The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025
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Episodes
MN.05.01.1994 Happy New Year 1994
13 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This was a news review, one of the early editions with Diana Janssen. We talk about the Philips Transmitter Site Christmas Tree. Radio Luxembourg ceas...
MN.18.11.1993. Weather Satellites Hoogeveen
13 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We didn't stray that often from covering the news around international broadcasters. But we did do the occasional feature about other signals that cou...
MN.29.03.1984 Wonderful Radio London
13 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This programme looks at the WRLI, Wonderful Radio London International from Arlington Texas, Radio Veronica runs a radio series to celebrate its 25th ...
MN.10.11.1983. Robert Haslach - UN Geneva
12 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Updated description; December 2019. This early edition of Media Network starts with the news that a postal strike in the Netherlands is delaying liste...
RCI Sackville Signs Off
21 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This is a studio recording of the announcements put out by Radio Canada International around 2004 when I last visited Montreal.
Media Network Vintage Podcast Limburg
13 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This vintage Media Network from March 1986 includes a visit to Maastricht, which was then home to a regional station called ROZ, (Regional Broadcaster...
MN.11.02.1982. Bolivian Radio Profile
09 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
More time travel, this time 32 years!. Welshman Tony Jones, who lived in South America at the time of this recording, later went on to help with editi...
MN.11.11.1982: First stone at Flevoland Transmitter Centre
09 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The programme was recorded in 1982 after the first stone laying ceremony on the site of the new transmitter site for Radio Netherlands on the Flevo po...
MN.15.10.1987. Thank You for Writing Again
09 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A new time signal station has appeared on 6450 kHz operated by the Australian Navy, replacing the service that has been provided until now by VNG. Pau...
MN.03.07.1986. Radio Astronomy
09 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Media Network didn't only cover broadcast technology. Occasionally we ventured into other areas where radio played a role, like radio astronomy. It wa...
MN.28.01.1999 Radio's Future
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This programme revisited a recurring topic; what is the future of radio? In 1999 it was clearly going to be DAB as well as the web. In other words we ...
MN.31.12.1999 Radio New Zealand Profile
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of 1999 I made a trip to Australia and New Zealand. This programme includes an interview with Adrian Sainsbury, the technical frequency eng...
MN.25.02.1999 Budel Radio Museum
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the fact that ham radio is over 100 years old, this hobby was still very much alive in 1999. About 15,000 people in The Netherlands had a radi...
MN.22.04.1999. Radio Minurca
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This news edition of the programme discussed your letters. We caught up on peace keeping radio, and the sale of Harry Helms shortwave website. In his ...
MN.16.01.1997. Radio Ham Revisited
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This edition ot the programme recalled the old and new versions of the Radio Ham sketch made famous by British comedian Tony Hancock. Later re-recorde...
MN.12.08.1999 Birthday and the Congo
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It was someone's birthday during this show in 1999. Can't recall who. I do remember the feature on broadcasting in Congo from the late Richard Ginbey....
MN.11.02.1999. Remembering JYI Jordan
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
MN.09.03.2000. Thailand Radio Profile
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This programme includes a contribution from Richard Jackson who was working in Bangkok at the time and updated us on what the radio scene sounded like...
MN.07.01.1999 Portishead Radio Closes
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
I remember driving to Radio Kootwijk for the final farewell of Scheveningen Radio on shortwave. It was ironic because the satellite video link broke d...
MN.05.03.1999.DrDish
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, there was a lot of interest in listening to satellite transmissions and trying to overhear analogue links that probably were not meant for pu...
MN.02.01.1997.Fiji
15 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Very much an "island" edition of Media Network. A station in Anguilla was testing and we talked to Barry Ferber, and Australian radio consultant who w...
MN.05.11.1992. Vatican Radio
10 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Found this Media Network edition from November 1992 in which we incorporated a story from Rosella Strom who'd been visiting Vatican Radio. I will alwa...
Welcome to the vintage Media Network vault
04 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome. I'm Jonathan Marks, host of Media Network and the person behind this initative. Glad you dropped by! Thanks for making December 2013 a record...
MN.25.04.1996.ICFSW40 and Yacht Boy 360
26 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This was Media Network edition 749. And this time we review the Sony ICFSW40 and the Grundig Yacht Boy 360. We looked at the subject of diversity in t...
MN.14.11.1991.Changes in Czechoslovakia
26 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The photo shows the BBC Czech service which I visited on one of my many trips to Prague long after this edition of Media Network was made. This was al...
MN.07.11.1992 Cambodia & WRMI
26 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A Media Network news edition from early November 1992 when we called up Radio Australia to find out why they were launching a service targeting listen...
