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[HCDX] Voice of Guyana now live on the internet, and moving house
Two radio services from Guyanese public broadcaster National Communications
Network (NCN) are now available streamed live online from the Homeview
Guyana web site at www.homeviewguyana.com.
Online listening of Voice of Guyana and Hot FM requires a subscription of 6
US dollars a month, however it's not clear if that is for both stations or
just one. A free 10-minute "sampler" of either stream is offered on
provision of an e-mail address (which they assure will not be passed on to a
third party). I went for this and after a 30-second wait received a
good-quality 8-minute feed of Voice of Guyana at 32 Kbps mono, with no
buffering or other interruptions.
The web site is in English and also includes a programme schedule, a history
of NCN and its forerunners, and full contact details.
In the past week Voice of Guyana has been observed most days commencing
their own programming at a time varying between 0805 and 0830 UTC, following
on from the overnight relay of BBC World Service. This was monitored with
fair to poor reception on 3291.2 kHz via a DX Tuners.Com receiver situated
near Caracas, Venezuela.
In a Voice of Guyana broadcast monitored on Sunday 2 October the announcer
mentioned that by the following Sunday they would "probably" be broadcasting
from new studios in another part of town, rather than "the old broadcasting
house on High Street". The history section of the web site alludes to this,
stating that there are plans underway to have NCN's radio and TV services in
the same building.
Voice of Guyana has no connection with the UK-based web radio Voice of
Guyana International.
Regards,
Dave Kernick
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