Vatican Radio moves on to 11850 kHz

As from 2nd May Vatican Radio moves onto 11850 kHz replacing 9580 kHz via Tashkent at 0040-0200 hrs in Hindi/ Tamil/ Malayalam/ English (with Urdu at 0025-0040 hrs on Mon,Thu). The other frequency at this period is 7335 kHz continues from SantaMaria.

Now both the morning and evening service of Vatican Radio to South Asia can be heard on 11850 kHz - all via Tashkent.

SLBC on the old 15120

During the past 2 days noted SLBC(Sri Lanka) in English on their age old frequency 15120 kHz instead of 15745 kHz in the morning at 0030-0330 hrs.

New time for DW Bengali morning Service

Effective 14th April(Bengali New Year's Day) DW is retiming their morning Bengali Service at 0200-0230 hrs (instead of 0100-0130) and can be heard on SW 11970 kHz(Trincomalee) and via FM relay from Radio Bangladesh on 97.6 Dhaka, 105.0 Sylhet and 105.4 Chittagong. The evening service on FM relay can be heard at 1400-1430 hrs while the SW service continues at 1530-1600 hrs as at present.

New time for BBC Evening Urdu

With effect from 1st April BBC Urdu is to merge the 2 half hour b'cast (at 1500-1530 & 1600-1630) into one hour slot at 1500-1600 hrs and can be heard on 1413 7435(till 1545) 9510 11740 15470 KHz. This 2 half hour b'cast was introduced following the introduction of Daylight Saving Time in Bangladesh and to accommodate BBC Bengali at 1530-1600 hrs during DST in Bangladesh.

New freq for RVA Telugu

In Order to avoid interference to AIR GOS in English on 9690 kHz Radio Veritas Asia is to move on to 9515 kHz(replacing 9685 kHz) at 1430-1457 in Telugu with effect from 4th April 2010.

SLBC launches a radio programme for Sri Lankan listeners in South Korea.

[Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:45]

"The programme is broadcast through City FM Service from 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. each day of the week. At the launching ceremony held in SLBC premises today Chairman Hudson Samarasinghe said about 16 thousand Sri Lankan migrant workers in South Korea will be benefited by this programme. They have the opportunity to get information from Sri Lanka and to address their family members and friends via this new channel.

Participating at the ceremony South Korean Ambassador to Sri Lanka Cho Kee Chool said this radio programme will lead to enhance diplomatic, cultural and religious ties between the two countries. " SLBC Web site.

Victor G adds :
The broadcast from 1030-1130 UTC is transmitted from the DW
Trincomalee facility on 15120 kHz(the very popular SLBC freq used for their S.E.Asia service in English a few years back at the same time period) and is heard in Sri Lanka on FM 92.2 MHz. The programme is in Sinhala. SW frequency and FM both confirmed by live monitoring in Colombo with 15120 kHz cochannel by AWR from 1030-1100 then heard with clear reception.

The Service to the Middle East in Sinhala is on the air daily
1630-1830 UTC on 11750 kHz.

A10 schedule updation

Updation of A10 Schedule (Summer: 28-03-2010 to 30-10-2010) is in progress.Already uploaded some station's schedules. Please check out the DXAsia site.