MN.05.11.1999 IFJ
26 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This Media Network from November 1999 includes a fascinating interview with Aidan White (pictured) who at that time worked for the Brussels based Inte...
Media Network Flashback: 02.02.1989. Border Radio
26 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This early edition of Media Network included the story of how a TV show in the Netherlands blocked the phone lines when it asked for viewer response, ...
MN.18.02.1988. D2935 Receiver Review
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This programme broadcast in February 1988 included news of the Philips D2999 shortwave portable receiver. Early models were recalled and modified, so ...
MN.08.07.1988.Iran Air Disaster
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On 3 July 1988, at the end of the Iran–Iraq War, an Airbus A300B2-203, was shot down as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz by SM-2MR surface-to-air m...
MN.18.02.2000 After the webcast
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2000, Media Network experimented with a live webcast simply to see if the audience would react and could get a reliable audio feed. This i...
MN.27.04.1995. Ethnic Media Grundig Yacht Boy 360
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This was a news edition of the programme, reporting on a bumper postbag from the UK as we started using the 1440 kHz outlet from Radio Luxembourg. We ...
MN.04.12.1992.Typhoon Gay hits Marshall Islands
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The super typhoon Yolanda which hit the Philippines in November 2013 reminded me of a Media Network we made in November 1992. At that time Typhoon Gay...
MN.05.11.1981 - Tony Jones on Latin American Radio
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Jones is a Welsh radio enthusiast who emigrated to Paraguay in the 1970's. His name appeared in several DX magazines are a very active shortwave ...
MN.23.07.1987.Spycatcher - The James Bond Gadget Analysis
24 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This "clandestine" editon of Media Network checked the media accuracy of the gadgets in the James Bond Film, the Living Daylights. We found quite a nu...
MN.26.12.1991.Year End Review
23 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This was a news show 1.6 million tune in to Radio Netherlands in Dutch during their summer holiday. WWV and WWVH have had problems with their automate...
MN.09.05.1985. Japan Special from Tokyo Expo 85
23 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the 1980's and era when giant world expositions were in fashion. By finding the cheapest flight I could, I managed to persuade the RN progr...
MN.10.07.1986. Broadbent Departs for Australia
23 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Broadbent recently retired from Radio Australia. Many shortwave listeners know him from the many programmes he produced and presented for Austra...
MN.20.11.1997. When Comdex was riding high
16 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I often feel that many exhibitions in 2014 will go the way of Comdex. Many people don't even remember the name. They were a whole series of computer e...
MN.03.11.1983 Invasion of Grenada
16 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Very early edition of Media Network when Dennis Powell reported on monitoring the US invasion of Grenada in November 1983. We did everything on very r...
MN.03.04.1997. Receiver News & African Mystery
15 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is a news orientated programme making use of a full postbag. We did a lot of reporting about shortwave receivers on Media Network, broadcasting r...
Media Network First Webcast February 2000
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We did a special 2 hr webcast to celebrate the 1000th edition of Media Network in February 2000. We were rather ahead of our time because although we ...
MN.15.03.1989. Solar Explosions and Austrian Pirate
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Not so many programmes from 1989 have survived because Radio Netherlands switched to a cheaper and rather inferior brand of recording tape. It was fin...
MN.30.06.1993 Bulgaria Radio Aura
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This edition of Media Network includes news that the Dutch broadcasting museum in Hilversum has reopened to the public and TV Marti has been off the a...
MN.03.09.1992. T2FD Antenna & Radio Norway International
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Antennas often got a lot feedback from listeners, especially when we went outside to talk about how to set up an effective aerial like a T2FD. Actuall...
MN.11.01.1995 Spynumber Stations
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is an edited edition of Media Network which was released on transcription to other radio stations on 11 Jan 1995. In the light of the recent reve...
MN.27.11.1997 Longwave Profile & ELWA Liberia
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A Media Network special from late 1997 focussing on longwave broadcasting. We also profile the Christian broadcaster ELWA in Monrovia, Liberia.
MN.20.01.1994 South Asia Special
10 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time when Media Network at 1430 UTC would carry special editions of the programme aimed at the large shortwave audiences in India. At leas...
MN.08.09.1994. Where is Marks?
10 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
There used to be a programme on Swiss Radio International called the Name Game. It was a travel show which told you everything about a place except th...
MN.30.03.1998.Cancer Risks
10 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Is high power HF dangerous for your health? In the mid nineties there were certainly concerns expressed about the long-term exposure. Many shortwave t...
MN.14.12.1994. Moscow & Rwanda
09 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This programme from December 1994 was made at the time that reports of the media's role in the Rwandan genocide were starting to emerge. The full horr...
