[IRCA] Fwd: [HCDX] Radio Kiribati goes online

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

this was posted on Hard-Core DX, for those hunting 846:

>From: "Dave Kernick" <dak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Hard Core DX" <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>Radio Kiribati apparently NOT on shortwave!
>
>The national broadcaster of the Pacific Ocean island of Kiribati, Radio
>Kiribati, can be heard live online at http://radio-tarawa.tskl.net.ki, via
>the Icecast open source audio streaming server. There are two streams
>available, a mono stream at a bitrate of 16 kbps and a stereo stream at 32
>kpbs, both using the Ogg Vorbis multimedia streaming format.
>
>The station was observed signing-on at 1825 UTC on Friday 11 November 2005,
>opening with a choral version of the national anthem and identification in
>the local language, I-Kiribati, as "Aio Banaan Kiribati" [latter word is
>pronounced kir-ree-bass]. This was followed by a music programme presented
>in I-Kiribati, then a relay of BBC World Service news in English at 1900
>after which there was Radio Kiribati's own "Local and District News" in
>English at 1920 UTC. It was noted that the interval signal/signature tune
>used with English identification announcements is a pan pipes version of
>Roxette's pop hit "It Must Have Been Love".
>
>The Radio Kiribati stream was silent when checked again at 0200 UTC the
>following day, but the last few minutes of the day's broadcast were caught
>shortly before closing at 1055 UTC with announcements in I-Kiribati and this
>announcement in English: "This is Radio Kiribati, the broadcasting service
>of Kiribati, in the Central Pacific. We're transmitting from Bairiki Atoll
>on a frequency of 846 kiloHertz, on 354.6 metres in the mediumwave band".
>
>Radio Kiribati (formerly Radio Tarawa) is currently the country's sole
>broadcaster. In 1998 an attempt to set up a commercial competitor, Newair
>FM101, failed to get off the ground when the radio station's directors were
>prosecuted for "importing telecommunications equipment without a permit".
>However, the station still hopes to obtain a licence and retains a website
>at http://www.users.bigpond.com/newairfm.
>
>The small independent nation of Kiribati is situated in the Pacific Ocean
>halfway between Hawaii and Australia.  It was formerly known as the Gilbert
>Islands, part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands, until the
>two island groups were separated and given autonomy in 1975 (the Ellice
>Islands becoming Tuvalu) then attained full independence in 1979.  Kiribati
>today has 33 main islands occupying a land area of  811 square kilometres,
>scattered over an ocean area the size of the continental United States, with
>an estimated total population of around 103,000, including about 35,000 in
>Tarawa, the capital. Local time is UTC +12 hours.
>
>An edited audio clip of Radio Kiribati can be heard on the Interval Signals
>Online website at www.intervalsignals.net. The 5-minute clip comprises the
>following: "It Must Have Been Love" interval signal/signature tune & live ID
>(English), canned ID (I-Kiribati), bilingual sign-off announcements, canned
>ID (I-Kiribati), choral national anthem.
>
>Dave Kernick
>
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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, B.C.
Canada

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