From 100020.1013@compuserve.com Sat Oct 1 02:11:22 1994 Received: from arl-img-1.compuserve.com (arl-img-1.compuserve.com [198.4.7.1]) by cs.tut.fi (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id CAA19573 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 1994 02:11:19 +0200 Received: from localhost by arl-img-1.compuserve.com (8.6.4/5.940406sam) id UAA08608; Fri, 30 Sep 1994 20:06:10 -0400 Date: 30 Sep 94 20:03:09 EDT From: "Alfredo E. Cotroneo" <100020.1013@compuserve.com> To: John Beck , Jason Berri , Andreas Bjorklind , Ralph Brandi , "W. Brinkma" , "E. Allen Brown" , "Dr Kim A. Elliott" , "C. Ed Evans" , Radio Habana Cuba , Wolf Harranth , Hans Johnson <73042.3644@compuserve.com>, Thorsten Koch , "rec.radio.broadcasting" , "rec.radio.info" , "rec.radio.noncomm" , "rec.radio.shortwave" , Risto Kotalampi , Michael Murray <70630.560@compuserve.com>, Jonathan Marks , Al Quaglieri <75122.74@compuserve.com>, Adrain Sainsbury , Daniel Sampson <73540.3025@compuserve.com>, Harold Sellers <73737.3453@compuserve.com>, Andy Sennitt , Spectrum , Stes Stessel , Tom Sundstrom , Radio Habana Cuba , Signals Staff , SW Broadcast News , DX Administrator , United Nations , "VOA Freq. Info" , David Walcutt , Bill Whitacre , Jeff White <71163.1735@compuserve.com>, George Wood <70247.3516@compuserve.com> Subject: Special Hello There Message-ID: <941001000309_100020.1013_BHL49-1@CompuServe.COM> Status: RO FROM NEXUS-IBA, in Milano, Italy: ** "HELLO THERE" Special Edition of Oct. 2, 1994 ** (on the air between Oct. 1 and Oct. 7, 1994) ** VOA's "120 Day Plan" for the consolidation of International Broadcasting ** | As explained in an interview with VOA personnel, this plan could bring to | the closure of VOA and RFE/RL sites around the world. Resources will be | diverted to make more emphasis on the programme production and distribution | by other media other than VOA's Shortwave stations (transcription, DBS, | leased time on local AM and FM stations). Hi There from Milano, Italy: We are back on the air with our regular listeners' contact program after the summer break. Your comments and receptions reports, and questions are always welcome at our PO Box address or via e-mail for the usual edition of the "Hello There". This week we cross the Atlantic, and speak with John Vodenik, Technician and Unions Representative at VOA relay station in Bethany, Ohio, who explains what VOA may have in mind for the future, as far as Shortwave transmissions around the world are concerned. Official VOA representatives in Washington declined to comment on the plan, so we are passing on what news is available at the moment, hoping that more information becomes available "first hand" in the coming weeks. As Jeff White, of Radio Miami Int'l said in an interview on the HT a few months ago: "similiar decisions may be more than welcomed by smaller stations like ours, as this will open more HF frequencies, and we will be able to attract more listeners on shortwave" (grin). Surely, we feel sorry for all those who may loose their job, and wish they could continue broadcasting to the world. -- All that on the weekly fifteen minute "Hello There", the IRRS-Shortwave's listeners mailbag programme, on the air over IRRS-Shortwave on 7,125 kHz starting Saturday Oct. 1, 1994, at the following times (all times are CET, Central European Time = UTC+1): DAYS Central European Time UTC+1 FREQ. 7,125 kHz ----- --------------------------- ----------------- Saturday: 07:15, 09:15, 15:15, 17:00 (first edition) Sunday: 07:00, 09:15, 15:30 (repeats) Monday: 07:15, 08:15, 20:00 (repeats) Friday: 08:00, 13:30, 17:00, 20:00 (repeats) ________________________________________________________ "H E L L O T H E R E !" One of NEXUS-IBA's most popular non-relay programmes, a listener contact show where we acknowledge reception reports and comments on programmes, as well as present items of general interests to the Shortwave listeners, including books and magazine reviews. We also encourage active listener participation by inviting everyone to send us a cassette recording telling us about themselves and where they live. Or, as an immediate means of filing reception reports or personal participation, our telephone service is available 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week (+39-2-266 6971). Like all Shortwave broadcasters today, IRRS-Shortwave very much encourages listeners to let us know how they are receiving us, but equally importantly, we also need to hear their programme comments, which are very valuable in helping our members produce better and more attractive programming. 73, Alfredo E. Cotroneo President NEXUS-International Broadcasting Association PO BOX 10980, I-20110 Milano, Italy __________________________________________________________________________ NEXUS-International Broadcasting Association is an independent and strictly non profit association chartered as a community radio service provider according to Italian law. Programmes aired by IRRS-Shortwave come from NEXUS-IBA members and non members. Our stations on FM and Shortwave are entirely manned by volunteers, and members and listeners supported. For more information, please write: NEXUS-IBA (IRRS-Shortwave), PO Box 10980, I-20110, Milano, Italy. Phone: +39-2-266 6971 / +39-337-297788, Fax: +39-2-706 38151, e-mail: 100020.1013@compuserve.com.