Dear Editor,
Could someone, anyone, please say what is happening to the online radio stations of the National Communications Network? Will there ever be a stable broadcast of 98.1 FM, Voice of Guyana, and would Radio Roraima ever work on the website? http://ncnvog.listen2myradio.com/ and http://981hotfm.listen2myradio.com/, the two links for VOG and 98.1 Hot FM are dead ends and have been down for a month now. Those are free internet platforms for hosting web radios. Why can’t NCN pay for a good website so that the streams can be up and reliable all the time? Surely this big organization can invest in that regard.
NCN takes off completely when there is Cricket being aired due to copyright issues, but why is this so? Why doesn’t the broadcast resume when cricket is over? Time and time again I have been lamenting the poor broadcast and reliability of NCN online radio, ever since the broadcasts were coming on JumpTV.
If my FM radio was picking up the signals of 98.1 FM I would not have been complaining, but the signal is very, very, very weak. You mean to tell me after over a decade of 98.1 FM coming on stream, NCN cannot upgrade its FM transmitter so Berbicians can enjoy FM radio? How unfair to Berbicians. Not only Georgetown wants to enjoy VOG on 102.5 FM and Radio Roraima (which was formerly a national station but has become a Georgetown-only station since its re- launch) on 100.1 FM.
Instead of NCN being radio and television for Guyana, it should be NCN- television and radio for Georgetown, because only Georgetown seems to be benefitting from its network broadcasts in the different frequencies—AM and FM.
P.S. If anyone has any tip or information or device from which I can pick up the FM signals better, please, I am open to ideas or suggestions. I only listen to 98.1 FM for the Sunday broadcast programming and Basil P Special on Sunday evenings.
Yours faithfully,
Leon Suseran
