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Re: [HCDX] Gabon-based Pan African radio loses signal
Not exactly! 9580 is still being heard:
I.e. 9580 kHz, so is that SW transmitter really off the air or merely unable to access usual programming? (Glenn Hauser, April 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9580 at 1720 playing afropops and 1729 "La Donna è Mobile". No ID atm (Jari Savolainen, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Still on the air at 1725 on 9580. Barely audible. Regards (JM Aubier, France, April 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
AFP report that the station closed at 1000 on Wednesday, Eutelsat closed the station as it had not paid its debt to them since September, full story in Media Network:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/africa-no-1-silenced-by-eutelsat-over-unpaid-debts
At 1745 the only station on the channel is playing opera with no announcements, listed is Radio Australia English and BSKSA Arabic
(Mike Barraclough, England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Much better after 1800. Only music (song from the French singer Michel Sardou) (Jean-Michel Aubier, ibid.)
Checked 9580 between 0540-0600 UT last night and heard continuous French music playing, featuring several songs from what sounded like Edith Piaf. No announcements at all during this period (Bill Flynn,
Pennsylvania, April 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I listened to the signal last night - an hour nonstop of Edith Piaf songs from 0505 to after 0600z, with only a single station ID at 0556. Excellent signal, however, here in California (Bruce Jensen, April 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
--- On Sat, 4/30/11, Arnaldo <slaen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Pan African Radio, Africa No. 1,
> has lost its signal and is no longer being received in Gabon
> and elsewhere in Africa since Wednesday, PANA learnt from
> the radio's management in Libreville. According to the daily
> 'L'Union', the satellite operator Eutelsat might have
> stopped its services to the station over an estimated 200
> million CFA francs in arrears of payment. The station has
> been experiencing serious financial problems since 2001,
> especially after Radio France Internationale (RFI) and
> Japanese Radio NHK stop shortwave broadcasting. The arrival
> of Libyan partners had restored hope among the workers, who
> are now threatened by the ongoing political crisis in
> Libya.
>
> The crisis, marked by the freezing of Libyan assets and the
> Western military intervention in the north African country,
> has impacted negatively on the station, which has a total
> debt of 1.2 billion CFA francs, according to the
> Management.
>
> A representative of the Libyan partners in Gabon, Abubaker
> Ali, the salaries of the station's journalists were paid
> only till the end of March 2011.
>
> Ali said that the crisis in Libya prevented Libyan-African
> Investment Portfolio (LAP) from having access to the
> required funds.
>
> Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting became the majority
> shareholder in Africa No. 1 with 52 per cent of the capital,
> the Gabonese government owns 35 per cent and the Gabonese
> private sector 13 per cent.
>
> The station started broadcasting in 1981.(Afrique Jet)
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