[HCDX] IBB Will Shutter Transmission Site in Delano, Calif.

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

 IBB Will Shutter Transmission Site in Delano, Calif.
 http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0100/t.7486.html
7.27.2007 	

The International Broadcasting Bureau will stop broadcasting from Delano, 
Calif., at the end of October, RW has learned.

The decision was announced in an internal e-mail to IBB employees on July 
24. The move will result in job losses at Delano; the number was not 
immediately available.

The announcement stated that the move is being made "as a result of the 
Broadcasting Board of Governors' changing global mission to meet current 
U.S. government broadcast requirements, along with reduced budgets and 
changes in technology ... As operating budgets decrease, we have had little 
choice but to downsize and realign the IBB transmission network."

IBB officials told RW Thursday night that the Delano facility will remain in 
"cold storage standby status." As budget allows, a spokeswoman said, "we 
will redistribute viable equipment to the rest of the IBB network."

In its memo, the IBB noted the historical meaning of the Delano 
Transmitting Station.

"Located about 140 miles north of Los Angeles, California, the station 
began shortwave broadcasts to the Pacific Theater of World War II in 1944. 
In early days, it beamed broadcasts directly to local audiences and to 
retransmitting facilities in Hawaii, Okinawa and the Philippines. Later the 
station provided critical shortwave broadcasts to Cuba, South America and 
Asia. These broadcasts clearly helped shape today's world."

But the IBB Delano station "relies entirely on shortwave radio transmissions, 
a format that is relatively expensive to operate," the organization told 
employees. "Although shortwave was the focus of international 
broadcasting for many decades, shortwave has declined in importance as 
traditional audiences have shifted to FM and MW radio, the Internet and 
television."

A Wikipedia entry states that the Delano relay station is "famous for having 
a rare installation of a TCI HRS 12/6/1 directional curtain array transmission 
system" and said the facility was originally constructed in the 1940s as 
KCBR by CBS.

IBB retains U.S.-based transmitting facilities in North Carolina, Flordia and 
the territory of the Northern Marianas.

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