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 Marti, 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 Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com And visit voaradiogram.net Twitter: @VOARadiogram Next on VOA Radiogram will be the transmission of the same photo in MFSK16, 32, 64, and 128. During each mode change will be 4 seconds of silence before and 6 seconds of silence after the RSID. 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... Sending Pic:140x169C; 1 ôîòî Sending Pic:140x169C; 2 ôîòî Sending Pic:140x169C; 3 ôîòî News about international broadcasti 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 j.mp/14IjsEA Connect 2 Media & Entertainment, 25 Sept 2013, Dom Serafini: "[O]ne can find plenty of historical references about TV technology, production, advertising and broadcasting.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. Next will be 4 seconds of silence, followed by the RSID for MFSK64, followed by an additional 6 seconds of silence. If the RSID does not change your mode to MFSK64, please do so manually... This is VOA Radiogram in MFSK64. News about international broadcasting from kimandrewelliott.com Ftvqh 78he Welle's departing director on the roles on shortwave, internet, television. j.mp/1aoyekN The Times of Inlbho?icCt 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 vi aT tePrce 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 ti tnj6og°elt tn;d [Erik Bettermann's term as director general of DW ends 30 September.] Director of Radio/TV Marti describes his station's media mix. j.mpatntDr0O7E Radio Prague, 19 Sept 2013, Carlos Garcia-Perez, director of Radio/TV Marti, as interviewed by Patrick McCumiskey: "We are 5multi m pee?peration. ... 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 disseminatin?tt dpC A fh uqEtz sKecondly, 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 foild ogoveetions 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 wav ¦ rgte are also testing FM. We know the access to internet is a bigrx Uo( ghn taknow access to the internet on the island is very limitee { rIRtmer shortwave broadcaster Radio Prague is now Internet-only.] Photo follows: Radio/TV Marti director Carlos Garcia-Perez at Radio Prague. Photo by Milos Turek... F ptt; hOn Sending Pic:200x152C; 4 ôîòî Next will be 4 seconds of silence, followed by the RSID for MFSK128, followed by an additional 6 seconds of silence. If the RSID does not change your mode to MFSK128, plemt: This is VOA Radiwain MFSf?28. VHs Willis Conover has a (memorial) 1ebook page. ne Yt °tUB TjCoo,@r tBeCwoice of AmeriIekvi z!etetnezn This is VOA Rltett| v ˆu {K32. Plea Eee?i? vion reports to radiogo? jtllews.com And visit voaradiogram.net Twitter: @VOARadiogram VOA Radiogram now changes to MFSK64. ISON's Approach Captured by Amateur Astronomers VOA News sttchD mxxmet ISON was spotteieacopOCewot e eTtronomers as the highly-anticipated arrival of the icy space visitor nears. "I photographed Comet ISON on September 15 using my az9ebt in]fbcnh8kAIK o n ane? ntuF [na_n2d stronomer Efrain Morales Rivera sawoRq n?Om depte&er 14 "rising above the (?ihe rain forest just minutes before sunp?e. I used a 12p/r0q8dmake its closest approach to the sun on Nrl aiiitMat?la GPw it reacts to ioe a)e lO[aid that in mid-September the approaching comet was glowing like a star of 14th magnitude. That's deajRtlainly we would love it c a couple of magnitudes briguterp¤FN?berel Battams of the Naval Research Lga in ge aqton, D.C., "but it's doing just fine. I'd say it's still on course zP-fbject." 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