(Hollywood, FL) Oct. 21, 2014 - Global 24 Radio LLC announced today that its inaugural broadcast will go live at 7:00 p.m., Friday, Oct. 31, with a line-up of new and well-known programs and around-the-clock English language programming. The broadcast can be heard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 9395 kHz on WRMI broadcasting from Okeechobee, Florida. “We’re very excited about launching Global 24 and the important contributions it will make to shortwave radio listening - as both a medium worth preserving and a vital part of the modern media mix for so many listeners around the world,” said Phil Workman, general manager of Global 24. “Our broadcast will appeal to dedicated shortwave listeners (SWL) all over the world looking for breaking news, opinion and music.” Global 24 aims to revitalize the shortwave medium by bringing general interest news and entertainment into sharper focus for listeners looking for high quality programming on a daily basis. Regular listeners will be informed, entertained and engaged in an ever more complex world. According to Jeff White, general manager of WRMI, “Global 24 represents another step in the long overdue commercialization of shortwave radio. We are excited to be working with them on their ambitious program to engage and entertain a global audience.” Additional press releases in coming days will announce our broadcast schedule, our Listeners’ Club, contests, sponsors, our web store, staff and much more. Follow us on Twitter at @Global24Radio or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ Media Requests & Inquiries: pworkman@global24radio.com
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Great to see a broadcaster go 24/7 on the same frequency! This will be a positive step to revitalize short wave listening.
Thank you GLOBAL 24
great ! great ! great !
Well it’s about time! HF Boadcasting all but extinct for the last decade plus. With VOA languishing, this is very welcome “news”.
terrific news!
congrats!
I noticed a LACK of SW programming compared to even just a few years ago.
Not everyone wants everything over the net, I enjoy using hot bottles and actually tuning a receiver.
Good luck!
This is really great news. I am hoping to hear fresh news and programming from your station. Shortwave lives!
I will try to listen for first broadcast and will the station send out swl. Cards ?
Got my start in radio in the 1960’s, listening to SW broadcasts on an old salvaged RCA set. I still have the QSL cards I received! A great service to the world, and listening is a great hobby.
I look forward to listening to WRMI live!
That’s great and THANK YOU!!! I’ll listen whenever I can!!!
Looking forward to listening SW. Used to be a favorite pastime in my youth in Rangoon, Burma. My dad was a Ham XZ2KN and I also got licensed almost 50 years ago and hold the call W6BUX.
This is great news and I look forward to listening.
This is great news indeed. I am a licensed radio amateur and a long time SWL’er since 1974. Norway, where I am from, has as many others stupidly abonded shortwave. So when I’m travelling, I have no longer a news link to my home country. The Norwegian governmental driven broadcaster NRK, did as many others broadcasterts do, closed down because “everybody” has internet thes days so we don’t need shortwave anylonger. Well, say that to the tribes in the jungle or the the people living in deserts. I am sure they all will “agree” with these smarties. In Thailand where my family and I most often travels to, we do NOT have internet, so shortwave is the only way for me to get news in English. So I welcome this the Global24, both for making my hobby better and also for hopefully being a new source for news when we are abroad.
Great News !!!
This is a breathe of fresh air in a stagnant radio band where SW broadcasters once ruled. I will be tuning in.
will be listening for sure. now to get my SW radio out of the closet. Thanks and 73.
Great News I have already programed the frequency into my radio
Looking forward to a new 24/7 SW station. good luck WRMI
I look forward to listening to your station. I use a Grundig Satellit 700. I have had it for many years and it sill works very well. I am mainly on the Internet now, but am excited to listen to SW broadcasts again. One of the first stations I remember listening to was the old Radio Berlin International, from the former East Germany. After hearing that station 9730 I was hooked! But as time elapsed and computer took over, I admit I lost interest. So I hope this sparks my interest again.
Greetings form India, Grrrrrrreat news indeed, looking forward to listening to the txn’s targeted to this region !!
I used to listen to The VOA in the 50’s /60’s especially Music USA/Jazz Hour.Am looking forward to hearing your station. Good Luck and Slawntche.
