When the switch was flipped on, a two way Skype transmission enabled friends of the ministry in Franklin TN at the World Christian Broadcasting programming center and at Anchor Point Alaska at KNLS, to see what was happening at the new station. A standing room only crowd gathered in Franklin to be a part of this momentous event.
The ministry’s first station KNLS has been on the air since 1983.
Within
just a few hours, the station began receiving emails from people all over the
world who picked up the signal from Madagascar.
They heard from shortwave enthusiasts in Sri Lanka, India, Russia,
Finland, England, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Italy, Colombia,
Sweden, and points in the United States from Massachusetts to California.
One man wrote that his first QSL was
from KNLS 30 years ago. They sent him a
mini red Bible that he still has to this day.
Another listener in Kursk Russia wrote: I am listening to your broadcast
and it feels good in my soul.
The construction work at Madagascar
World Voice was delayed numerous times over the past decade due mainly to a
coup d’etat in Madagascar together with the
resulting political chaos that went on for years. However, finally a new government came into
power on the island and they approved the final phases of the station’s
construction.
Madagascar World Voice is
broadcasting not only to Africa, but also to India, Russia, the Middle East,
Europe, China and even South America.
World Christian Broadcasting has long been transmitting to China from
KNLS in Alaska, but they have now begun a new broadcasts to China via
Madagascar also.
And while World Christian
Broadcasting has been transmitting Spanish to Latin America through paid air
time on stations in the western hemisphere, they are now endeavoring to do so
from Madagascar as well. Their Spanish
programming is called La Voz de Alegria, The Happy Voice. La Voz de Alegria in Spanish is produced by
Rex Morgan in the Miami area, and it is broadcast from Madagascar World Voice
to the Americas.
Scheduling for the new Madagascar
World Voice:-
MN00 - 0100 9600 English India
0100 - 0200 9665 English India
0200 - 0300 6190 Spanish South America
0300 - 0400 6150 Spanish
Americas
0400 - 0500 9480 English Africa
1700 - 1800 9570 Russian Russia
1800 - 1900 17640 English Africa
1900 - 2000 11945 Arabic Iran
2000 - 2100 13710 Arabic Egypt
2100 - 2200 11615 Chinese Europe
2200 - 2300 9455 Chinese China
2200 - 2300 11770 Arabic North
America
2300 - MN00 9535 Chinese China
Charles Caudill: It was a long time
coming, but here we are!
(AWR/Wavescan/NWS 373)
