The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025

MN.23.01.2023 Interview with Dr Graham Mytton

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

COVID disrupted just about everything for me. And by New Years Day 2023, I started wondering if there is any value in continuing the Media Network arc...

MN.05.01.2023 Maarten van Delft ID Collection 1988 Caribbean Stations

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, welcome back to Part 2 of the Maarten van delft tapes. This time with unique studio recordings from the Caribbean made around 1988. Here is the...

MN.03.01.2023 Maarten van Delft ID Collection 1973 Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Here is the link to the LIST of stations in this episode: Hello, it is January 2023 and I'm playing around in the Media Network archive vault which si...

Media Network Off Air Collection April 2 82

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I am gradually sorting out my off-air radio cassette collection. I realise that if I don't do it now, I will never get around to it. But I also realis...

MN.14.08.1980 Afghanistan and the Soviets

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second edition of DX Juke Box that I hosted, having joined Radio Netherlands a couple of weeks earlier. The programme in those days was a ...

RadioMoscowWarmongers

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Look what I found. When I was working for the ORF Shortwave Panorama, BBC Monitoring Service and later Radio Netherlands, I learned the importance of ...

DXJB.25.09.1980

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Another early edition of DX Juke Box, with input from my good friend Victor Goonetilleke. I sent him a tape recorder and plenty of cassette. I would p...

DXJB.18.09.1980 Early days

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A little over a month after taking over the programme, I was starting to phase out the music in DX Juke Box and bring in more equipment tests to repla...

MN.23.01.1986 Radio Fryslan

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For some reason this trip up North to Friesland to visit Radio Fryslan was digitized but never uploaded to this Media Network collection. So time to p...

Media Network reflects on BBC World Radio Club

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Going through some cassettes on the last day of February and I discovered several cassettes of BBC's programme for shortwave listeners. World Radio Cl...

Media Network reflects on BBC World Radio Club

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Going through some cassettes on the last day of February and I discovered several cassettes of BBC's programme for shortwave listeners. World Radio Cl...

MN.01.12.1998 Longwave China

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This edition had another Longwave update. We talk to John Ross Barnard about the attempts to get longwave radio out of the Isle of Man. Delta 171 seem...

MN.05.03.1998 Tahiti and Boyd

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this edition, Lodewijk Bouwens launches DRM at a conference in China on behalf of other Western broadcasters. (This is the earliest announcement we...

MN.12.02.1998 Campbell Cooper

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ignore all the email address and phone numbers mentioned in this edition of the programme. They are all obsolete. However, we have revived a new email...

MN. Series Two, Episode 3 - Radio Netherlands Firsts

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 3 about Radio Netherlands has now been published on Vimeo and YouTube. It is video so it complements the collection here on Libsyn. I get mixe...

Media Network Series Two Episode 2 - Revisiting Vienna 2018

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

https://vimeo.com/495422288 Media Network videos are hosted on Vimeo for the time being. In Episode 1 we visited the largest international radio archi...

Media Network Series 2 Episode 1

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the link to the first edition of the new series of Media Network Videocasts. Please note they are hosted on VIMEO not Libsyn which is audio on...

MN.29.01.1998 MW Steve Whitt

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

During the lifetime of Series One, we had a great relationship with Steve Whitt of the UK's Mediumwave Circle. They were kind enough to host our recei...

MN.08.01.1998. Moscow Mason Numbers

03 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of Media Network covered updates on the numbers stations. But we started with news of unusual FM reception in New Zealand from Bryan Clar...

MN.02.01.1998. SW Receiver Survey

03 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Happy New Year 2021. This is THE place for vintage editions of Media Network, the weekly communications programme as aired on the English Service of R...

MN.26.12.1996 Boxing Day at RNW

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Christmas and New Year were traditionally quiet times at Radio Netherlands, with a lot of pre-taped specials. We didn't really know whether anyone was...

MN.25.01.1996 Carleton Vobbe

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I was delighted to discover in December 2020 that Neil Carleton of Almonte, Ontario, Canada remembers us. We remember him. We originally got in touch ...

MN.19.12.1996 Radio Safari

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So whatever happened to the world's first green radio station, Radio Safari? In late 1996, we followed up on a report in New Scientist and met up with...

MN.07.11.1996 Meyerton Transmitters

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This programme includes a visit to the shortwave transmitter site at Meyerton a small town lying 15 km north of Vereeniging in Gauteng, South Africa. ...

MN.02.05.1996 Las Vegas NAB 750th

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I remember this edition of Media Network like it was yesterday. It was edition 750. We had many greetings from around the world. And we reminded peopl...

