Several stations had facilities of their own. One of the stations closing down on Oct 29 1956 when Tangier lost its international status was Pan American Radio. They were on MW, same channel as Hörby, and sw 7290. According to their printed schedules and illustrated pamphlets, they regularly received reception report from all over the world to their offices at the Pan American Building, 16, Delacroix, in Tangier. They had regularly sceduled programs in Spanish, English, French, Italian, Arabic and Hindu. I have a QSL from 1955. In 1955 some receiver manufacturers, such as the Swedish Philips and Dux companies were conducting test transmissions from Tangier under the auspices of a company called Intercontinental Radio Company S.A. The idea was to start commercial programing from Tangier. Shortwave listening in Sweden was seething at the time, with tens of thousands of people regularly tuning in to foreign stations while the sole national network, the state owned non-commercial Radiotjänst, was having a break (2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon and also from 2230 to 0600). Finally a few religious broadcasters, notably Ibra Radio, started broadcasts from Tangier. They were refused the right to operate from Swedish soil. The Swedish government subsequently tried to stop their broadcasts from Tangier by witholding the funds Ibra Radio were sending to Tangier to build their premises. It was illegal to export this money, about 2M Sw. Crowns of the day, the government said. The banning attempt was thwarted by the members of the pentecostal church who started to send small individual contributions by mail to Morocco. The Moroccans had to open a special post office to take care of all these postal money orders. The activities of Ibra Radio, Norea Radio, The Voice of Tangier (WTAN) and the VOA continued some time after Tangier lost its international status. But in Sweden the Swedish monopoly stayed put. Only in the early 60´s, in an answer to pirate broadcasters Radio Nord and Radio Syd (also banned), Swedish radio listeners could enjou a national music channel. For political reasons, commercial or community radio in Sweden would remain banned for many more years. Henrik Klemetz
--- Jari Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Re DXLD 5-021 TANGIER item. > I've always found it most interesting to read > articles about > the radio scene of international zone of Tangier and > those > few years under Moroccan rule, while those stations > still > existed. Unfortunately my WRTH collection starts > only from > 1960 and I guess the info in the book is not very > detailed. > During the 50's there were many "stations" on sw as > well as on mw listed under Tangier. But I guess many > of > the stations were just program time buyers from > certain > transmitter companies. I just wonder if someone has > detailed info from the Tangier era, which stations > were > "real" ones and who were the airtime buyers (and of > course > who owned the transmitters). > Historic 73, Jari > > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- > > World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder > yours and support open communications for DXers: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom > > ---[End Commercial]----------------------- > ________________________________________ > Hard-Core-DX mailing list > Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com > http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx > http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be > copied, distributed > and/or modified under the conditions set down in the > Design Science License > published by Michael Stutz at > http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt