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Author Topic: The Mighty KBC to stop broadcasts on 6,095 kHz  (Read 1243 times)

Offline Oliver

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The Mighty KBC to stop broadcasts on 6,095 kHz
« on: March 07, 2016, 1553 UTC »
Per swling website,

Due to the lack of new sponsors,
The Mighty KBC will close down on 6095 on March 27th.
We will soon announce if we continue on shortwave on 6040 to the USA.
We will improve our 1602AM /DAB+ service.
This will happen on April 1st.

Source: swling.com
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Re: The Mighty KBC to stop broadcasts on 6,095 kHz
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2016, 1933 UTC »
It's sad and what's even sadder is the fact that this entire situation is absolutely avoidable.

Right now KBC is paying nearly $300 to use the Nauen transmitting station, if they switched to WBCQ ($25 to $50 an hour) or WRMI ($50 an hour) to broadcast to the U.S, that would immediately solve any financial difficulties for that transmission, and it would give them the same signal that they get from Nauen usually.

As for the European broadcast, even WRMI can be clearly heard in Europe on the right antennas, they ought to just have invested in that.

A real shame.
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