Voice of Peace returns as an Internet broadcaster

The legendary Israeli radio station the Voice of Peace has been re-created as an Internet station. Former VOP presenter Doug Wood writes on the website:

“After 15 years of silence The Voice of Peace 24/7 is back again, using 21st Century technology. We would like “1540 The Voice of Peace” to sound as close to the original as possible. Our team includes Tami Tzabari from Israel who will make sure we achieve that. Yaniv Dayan who has built our website and will be making sure that the signal we originate can be heard well from the site. On our team we have Paul Douglas IT Studio and trans(R Netherlands mitter engineer. Paul will also be one of our presenters and myself, Doug Wood; I’ll be responsible for making sure it all runs smoothly when we go on the air. I will also return with “Morning Music” after 27 years! You will be expecting more ex VOP DJ’s in the coming weeks. So don’t go away!!!”

The station is still in a test phase. Current plans are to launch in mid-October. I noticed that the programme titles are the same as the ones that were used on the original VOP.

There are various stream formats listed, but none of them were working when I checked a few minutes before posting this message. This may be due to being behind a firewall, but I suspect none of the streams was active. There’s a forum available for you to leave your questions and comments.
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Voice of Peace website: http://www.thevoiceofpeace.co.il

Israel's IBA provides new service

The Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) is providing a new service for English and Arabic speakers via their cellphones. Anyone whose cellphone menu includes a video option can call up the news any time of the day or night, without having to access the Internet
The complete VOD service enables users to decide what news items they want to watch, flip backward and forward, and replay. In addition to the full news service, users can also catch up on weather forecasts and news updates.
(Source: Jerusalem Post/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

IBA ends most of its shortwave transmissions after 60 years

The Israel Broadcasting Authority has, after some 60 years, ended shortwave broadcasting as of 31 March 2008 except for Persian to Iran. The IBA says that, despite many complaints, its decision was made as a cost cutting measure. Emergency financial provision to continue one daily broadcast in Persian was made by the government.
Most other Kol Israel broadcasts may now be heard only via the Internet. However the transmissions in English via WRN continue. This includes Sirius Satellite Radio in the USA, Sky Digital in the UK, and Canal Satellite in France.
A new site has been set up for a live Internet audio and on-demand streaming of each day’s programming: www.intkolisrael.com.
The only remaining shortwave transmission is:
Persian to Iran: 1400-1530 UTC (Fri/Sat 1400-1500 UTC) on 13850 and 11605kHz.
There is also a new website for the domestic Reka Network, with news in English: www.iba.org.il/reka/
(Source: Israelradio.org/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)