25 March 2003

Bedtime in The Netherlands! Thanks for the feedback so far guys. Much as I would like to stay up to follow this story, I'm going to have to stop blogging for today. Our Creative Director Jonathan Marks told me it becomes addictive. Blogging, that is. A pity he didn't tell me that four days ago :-) I'll pick up bits and pieces from the comments and put them on the Web site tomorrow. Glad to know there's an "audience" out there. Andy. 11:46:35 PM     comment on this entry []

More on Iraqi TV from AFP: Iraqi state television and another channel run by President Saddam Hussein's son were knocked off the air on Tuesday evening by coalition air raids on Baghdad, TV sources told AFP. Iraqi satellite television was still broadcasting normally. [not when I checked. Andy] The latest raids came around 2115 GMT on Tuesday. State TV as well as the youth channel run by Saddam's elder son Uday went off the air shortly after AFP reporters in the capital heard explosions from the raids. 11:39:16 PM     comment on this entry []

Baghdad TV has been bombed off the air! Thanks to tip from Lou Josephs. Daily Telegraph is reporting this as breaking news. Checked both DSL feeds of the Iraqi Satellite Channel here in The Netherlands, and both are showing the same static picture of - I think - the Information Minister. That must have been the last image before they went off. I have captured it and will put it on the Web site tomorrow. CNN haven't mentioned this yet. Lou Josephs reminds me that Commando Solo has TV transmitters on board - guess what's coming next :-) I am trying to figure out how the pictures tool works on this blog program. I think the picture has been upstreamed (as they call it) to the Web site, but I can't for the life of me work out how to make it visible to the outside world! Andy 11:01:33 PM     comment on this entry []

We're in the Top 100! Just for fun (well, I lead a dull life) I checked the list of the 100 most popular Radio-managed weblogs ranked by page reads, and we're straight into the Hot 100 at No. 83. Admittedly 81 page reads isn't a lot, but we've been doing this for less than three days, so it's an encouraging start. Andy. 7:29:53 PM     comment on this entry []

One of those days Well, the much-publicised (in this blog) panel discussion on Newstalk 106 never happened. They never called me, and we checked their live stream, and I definitely wasn't on! I've no idea why, but I apologise to anyone who tuned in or logged on expecting to hear yours truly. On the other hand, I bet nobody did :-) The day's other main frustration - apart from discovering that I still haven't won the lottery - was that the rotary tuning dial on the NRD-525 I use at the office packed in. It became quite stiff (no jokes about knobs please, I've had those at the office already) and finally ceased to turn altogether. My colleague Boy Kentrop of Radio Netherlands' Programme Distribution Department came to the rescue with his collection of screwdrivers and his knowledge of the insides of radios. Ehard Goddijn lent me his NRD-535 for a while so we wouldn't miss any historic moments on Radio Baghdad. Actually we probably did, because 11787 kHz, which has been on the air most of the time since the start of hostilities, wasn't heard at all during the day. According to BBC Monitoring reports, 6175 wasn't heard either. I did for a moment think I'd found Baghdad, but that was on 12085 and I quickly realised it was Damascus. But their transmitter has a modulation problem too - lots of hum and very little else. I wonder if they realise what they're transmitting? Andy. 7:20:40 PM     comment on this entry []

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