Re: [Swprograms] Favorite *non-English* music on shortwave?

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

I listen to the English section of RKI (now "KBS WORLD Radio,
the voice of Korea") to keep up with K-Pop as they have a one
song introduction and a countdown of the week.

02:00 ~ 03:00 and  12:00 ~ 13:00  9560 via RCI Sackville and a
later 5:00 or 8:00

Then there is the morning 14:00 ~ 15:00 on the same 9650  for a
Korean service.

Then I can listen to the Korean language broadcast with greater
understanding.

Sunday is K-Pop Interactive
http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/enter/music_inter.htm with a
countdown on the English programs 1 and 2.

Of course, Mason City, Iowa, is listening to the Spanish programs
on      01:00 ~ 02:00 on 15575 and  11:00 ~ 12:00   11795
(Sackville)

International radio doesn't do symphonic works because of
length, sound quality, too many soft movements etc. etc.

I remember such classical music things as the Concertegebouw
Orchestra from Radio Netherlands,

Some classical pieces on the Radio Australia "by your request"
program and the BBC did bits, but mainly on the pop
Proms--summer series.

Otherwise it is mainly on the popular side but they have to pay
royalties and keep up-to-date.

Plus the majority of most station's listeners are ex-pats and
they are older and very impatient with 'modern pop' music.  You
can't please all the audience with one broadcast.

Some years back, I remember being in the Saturday live (about 11
or noon JST 3 GMT) show of Radio Japan, with the daily bus tours
passing behind us, seating in the 3 rows of bleachers watching
the show, first an hour in English and then the same show in
Japanese with the same popster singing the same sweet song.  The
older producers claimed that they disliked that type of music
(what they liked they didn't say) but it was what the listening
(and watching) audience wanted and expected to hear.

R. Japan has long year-end shows of music.

And CRI copies them in so many ways with a single piece of
music.

CRI also has a dreadful morning drive programme they inflict
upon the world with pop-music because it is an hour in English
and so "international."

In Beijing CRI in French, English puts on lots of light
classical music in the mid morning on FM for the bored ex-pats
stuck at home?

I hate the CRI reliance on just a few pieces of music repeated
each year (or month) on the international broadcasts.  You don't
hear it, but because o their international language skills, they
run a lot of internal-to-China bilingual pop radio, with
repeaters around the country.  Want all the traffic news from
Beijing 1000 kilometres away?  You got it.  There are so many
better ways to run radio as a local medium.

AIR comes in weakly in the Northwest/B.C. but they play a lot of
popular music as does R. Bangladesh when I was listening in
Vietnam.

However for World Music, we have a surplus of such in Vancouver
with two more stations starting up this month, as well as
occasional dribs and drabs from the CBC (mainly the English
network).  Several stations here got their licence for serving
the multicultural (i.e. non-English community) but predominate
in either the Cantonese and Punjabi/Hindi languages in the 'peak'
hours, with tokens to other languages in the non-peak hours for
an hour each.

See CHKG/CJVB pairs (they also run two national TV cable-only
networks) competing wth CHMB.  CKYE is the  newest of the
Bhangra market.  There are others.

Music is nice if clear and yes I hate MP3 compression.

				Daniel Say
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