MN.21.03.1996 Bhutan BBS

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The main part of this edition of Media Network is a rather unique portrait of the Bhutan Broadcasting Service. Thanks to a duty trip by Radio Netherla...

MN.06.03.1997 HAARP COMPLETE

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Satellite Radio is going to happen in the US, despite opposition from the NAB. Q-FM is the new name for Radio London. There is the first of many featu...

MN.13.03.1997 Yacht Boy 207

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We start we extensive tuning tips. High Adventure Ministries Has started transmissions to Europe and opening a postbox in the US. Carl Kruger is heari...

MN.13.02.1997 Before Borat

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lots of calls from listeners at the start of this Media Network. David Ward tells us about a new wind-up radio from Morphy Richards. We compare it wit...

MN.06.06.1996.Ariane 5 Fails

01 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Channel Africa will lose its funding. The future of the Meyerton. The first Ariane 5 self-destructs. There were four satellites called CLUSTER which w...

MN.18.04.1996 Jemstone

01 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We often spoke with Jemstone founder Tudor Lomas. This was the first time he explains what is happening between Europe, North Africa and the Middle Ea...

MN.04.04.1996 News Edition

01 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We get a reaction on what we should be looking for in radios for visually disabled listeners. Sony is trying to boost its MiniDisc system and has a ne...

MN.16.11.1995 South Africa

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This programme paints an interesting picture of Southern African broadcasting. Gene Reich provides a different opening to the programme which comes fr...

MN.09.11.1995 Instore Radio

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We discuss two new communications receivers from AOR , the 7030 and AR5000. We talk with Roger Hillier from AOR UK. The rest of the programme is a maj...

MN.02.11.1995 Australia in depth

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We started the show with some mid-season frequency changes and some reception problems. Maybe the Russian relays of RNW may work better? Hans Bakhuize...

MN.06.06.1995 SpreadSpectrum

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jan Willem Drexhage tells us about new satellite subcarriers. Listeners ask us to explain the Luxembourg Effect which turned out to be a natural pheno...

MN.18.05.1995. KGB

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The programme starts with tuning tips from Arthur Cushen. We went to the Evoluon in Eindhoven to hear about the future of CD Interactive. With Nintend...

MN.11.05.1995. Vietnam

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is a mainly news edition of the programme covering the news that PA6RHN from Eindhoven was a success. Radio Bloemendaal will increase its power t...

MN 23.05.1995. aum DAB Netherlands

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In previous editions of Media Network we mentioned the strange Japanese religious station Aum Shinrikyo. They had hired a huge number of transmitters ...

MN.11.05.1995. Vietnam Revealed

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is a mainly news edition of the programme covering PA6RHN from Eindhoven was a success. Radio Bloemendaal will increase its power to 500 watts. R...

MN.09.03.1995 News Edition NASA

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Bells contest results, we announce the prize winners. Radio Delta 171 having second thoughts about longwave. NASA has been flying a Boeing pla...

MN.09.02.1995 Community Africa

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This programme examines the extensive floods that are threatening the Netherlands and the role played by Dutch local community radio. We also devoted ...

MN.02.02.1995 Aurora Jim

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This programme starts with the first extensive interview we did with broadcaster, listener and genuinely nice guy Jim Cutler. How ISDN is revolutioniz...

MN.26.01.1995 Satellite Overview

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This programme gives a good overview of what people were tuning into on the new range of European broadcast satellite. We started with the news that B...

MN.26.03.1998 Portugal NZDXL

29 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In their heyday, radio listener clubs did a lot to create awareness about international shortwave broadcasting. In this edition of Media Network from ...

MN.05.06.1997. OpenDay 50th

29 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We included full plans for the 50th Anniversary Open day on June 7th 1997. We also made a TV documentary called Lifelines (available on line here) Zom...

MN.23.01.1997 Australia

29 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Most of this programme was devoted to the looming threats Interview with former Radio Australia DG Peter Barnett. The station costs US10 million a yea...

MN 29.05.1997. Freeplay Next Steps

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Where was the old theme from DXJB used in a film? The photo may be a clue. Hilversum had a serious communications problem just at the moment President...

MN.22.05.1997. SW12

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We visited Nethold to find out more about digital satellite television in Africa, Diana spoke with Jock Anderson in South Africa. Stocks and Shares ha...

MN.15.05.1997 Offshore Jingles

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The History of Offshore Radio Jingles was a brilliant collaboration between Keith Skues (photo credit Offshore Echoes) and the Society of Jingles and ...

