Voice of Hope-Zambia revised schedule

 

Voice of Hope from Lusaka, Zambia, has revised its broadcast to the following schedule n English:

All times UTC

1400-1600 on 6065 kHzz

1600-2100 on 4965 kHz

(Top News)

Zambia's Voice of Hope summer schedule

 

Zambia, Voice of Hope - A23 Summer

(100 kW Lusaka, programming to Africa) 

All times UTC

English

0400-0500 9680 11680

0500-0600 9680 11680

0600-0700 9680 11680

0700-0800 9680 11680

0800-0900 9680 11680

0900-1000 9680 11680

1000-1100 9680 11680

1100-1200 9680 11680

1200-1300 6065 9680

1300-1400 6065 9680

1400-1500 6065 9680

1500-1600 6065 9680

1600-1700 4965 6065

1700-1800 4965 6065

1800-1900 4965 6065

1900-2000 4965 6065

2000-2100 4965 6065

(VOH/HFCC A23 - 28 Mar 2023)

Zambia's Voice of Hope schedule update

 

Zambia, Voice of Hope Africa

Effective: 08 July 2022

All programming targeted to East, Central, and Southern Africa

(100 kW Lusaka)

English

0400-0500 9680 11680

0500-0600 9680 11680

0600-0700 9680 11680

0700-0800 9680 11680

1400-1500 6065 9680

1500-1600 6065 9680

1600-1700 4965 6065

1700-1800 4965 6065

1800-1900 4965 6065

1900-2000 4965 6065

2000-2100 4965 6065

Swahili

1200-1300 9680

1300-1330 9680

(VO Hope/Updated 08 July 2022)

Zambia's Voice of Hope Africa, schedule update

 Zambia

Voice of Hope Africa on February 1, 2022, published the following broadcast and program schedule from Makeni Ranch:

All times UTC

0400-0800: 9680 11680 kHz 100 kW, nd/315 degr for So- or WeAfrica: En.

1200-1400: 9680 kHz 100 kW, nd for East Africa: Swahili

1400-1600: 6065 9680 kHz 100 kW, nd/315 degr for So- or WeAfrica: En.

1600-2100: 4965 6065 kHz 100 kW, nd/315 degr for So- and WeAfrica: En.

According to

<http://voiceofhope.com/schedule/voh-africa_program_grid.pdf>

the English programming schedule is as follows:

Monday to Friday

0400: Mon Teaching the Bible, Tue Music/Global Word, Wed Radio Outreach,

      Thu The Reality, Fri Call to Worship.

0430: Abounding Grace Radio

0500: Breakfeast with Joyce Mawanza live, with short religious programs

      interspersed.

0545: Gateway to Joy

0600: Breakfeast with Joyce (w. o.)

0645: Midnight Cry

0700: Breakfeast with Joyce (w. o.)

1400: Afternoon Drive Time live with Lombe Machilika, with interspersed

      religious short programs

1445: Discover the Word

1500: Afternoon Drive Time (w. o.)

1700: Abounding Grace Radio

1730: Mon Wavescan (AWR DX program), Tue A Heart after God,

      Wed Turning Point, Thu Unshackled, Fri Way of the Master.

1800: Mini Bible Course

1830: Mon In the Word, Tue Exultation, Wed Insights for Eternity,

      Thu Set for Life, Fri Discoveries in Prayer

1900: Stephen Mdoma Late Night Live

2015: Limitless

2030: Stephen Mdoma (w. o.)

Saturday/Sunday

0400: Music

0500: Sat Financial Futures Live, Sun A Heart after God/Music/Global Word

0600: Sat Discoveries in Prayer/Way of the Master,

      Sun Wavescan (AWR DX program)/Radio Outreach.

0700: Sa Truth to Ponder, So Let the Bible Speak/Call to Worrship

1400: Sat So Rachael Kalapa Weekend Live, with interspersed religious

      short programs.

1700: Sat Pat Conrad Jazz Session, Sun Pat Conrad Swing Shift

1800: Sat The Reality/In the Word, Sun Wavescan/Set for Life

1900: Sat So Scott Martin Song in the Night

2000: Sa Insights for Eternity/Turning Point, So Exultation/Unshackled

(Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, addx kurier Febr, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4)

(WWDXC-Top News1495/16 Feb 2022)

Zambia's Voice of Hope Africa, schedule update

Voie of Hope Africa 

All times UTC

Voice of Hope Africa resuming evening broadcasts

Effective: 01 August 2020

1400-1600 on  6065 LUV 100 kW to WeAf English tx#2 in HFCC is 13680
1400-1600 on  9680 LUV 100 kW to SoAf English tx#1 as scheduled HFCC
1600-2130 on  4965 LUV 100 kW  to SoAf English tx#1 in HFCC till 1900
1600-2130 on  6065*LUV 100 kW to WeAf English tx#2 in HFCC till 1900
*1623-1720 on 6065 ZAH 500 kW  to WeAs Pashto PARS TODAY / IRIB co-ch
(DXB 01 Aug)

