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Jonathan Marks
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Recent encounters with real people pushing the frontiers of broadcasting.
MN 12 08 2019 A visit with Dan Robinson, former Voice of America correspondent
Amazing that I did this interview in January 2019, while on my way to Photonics West in San Francisco. Still worth watching if you're interested in VOA and Dan's amazing collection of vintage radios in the second part.
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MN.27.01.2023: Series Two Interview with Dr Graham Mytton Part 2
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I had a very positive reaction to Part One of the in-depth interview with Graham Mytton, ex BBC International Audience Research. In part two he discusses thoughts on methods they used in the 1980's, the current mission of BBC World Service, the impact of Brexit, and his preferred future. Again let me know in the comments what you think.
MN 23 01 2023 Series Two Episode 5 Interview with Graham Mytton Part 1
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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 people like Dr Graham Mytton, who I knew in the 80's as Head of BBC International...
Media Network Series 2 Episode 4 Prague Truth Shall Prevail
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The night of 20/21st August 1968 was a dramatic day in Czech history. Russian tanks rolled in to the capital to crush the Prague Spring. This hour-long Media Network documentary combines a radio programme Jonathan Marks made in 1988, with more recent footage made in 2005/2009. It tells the untold story of Radio Free Prague through the eyes of the broadcasters who helped keep the resistance radi...
Media Network Series Two Episode 3. The forgotten firsts at RNW
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Here is Episode 3 in the new second series of Media Network. It focuses on the forgotten firsts connected with Dutch International broadcasting. I mixed a lot of footage I shot myself with other vintage footage from rescued archives from Radio Netherlands and UA-cam. I hope it is a public contribution to a better understanding of what all of us involved in Dutch international broadcasting achie...
Media Network Series 2 Episode 2 Return to Dokufunk 2018
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In Episode 1 we visited the largest international radio archive on the planet. That was in September 2009. I kept in touch with its curator Wolf Harranth on and off, while my own career took an entirely different direction. But in May 2018 work took me to Linz in Upper Austria and being so close, I looked up Wolf again. A lot had changed and at the time of recording this episode, the entire fut...
Media Network Series 2 Episode 1 Vienna Dokufunk 2009
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This is the first edition of the new series of Media Network Videocasts. I owe a lot to the city of Vienna and to the Austrian Shortwave Service for my start in broadcasting. In February 1974, I took part in a quiz that was running on their English service. You had to answer one question a day for a month. I did, and I won first prize. A week in Vienna courtesy of the Austrian tourist board. I ...
MN.28.01.2023: Radio Netherlands Bureau Afrique, Benin in 2006.
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Six years before its demise as a radio station, I made a profile of the excellent work done by the production unit in Benin, West Africa. We closed direct transmissions on shortwave in French in 1994, but ran a very successful unit in West Africa. This video was made to celebrate 10 years of the BARN office
Piter Wilkens
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Frisian singer Piter Wilkens sings his song at the opening of the new Energy Commission January 12th 2017
Dutch Public Energy Debate Jan 12
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An excellent public debate amongst supporters of the new Energy Commission. Part of the new Energy Commission initiative headed by Ruud Koonstra. Debate was led by Natasja van den Berg.
Kickoff of Dutch National Energy Debate January 12th 2017
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These are the opening remarks from the organisers of the new public Energy Commission in the Netherlands launched officially today. It Includes remarks from moderators Natasja van den Berg (Tertium), Jan Heijns (Pakhuis de Zwijger), Frank Boon (Wij Krijgen Kippen), & Pauline Westendorp (NEWNRG).
energy knowkedge quiz FD
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So what do you already understand about energy. Simple general knowledge quiz set by the Dutch newspaper Financiele Dagblad. How many did you get right? in Dutch.
Ruud Koornstra, Chief Public Energy Commissioner
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On January 12th 2017, Ruud Koornstra gave his opening remarks as the new commissioner heading the Netherlands Energy Commission. This public initiative hopes to attract 1 million members who support faster energy transition away from a dependency on fossil fuels. The goal is for an energy positive Netherlands by 2030. That's only 13 years away, so it means all hands on deck. This presentation i...
Jheronimus Academy of Data Science - JADS
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Opening presentations on Thursday December 1st at the new - Netherlands Academy for Data Science in 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant in the Netherlands. More info at www.jads.nl. Particularly impressed by the presentation from Professor Wil van der Aalst, Director of the Data Science Center in Eindhoven.
Startupbootcamp High Tech XLOpen Pitch Days
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Guus Frericks DEC, Patrick Gabriels EY, Bert-Jan Woerrman HTCE, & Prof Ton Backx Eindhoven University of Technology explain why there is only one accelerator for Hightech startups - and it starts November 11th at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The global search for teams has begun. Open Pitch days start August 29th 2013. All the info you need is at www.hightechxl.com
Very nice
Very nice and informative.
