Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1worldspace, known for most of its existence simply as WorldSpace, is a defunct satellite radio network that in its heyday provided service to over 170,000 subscribers in eastern, southern and northern Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia with 96% coming from India. It was profitable in India, with 450,000 subscribers.
WorldSpace first began broadcasting satellite radio on October 1, 1999, in Africa. [10] India would ultimately account for over 90% of WorldSpace’s subscriber base. [ 11 ] In 2008, WorldSpace announced plans to enter Europe , but those plans were set aside when the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2008. [ 12 ]
The Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) is a radio astronomy observatory, located in a natural bowl of hills at Hartebeesthoek just south of the Magaliesberg mountain range, and about 50 km west of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It is a National Research Facility run by South Africa's National Research Foundation.
East Coast Radio (ECR) is a KwaZulu-Natal commercial South African radio station with an audience of approximately 2 million. [1] It is one of the largest regional radio stations in South Africa. The station can also be heard online via its website and on channel 26 via Digital Worldspace Radio and is also available for listen on their app ...
This is a list of radio stations in South Africa. M Note: The list of commercial stations tends to be more stable, with few additions or removals. The list of community stations tends to change quite a bit, with many changes over time (mainly due to funding issues).
AfriStar was the first WorldSpace satellite. It broadcast digital radio over Africa and the Middle East . Small handheld radios were able to pick up the transmissions from its three L-band beams, each beam covering approximately 14 million km 2 on the Earth. [ 2 ]
ETSI Satellite Digital Radio (SDR or ETSI SDR) describes a standard of satellite digital radio. It is an activity of the European standardisation organisation ETSI . It addresses systems where a satellite broadcast directly to mobile and handheld receivers in L band or S band and is complemented by terrestrial transmitters.
U-Pop was a satellite radio channel programmed by Washington, DC–based 1worldspace. U-Pop could originally be heard globally on WorldSpace's Afristar and Asiastar satellites. The channel features hit music from around the globe including hits from Europe, Japan, Africa, America and Latin America. It is available on 1worldspace radio only.