Special Report: History of Broadasting in Zambia

A brief history from Ray Robinson of KVOH Los Angeles, on the history of broadcasting in Zambia

Jeff:  Formerly known as Northern Rhodesia, Zambia is located in southern central Africa, and it is a landlocked country bounded by the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique on the east, Zimbabwe on the south, and Angola and Namibia on the west and southwest.  Its area of 290,586 square miles makes it somewhat smaller than Turkey but larger than Texas. 

The population of 7 million consists mainly of the Bemba and Tonga ethnic groups, although there are several smaller groups as well.  The official language is English, but over 70 other languages are also spoken.  About 15% of the population are Christian, whereas the remainder practice tribal religions.  Ray Robinson joins us now with the history of radio broadcasting in Zambia.

Ray:  Thanks, Jeff.  Zambia consists mostly of high plateau country covered with thick forests, the altitude varying from about 3,500 to 8,000 feet.  It is drained by a number of rivers, the best known one being the Zambezi, which separates it from Zimbabwe, and from which the country takes its name.

In the south on the border with Zimbabwe is the 175-mile long Lake Kariba, formed by the Kariba Dam across the Zambezi.  It is the site of one of the world's largest hydroelectric projects, opened in 1960.

The history of Zambia, or Northern Rhodesia as it was formerly known, goes back to the early 19th century when various Portuguese explorers traversed the country between Angola on the west coast of Africa and Mozambique on the east, both Portuguese colonies. In 1850, Dr. David Livingstone reached the Zambezi from the south, and in 1855 he discovered the Victoria Falls on his famous missionary journey. 

It is worth mentioning here that the Victoria Falls greatly surpass Niagara in dimensions. The width of the falls is one mile, with a maximum height of 420 feet.  Although of great volume, Niagara has parallel drops of only 158 and 167 feet, which makes Victoria Falls nearly twice as wide, and about two and a half times higher than Niagara.

Cecil Rhodes obtained mining concessions in Zambia in 1889 from King Lewanika of the Barotse tribe in the southwest, and he sent settlers to the area.  The country was under the administration of the British South Africa Company from 1889 to 1924, when a British protectorate was established. 

 In 1953, Northern Rhodesia became part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which was dissolved in 1964.  On 24 October 1964, Zambia became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth, with Dr. Kenneth Kaunda as its first President.

It was not until World War II that Northern Rhodesia acquired a radio service.  In 1941 the Government's Information Department installed a 300 watt transmitter in Lusaka, the capital.  This station was built for the purpose of disseminating war related information.
 From the outset, the Lusaka radio station addressed programs to Africans in their own languages, becoming the pioneer in the field of local vernacular broadcasting.  In 1945 Harry Franklin, Lusaka's far sighted information officer, proposed that Radio Lusaka concentrate on developing programming for Africans.

Since Northern Rhodesia could not afford such a specialized service on its own, the administrations of Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were persuaded to share in the operating costs, while the British Government agreed to provide the initial capital funds.  Thus, the Central African Broadcasting Station came into being. 

Among the by-products of this effort were the world's most extensive collection of ethnic African music, and a breakthrough in that most formidable barrier to audience growth, the lack of a receiver which Africans could afford to buy.  Franklin tried for three years in the late 1940s to persuade British manufacturers that a potential mass market existed among Africans for a very simple inexpensive battery-operated shortwave receiver.  One must bear in mind that this was before the days of transistors.  He finally persuaded a battery company to invest in the research and development of the idea. 

One of the early models was mounted experimentally in a 9-inch diameter aluminum (or, aluminium) housing, originally intended as a saucepan.  Thus was born in 1949 the famous "Saucepan Special", a 4-tube tropicalized short wave receiver, which succeeded even beyond Franklin's expectations.  It cost five pounds Sterling, and the battery, which lasted 300 hours, was an additional one pound five shillings. 
 Within the first three months, 1,500 of the Saucepan Specials had been sold, and in the next few years, 50,000 sets were imported.  Franklin had hopes of capitalizing on a world market for the sets, but within a few years the transistor radio came into mass production and so his brainchild became a mere historical curiosity.

In 1953, Federation came, and in 1958 a new broadcasting organization, the Federal Broadcasting Corporation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was founded, with headquarters in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).  Lusaka continued to use African languages as well as English, but the spirit which had animated the original station had long since been drowned by the rising tide of animosity between the tribes.  Eventually in 1964, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland broke away from the Federation and were granted independence as Zambia and Malawi. 

