[HCDX] [Fwd: FYI: Imagination to end its short wave service!]

[Richard Jary <jary@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stafford Broadcasting Society's Imagination Radio is closing its short
wave service at the end of September, 2000.

The station has been broadcasting its soft rock programmes around the
world on 6010kHz between 1900 and 2000 UTC each Friday since 1st
October,
1999 using one of Merlin Communication's 250kW transmitters located at
Skelton, UK. Initially the programmes were also broadcast across Europe
in
stereo on the Astra satellite as part of the Merlin Network One (MNO)
satellite stream, but when MNO ended its programme service on 6th March,

2000 Imagination continued to transmit on short wave as a radio station
in
its own right.

The station has thousands of listeners in more than 30 countries spread
over 6 continents, and has received a quite disproportionate amount of
publicity in relation to its small size - the station has only been on
air
for a total of 50 hours. As a private, non-profit making station
transmitting legitimately from within the UK it has received coverage
from
dozens of local and international radio stations, newspapers, music and
radio magazines, music publishers, bands and DX groups - even within the

first few weeks it had been included in the NorDX '99 competition 'catch

list'.

The closure of the short wave service doesn't mean the end of
Imagination,
as the station's talking to a number of organisations to try and make
the
project more cost effective and bring the programmes to a larger
audience.
Details will be posted on the Imagination website as they occur.

In the meantime programmes can still be heard each Friday until the end
of
September.

***********************************************
                Imagination Radio

      ".....we are the music makers
and we are the dreamers of dreams....."

     http://www.imagination.clara.net
             imagination@xxxxxxxxx

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(Nigel Holmes, Radio Australia via ARDXC)


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