Special DRM transmission from Ascension Island – Sunday 28th August
2016
(Ruxandra Obreja, Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium Chairman)
DRM will be part of a big anniversary on a small island in the
Atlantic Ocean. On 28th of August at 1155 GMT Babcock International will ensure
a special BBC digital transmission from the BBC Atlantic Relay station on 21715
kHz, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the BBC’s first short-wave radio
broadcast from Ascension Island.
Since 1966, the Atlantic Relay station has broadcast BBC World Service
programmes to Africa and South America, and to this day, continues to broadcast
over 250 programme hours every week to East and West Africa in English, French,
Hausa and Somali.
The two hour-transmission will start with the old,
special sound of Bow Church Bell in east London, the sound of which, even if in
DRM this time, will remind older listeners of the BBC broadcasts of many
decades ago. The 2-hour transmission will be the regular BBC programmes for West
and South Africa and will end at 1400.
This special transmission will be
sent with greetings from Ascension Island’s BBC and Babcock International staff
and visitors, who will be celebrating half a century of sterling broadcasting
on August 28th.
(Ruxandra Obreja, Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium Chairman)
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Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi, India
