Re: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to North America as ofthe B-08 schedule change

[Kevin Anderson <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sandy,
To me it is not the "romance" of radio (although I feel that also), but a practicality and its simplistic/low-cost nature for the recipient.  Unfortunately it is the high costs on the transmission side that are driving these decisions to cut broadcasts.

Strange at it may sound when I say it, I actually consider the future of Internet and computers for the average person to be short term and dated, to be reversed within my remaining lifetime even here in the U.S.  It will be replaced by something not yet more technological, but the opposite, in a return to less technological means of communications, for which basic analogue radio will be well suited again.  And this will be due to other forces, also economic in nature, but driven more by resources (or I should say the lack of), rising costs, and "security."  I just hope international radio hangs on to see that day.  Otherwise a very huge vacuum will develop for the average person in getting international news and programming.

Kevin Anderson

--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Sandy Finlayson <sfinlayson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Sandy Finlayson <sfinlayson@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to North America as ofthe B-08 schedule change
> To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:10 AM
> It's hard to argue that there is much life left in main
> stream English
> language short wave service at least in this part of the
> world.  I do
> miss the romance of radio, but have reluctantly joined the
> ranks of the
> podcast/webcast generation.
> 
> SF 
>  
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Mr. Sandy Finlayson
> Philadelphia, PA
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kevin Anderson
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 12:04 PM
> To: Shortwave programming discussion
> Subject: Re: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to
> North America as
> ofthe B-08 schedule change
> 
> Now I know shortwave is dead.  The one international
> broadcaster who
> argued most vehemently for keeping shortwave an option for
> all.  A very
> sad announcement indeed, because I am generally not a
> podcast or online
> listener, believing still in the medium of over-the-air
> radio (and not
> necessarily just in the broadcastable nature of spoken word
> programming,
> which I do believe in as well).  It puts on its head the
> nature of who
> is "privileged" in the world - I almost now want
> to consider the
> "privileged" to be the Indonesian, Pacific
> Islander, Andean highlander,
> or African resident who can still rely on "radio"
> as radio.
> 
> Kevin Anderson
> 
> --- On Thu, 9/18/08, Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [Swprograms] RNW to end shortwave usage to
> North America as
> of the B-08 schedule change
> > To: "Shortwave programming discussion"
> <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> odxa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "naswa"
> <NASWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 12:40 PM
> > Sadly, Radio Netherlands has announced the end of
> shortwave
> > to North
> > America as of the end of October.
> > 
> > Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
> 
> 
> 
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