Re: [Swprograms] So what are people listening to nowadays? And how are you listening?

[jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Kevin:

I can say that clearly my BBCWS listening has fallen precipitously.  
It may be in part out of lingering resentment for the manner in which 
they dropped shortwave to NA, but I honestly think it's more due to 
the changes in WS programming policy that has turned it mostly into a 
news channel with frequent repetition of bulletins and reports.  It's 
just not as interesting to me as a whole in that form.  Having said 
that, I still think it's a valuable and valued service with some 
interesting and well produced content.  But it definitely is more uni-
dimensional than it once was in the recent past.

John Figliozzi

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Anderson <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:01 am
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] So what are people listening to nowadays? 
And how	are you listening?
To: Shortwave programming discussion <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> The bedside SW is tuned to Radio Taiwan International at 5950,
> which I often fall asleep to, listening to their current
> 0200-0400 English stream to NA.  Being that bedside radio
> (actually all my shortwave receivers in the house) is analogue
> dial, I tend not to move it around much, fearing I won't get
> back to a station again.  And also being that I tend to listen
> to SW while falling asleep, I purposely find stations that are
> on at least an hour or more, so I don't have to worry about
> switching frequencies in my listening.
> 
> I still lament not being able to listen to the BBSWS that way,
> as I used to for years.  If I had my choice, that would probably
> be the one and only SW station I'd listen to, with some periodic
> RNW thrown in.  (As I recently told RNW in their request for
> comments, I'd be listening to them, instead of RTI, if only they
> had evening English broadcasts to NA in the 0200-0400 timeslot;
> their NA schedule has always been either too early in the
> evening, when I have other evening things to do, or too late,
> when I am already asleep.)
> 
> While I have high-speed cable internet at home and bookmarks set
> aside in my various computer browsers at home and work to get
> BBC 1-7, BBCWS, RNW, RA, and WRN, I rarely listen to them.  For
> some reason, I just don't enjoy listening to these "stations"
> via the Internet, nor do I listen to podcasts except to get the
> occasional archived program that someone might suggest.
> Static-free signals are not a quest for me - in fact, the fading
> and static of shortwave actually, in my feeble mind, adds
> "credibility" to the signal - the content, whatever it is, means
> more to me knowing it came through the ether.  I often tune
> around the MW broadcast band in the evenings for the same
> reason.  Someday, when a standalone Wi-Fi receiver at the under
> $139 price comes available, I might bite.  I've thought about
> the C.Crane-type FM transmitters, but I also don't like the idea
> of leaving my computer on just so I can listen to the BBCWS in
> the next room or bedroom.  (I'm one of those rare people these
> days who actually turns the computer off when it is not being
> used.  Now if only I could convince my high school-aged kids to
> do the same....)
> 
> Cheers/73,
> Kevin Anderson, Age 48
> Dubuque, IA
> 
> 
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> k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com
> http://postoilgeography.blogspot.com/
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