MN.31.10.1996. Multimedia Network Predictions
09 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Professor John Campbell was the Professor of Computing Sciences at Univerity College London. He contributed several columns and reports to Media Netwo...
MN.19.05.1993.UNCTAD Cambodia
09 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This news edition of the programme also includes a featurs that examined the United Nations media in Cambodia, with the huge UNCTAD programme being se...
MN.30.08.1984 - Give us a job
09 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years ago, the business of international broadcasting was very different. I would argue to that do the job well, you needed to understand two c...
MN.17.07.1997 Silicon Valley Summer Safari 2
09 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The second part of Media Network's safari into Silicon Valley 16 years ago. So what's changed in Palo Alto? Just about everything. We start off with a...
MN.10.07.1997.Summer Safari Silicon Valley Part 1
03 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1997, Diana Janssen and I spent the best part of a week in Silicon Valley. This was a period when Netscape was hot, and Google had ye...
MN.09.01.1997. Radio Kudirat
03 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
UPDATE: August 16th 2020. The programme file was updated with a better quality copy of the programme. Things are very cold in Holland, which is essent...
MN.14.02.1985 Flevolandtests
26 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In the weekend on February 1985, we misued the new Flevoland shortwave transmitter site by connecting ham radio gear to the giant Shortwave antennas o...
MN.17.11.1993.Fiji and WRMI
25 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This programme features the start of WRMI from Miami Florida, a commercial station aimed at Cuba and run by entrepreneur Jeff White. We also profile b...
MN.15.03.1990. Incremental Radio - What would life be without it?
22 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
A news edition of the Media Network programme. This programme kicks off with a super-fast Morse test. The Goddess of Democracy ship leaves France for ...
MN.25.06.1992. Strange Religion from Tokyo and AWR Europe
22 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We had no idea that the people behind the station we reported on in this programme would later be responsible for a Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. But tha...
MN.30.07.1998.Oibibio
22 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This programme included a visit to the radio station across the Central Station in Amsterdam. It was the idea of Ronald Jan Heijn, the former internat...
MN.07.01.1993. Radio Czechoslovakia splits
22 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Radio Prague returns as the country of Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. Jim Cutler goes mad about our phone number. Radio Sweden changes its output. Ch...
MN.17.09.1992. US international broadcasting
22 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Found a whole batch of programmes that are just over 20 years old, from an era when international broadcasting was grappeling with the arrival of sate...
Happy New Year 2013
05 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks so much for making 2012 a great year for radio nostalgia, especially at such a momentous time for international broadcasting. There are still i...
MN.27.11.1986.StadRadioAmsterdam
27 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This is a really old edition of Media Network, from November 1986 when I visited what was then called Stad Radio Amsterdam. Since then, I don't believ...
Media Network 26.12.1996 Boxing Day Show
27 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A radio Christmas spent in the Media Network studio way back in 1996. Sounds like we were having fun! I look back on this period as perhaps one of the...
Radio Netherlands - A Golden Anniversary - Part 8 of 8
25 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This is the last chapter in the 8 part series telling the story of Radio Netherlands focusing on the English language department. With Pete Myers as y...
Radio Netherlands - A Golden Anniversary - Part 7 of 8
22 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This is edition 7 of the 8-part documentary series on Radio Netherlands focuses on the 1980's and what it meant to the English language department in ...
Radio Netherlands - A Golden Anniversary - Part 6 of 8
19 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The sixth part of the history of Radio Netherlands was originally broadcast on October 1st 1997. It's presented here for academic interest. Radio Neth...
Radio Netherlands - A Golden Anniversary - Part 5 of 8
17 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This second part of the look at the station in the 1960's was originally broadcast in July 1997. Pete Myers recalls the plans to put a man on the moon...
Radio Netherlands - A Golden Anniversary - Part 4 of 8
17 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This part four of the eight part story of Radio Netherlands, the Dutch international broadcasting service.This first part of the look at the station i...
Radio Netherlands - A Golden Anniversary - Part 3 of 8
04 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Third part of an eight part series presented by Pete Myers on the history of Radio Netherlands. It was made in connection with the station's 50th anni...
Radio Netherlands - A Golden Anniversary - Part 2 of 8
03 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of an 8 part series broadcast as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Radio Netherlands in March 1997. This part cover...
Radio Netherlands - A Golden Anniversary - Part 1 of 8
02 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This is Part One of an Eight-part series on the history of Radio Netherlands, the Dutch International Service. Presented by the late Pete Myers, he wa...
Media Wars Episode 6. Who listens Anyway?
24 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
And this is the last in the series of programmes on Propaganda Past and Present. Remember it was made in 1982, probably at the height of the popularit...
