Deutsche Welle's departing director on the roles on shortwave,

internet, television.

j.mp/1aoyekN

The Times of India, 19 Sept 2013, Deutsche Welle director general

Erik Bettermann as interviewed by Debasis Konar: "The importance

of shortwave has decreased dramatically almost everywhere,

largely due to increasing dominance of the internet. That's why

Deutsche Welle (DW) has reduced its shortwave radio programmes

significantly and invested more resources into its online

presence and television activities. ... Despite the increasing

importance of the Internet, radio is still a vital source of

information in many regions, where Internet access is limited. In

sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, DW not only distributes its

radio content via shortwave, but also via partner stations. We

provide our users with audio files and podcasts in a variety of

languages. Many young people are accessing DW's audio offerings

through mobile devices even." [Erik Bettermann's term as director

general of DW ends 30 September.]

Director of Radio/TV Martí describes his station's media mix.

jump/16r0O7E

Radio Prague, 19 Sept 2013, Carlos Garcia-Perez, director of

Radio/TV Martí, as interviewed by Patrick McCumiskey: "We are a

multi media operation. ... Why is that? Well, there are two

primary reasons. Firstly, it's the most efficient way of carrying

on our operation today, and, as you know, the internet is a big

player. You (Radio Prague) play a big role on the internet now,

so internet and social media has changed the spectrum of how

information is disseminating and the availability of information.

Secondly, it is the attempt to jam us by the Cuban government.

And we go from the most primitive way of distributing

information, which is through flash drives and DVDs on the

island, where we put our radio and TV content to satellite. In

between those, we have an AM station, we have our own 1180 [kHz]

signal, but we buy time from commercial stations in Miami- that's

in a test period- but we do that because we know it reaches the

island, and we are getting great feedback from the island on

these. We are doing short wave and we are also testing FM. We

know the access to internet is a big component of distribution -

although we know access to the internet on the island is very

limited." [Former shortwave broadcaster Radio Prague is now

Internet-only.]

Photo follows: Radio/TV Martí director Carlos García-Pérez at

Radio Prague. Photo by Miloš Turek...                                               š   <======  letter in Czech

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VOA's Willis Conover has a (memorial) Facebook page.

j.mp/14IjtZa

www.facebook.com/WillisConoverClub: "Willis Conover (1920-1996)

was one of VOA's treasures, an internationally-known jazz

aficionado, well-connected within the jazz community but

little-known in the United States." "Although few Americans knew

the name Willis Conover, his distinctive baritone was the voice

of jazz — that quintessentially American music — for millions

around the world. From 1955 until 1996, Conover's Music USA Jazz

Hour brought sounds that Louis Armstrong once called 'not too

slow, not too fast — kind of half-fast' to listeners of the U.S.

government-sponsored Voice of America radio service."

Photo of Willis Conover follows...

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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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ISON's Approach Captured by Amateur Astronomers

VOA News

September 24, 2013

Comet ISON was spotted and photographed by amateur astronomers as

the highly-anticipated arrival of the icy space visitor nears.

"I photographed Comet ISON on September 15 using my 4-inch

refractor," reports astrophotographer Pete Lawrence of Selsey in

the United Kingdom.  "The comet's tail is nicely on view even

through this relatively small instrument."

In Aquadilla, Puerto Rico, astronomer Efrain Morales Rivera saw

the comet on September 14 "rising above the canopy of the rain

forest just minutes before sunrise. I used a 12-inch telescope,"

he said.

ISON, which will make its closest approach to the sun on November

28, has the potential to be a spectacular sight, depending on how

it reacts to the solar heating it will receive.

NASA, the U.S. space agency, said that in mid-September the

approaching comet was glowing like a star of 14th magnitude.

That's dimmer than some forecasters expected.

"Certainly we would love it to be a couple of magnitudes brighter

right now," said researcher Karl Battams of the Naval Research

Lab in Washington, D.C., "but it's doing just fine. I'd say it's

still on course to become a very eye-catching object."

NASA cautions that comets are capable of "fizzling at the last

minute even after months of promising activity."

However, if ISON survives its brush with solar fire, it could be

visible to the naked eye, NASA said.

Based on the latest images, internationally known comet expert

John Bortle said "ISON appears likely to survive the inbound leg

of its journey all the way to the Sun. It will probably brighten

more slowly than all the early hype led the public to believe.

Nevertheless, Comet ISON should very briefly become exceptionally

bright, at least rivaling the planet Venus in the hours preceding

its closest approach to the sun."

