Re: [Swprograms] OT: I said good-bye to Sirius...

["Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

The model of being somewhere else is different from the model I wrote
about; I was focusing specifically on the needs / habits of an
American speaking English and listening within North America.

The needs of an American (or Canadian...) in a remote, non-connected
place, where English is not widely spoken are a different matter.  I
lament that the VOA has not grasped the need to serve the expat
audience this way.

While we contemplate how shortwave has become less relevant in a
broadband, WiFi and WiMAX plumbed USA, consider that other developed
regions are actually more pervasively broadbanded than the USA.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA


On 6/16/07, Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
>         As for immediate, I tell my oft-told tale of trying to
>         find news, huddling in some cold rainon an old Chinese
>         riverboat at 6 am on the Yangtze in the 3 Gorges trying to hear
>         RCanadaInt's plug-in programming of the World At Six
>         for Canadian news and freezing on the upper deck with
>         the radio against my ear straining to hear Canuckistan
>         news that didn't show up until 20 minutes into the news
>         and then only four items.
_______________________________________________
Swprograms mailing list
Swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms

To unsubscribe:  Send an E-mail to  swprograms-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.