Radio Nederland’s Andy Sennitt will be closing his Media Network blog on Saturday March 24.
The Media Network blog replaced a similarly named radio show on the Dutch international radio station RNW.
In a farewell message, Sennitt writes: “I shall be taking early retirement from RNW at the end of April. Due to the new mandate of RNW effective on 1 January 2013, it will no longer be possible for the organisation to provide coverage of international media news.
“In April I shall be writing a series of articles reflecting on the changes in international broadcasting since I started appearing on the Media Network radio show in 1981, and looking ahead to the coming decade. The articles will be published on the RNW English website.
“If you have any memories of RNW or other international broadcasters that you would like to share, I will be pleased to hear from you at MediaNetwork@rnw.nl and I’ll try to include them in the articles.
“The weblog contains over 15,000 media news items published since October 2003. It will remain online as a searchable archive. To prevent spam, it will no longer be possible to add comments, but nearly 14,000 comments already received will still be available.”
The Media Network blog archives can be found here. Media Network was launched on May 7, 1981, on Radio Netherlands English Service.
Jonathan Marks, Sennitt’s predecessor, has posted over 200 programmes in his Media Network Vintage Vault 2012. It is a place to listen to vintage editions of the Media Network programme as broadcast on short-wave by Radio Netherlands in the period 1981-2000.