What a brilliant interview. Dan's receiver collection is great to see....some really lovely items and it makes me realise that my own Short Wave RX collection / hoard isn't too much 😁 Thanks for posting this video. Fascinating.
Very informative
Radio Caroline’s signal reaches Northern Finland in Winter with just their 4kW transmitter. Orfordness is a great transmitter site.
It's a shame that AM has largely disappeared from view, it was a reliable method that would work in any emergency getting to the people who needed it. I have a Gospell DRM radio and get regular transmissions via analogue SW as well as high quality DRM from different parts of the world, there are a (minority) of broadcasters who still believe in analogue SW and DRM digital radio via that method, shame Europe and the UK has given it the heave-ho.
Radio Caroline now emit 4kw on 648khz and have applied for an increase to 16kw. Let's hope they get it, there's life in AM yet. However, back in the day, they had 50kw on a big red trawler, Ross Revenge. Would love to see that fired up again.
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I did wonder why I got such a good signal on Radio Caroline and then I looked at a map - it’s virtually a straight line from here in Rainham (Kent), over the pan-flat Hoo Peninsula and up the coast to Orfordness.
How do you explain this? I farm near Moreton-in-Marsh, on the Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire border. One of my ‘Working Classic’ tractors is a 1992 Ford with its original Ford AM Long wave radios. It’ll pick up 648 metres as clear as a bell, yet any more modern type car radio that still has an AM receiver can hardly pick the 648 signal up. Why does that ancient radio work so well on 648, but nothing else does? I love listening to Radio Caroline and to listen to it on anything other than that tractor have to use ‘Tune In’ via Bluetooth to the vehicle radios. Or on ‘Alexa’ when indoors.
Radio Caroline now keeping 648 and the Orfordness history going.
Enjoyed this thank you
What ever happened to Deanna Johnson what did she end up doing?
Great interview so far Jonathan, but are you sure of your dates? At 6:23 Dan refers to it being 2017 but you say you did this interview in 2019.
Repeatedly astonishing, and I'm only 40 minutes in........ Thank you, Thank you...!
Graham was certainly in the right place given all his views.
Fascinating
Wow! I get to make the first comment. Thanks so much for sharing this interview. It is great to watch your videos. Reminds me of listening to Media Network. Thanks!
My best wishes for you Jonathan from Chile South America
So , nobody in Europe believe in propaganda ,scums and manipulation ?
Great video and good to Andy again! I left the FCO in 1985 and worked on high power RF systems for science for the next 20-years. Orfordness, Cyprus and Masirah were great places to be stationed.
Anyone know of an antenna definition (locations, dimensions, feeds etc.) or model for the antennas at this site?
Goodby world service welcome radio Caroline at last . Should have had a licence years ago
And now Apple/Google pay transactions are in their thousands every second.
GM4 HIG calling. Wonderful, and from my retired perch in Malta, I can hear Radio Caroline on MW from time to time from your wonderful site.
Fascinating. I could watch a couple of hours just on the antennas alone. Great work and thanks for presenting this. More please. from Tim in Mobile Alabama.
It is now 2022 and western countries are living to regret their abandonment of Short Wave services. Canada & Australia should be singled out and shamed. In the case of Canada the magnificent sight at Sackville New Brunswick, located on marsh land was taken down. I for one would like to know what happened to the transmitters, towers and miles of copper wire??? I sense wrong doing and would like conservatives to account for every penny of property taken down. Were the transmitters sold or just dumped somewhere ??? Did the money from copper wire go back to taxpayers or did it line the pockets of Conservative Party friends??? These are legitimate questions that have not been asked or answered by Tories?
Imagine building a new Short Wave Station with Nautel transmitters. Very little upkeep required.
Remember you from Media Network. Still dabbling in radio and electronics at 65! Wishing you and your family all the best in life. Stay safe and healthy and God Bless.
Documentary gem that stands out from the 'click-bait', informed, considerate and straight forward. Fascinating gentleman Andy (reminds me of a family friend who was a big influence for me, worked at TVNZ in the video room). Glad the British taxpayer had some use of this latest example of American corporate $90+ million swindle. OHR really was flawed and an attempt at primitive Remote Sensing. I'm sure what really ended OHR was the Apollo program, reliable launch-to-orbit and satellites. -Christchurch, New Zealand 1/22
Wow Jonathan, many thanks. Digital age pretty ended much of the technical world Andy and his colleagues (myself included) created and maintained. I seem to have followed Andy several decades on closing his systems down. The FCO 'Crowborough' transmitters Andy installed at BBC Ladies Miles in Cyprus, I started removal in 2001 after three decades of dutiful service to be replaced by American made solid-state transmitters and the BBC Masirah (Sultanate of Oman) services closed in ~2003 replaced by a new transmission site 150km away at A'Seela, the construction of which I project managed. I did meet Andy; our organisation was full of wonderfully talented people; he was one. Andy also mentions BBC Zygi in Cyprus. I passed by there the other week, it closed in 2013, has been demolished and partly returned to farmland. It is amazing how quickly the BBC HF & MF services disappeared replaced by the global super highway and GSM technologies. Technologies in which UK led much of the world are now pretty much redundant. Thank you for capturing a important part of it.
