New 2008 Mediumwave Edition
The first update for 2008 of this free guide is now online at www.radioheritage.net and includes complete revisions for a number of countries. The radio guide lists thousands of operating AM radio stations across the entire region from Afghanistan to Alaska, China, Japan, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacifi c Islands and Hawaii.
Easy to use, with online search and downloadable versions. Stations can be found by country or frequency for example. Data includes hours of operation, program formats, transmitter power and much more. According to the Radio Heritage Foundation
http://www.radioheritage.net, the largest number of currently listed AM transmitters are located in China, Japan, Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines.
Endangered AM Radio Watchlist
Meanwhile, a growing number of countries are now on the Radio Heritage Foundation’s Endangered AM Radio Watchlist, having just one mediumwave station known to be on air.
These countries are:
American Samoa, Diego Garcia [British Indian Ocean Territory], Christmas Island [Indian Ocean], Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Macau, Malaysia [West],
Maldives, Myanmar, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau and Tonga.
In the last year or so, the following countries across the region have ceased broadcasting on mediumwave: Easter Island, Cocos [Keeling] Islands, Lord Howe Island, Nauru, Tuvalu and Wallis et Futuna.
All of these countries now broadcast only on FM. As a result of this major shift to FM radio across the region, the fi rst in a new series of Asia and Pacifi c FM Radio Guides will be launched at www.radioheritage.net in the coming weeks. We suggest you regularly check the site for these and other new content. Bruce Portzer’s Pacifi c Asian Log Radio Guide is currently available in both updated mediumwave and shortwave versions at www.radioheritage. net.
Radio Heritage Foundation
‘Sharing the Stories of Pacific Radio’
http://www.radioheritage.net
(Source: ODXA-Listening-In, Feb 2008)