The station in Lusaka was then known as the Zambia Broadcasting Corporation until 1966, when it changed to Zambia Broadcasting Services (ZBS).  This was again changed at the end of 1988 to the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC).  The ZNBC is a Government department, now under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services (MIBS).

For many years, ZNBC broadcast a “General Service” and a “Home Service” on both AM and shortwave transmitters that covered the country.  However, with the implementation of FM transmitters in the major population centers, the AM transmitters were all switched off some years ago.

ZNBC also used to broadcast an “External Service” called Radio Zambia International, beamed to Southern Africa over a 50 kW transmitter.  Much of the programming was anti-apartheid material produced by nationalist political groups. However, after South Africa gained majority rule in 1991, the need for this service evaporated, and it went off the air.

These days, there are now four ZNBC domestic radio services, known as:
  Radio 1 (the former General Service)
  Radio 2 (the former Home Service)
  A National Assembly channel (which carries parliamentary proceedings)
  Radio 4 – a mostly English language Christian music station

The first three channels are widely available throughout the country on FM, but for the fourth network, the 2018 edition of WRTH only lists four low-power transmitters, and on a visit I made to Lusaka last month, the Radio 4 transmitter there was off the air.

Radios 1 and 2 also used to be carried on shortwave to fill in the rural areas where the FM signals do not reach.  Equipment failures are a constant problem, and Radio 2 has not been heard on shortwave since about 2012.  It’s a pity, because Radio 2 is primarily an English language channel.  It is believed that the shortwave transmitter for Radio 2 has been cannibalized to keep the transmitter for Radio 1 on the air.

Radio 1 itself was also off the air for some months last year, but it was just reactivated on 5915 kHz in January 2018.  The transmitter is a 100 kW Continental model 418-E, usually run at about half power into an omni-directional antenna.

It is now generally on the air daily from 0245-2205 UTC (4:45 am -12:05 am local Central African Time), broadcasting mostly in seven local languages: Bemba, Nyanja, Lozi, Tonga, Kaounde, Lunda and Luvale, but also with news bulletins in English at the top of each hour

The languages are used in rotation, and programs include news, public affairs, light entertainment, sport, religion and education.  School broadcasts are also carried during school semesters, and there are agricultural programs for farmers in the country areas.  The station interval signal is the distinctive call of the fish eagle, a striking reddish-brown, black winged bird with white head and breast, found throughout southern Africa.

The best time to hear this station in North America is around sign-on and immediately thereafter, when there is a path of darkness across the Atlantic.
   
 Our thanks to Colin Miller in Sarnia Ontario Canada for the original script regarding the radio scene in Zambia, and to Ray Robinson at KVOH in Los Angeles California for the update in the Zambia radio scene, and for information regarding their Voice of Hope shortwave station in that same African country.
(AWR-Wavescan/NWS 470)

Voice of Hope Africa, schedule update

Lusaka, Zambia

All frequencies of Voice of Hope Africa were registered in HFCC Database on August 6

All times UTC

0500-0800 on  9680 LUV 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf English Mon-Fri tx#1, new additional
0500-0800 on 11680#LUV 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Mon-Fri tx#2, new additional
1600-1900 on  4965 LUV 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf English Mon-Fri tx#1, ex 1630-2200UT
1600-1900 on  6065 LUV 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Mon-Fri tx#2, ex 1630-2200UT
1200-1700 on  9680*LUV 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf English Sat/Sun tx#1, unchanged time
1200-1700 on 13680^LUV 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Sat/Sun tx#2, unchanged time
1700-1730 on  9680 LUV 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAf English Sunday  tx#1, new additional

^ co-ch same 13680 ISS 500 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Persian R.Japan NHK World  1430-1500
^ co-ch same 13680 KAS 500 kW / 308 deg to WeEu Chinese China Radio Inter  1500-1600
# co-ch same 11680 KNG 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS Pyongyang, QRM TRT 11675
* co-ch same  9680 PAO 100 kW / 352 deg to EaAs Chinese R.Taiwan Int&CNR-1 1200-1400
* co-ch same  9680 NAU 250 kW / 060 deg to EaEu Russ Sat MW Friedensstimme 1600-1630
(DX Mix News 1022/12 Aug 2017)

Voice of Hope Africa slated for new service from Zambia

Voice of Hope Africa

According to WRTH updates, Strategic Communications Group (SCG), has purchased the former Christian Vision transmitter site in Lusaka, Zambia. The station has began test transmissions and  plans to begin regular programming as Voice of Hope Africa at an unknown date, using 100 kW. Voice of Hope Africa is a sister station to KVOH.

