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The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025

November 2024 - A message from Jonathan Marks, producer Media Network.  Yes, we're still here although my other work has meant I have little time for shortwave these days. I've started sorting out some off-air archives in the audio-only selections. It's true, radio has a terrible memory. (I'm delighted to learn that the British Vintage Wireless Society is still going strong https://www.bvws.org.uk ) Now you know why I am publishing old editions of Media Network here on this site, as well as some of the off-air recordings of stations I monitored in the 80's and 90's as part of the research for the programme. I'm simply looking for ways to capture more unique stories that I believe need to be told before we all forget. I realise that in 1000 editions of Media Network, we had only just begun the scratch the surface. So at this time of reflection, I'd just like to thank everyone for their support and encouragement as the archive project enters a new phase.   First time visitor? I'm Jonathan Marks. If this is the first time you've visited the vault, then I'm glad you dropped by! There are over 660 editions of Media Network, representing just over half the episodes that we made and broadcast from the Radio Netherlands' studios in Hilversum. I'm pleased to say most survived in excellent studio quality (quite often in stereo). 
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MN.28.01.1999 Radio's Future

Feb 15, 2014

This programme revisited a recurring topic; what is the future of radio? In 1999 it was clearly going to be DAB as well as the web. In other words we thought it was going to hybrid back then. This edition of the programme looked at major changes rumoured at the BBC World Service as well as Radio France Internationale. Radio Netherlands Bonaire relay station has been having delay problems. Jim Cutler also has the dig-deeper jingle which always brings a smile.

I believe this is yet another example of how Radio Netherlands made maximum use of the resources sent in by its community of listeners. They were not letter writers, they were collaborators. The photo below shows the digital editors (Dalet) that we used to produce the programme on. 

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Jelle
almost eleven years ago

Thanks for uploading these, it's nice to hear what a great broadcaster RNW once was.

Mark
almost eleven years ago

It is always enjoyable to listen to these vintage editions of Media Network, even more so if they venture a forecast to the future that we are currently living in :)

Regarding the rumors on cutbacks at BBC World, Deutsche Welle etc. I wonder if you discussed the stories again when the plot had thickened and the cut of language services had materialized. If you did, I would love to hear these editions of Media Network, too.

Jonathan Marks
almost eleven years ago

I didn't post the programmes in chronological order, basically because I thought it better to put the most interesting stuff up first. I think if you explore some of the programmes around the end of 1999 you get the best Memories of the Millennium when there was a lot of free thinking going on. Listen to John Campbell predict Apple's Siri in around 1995!