The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025

MN.21.09.1995 - Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal Profile

13 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This week back in in 1995 I went down to the open day organised in Brussels by Radio Vlaandern Internationaal, the voice of the Flemish community in B...

MN.25.09.1997 - Arthur Cushen Tribute

13 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

It doesn't seem like nearly 15 years ago that Arthur T Cuhen passed away. He was probably one of New Zealand's most famous shortwave listeners, having...

MN.29.06.2000 - Safari to Santiago Chile

12 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Towards the end of the Media Network radio show series, we did several radio safaris to countries in Latin America and the Pacific. I tried to ensure ...

MN.07.08.1997 Guam & Sri Lankan Clandestines

26 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Safety officials in the US are studying the navigational black boxes to determine the final moments of the Korean Airlines Boeing 747 which smashed in...

MN.01.10.1997. Pete Myers Remembers Radio 1

26 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Enjoyed relistening to this Media Network programme recorded in October 1997. Pete Myers was not only a famous presenter and producer at Radio Netherl...

MN.21.08.1997 Offshore Radio Follow-up Paul Rusling

23 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

A news edition of the programme including items about World Radio Network London, Radio Netherlands analogue audiosubcarrier update and changes to the...

MN.14.08.1997 - Thirty Years of Offshore Radio

23 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This Media Network is concerned with closedowns rather than sign-ons as we delve back into the archives for a special documentary on offshore radio. J...

MN.26.06.1997. Hong Kong Follow-Up & Radio London

23 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, welcome to the last Media Network of June, we’re 26 programmes into 1997 and going strong. Meanwhile in Hong Kong British Forces Broadcasting S...

MN.28.11.1996. Hong Kong Special Looking Forward

22 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Found this interesting montage while searching for something else. It's a show we did from Hong Kong looking ahead to how the Special Administrative R...

MN.08.06.2000. Christian Voice, DAB in NL & other news

05 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This was a regular news edition of Media Network covering items from the Pacific, we interviewed Bob Edminston (pictured below), the multimillionaire ...

British Forces Broadcasting Service - 60th anniversary tribute

04 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

In 2003 the British Forces Broadcasting Service made an excellent hour-long documentary celebrating six decades of Forces Radio. I was sent a copy as ...

July 2012 - Thanks for the support!

01 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

We had around 3800 unique downloads on the Media Network vintage website last month, one of the best so far. Not bad for a vintage wireless site. If y...

BBC Says Goodbye to Bush House

09 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

On July 12th 2012, the BBC leaves Bush House for the last time, with a world news bulletin at 11 hrs GMT. That iconic building on the Strand has been ...

Media Network Jingle Montage 1985-1996

01 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Just found a couple of CDs with examples of Media Network jingles and montages that were used in the programme between 1985 and 1996. They feature the...

Radio Netherlands Last Minute Interviews 20-21 UTC June 29th 2012

29 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

More photos of Friday's closedown are here on my Flickr account: Dropped by Radio Netherlands building for the last few minutes of their broadcasts in...

Radio Netherlands Farewell Broadcast June 29th 2012

29 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Just got back from watching the very last hour of broadcasting in English from Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Holland's external broadcasting service wh...

MN.17.12.1981 Longwave Returns & Poland

17 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

We kicked off the show with news from Dennis Powell in New York about Radio Marti. We fantasize about Radio Delta, a scheme to start a joint MW/LW pro...

MN.15.08.1991.ORF QSLs and EWTN

17 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This was an example of a listener driven show. We start with changes to Radio Netherlands, Pete Myers talks about Hidden Holland - Emporer's and Engin...

Radio Tirana 1990 in Studio Quality

17 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Just before the influence of Enver Hoxha collapsed in Albania, the external service Radio Tirana was one of the largest broadcasters in Europe, with a...

DX Juke Box Brussels Special October 1980

17 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Before Media Network, there was a show on Radio Netherlands (or Radio Nederland as it was called) entitled DX Juke Box. For the period August 1980 unt...

MN.20.05.1999. Norway Returns & CDR

28 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Broadcasters in Germany are not really promoting DAB. Radio Norway returns for a brief period. Bernt Erfjord joins us to explain. 675 kHz. Victor Goon...

MN.25.03.1999. Kosovo and Haarp

28 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This programme starts with the media situation in Serbia and Kosovo with Andy Sennitt, includes various extracts from stations like B92. We try to fol...

MN.18.03.1999.Voice of Peace and Student Radio

28 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This programme had the news that the Voice of Peace was returning (website still up), AMARC starts a special webcast and radio marathon, Jim Cutler ex...

MN.18.02.1999. Solar & Satellites

13 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This was a consumer oriented edition. We did a lot about high solar activity and the effect it can have on satellites, especially as there were severa...

