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South of the Equator

Broadcast · 1935 · Fortnightly

South American stations and Pan-American relays

South American stations and Pan-American relays · 1935–1965

Broadcasts

77

Cadence

Fortnightly

Rated

PG

Since

1935

The run

Network
South American stations and Pan-American relays
Years active
1935–1965
Surviving broadcasts
77
Genre
music

Broadcasts and relays out of South America: station pickups from Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Bogotá, Pan-American goodwill programmes and dance orchestras carried north on shortwave. Public-domain audio from the Internet Archive, shelved as the source items describe them.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: shortwave

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 31 years on the air, with 31 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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