Re: [Swprograms] Fwd: [Swlfest] The Fight for the Future of NPR

[david goren]

…it’s related to a big picture view of the decline of terrestrial radio 
including shortwave. Interesting piece.

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Paul B. Walker, Jr. 
>  wrote:
> 
> And what does NPR have to do with Shortwave radio? I view this as off topic 
> and not appropriate for this group 
> 
> Paul 
> 
> On Monday, April 11, 2016, Richard Cuff  > wrote:
> An interesting view of NPR that these groups can appreciate...
> 
> RC
> 
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Thomas Sundstrom >
> Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:09 PM
> Subject: [Swlfest] The Fight for the Future of NPR
> To: swlf...@hard-core-dx.com 
> 
> 
> http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/04/the_fight_for_the_future_of_npr_can_public_radio_survive_the_podcast_revolution.html
>  
> 
> 
> "A slow-moving bureaucracy. An antiquated business model. A horde of
> upstart competitors. Can National Public Radio survive?"
> 
> An interesting look at the antiquated US public radio in the midst of
> overall declines in terrestrial radio. I don't know if I agree that
> podcasts are a reason for the declining NPR audiences. (Despite living
> on the internet since 1993, I just don't care for podcasts, past or
> present.) In my opinion, the program content and presentation is
> stupefying dull. Your mileage may vary. :)
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Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news

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On Jan 9, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Richard Cuff rdc...@gmail.com wrote:

 David, I surmise that stations aren't interested in doing that unless
 a gun were held to their heads.
 
 SCA is different - it doesn't directly compete with the principal
 station's programming.

There are a couple of HD-2's in NYC that are ethnic and wildly different from 
the main channel. There's a South Indian format, and a Carribean Gospel one 
last time I checked. Mostly, though the HD-2 format is a slight variant of the 
main format.
 
 Look at the situation up in Buffalo - Entercom is the dominant player,
 and parks ESPN on its 50 kW WWKB transmitter at the same time it
 operates its own locally-originated sports format on 5 kW WGR.  You'd
 think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB
 would annoy shareholders, but Entercom is loath to sell the 1520 WWKB
 frequency as it would introduce a new competitor or strengthen an
 existing one.
 
 As our colleague Mr. Figliozzi would point out, this points out a
 significant flaw in our commercial radio licensing model - the fact
 that spectrum space is a publicly owned asset, and should be managed
 to maximize the public good, is lost on the FCC and the rest of our
 government
 
 RC
 
 On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:17 AM, David Goren shortwaveol...@mac.com wrote:
 Is there a prohibition for stations to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner 
 similar to FM subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model.
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Re: [Swprograms] Radio Romania International - the issue of ceasing the short-wave broadcasts

[David Goren]

To me it sounds like the President intervened to save the broadcastshard to 
know for sure with no further information.




On Jun 13, 2012, at 3:00 PM, jfigl...@nycap.rr.com wrote:

 If so, I suppose this trashes the heavy investment the country just recently 
 made in those new, powerful shortwave transmitters, let alone its investment 
 in DRM.
 
 John Figliozzi
 Halfmoon, NY
 
 
  Mike Terry miketerr...@btinternet.com wrote: 
 13 June 2012
  
 From DXLD:
  
 Today during a press conference the Romanian President Traian Băsescu said 
 this:
 
 I can tell you that the Presidency made ​​an intervention related to Radio 
 Romania last week, when they raised the issue of ceasing the short-wave 
 broadcasts, which would affect the reception for those who live abroad.
 
 I didn't find any other information regarding this subject, but what the 
 President said makes me think the end of SW broadcasts from RRI may be near.
 
 73,
 Tudor Vedeanu
 (Gura Humorului, Romania)
 
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Re: [Swprograms] [Internetradio] Fifty Years Of Human Spaceflight – BBC World Service examines The Yuri Gagarin Legacy

[David Goren]

 
 Rich,
 
 Thanks for the memory jog.  The recording you remember is bound into the 
 December 1969 issue of National Geographic. I have a copy of that issue and 
 other issues which had Apollo and Surveyor articles.  The record is bound 
 between pages 750 and 751.  Unfortunately, I no longer have anything that 
 will play it.  It looks like a groove width typical of 33 1/3 LP records but 
 there is no indication on the label of the speed.  I would not want to pull 
 the record out anyway as that would destroy the collector's value if any.