MN.04.02.1999. Post Radio Luxembourg

13 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This programme starts with the news about Chris Carey was caught in New Zealand connected with pirate decoders. There's a rather ironic item about pub...

MN.10.06.1999. Burundi Portrait

12 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Search for Common Ground opened Studio Ijambo in 1995, a year after the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. For years Burundi media had helped fan the fl...

MN.22.04.1999.CARepublic

12 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This programme includes updates from Kosovo, the Swatch watch company cancels its Beatnic project on 2 metres from space after protests from amateur r...

MN.15.06.2000. DAB, Worldspace & World Radio Network

17 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This was a listener driven edition of the Media Network, asking questions about DAB. We talk to Roberts Radio and World Radio Network in the UK. There...

MN.31.08.2000 Ostankino and Security

16 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

More time travel. This programme starts with the news of a fire in the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow, a blaze that later turned out to be very serious ...

MN.24.08.2000 - Offshore Remembered in the Millennium

16 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This was the last programme in the Media Network series that looked at pirate radio and the offshore stations. It featured the late Bob Tomalski who, ...

MN.13.07.2000 - Radio Swan to Cuba

16 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This programme includes a feature about the US clandestine station targeted at Cuba called Radio Swan. Declassified documents from the CIA reveal how ...

MN.11.05.2000 South African Radio Montage

15 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This show is shorter than usual because it was prepared in Johannesburg and fed to Hilversum. I can't find the original show which would have had prop...

MN.13.04.1989. Luxembourg, India & Terrible Frequency Announcements

09 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This news programme starts with a call from Fiji (the furthest we ever got), and we investigate all the various radio projects that CLT is involved in...

MN.29.09.1988. Blackpool Offshore Radio

09 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

We didn't go to many offshore radio conventions on Media Network, but those that we did attend were fascinating. I realise now that it is over two dec...

That Reminds Me - Jonathan Marks in 1985

09 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Myers would often come up with great ideas towards the end of the year when the production budget in the English section was running low. Wednesd...

Pete Myers Remembered - A Talent to Amuse

08 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

On April 17th 2012, my late friend and former colleague Pete Myers would have been 73 years old. Sadly, this great broadcaster passed away all too soo...

MN.26.10.2000. Last Media Network Show on the Radio

17 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This was the final Media Network audio show of all, broadcast in October 2000 just before we went back to winter time. It was really a thank you to th...

MN.19.10.2000. Penultimate Edition

16 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

I thought I'd post these two shows as a pair. This was the last but one Media Network which contained extracts from the WRUL/WNYW with Lou Josephs and...

MN.01.03.2000. The 1000th edition of Media Network

16 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This was another milestone, at least for me, hosting the 1000th edition of Media Network at the start of March 2000. We used the programme to share so...

DX Juke Box: Jonathan Marks' First Show

16 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This was my first programme as a host and producer on Radio Netherlands. It is August 7th 1980. I had arrived a few days before from the UK and was on...

MN.19.07.1990. Colombo International Radio

09 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

We start with news of changes in ownership in Soviet media. Victor Goonetilleke reports on a mysterious station calling itself Colombo International R...

MN.30.03.1988. Car Radio Converters and Austria

09 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

I owe a lot to Wolf Harranth (pictured), former DX editor at Radio Austria International and now the curator of the world's largest radio documentatio...

MN.27.09.1990 Messages to Iraq, Receiver Review ICOM ICR-72 and BBC 648

09 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The programme kicks off with a review by Jeff White of what a range of international broadcasters have been doing to reach their nationals in the Midd...

MN.16.03.1989 Big Bang on the Sun, Satellite Experiments and Free Radio in Austria

09 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The programme starts with an analysis of a major solar flare on the sun (like the one this week) with the late David Rosenthal (still miss him). We pr...

Media Network Blog Goes Silent Soon

08 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Media Network web editor Andy Sennitt announced late this afternoon that their international media news blog is closing down as of Saturday March 24th...

MN.17.09.1986. Shortwave Caroline, KYOI & Filters

08 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

More time travel into the past, to a time when shortwave broadcasting was expanding. This programme starts with the news of a major solar disruption o...

MN.16.10.1986. El Salvador Earthquake

12 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This programme looks at how amateur radio helped in the aftermath of the two earthquakes which hit El Salvador in October 1986. Around 1000 messages w...

MN.23.03.1988. Clandestine Special Haslach & Campbell

12 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was one of several in the period to look at clandestine radio broadcasting. Although there were later programmes that went into detail ...

MN.24.07.1986 ANARC Report from Montreal

12 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

What were ANARC meetings like 25 years ago? ANARC was the Association of North American Radio Clubs, coming from an era when groups would organise aro...