Holy Toledo this is FANTASTIC. Thank you GLOBAL 24.
This is very exciting and I wish Phil Workman, Global24 Radio and Jeff White at WRMI all the success in the world in this new venture.
Larry Van Horn
Former Monitoring Times magazine editor
I will be listening. Great news!
Great to hear of a new shortwave station on the air, will listen for them from down here in New Zealand.
great news to all of shortwave listening!
I was hoping someone would make me glad that I kept my CCRadio SW! I hope they come in here real well.
I started listening to the shortwave bands when I saw a friend father turn on and tune in several SW stations in Europe. Saved my money and bought a Realistic DX60. While in the Army I got a DX160 and took it with me when I transferred to Germany. I believe I enjoy it more now that my dusty Ham equipment. It will be great to have a 24/7 station on the air.
Excited to hear of a new station on Shortwave, hope this renews interest in shortwave worldwide, good luck and 73!
Very good news. I am from India. Looking forward to getting reception from India. Thank you GLOBAL 24
I salute WRMI’s Jeff White for his innovative and forward thinking management that has made WRMI a serious international broadcaster. Honestly the main reason the SW community is so anxious for Global24 to go on air, is the fact that they are refusing to carry Evangelical programing. If Global24 can maintain a large and dedicated audience, they can be a commercial success. I think the idea of rewarding listeners for tuning in and paying attention to the programing is smart. It just leaves me wondering why other international broadcaster do not have such a reward system for their listeners.
I live in Connecticut and big time fan of SWL looking forward to listen on 9345Khz on 31st Oct.
Enjoy listening to 9345 khz. Problem is that the station will be on 9395 khz. Let us all know what you’ve heard 50 khz below…
Yes, YES. YES!!
Looking forward to your broadcasts!
If it ain’t on the air, It ain’t worth listening to.
Great news! Best of luck in this new project. We’ll be listening.
73
Congratulations! I will be tuned in on your first broadcast! I’m
+ so glad to have a new SW Broadcast station on the air, I expect you will get lots of support.
73, Tom K2BEW
I am excited with the news that GLOBAL24 is starting a 24 hour shortwave radio service.
Time to dust off and turn on the Star Roamer and listen to WRMI on 9395. Congratulations and looking forward to your success on the short- wave bands. Hope you have a weekly program on short-wave and utility station listening .
I look forward to hearing it here in Nebraska !
That Great news! Shortwave have many good opportunities in global media and will be revive in soon.Many thanks for you work !
Looking forward to hear the program format. The signal
should boom in when I am vacationing in south Florida.
It should be loud in Rhode Island too.
So, is it 1900 EDT/7:00PM EDT (2300 UTC) or 2000 EDT/8:00PM EDT which is 0000 UTC?
We are starting at 7:00pm EST or 2300 UTC. Some information we put out earlier indicated 7pm/0000 UTC in error
Looking forward to the 31st… Looks like I’ll be taking my Sony portable trick-or-treating this year.
Can’t wait! This is as exciting as the days prior to my ham license when I’d “discover” a new SW station! Looking forward to it very much!
Congratulations on diving into the Short Wave commercial market. Like most ham operators, I cut my “radio teeth” in the 60’s as an SWL with the PE ID WPE9GM. Short wave radio is a tried and true broadcast medium open to virtually anyone in the world. While the Internet is good for what it is, nothing can compare to the reach of HF radio around the world. With good marketing, global advertisers and programming that includes shows about amateur radio and shortwave listening, unfiltered and objective news, lively interviews and entertainment that educates and informs, we look to WRMI to become the innovative leader in SW broadcasting this century. Putting your press release on our club meeting agenda. Will be looking forward to your terrific QSL card when we send a reception report. Good luck and 73.
I’ll definitely try to pick your programs up. Greetings and best wishes from Germany.
cant wait to here some great international radio hope that you have some ham tech like cuba does .and call ins like china international. how a bout getting art bell and talk a bout cool stuff.have a great time cant wait 73 kc2zrf
Great venture-great value to Shortwave.