After November 28, ISON will emerge from the sun's glare

well-positioned for observers in the northern hemisphere. The

comet's tail will likely be visible to the naked-eye in both the

morning and evening sky throughout December 2013.

The last comet that did this sort of thing was Comet Lovejoy,

which gave viewers in the southern hemisphere a view of the

comet's tail stretching halfway across the sky.

http://www.voanews.com/content/isons-approach-documented-by-amateur-astronomers/1756181.html

Photo follows: Comet ISON as seen in September by astronomer

Nirmal Paul of the Canary Islands (NASA)...

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a-Dense Dwarf Galaxy Discovered</h2>

<b>VOA News<br>September 25, 2013</b>

An "ultra-compact dwarf galaxy" has been spotted by astronomers.

The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, has its entire mass in a radius of only 80 light years, compared to the Milky Way's

radius of 50,000 light years. That means the density of stars is about 15,000 times greater than the Milky Way, and

the stars are about 25 times closer.

"Traveling from one star to another would be a lot easier in M60-UCD1 than it is in our galaxy," said Jay Strader of

Michigan State University in Lansing, first author of a new paper describing these results. "But it would still take

hundreds of years using present technology."

Scientists hope M60-UCD1, which has the mass of 200 million suns, can provide clues on how galaxies evolved.

M60-UCD1 was seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and follow up observations were made with NASA's <a href="http://

chandra.si.edu/photo/2013/m60/">Chandra X-ray Observatory</a> and ground-based optical telescopes.

The galaxy is believed to have abundant amounts of heavy elements - elements heavier than hydrogen and helium -

which makes it a "fertile environment for planets and, potentially, life to form," said co-author Anil Seth of the

University of Utah.

Another intriguing aspect of M60-UCD1 is that the Chandra data reveal the presence of a bright X-ray source in its

center. One explanation for this source is a giant black hole weighing in at some 10 million times the mass of the

Sun.

"We think nearly all of the stars have been pulled away from the exterior of what once was a much bigger galaxy,"

said co-author Duncan Forbes of Swinburne University in Australia. "This leaves behind just the very dense nucleus

of the former galaxy, and an overly massive black hole."

If that happened, the galaxy would have been 50 to 200 times more massive than it is now.

Researchers believe the galaxy is more than 10 billion years old and that it has been "stalled" at this size for

several billion years, and it is about 60 million light years from Earth.

A paper on M60-UCD1 has been published in the September 20th issue of <i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters</i>.

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dwarf-dense-galaxy-discovered-m60ucd1/1757137.html</a>

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VOA News
September 25, 2013

An "ultra-compact dwarf galaxy" has been spotted by astronomers.

The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, has its entire mass in a radius of only 80
light years, compared to the Milky Way's radius of 50,000 light years. That
means the density of stars is about 15,000 times greater than the Milky
Way, and the stars are about 25 times closer.

"Traveling from one star to another would be a lot easier in M60-UCD1 than
it is in our galaxy," said Jay Strader of Michigan State University in Lansing,
first author of a new paper describing these results. "But it would still
take hundreds of years using present technology."

Scientists hope M60-UCD1, which has the mass of 200 million suns, can provide
clues on how galaxies evolved.

M60-UCD1 was seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and follow up observations
were made with NASA's Chandra
X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes.

The galaxy is believed to have abundant amounts of heavy elements - elements
heavier than hydrogen and helium - which makes it a "fertile environment
for planets and, potentially, life to form," said co-author Anil Seth of
the University of Utah.

Another intriguing aspect of M60-UCD1 is that the Chandra data reveal the
presence of a bright X-ray source in its center. One explanation for this
source is a giant black hole weighing in at some 10 million times the mass
of the Sun.

"We think nearly all of the stars have been pulled away from the exterior
of what once was a much bigger galaxy," said co-author Duncan Forbes of
Swinburne University in Australia. "This leaves behind just the very dense
nucleus of the former galaxy, and an overly massive black hole."

If that happened, the galaxy would have been 50 to 200 times more massive
than it is now.

Researchers believe the galaxy is more than 10 billion years old and that
it has been "stalled" at this size for several billion years, and it is
about 60 million light years from Earth.

A paper on M60-UCD1 has been published in the September 20th issue of The
Astrophysical Journal Letters.

www.voanews.com/content/dwarf-dense-galaxy-discovered-m60ucd1/1757137.html

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And visit voaradiogram.net

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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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