Media Wars Episode 5. The Method of Attack (in Africa)
24 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This first half of this edition looked at the start of Radio Netherlands in 1947 and the challenges it faced in the questions srrounding Indonesia at ...
Media Wars Episode 4 - Let Governments Stick to Governing
24 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This edition of Media Wars looks at how governments often make a mess of the message they are trying to put across. We started with Radio South Atlant...
Media Wars Episode 3 - Comparing 1946,1962 and 1982
22 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Pim Reijntjes explains some ways round the "dreary" Sunday programming that was invented in the Dutch East Indies. The programme draws the parallel wi...
Media Wars Episode 2 - You are my enemy. Pass the Sugar Please
18 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This Second edition of Media Wars looks at the rather unique situation that Dutch broadcasters found themselves in at the end of the Second World War ...
Media Wars Propaganda Past & Present. Episode 1 - How it Started
17 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In 1982 I decided to gather some of the interviews I'd made with international broadcasters who had been at the start of it all. It was my first attem...
MN.03.07.1997. The Warm Glow of Wireless
16 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This programme kicks off a series of nostalgic episodes about radio broadcasting. In 1997 we visited Wim Stuiver, a radio enthusiast who had built a p...
MN.18.11.1999. Tigers and Chechyna
01 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This news edition of the programme started with a report from Sri Lanka on how the Tamil Tigers were using radio in their fight against the Sri Lankan...
MN.15.07.1992. Radio Noordzee Nationaal
01 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
We made much of this programme in Naarden at the headquarters of Radio Noordzee Nationaal. The Strengholt company got the licence in the summer of 199...
MN.17.10.1996.Basque Underground Euskadi
28 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This programme includes an appearance from Professor John Campbell. He was a professor of computing science at the University of London, but better kn...
MN.25.04.1991. Peter Skala
25 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
An interesting chat in this programme with Olrich Cip, who was still frequency manager for Radio Prague at the time of the interview. Recently did an ...
MN.21.12.1995. American Forces Migrate East
25 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This programme explored the idea of BVN-TV, Dutch language satellite television for Europe. We also looked at why more stations is the US have not mov...
MN.12.12.1996 Stock and Shares
25 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Stocks and Shares Radio for Africa was one of the more unusual private shortwave ventures, dating back to 1996. And they got the prize for the most bo...
MN.25.10.1984 London Pirates
22 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Yes, this is a Media Network edition dating back to October 1984, which includes a double report from Roger Tidy and Bob Tomalski from London. At that...
MN.01.11.1984 Helicopter at Flevo
22 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This edition goes way back to the time in late October 1984 when they started testing the new Radio Netherlands transmitter site out on the Flevo pold...
MN.04.12.1991 AM Stereo
16 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
AM (mediumwave) stereo has been trying to take off since as long as I've been in radio. The idea surfaced in the early nineties again and we covered i...
MN.25.03.1992. Radio Tirana Albania
15 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A rare glimpse into the inner workings of one of the strongest propaganda voices out of the Balkans from one of its smallest countries. Today Radio Ti...
MN.08.07.1999.CBC Fanfare Conspiracy
15 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favorite programmes from 1999 because of an excellent contribution from listener Nevil Coles in the UK explaining how fanfares used by inter...
MN. 28.08.1997 - Tudor Lomas Training in Jordan and Lebanon
29 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A Media Network edition from August 1997. One of the items is an interview with Tudor Lomas who used to work for the BBC Radio 4 Today programme in th...
MN.06.11.1997.Chile & Bruce Girard
28 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Media Network's first visit to Chile. This was in connection with a radio festival that Radio Netherlands organized with several hundred partner stati...
MN.27.03.1997. Conet Spy Number Project
23 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The mystery of the spy number stations has been a recurring theme in Media Network. Perhaps the most elaborate project to catalogue them was a 4 CD pr...
MN.02.03.1995. Hate Media - Burundi and Rwanda
23 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This programme starts with a portrait of Radio Denmark. Then we presented a feature on Hate Media. Recently found the complete edition of this program...
MN.30.06.1994. Offshore Radio at Dutch Broadcast Museum
23 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In 1994, the Dutch broadcast museum was just that. It was a collection of equipment in a rather nondescript technical centre tucked away in the comple...
MN.29.06.1995. Grand Dutchy of Luxembourg
23 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In 1995, Radio Netherlands signed a deal with RTL Radio Luxembourg to use the great 208 metres for a few hours each night for it's English language br...
MN.18.02.1988 George Wood Presents
22 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Some mysteries remain unsolved. So let's reveal a rather old one. In February of 1988, George Wood of Radio Sweden visited Radio Netherlands on a duty...