Hi Ian. Thanks so much for these insightful comments. Are you in Cyprus?
Not ay the moment Jonathan; occasional visitor.
Access to this site reminded me of the several occasions I visited what was Radio Australia Darwin, or more correctly Cox Peninsula. This involved a 20 minute fast boat ride across Darwin Harbour to Mandorah, and then about a 15 minute bus ride from the southern end to the northern end of Cox Peninsula. As the shift period for the staff started and finished at the Darwin end of each shift, and the place was 'manned' from about 7am to 12 midnight local time, the cost of labour (with 3 men on each shift) was quite considerable!
I believe there is mixup in the video. Maybe time for a re-upload.
Do you know the time code where you see a problem?
@@JonathanMarks I would say 14:05.
@@irgendniemand The RFE piece is the only one I have ever seen with colour pictures and it didn't seem fair to cut out the credit to him. I see what you mean though. The challenge is finding relevant footage to match the old radio piece.
@@JonathanMarks I was confused. The audio is your interview with the czech journalist and video shows another story with englisch subtitles. And this part of the video later repeats at 43:36.
Great stuff - that ident still packs a punch...
Just a few days before his 80th birthday Wolf Harranth passed away. www.infosat.de/entertainment/jc-trauert-um-prof-wolf-harranth-orf-journalist-schriftsteller-und-bersetzer www.dokufunk.org/ OE1WHC hat für immer das Band verlassen…
So sorry to hear this news. He was a genius, a brilliant historian with an eye for detail and a great friend through out my broadcast career. Glad I was able to document so much on these videos. RIP Wolf.
Keep up the good work earth tv. Love the way you show the beauty of the world
Really interesting.
Jonathan, as always, wonderful to see the Series Two episodes, but it's been a few months again. Will you continue?
25:30 Mike Bullen ASIASCAN co host
Id say a VERY good thing lol cheers Rob
There will always be radio it’s pretty much impossible to put all stations off the air. The pirates will always be out there !
When the internet fails, hopefully radio is still alive. Unfortunately, most stations rely on internet for content.
Jonathan Marks ,thank you for sharing this historical document of RNW I miss night and morning shortwave broadcasts,forever in my mind.!!
Cyprus?! Did he just admit to being an engineer on the Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station?
It sounds that way.
Great video also great view of this enigmatic part of the east coast and Orfords huge sand spit... Home of Radar Nuclear Bomb testing Pagoda like buildings Cobra mist A river which changes name midway.. A superb East Coast Tiwn Alderborough Lost port of Blyth inland from Walberswick
Great video. Glad to see the Radio Museum in Cork featured, I'm a Cork native (no longer living there though) , and have been to that museum a few times. Great to see Jonathan Marks putting up this incredible content. As a Radio Netherlands DX Jukebox listener the 1980's, Radio Netherlands was one of the best Shortwave Stations on the air. I still have many of the printed content that they produced for Shortwave listeners - the DX Course, Antenna & Receiver guides etc. It was the golden era for shortwave radio, sad to see it disappearing.
Hi Paraic. Thanks so much for the comments. That radio museum in Cork is beautifully done, though I miss mention of the pirates. Fortunately, there were several Media Networks to remember that and Ireland's early years on SW. Stay safe. Keep listening. jonathanmarks.libsyn.com/mn_20_march_1987_ireland_calling_on_shortwave
@@JonathanMarks Thanks for the link, I never knew that story of Ireland on Shortwave, always assumed that we never had a presence. The Athlone transmitter site is on one of the major routes heading to the west of Ireland, it was always a fascinating sight to see. A pity the Shortwave project was abandoned.
Wonderful thank you very much. Sad to see the demise of these facilities, particularly here in Daventry. The place just isn't the same somehow.
13:33 the BUSBOY of radio history !!
His reference to NOT being CNN got a LAFF !!!
I detect the small aroma of CIA money around 33:33
Thanks so much for compiling this documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will tell all my radio friends. An Jonathan, it is good to hear your voice again. 👍👍👍
Hi David. Thanks so much for the nice remarks. Glad you enjoyed it. There is more to come as the safari's continue.