MN.06.02.1997.Delta 171 Penguins

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We follow-up on the Delta 171 Radio longwave project. They now have announced an address: P.O. Box 7065 Amsterdam has big plans. Radio Caroline may re...

MN.31.07.1997.Newsreview

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Radio Netherlands opens a new satellite service to stations for 16 hours a day. Lee Martin has an office in New Jersey. Iran has opened a massive new ...

MN.04.09.1997.Funkausstellung

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A reportage from the International Audio and Video Electronics show in Berlin. This year was the launch for the DVD format, with a vast improvement on...

MN.24.07.1997.CNN Center Atlanta

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Diana Janssen and Jonathan Marks arrived in Atlanta at the weekend. That was a big mistake – the centre of downtown Atlanta was deserted, except for...

MN.01.05.1997.Satellites in London

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We report from the Cable and Satellite congress in London. Analogue is still alive in Holland and Germany. Digital is still very expensive. Rupert Mur...

MN.24.04.1997.African Media

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A salesman calls: It seems more than 800 people are building the new satellite service. It is getting ready for launch in July 1998. We also look at t...

MN.17.04.1997. 50th RNW

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was broadcast on the station's 50th anniversary. We learned that World Service of the Christian Science Monitor is getting out of short...

MN.20.02.1997 Alaska KHNS

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The main feature this week was on public radio in Alaska. In the news, it seems NHK is cutting some of its radio programmes. However, in Australia the...

MN.31.07.1986.CaptainMidnight.Woodpecker

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Analogue satellite stations are scrambling as a result of the HBO Captain Midnight incident. Now the mystery has been solved. John Campbell reports th...

MN.27.10.1986.STADAMS.RadioTruth

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another news edition of the programme. We reported that VOA Europe has been saved. Director Frank Scott in Munich explains how they plan to save money...

MN.21.05.1993.dianaross.kurdistan

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We always had fun with openings on Media Network in an era when programmes had signature tunes, ours included. So we had the BeeGees and Diana Ross op...

MN.20.12.1984. Radio Monique

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

An early edition of the show. We were more reliant on off-air recordings because the phone was poor quality and very expensive. Radio Monique, from th...

MN.14.09.1989.AudienceResearch

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A news edition of the programme. This year (1989) we're starting to see the spectrum analysers on radio, ten years after frequency readouts appeared i...

MN.14.08.1986.EAP and Laser 558

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This edition of programme was subtitled "Crime Time", a tongue in cheek look at the offshore pirate radio ship Laser 558, later sold to East Anglian P...

MN.25.09.1985 Fake Radio Bandung

31 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Black Clandestine stations go back decades with many appearing during the Second World War. Media Network documented many stations like Soldatensender...

MN 03.02.1983 Turkish jamming FRG8800

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

BBC Turkish service is being jammed. Dennis Thompson explains. DW and VOA are also affected. The audio on the Radio Netherlands Flevo transmitters are...

MN.22.10.1984 Blue Danube Radio

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This early edition of Media Network reports that there have been reception problems. Reports on Radio Marti for Cuba has resurfaced. We hear the voice...

MN.30.06.1983 First Flevo visit

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The end of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Radio Australia is in danger of grinding to a halt. Radio Thailand is planning to expand its Englis...

MN.24.11.1983 RDI and Garriott

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There was a postal strike in the Netherlands which gave us a lot of headaches both in terms of taped contributions to Media Network but also a vast dr...

MN.10.01.1985 Radio Truth Zimbabwe

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Not sure of the exact date of this early Media Network but I am guessing 10.01.1985 We started with a visit to the Sunspot Index Data Centre in Brusse...

MN.10.02.1983 Canadian Forces

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A newsy edition of the show. Good Morning Britain launches with David Frost. TVAM has some challenges with the unions. Quality Media said they were pl...

MN.09.11.1989. Proceedings Publication

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Barratt in the UK reports on the VOA Bethany Closedown transmission. There are updates on KHBI, the Christian Science Monitor Station which took ...

MN.04.12.1983 Laser 576

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Offshore station Laser Hots Hits is back with a new formula of hot hits on 576 kHz. Barry Johnson of Anoraks UK has more details. For some reason, Las...

MN.23.10.1986 Clarin and Canada

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Radio Canada International has announced a possible deal with South Korea to relay programmes into China. Next edition of RN's booklist is out. Jeff W...

MN.21.09.1989 SW Film Review

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The programme starts with an international radio film review. That includes the parody Top Secret. Paul Hunter of KVOH in Van Nuys, CA says that testi...

MN.21.02.1985 After PA6FLD

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The programme starts with some of the furthest contacts made during the PA6FLD event the previous weekend from the Flevo transmitting site. The new fa...