Many wspr reports between South Africa and USA on 100W so 100KW we should hear you early and late evening around 10pm local CAT.
Long time since a new SW station has journeied down this road.
Best of luck.
Great news, will have to dust off my old Hallicrafters S38E and tune you in will be listening for sure thanks.
Let this be the beginning of the Global Village!!
Thank you! This is great news. The same frequency makes it a lot easier than moving about the dial. I just put a SW receiver in my car and will be listening often,
Great signal. Enjoying your content. Much success.
Running 52 dB above my noise floor in western NC. Listening on a 30M vertical.
Dale W4OP
Dale, Thanks for the comment and signal report. We value your feedback tremendously
The G24 Team
Thanks for reception like lokal radio. Hope for many more occations to tune to Global24.
I’m only about 60 miles or so away from Okeechobee, and having trouble hearing it on the portable, must be too close. Will try fiddling with a wire antenna. I can hear it, but signal not too strong so far.
Hello,. Are you still there? Your signal isn’t coming through to Europe at all at this time. I tried to tune my receiver during the day (I know, not the best time) and there was nothing, there was only interference from another station.
And I said Europe, because I used this online receiver: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
to check if you’re there, but nope, only one station at 9400 khz (according to online lists it’s radio Denge Kurdistana, not what I want.).
I should be able to hear you all day, even if that frequency isn’t good for daytime reception. So, I hope you will improve your transmitter, and I don’t know if you’re even there because I can’t receive it!
But with all of that said, I hope you good luck!
This is great news! I wish you every success.
I think that if you are having any negative comments they should be published also especially about programming. I thought that is the purpose of the section, to find out what people would and would not like to hear? It seems you can be civil and still have an opinion that could and should be published or are we going to have PC Police on us as always?
We have filtered exactly one comment on Facebook and one comment here on the site so far. Feel free to post whatever you would like - we will publish it. The one comment on Facebook we filtered was purely by accident.
Thanks for the feedback. Trust us…No PC police here.
Just an FYI, as someone mentioned here already, the Dutch SDR you guys have a link to for live listening isn’t going to work very well, unfortunately. There is a strong station on 9300 and 9400 which wipes you guys right out. Still trying to find a remote SDR that can hear you, but nothing so far, and the live stream has been down.
Yes, We need to find another SDR - one here in the US. Find a good one and we’ll send you a Global 24 mug!
Looks like the ones here in the states that support multiple users don’t cover 9395. Will have to keep digging!
Well, 9395 coming in fairly well on the Dutch SDR, about 2030 GMT. Looks like those two stations have signed off.! Not bad at all!
Spoke too soon, Radio Thailand has come back up on 9390 again, wiping out 9395.
Scott,
Thanks.. send us your address and we will send you a mug….send it to mailbag@global24radio.com
Let’s find those SDR receivers together…
Correction: That should read, a station on 9390 and 9400!
Yeah, too soon indeed. Maybe change to a frequency where there’s not much interference (for us Europeans)? There’s plenty of empty spots on the shortwave bands, just pick one!
But when there’s not interference it’s pretty good, but only during the eaving. It’s very annoying having to fight interference! And my Sony portable receiver doesn’t even have a bandwidth switch!
Good to have another SW station on air. I can hear you down under in New Zealand, not that strong during daylight hours. I should get better reception soon with a new antenna shortly. 0700gmt
radiodx.com posted your arrival on its home page.
This is my new DX station !
My name is José Socorro S. Maranhão, I’m from Brazil, and in my free time I listen to your station !
Yeah! Global 24 Radio! listened to your signal last night (Nov 06, 2014 ) at 10:30 PM EST with my HQ-180A GLASS radio!. Good signal here in coastal Rhode Island. Big fan of ‘Jazz From the Left’, too. Thank you for bringing something ‘NEW’ to the airwaves.
You don’t want to hear my reply… so please keep such inflammatory rhetoric to yourself.
TP, Thank you for keeping it civil.