MN.18.08.1988. Poland and Radio Solidarity

12 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The photo was taken outside Polish Radio in Warsaw in 2005. The programme that accompanies it was made in August 1988, a difficult time for Poland. Th...

MN.12.01.1989. David Monson in Berlin & Radio Denmark

10 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This news edition of the programme included news of the WRTH award scheme. We examine Jim Frimmel's computer program which will record audio off air, ...

MN.24.09.1986.VOA Europe Closes

06 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

February 2012. VOA is 70 years old. The first broadcast was in German to Europe. Later, from studios in Munich, VOA tried to reach Europe again with a...

MN.15.09.1988. Forts Radio and SW Receiver Predictions

04 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

This programme examines plans for a TV station on Sealand by Roy Bates on one of the disused wartime forts in the Thames Estuary. We talk with offshor...

MN.17.10.1985. Scheveningen Radio Reportage

04 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

As a student, it was often fun to listen on the radio between the broadcasting bands. You would tune just above the mediumwave (AM) broadcast band, sa...

MN.05.03.1992.Vasily in Moscow

04 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Hearing reports that it's 26 degrees below (Centigrad) in Moscow at the moment, reminded me of a programme we did with Vasily Strelnikov, the former R...

MN.02.05.1986 Chernobyl on the Radio

09 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

We had no idea of what had really happened in the Ukraine at the end of April 1986. I remember that when the news broke, we were celebrating Queen's D...

MN.22.01.1988. John Tusa and advertising on World Service

08 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

I confess I don't understand the outburst on recent edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme "World at One" by John Tusa. He seems to think that a tiny pi...

MN.09.01.1986. Buster Pearson and Eddie Visser

07 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

A "Jaws" style opening to this news edition of the programme. There's a report about Offshore Radio Stereo 531 from David Ward in Norwich. Paul Ruslin...

MN.19.11.1981.Transkei Andorra Oman

31 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A very early Media Network just a few months after being relaunched under a new name. The music from DX Juke Box has gone and we're starting to train ...

MN.18.12.1986. Soviet Jamming & Automatic Car Starter

31 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This programme was broadcast just before Christmas as rumours started emerging that the Soviet Union was about to stop jamming Western broadcasters li...

MN.10.09.1987. Cable One & Funkausstellung

30 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This programme looked at the launch of Cable One, a precursor to Sky Radio, started by two Dutch entrpreneurs and record producers. Although it launch...

MN.21.03.1986. Radio Free Suriname

30 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This programme starts with a report on the clandestine station, Radio Free Suriname which was backed by opposition groups in the Netherlands. The prin...

MN.24.04.1986. EuropaTV & ATS803

30 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Europa TV was a rather disasterous attempt at pan-European satellite television by a group of ex-public service managers working in Hilversum. They un...

MN.03.04.1986. Asian Special on Radios

30 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

In the mid 1980's it was always extremely difficult to balance the programme bearing in mind the varying listener interests. Most of the feedback came...

MN.27.06.1986.NDXE

30 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

There have been plenty of fantasy stations on short and mediumwave. Today we'd call them hype or vapourware. Back in the 80's, if someone started adve...

MN.30.10.1987 - Telecom 87 Geneva

22 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Towards the end of October 1987, around 70,000 headed for PalExpo in Geneva, Switzerland, an exhibition centre right next door to the airport. The eve...

MN.31.12.1992: Bloopers and Luxembourg

03 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This was a fun show to end 1992, catching up on the media news that was current on the last day of that year. It was a rather momentus day for Radio L...

MN.30.01.1986.ShuttleChallenger

24 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Satellites helped Radio Netherlands become far more topical in the 1980's. Before that, feature programmes like Media Network were recorded three week...

MN.20.06.1986 Surplus to Military Requirements

23 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Much of this programme is devoted to looking at World War 2 receivers and visits two Dutch collectors who have turned their houses into workshops to r...

MN.11.03.1993.MediumWaveShakeup

22 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This edition starts with a clip of a Radio Netherlands programme I discovered in the archives from 1963 when everything sounded much more dramatic tha...

MN.10.04.1986.Laser 558

21 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This is an interesting mix of radio news and reportages dating back to April 1986. We started with news about the clandestine radio station Radio Trut...

MN.13.08.1987 - Offshore Radio Remembered

21 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Just found a clean clear copy of this documentary that Andy Sennitt and I made one Saturday afternoon in August 1987 at the Radio Netherlands studio c...

MN.02.01.1986.Pakistan

21 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This was the first show of the New Year 1986, when the talk of the day was John Campbell's report on political clandestines radio stations in Europe, ...

MN.02.01.1993. RadioSweden

21 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This regular show from January 1993 focused on financial problems facing Radio Sweden, changes to BBC Management structure, and Richard Measham from B...