MN.06.11.1986. Cushen Book

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We may have passed the sunspot minimum as cycle 21 comes to an end. Charles Z. Wick head of the USIA reports that the Soviets have offered to stop jam...

MN.06.05.1988 Dayton Travelogue

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A travelogue to the 1988 Dayton Hamvention in Ohio. Some 30,000 ham radio enthusiasts head for the disused airfield on the outskirts of the city. Grov...

MN.14.12.1989. Spy Numbers special

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This programme focuses on the mysterious world of spy number stations, a topic which frequently came up in the early Media Network programmes. One of ...

MN.22.05.1986.EDXC Paris

08 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

I remember recording this edition of the programme very late at night in the hotel room. I made the recordings on a UHER 4000 and spent about 3 hours ...

MN.10.03.1983 PA6PCJ Botswana HOS

08 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is an early Media Network in which John Campbell reports that Radio Liberation, the voice of Chilean Resistance, has been trying some guerrilla b...

MN.04.05.2000 Revealing Making Of MN

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As we enter Media Network's 19 years on the wireless, and 5 years on the Internet, it's time to share a few anecdotes on how the programme is made. Di...

MN.26.05.1988 EDXC Antwerp Analysis

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A report on The Antwerp EDXC Conference organised by (the late) David Monson. This was an unusual meeting. We learned about the danger of solar flares...

MN.12.05.1988. Glasnost Berlin

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Driving back from a visit to the VOA Greenville transmitter site, we passed through Fredericksburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksb...

MN.30.07.1987 Radio NY International

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This edition covered the history of US Offshore broadcasting. The good ship Sarah fitted out in Boston harbour has just taken to the high seas to broa...

MN.30.04.1992. Newsreview including Moscow

22 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There was a lot going on the shortwave bands in April 1991. Radio Afghanistan has been taken over and they have suspended all their external broadcast...

MN.07.02.1991 Mother of Battles Remembered

22 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was made a couple of weeks after Operation Desert Storm had started. After an item about Kashmir, we contacted Victor Goonetilleke to c...

MN.17.01.1991 Cry from Kaunas

22 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Well, I believe that listening to a shortwave radio in the 80's and 90's was far more exciting then than now when over 120 countries had stations acti...

MN.02.04.1992 Falklands Retrospective

22 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Marks here with another dip into the Media Network vintage vault. I think, listening to shortwave radio in the 80's and 90's was far more exc...

PA6FLD, ham radio from the largest antennas in the world

16 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In February 1985, I helped to organise a rather special event over the weekend of 16th February. We broadcast live from the new Flevo transmitter site...

PA6FLD Misusing a giant antenna array

16 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

35 years ago on Feb 16th 1985, a small group of radio enthusiasts "misused" the giant shortwave broadcast antennas on the new Flevo transmitting stati...

MN.31.12.2019 Romanian Revolution 1989

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This video edition started when I found six cassettes I recorded during Christmas 1989. Radio Bucharest, which had traditionally been a boring propaga...

MN.20.04.1995. Receiver Updates

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're trying to solve some reception problems from Dushanbe. There are changes going on with Grundig North America, with the transfer of the design fr...

MN.31.08.1995 Funkausstellung

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This was our regular visit to the Berlin Funkaustellung, held in those days every two years. 50,000 people would stream through the gates of the exhib...

MN.19.01.1995. Bells Cherry Ripe

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

. Chris Greenway reports that jamming under Vatican Radio is actually aimed at an Iraqi clandestine. There's a station called Iraqi Army Radio. We fol...

MN.15.06.1995. Dutch FM Reorganises

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Review of the Sounds Interesting programme from the old Hilversum Broadcast Museum. We set up a special station PA6RNW. We contacted Ben Witvliet at t...

MN.25.03.1993. Tahiti Campbell

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

MN.25.03.1993. A spring edition of the programme including: UK Police in Cheshire played a prank on scanner listeners. Professor John Campbell is back...

MN.10.12.2019. Lifeline VIDEO documentary

16 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From 1980 to 2000, I produced and hosted a communications magazine on Radio Netherlands, the Dutch International broadcasting service. We made over 10...

MN.07.03.1996. The AOR 7030 Review

02 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Silly girlfriend opening. Tim Hendel asked about the Sony ICF100T. Irish Eyes are smiling in County Mayo. MidWest Radio, Box 1, Mayo Ireland is making...

MN.21.11.1996 Drake SW1

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A warm welcome on a wintry day. Receiver survey feedback reveals shortwave sales are dropping. Voice of Nigeria has returned to the air. WRTH reports ...