Jan 23, 2023
COVID disrupted just about everything for me. And by New Years Day 2023, I started wondering if there is any value in continuing the Media Network archive I built about international sound broadcasting in the 20th century. What has always kept me going is unearthing the stories of the past and bumping into amazing...
Jan 5, 2023
Hello, welcome back to Part 2 of the Maarten van delft tapes. This time with unique studio recordings from the Caribbean made around 1988. Here is the link to LIST. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JzHzsVzq7mk8ABYAzyA7YcjDJUVnCgm_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100055734756157999044&rtpof=true&sd=true
Just to recap it is...
Jan 3, 2023
Here is the link to the LIST of stations in this episode: Hello, it is January 2023 and I’m playing around in the Media Network archive vault which sits on my hard drive and beckons me to explore forgotten files when I have a moment to spare.
In November 2019, a faithful Dutch MN listener Max van Arnhem contacted me...
Apr 3, 2022
I am gradually sorting out my off-air radio cassette collection. I realise that if I don't do it now, I will never get around to it. But I also realise that a lot of off-air recordings are disappearing, especially once the radio programme is made, and very few people keep the original interview or recordings. For...
Jun 15, 2021
This is the second edition of DX Juke Box that I hosted, having joined Radio Netherlands a couple of weeks earlier. The programme in those days was a mixture of music and tuning tips contributed by others. My goal, together with Wim van Amstel, was to do more investigative reporting. There was no production budget, but...