Radio Netherlands Signoff, a photo by Jonathan Marks on Flickr.
Dheera Sujan presented this final show, which was a farewell and thank you to listeners worldwide. Grabbed a copy from the Dalet machine as it was playing out and put it here.
Also thought it might be nice to do a couple of interviews and run an audio recorder in the booth while the sign-off happened. So I did. UPDATE: Kai Ludwig in Germany sent me a capture from the satellite on Saturday so I mixed that in too. The results are posted on the Media Network vintage site here.
Message at the gate of Radio Netherlands tonight |
eery empty newsroom |
Continuity centre - also empty |
Last trasmnission in English is scheduled from the playout system |
The RN Madagascar Relay Station calendar. Rather ominous date is ringed |
Shortwave radio tuned to a special frequency for Europe (from Germany). Actually not for the last English broadcast that was 6065 kHz |
Let's head for the newsroom |
Rob Kievit, producer for the final day in English from Radio Netherlands |
Almost the end. 5 minutes to go. |
waiting for Dheera Sujan to sign-off before adding a live ending |
Jonathan Groubert closes the station for the last time |
fader closes for the last time |
one quick last toast of champagne |
then its scrambling through the empty car park for the last train |
RNW earlier this year |
The RNW building has come in to land (looks like an aircraft from the air). |
I thought they might video the event, but apparently the public relations department didn't think it was worth it. Oh well. There are photos on Flickr instead.
Jonathan thank you so much for taking us to these final moments at RNW by images and interviews, and for your interesting and fitting comments as part of Dheera's documentary. RNW and its powerful Bonaire signal brought Holland and Europe vividly to us in the US and better than our domestic media and educational institutions could.
ReplyDeleteJonathan thank you so much for taking us to these final moments at RNW by images and interviews, and for your interesting and fitting comments as part of Dheera's documentary. RNW and its powerful Bonaire signal brought Holland and Europe vividly to us in the US and better than our domestic media and educational institutions could.
ReplyDeleteJust one word: ABSURD.
ReplyDeleteRoberto Levinstein
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil