We begin our suggestions for hearings with Chile. Radio Triunfal Evangélica, a religious station that operates on short wave, on 5825 khz, especially on weekends, later than 23 o'clock Coordinated Universal Time.
On Saturdays you can listen to a new Pan American Broadcasting service called "Preparing for Jesus", which is aired on 13580 kHz via the rebroadcasting site of MBR Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 1300-1400 UTC on 13580 with 100 kW in Japanese language.
You know that Myanmar (former Burma) suffered a military coup last month. Probably as a consequence, a new clandestine station for that Asian country has started broadcasting.
While we do not have the name of this station, we do know that it is broadcasting in Burmese language on the 17800 khz frequency, via the transmitter site located in Talata Volonondry, Madagascar, from 1130-1200 Coordinated Universal Time on the 17800 khz frequency, 16 meter band, with 250 kW.
Radio Ranginkaman, whose English translation would be Radio Rainbow, broadcasts clandestinely for Iran on the frequency of 7605 kHz via RRTM Telecom Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, from 1630-1700 UTC on the frequency of 7605 Tkhz with 100 kW in Farsi language. The station broadcasts seven days a week.
Radio Dap Loi Song Nui is the name in Vietnamese language and its English translation is Vietnam Democracy Radio. It is a station that broadcasts clandestinely on 9670 kHz frequency via Paochung, in the Palau Islands, with 100 kws of power daily from 1230-1300 UTC with broadcasts to Vietnam.
Reach Beyond Australia broadcasts its English-language religious programming from Australia on 11900 kHz frequency via Kununurra or on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 1315-1330 UTC with 100 kW broadcasts directed to Southeast Asia. It is important to note that after the closure of Radio Australia's shortwave transmissions, this station, Reach Beyond Australia, is an easy way to check this country on radio.
A strange station has been reported transmitting Egyptian music on the 9400 khz frequency always after 09 UTC. This radio was reported by Bulgarian colleague Ivo Ivanov and the curious thing is that it uses an old frequency used many years ago by Radio Cairo.
Voice of Nigeria has been picked up in Fulfulde language on the frequency of 7255 kHz variable, in its transmission from 0700-0800 UTC from Abuja, with 250 kW. This transmission is aimed at the west of the African continent.
Voice of Martyrs is a clandestine radio station broadcasting to North Korea, with messages against the Pyongyang regime. It broadcasts on the frequency of 9930 khz daily from the RRTM Telecom relay center in the city of Tashkent.
Voice of Martyrs broadcasts daily in Korean language from 1200-1230 on 9930 khz with 100 kws of power.
ARGENTINA
Officials from ENACOM, the media watchdog agency, held a virtual meeting with the Education Bureau of BA province to advance in the development of school radios station.
At the meeting, data was shared on a poll on radio stations functioning in schools across Argentina’s largest jurisdiction, that details the equipment needs of these small-scale, educational broadcasters.
The purpose of this policy is to restore the value of the School Radio Program, since they are a powerful teaching tool, officials pointed out.
COLOMBIA
Last June 3, a meeting was carried out between representatives of Colombia and Spain on the importance of University Radios, as part of a program called UNIMINUTO, organized by the University of Extremadura, in Spain and Radio Bogotá.
The main issue of the dialogue was the role of both national and international university radio stations and their commitment to their audiences.
The Colombian delegates emphasized that in the South American Nation “Radio continues to be the medium of communication par excellence; more than 48% of the population connects with the surrounding reality of the world through the radio".
The International University Radio Network (RIU) currently has 365 partner universities and 358 radio stations located in 18 countries around the world.
And according to figures from the Colombian University Radio Network (RRUC), there are 80 university radio stations nationwide, of which 8 broadcast on AM, 39 on FM and 33 are online, located in 21 Colombian cities.
For the students, these are a great way of practicing skills just like "pilots spend hundreds of hours in the flight simulator”.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel) has closed in the last weeks 38 radio stations that were operating illegally.
The head of Indotel, Nelson Arroyo, has expressed his interest in fully bringing the sector into the rule of law and to clean the airwaves from unsanctioned interfering broadcasts.
Closures carried out in the last nine months included six stations in Piedra Blanca and Maimón, Monseñor Nouel (Bonao), one in Sánchez Ramírez, Cotuí and six in San Cristóbal.
HONG KONG
It is no secret that press freedom has been declining in Hong Kong since the national security law came into effect in July 2020.
Following restrictions on the Apple Daily newspaper and the arrest of its owner Jimmy Lai, the next media outlet in line is the government-funded public broadcaster, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK).
RTHK has been one of Beijing's main targets since Hong Kong's annexation to China in 1997. Since then, the station has maintained its editorial independence, and many of its programs are critical of the government, but pro-China politicians argue that the public broadcaster should promote government policies instead. Thanks to a strong public support, RTHK has survived the pressures so far.
However that pressure has increased significantly and could soon reach its breaking point.
The management review report, published in February 2021, criticized RTHK for its "lack of coordination, control and oversight at the corporate level, which may give rise to considerable risk to RTHK's corporate image, reputation and interests."
As a result, on March 1, 2021, the government replaced Leung Ka-wing, a veteran journalist who was the public broadcaster's director, with Patrick Li, a Beijing-appointed official.