All times UTC

English
0400-0500 6065af
0500-0600 6065af
0600-0700 6065af
0700-0800 6065af
0800-0900 6065af
0900-1000 6065af
1000-1100 6065af
1100-1200 6065af
1200-1300 6065af
1300-1400 6065af
1400-1500 6065af
1500-1600 6065af
1600-1700 6065af
1700-1800 4965af 6065af
1800-1900 4965af 6065af
1900-2000 4965af 6065af
2000-2100 4965af 6065af
2100-22 4965af 6065af
(WRTH)

Zambia B10 English schedules

Zambia, CVC/1 Africa

Effective: 31 October 2010 - 27 March 2011

All times UTC

English
0400-0500 9430af
0500-0600 9430af
0600-0700 13590af
0700-0800 13590af
0800-0900 13590af
0900-1000 13590af
1000-1100 13590af
1100-1200 13590af
1200-1300 13590af
1300-1400 13590af
1400-1500 13590af
1500-1600 13590af
1600-1700 13590af

1700-1800 4965af 13590af
1800-1900 4965af 13590af
1900-2000 4965af 13590af
2000-2100 4965af 9505af
2100-2200 4965af 9505af

Zambia, Radio Christian Voice
Effective: 31 October 2010 - 27 March 2011

English
0500-0600 6065af
0600-0700 6065af
0700-0800 6065af
0800-0900 6065af
0900-1000 6065af
1000-1100 6065af
1100-1200 6065af
1200-1300 6065af
1300-1400 6065af
1400-1500 6065af
1500-1600 6065af
1600-1700 6065af
(Andrew Flynn/CVC UK)

CVC International frequency change

Zambia
Frequency change of CVC International in English to West Africa:
0400-0500 new freq 5915 LUS 100 kW / 315 deg, ex 9430
0500-0700 on 9430 LUS 100 kW / 315 deg, ex 0400-0700
(DX Mix News # 611/Jaisakthivel, Tirunelveli, India Via Ivo Ivanov)

CVC International - The Voice Africa A09 English schedule

Effective: 29 March - 25 October 2009
broadcast daily unless otherwise indicated, targeted to West Africa and Nigeria
The Voice Africa formerly known as Christian Voice

All times UTC

(via Lusaka, Zambia 100 kW/ 315 degrees)

0000-0100 4965af
0100-0200 4965af
0200-0300 4965af
0300-4000 4965af
0400-0500 4965af 9430af
0500-0600 4965af 9430af
0600-0700 6065af 13590af
0700-0800 6065af 13590af
0800-0900 6065af 13590af
0900-1000 6065af 13590af
1000-1100 6065af 13590af
1100-1200 6065af 13590af
1200-1300 6065af 13590af
1300-1400 6065af 13590af
1400-1500 6065af 13590af
1500-1600 6065af 13590af
1600-1700 4965af 13590af
1700-1800 4965af 13590af
1800-1900 4965af 13590af
1900-2000 4965af 5940af
2000-2100 4965af 5940af
2100-2200 4965af 5940af
2200-2300 4965af
2300-0000 4965af
(wb, Germany/DX Mix News #566)

Two new shortwave antennas for Zambia

The Zambian Information Minister, Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasham told parliament on Tuesday that the government last year bought two new shortwave antennas which will enable the national broadcaster, ZNBC, to transmit better radio signal across the country.
A new ZNBC television channel will be launched by June this year. General Shikapwasha said the new channel will start initial transmission in Lusaka and the copperbelt before expanding to other parts of the country.
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Fund set up for community radio stations in Zambia

Zambia’s community radio stations have been identified as an important source of information for rural communities across the vast country, APA learnt on Tuesday. To enhance their operations, therefore, the country’s ministry of information and broadcasting has announced that it will soon set up a fund to assist more local communities establish the radio stations in their areas, said the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Emmanuel Nyirenda.
He added that the government had been prompted to make the move because it had seen the operational problems most of the radio stations faced during their operations.
This government announcement is a major shift from the previous tight control and stringent requirements the government had insisted on before allowing a community radio station to begin operating. Several of the community radio stations have had their licences revoked for airing news or programmes critical of government.
In the absence of a regulator for radio and television stations, licences have to be obtained from government who also have the power to dictate the contents of programmes. Nyirenda, however, said the government was now committed to seeing as many community stations set up, and to help them overcome financial hurdles it would make available funds to help with training and other requirements.
It is not clear whether the funds would be grants or loans, or what conditions would be attached before the funds can be accessed by the stations.
(Source: APA/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)