MN.17.12.1992 Zagreb Reportage

20 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This is another newsy edition of Media Network, this one dating from December 1992 when Eric Beauchemin was just back from a visit to Zagreb in Croati...

Media Network at RadioDay 2011, Saturday November 12th, Amsterdam

10 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Since you've found this page, you might be interested to attend the RadioDays nostalgia radio convention. It's a one day celebration of radio, especia...

MN.11.01.1996: Review Sony ICF1000T

19 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

The review of the Sony ICF1000T is still on line though not at Radio Netherlands. In this edition of the programme you can hear us review it on air. I...

MN.18.01.1996. Central Asia Report

17 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A news show with contributions from Andy Sennitt, Victor Goonetilleke, and Arthur Cushen reports hearing Radio Alma Ata from Kazakstan. We interview a...

MN.08.02.1996.CBC Overnight

16 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

In a regular edition of the programme, we hear about the start of the CBC Overnight service in Canada which relayed various international broadcasters...

MN.04.01.1996 - All by myself Diana Janssen

16 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

By the time 1996 started, Diana Janssen (see photo) was firmly established as the co-host of Media Network. Had enormous fun putting the show together...

MN.05.12.1994 - TWR Albania and Seek You

16 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A pre-Christmas show in which the news of the week was the appearance of religious station TWR from Albania (the old 1 MW transmitter of Radio Tirana)...

Revenge of the Tide - 1953 remembered

02 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This was a documentary I made in 1993 looking back at the floods in the Netherlands in the winter of 1953 and what had happened since. It contains man...

MN.05.10.1995.US MediumWave

02 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A Media Network news edition edition from early October 1995 in which we were concerned with the extension of the mediumwave band in the US. Chris Gre...

MN.12.10.1995.Trontheim

02 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This edition is tinged with sadness because the DXer featured in the programme, Bernt Erfjord, passed away in June 2004. The photo is from happier tim...

MN.04.05.1995 Radio Herrijzend Nederland

23 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout 2020, the Netherlands is celebrating 75 years since liberation from Nazi Occupation. Media Network on Radio Netherlands was famous for doin...

MN.26.10.1995 Path to Persia. From Tehran

21 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

I got a chance to visit Tehran, Iran as part of a delegation to the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union meeting taking place there in October 1995. It rem...

Towards 2000 - Clockwork Wireless & Victor Goonetilleke

21 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Remember Trevor Baylis and the wind-up radio? I organised a conference for Radio Netherlands at the International Broadcasting Convention IBC between ...

MN.11.09.1995. Turkish Police Radio and Zenith SW Radios

07 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Sennitt has some media news updates from the WRTH, the Lowe HF-250 has started to appear in the UK and here in The Netherlands this past week. Ke...

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing Episode Six - Monitoring the Situation

03 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

So here it is then, the sixth and final installment of the HitchHikers Guide to DXing, broadcast a full year after the last episode. The references to...

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing Episode Five - Frequency Police in Geneva

16 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver and Drisopholis escape in a van carrying white books to Geneva. They weasle their way into the auction where frequencies are bought and sold to...

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing Episode Four

14 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Oliver Pass and Drisopholis escape to the jamming shed in the grounds of Radio Polizania. They meet the head of jamming and discover ...

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing Episode Three

14 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

The introduction to this episode was a story in itself. I discovered that Peter Jones, the actor who narrated the original HitchHikers Guide to the Ga...

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing Episode Two

12 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Oliver Pass and Drisopholis discover the secrets behind how DX programmes are made as they explore inside Radio Politzania. How are s...

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to DXing Episode One

12 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

It is thirty years ago since I wrote a rather silly parody on both international radio broadcasting based on my favorite radio series at the time, the...

Burst of the Worst 1983

10 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This is one of several bloopers shows I made at Radio Netherlands in the 1980's at a time when a lot of material was pre-recorded and making a mistake...

MN.06.07.2000 Radio Austria International profile

10 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This programme contains a profile of Radio Austria International in Vienna. That station holds fond memories for me since I worked at the station brie...

MN.21.07.1983: The Inside Story II

05 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This second part of the series Inside Story broadcast in 1983 explores the broadcasters who joined the public broadcasting system in the 1960's like T...

MN.14.07.1983: The Inside Story I

03 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

More time travel for you. This programme was an attempt to explain the extremely complex Dutch broadcasting system to a foreign audience. Remember it ...

MN.04.02.1993 - Costa Rica Harmonics & VOA Brazil

03 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This was a "regular"edition of the programme first broadcast at the start of 1993. This week the news is that veteran DXer Adrian Peterson of AWR has ...

Radio Netherlands Shortwave of Publicity July 1 2001

03 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

It's ten years since Radio Netherlands organised a "short wave" of publicity stunt targeting English speakers in North America. On July 1st 2001, BBC ...