HCJB The Voice of the Andes have announced that they are discontinuing their 25950kHz single sideband (ssb) transmissions.
For 20 years, HCJB has been one of the few international broadcasters transmitting on ssb. The signal was often reliably receivable in many parts of the world, even in poor band conditions, despite its relatively low power of just 1kW.
In 2000 the UK-wide AM station Virgin Radio was bought for £225m by Scottish Media Group.
At the beginning of June, The Times of India media group offered SMG £53m for the station.
SMG have confirmed the sale of the station, an EGM earlier this morning having agreed that the sale will be completed by June 30.
The station will be managed by UK based radio group Absolute Radio.
Scottish radio stations featured in the New York Festivals Radio Broadcasting Awards this year.
Clyde 1’s Superscoreboard football show took gold in the Sports Commentary/Analysis category along with bronze in the Best Sports Coverage category.
In the Ongoing News Story category, ‘Going for Gold’, Radio Clyde’s coverage of Glasgow’s successful bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games, took silver.
And in the Music Special category, ‘Made in Scotland’, Clyde 2’s tribute to Scottish Music, received a bronze award.
It was gold also for Forth 2’s Darran Adam who received his award in the Best Ongoing News Story category for the station’s coverage of the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections.
