WCMC Wildwood NJ 1230 heard in Norrköping, Sweden

1230 19.1 2229 WCMC Wildwood NJ, ett tydligt ID från parallellstationen “13-40 WMID”. A/V (Sigvard Andersson, Norrköping, Sweden)

DX-News: JIL FM, Algeria and NRK Longyearbyen, Svalbard

ALGERIA
JIL FM is the new youth program broadcast via 531 kHz F’kirina and 549 kHz at Sidi Hamadouche. Very modern channel w/ Arabic, French and Italian IDs and jingles.
531 kHz is the best channel heard late evenings in Växjö, Sweden. The mix of music is very enjoyable.

NORWAY
1485 kHz NRK Longyearbyen, Svalbard was heard during 5 minutes at local sunset at 15.25 UTC. At 15.30 they just announced that “Dagsnytt” (Newscast) will start then NRK drowned in QRM, mostly from the 2 AFN stations. Loopangle 0˚ to avoid QRM from Radio Merkurs. (Bengt Ericson, ARC, Växjö )

Berlin DRM 1485 off!

GERMANY
The DRM-transmitter on 1485 kHz located in the Berlin area is off tonite (Jan 9th)at 2200 UTC. The transmitter is very disturbing in southern Sweden, but in Östersund in the mid of Sweden the DRM-station is not audiable. (Bengt Ericsn, ARC, Växjö)

Radio Bretagne Cinq 1593 kHz heard in Sweden

FRANCE         1593 Radio Bretagne Cinq heard for the first time this morning at 0730 UTC with French and international music mostly played nonstop. Once a DJ announced the ID. Very good signal, but faded away 30 minutes later. (Bengt Ericson, ARC)

Special New Year's programmes from RNE, Canary Islands

The last night of every year brings us a unique opportunity for catching the RNE stations in the Canary Islands with own programming at night. All RN and R5TN outlets leave the national network at some point around 2230 UTC/Canary Is. time (2330 in mainland Spain) for a regional special program to receive the new year. The content is usually funny music with phone calls from listeners and messages from the Regional Goverment President and some other Authorities. This program ends some minutes after the midnight Canary Is./UTC time. These are the RNE stations in the Canary Islands:
RN     Las Palmas  576 kHz
RN     Tenerife        621 kHz
R5TN  Tenerife        720 kHz
R5TN Las Palmas  747 kHz
(Mauricio Molano via MWDX via Tore Larsson, ARC)

Samoa drops Friday, December 30

The day of December 30 will be deleted from the Samoan  calendar. This is being done in order to bring the nation closer to the time zones of its biggest trading partners, Australia and New Zealand. Samoa is 11 hours after GMT and from having been one of the last places where the new year begins it will now become one of the first. After the change has taken place Samoa will be one hour ahead of New Zealand and three hours ahead of Sydney, Australia. (DR News via Bengt Ericson, ARC)

German mediumwave stations closing down

Several mediumwave stations in Germany are due to cease transmissions within the next couple of weeks. The first to go, on Friday 30 December, is the low power (0.6 kW) SWR station at Ulm on 1413 kHz. The following day it is the turn of high power (700 kW) gospel station ERF at Mainflingen on 1539 kHz and the WDR mediumwave transmitter at Langenberg on 1593 kHz which has been broadcasting in DRM mode.

On 8 January SWR will cease its mediumwave broadcasts of the "Bodensee Sender" on 666 kHz (150 kW). In addition, the broadcasts of the WDR mediumwave transmitters at Muhlacker on 576 kHz (100 kW), Freiburg on 828 kHz (10kW) and RheinSender/Wolfsheim on 1017 kHz (100 kW) will close.

(Source: Mediamagazine.nl via Andy Sennitt via Tore Larsson, ARC)