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Socialist Party Fires up Radio Kaliburg
New Signal Booster boosts SW and AM frequencies for wide Propagation
Kaliburg Ananto
October 1, 5034


Alice Greene, Radio Kaliburg's Evening Drive DJ just before a set

In an effort to revitalize the cultural foundations of Kalistan, The Socialist Party of Kalistan has reopened and remodeled the studios of Radio Kaliburg, and have begun broadcasting over 5890 Hz and 11390Hz on SW and 750 KHz on the AM dial. "Our transmitter operated at 100,000 Watts of power for the broadest possible propagation of the KRKB Signal," said newly hired station manager Hiro Matsuda-Donaldson. "Our aim is propagation of the signal across Northern Seleya on AM and Keris and the rest of Seleya and Western Dovani on SW. To get this sort of propagation, we will be transmitting at a higher wattage than ever before."

Radio Kaliburg, which has traditionally served as a propaganda station for the Socialist Party has adopted a more traditional format upon its reincarnation. "Radio Kaliburg has served national interests in the past," said Matsuda. "But if we are going to appeal to listeners abroad, we need to adopt a more traditional radio format." Matsuda said that besides morning talk and music and afternoon drivetime shows, the radio station will have an hour of international news between 3 and 4 pm KST which will contain headlines of the day from both Seleya and the Anantonese and Mad Dog Ocean basins, as well as feature stories. In pursuit of international news, Radio Kaliburg intends to establish foreign bureaus in Likatonia, New Endralon and Luorenne.

Throughout the day, the station will play popular music with about 5/6th of the songs coming from Kalistani recording artists, but 1/6th of the songs coming from artists who are popular overseas. "We would like to diversify our catalog," said Matsuda, "and would focus both on major label and independent music from the Republic and from our neighbors. It is good for the Kalistani population to hear music from other countries, and we think that other countries will benefit from hearing both our music, as well as their own, to perhaps inspire them to build their own radio stations and markets."

Radio Kaliburg's first broadcast started at 5pm KST last Friday. "This... is Radio Kaliburg- Seleya's ONLY Alternative" the voive of Radio Kaliburg's Evening Drive DJ Alice Greene announced as the broadcast began. Kalistani nationals in Telemon announced that they received the signal over Shortwave on 5890. In Egelion, 11390 lit up at the start of the broadcast, and the AM signal was received as far away as Thiers Lourenne, and Ellington Lodamun. Vespiano Gaduridos reported an intermittent signal on 5890 Hz and no signal at all on AM.

Radio Kaliburg hopes once more to be a flagship station in the Republic. "Given that KRTVN broadcasts on FM, for domestic audiences, as well as VHF, UHF and Digital for domestic and international audiences, Radio Kaliburg is the only station that currently broadcasts explicitly with an international audience in mind in any way. This makes us the voice of Kalistan abroad. And as a station that remains outside the KRTVN, we can do and play things that the National System cannot. This offers an alternative voice and track list for the Republic, both at home and abroad. We still count KRTVN stations as our sister stations, but we also stand a little apart from them."

Radio Kaliburg began 24 hour programming this week, with fully unedited versions of music broadcast after 9pm.