An update from my post on May 5WRMI (from Miami, Florida) has announced that the Adventist World Radio DX program, “Wavescan,” will be produced and distributed from its studios in Miami as of June, 2009.
WRMI has broadcast “Wavescan” since its inception. For the past three years, the programme has been produced at the AWR studio in Singapore. However, that studio is being closed in June. As of the 7 June program, “Wavescan” will be written each week by Dr Adrian Peterson, AWR International Relations Coordinator in Indianapolis, Indiana, and produced at WRMI in MIami. WRMI will also distribute the programme to the various stations in the AWR network around the globe.
“We are very happy to be working with Adrian and AWR on the production of Wavescan,” said WRMI General Manager Jeff White. “Our association actually goes back about 25 years now, when Adrian was producing the predecessor of Wavescan - Radio Monitors International - at the AWR studios in Puna, India, and we were rebroadcasting the programme to the Americas on
Radio Earth, where I was the programme producer.” Adrian Peterson will be entirely in charge of the content of the programme, but segments of regional DX news will continue to come from “Wavescan” correspondents in several Asian countries.
“We are glad to play a small part in the new version of Wavescan,” said Jeff White, “and we hope the programme will be around for many years to come.”
As of 7 June, 2009, WRMI will be broadcasting Wavescan at the following days and times - all on 9955 kHz:
■0830 UTC Sunday
■2130 UTC Sunday
■1530 UTC Monday *
■0015 UTC Tuesday
■0500 UTC Tuesday
■1130 UTC Tuesday
■1130 UTC Wednesday
■1430 UTC Friday *
■0130 UTC Saturday
■0730 UTC Saturday
* These transmissions are specifically beamed to North America. The others are beamed to the Caribbean and Latin America, but may be audible in North America also. In addition, “Wavescan” will continue to be broadcast over the other stations in the AWR network.
(Source: WRMI/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)