I have a feeling that record would be worth more out than in the magazineas 
Nat Geo's generally have very little collectible value in and of themselves, 
since there are so many of them out there. That's a tip from my days working in 
a used book store...albeit it an eon or two ago.



 
 The instructions in the article tell one how to pull away the record.  It 
 then goes on to say, If the record slips or makes a rumbling sound,tape it 
 to another record.  Brilliant!!
 
 I bet this is also the first truly floppy disk, long before the computer 
 memory device.
 
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Re: [Swprograms] [Internetradio] [dxld] Defunding public broadcasting

[David Goren]

Here's another voice of reason from Kim Elliott, his comments in italics, who 
predicts that the hardest hit stations would be rural, and would open the band 
to more religious broadcasting.

Will US noncommercial FM frequencies cast out BBC World Service and bring in 
the gloryland chorus?

Posted: 13 Feb 2011   Print   Send a link

City Beat (Cincinnati), 31 Jan 2011, Ben L. Kaufman: NPR and our local public 
news station, WVXU (91.7 FM), get a small but important part of their annual 
budgets from Congress. Rightwingers want to cut or end federal funding because 
politically neutral NPR isn’t the GOP’s Fox News. It’s another reason to 
support WVXU and other public radio stations with cash and supportive messages 
to House members, senators and the White House. Meanwhile, Brits offer a timely 
lesson of what happens when a conservative government pleads poverty and 
decides to slash its most famous and reliable modern export, the BBC World 
Service (heard here at night on WVXU). Unlike its domestic services, BBC’s 
World Service is funded by the Foreign Office. Despite taking the Queen’s 
shilling, it rarely danced the Queen’s tune; BBC has a sterling reputation for 
neutrality and accuracy, especially where uncensored news media do not exist. 
So far, cuts haven’t targeted English-language broadcasts to North America. 
Rather, BBC’s decision to close some foreign language broadcasts and fire of 
hundreds of linguists will impoverish the information available to listeners 
everywhere.
Mr. Kaufman mentioned both NPR and BBC World Service, but did not completely 
make the connection between the two. (BBCWS is actually distributed by Public 
Radio International, but to stations that are mostly NPR affiliates.) If the 
Republicans who want to zero out the budget for the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting succeed, public radio stations in non-urban areas will lose a 
large part of their funding. Not only will they no longer be able to purchase 
the rights to relay BBC World Service, they might have to go off the air. 
Because their frequencies are between 88 and 92 MHz, their licenses must be 
sold or transferred to other non-commercial entities. They would likely become 
religious radio stations, which almost certainly will not carry BBC. In 
addition to their theology, or as part of it, these stations would advocate for 
socially conservative causes. This gives Congressional Republicans another 
incentive to eliminate funding for public broadcasting.

On Feb 13, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Scott Royall wrote:

 A voice of  reason.
  
 From: swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com 
 [mailto:swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Joe Buch
 Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:29
 To: Shortwave programming discussion; Internet radio discussion
 Cc: Internet radio discussion
 Subject: Re: [Swprograms] [Internetradio] [dxld] Defunding public broadcasting
  
 As one who has worked as a volunteer for over 10 years at NPR-afiliated 
 stations in Maryland and Florida, I have been able to see first hand how 
 important the Federal $$$ are to capital improvements.  But the Federal $$$s 
 make up only about 15% of the operating budgets of the stations I have been 
 associated with.  It will not be the end of the world if the legislation 
 passes.
  
 It might even be beneficial to have public broadcasting stop sucking on the 
 federal teet.  The government can use their puppet-master power to put 
 pressure on NPR to conform to the party line.  When the network deviates off 
 the track, the threat of federal fund withdrawal causes the network to do a 
 mid-course correction.  Pacifica does a good, albeit biased, job of public 
 broadcasting with no federal support.  Their financial supporters contribute 
 to their operations because they believe the message is worthy of their 
 support. 
  
 Many folks refuse to contribute to their NPR-affiliated station because they 
 claim that their tax dollars already pay for public radio and they do not 
 feel obligated to pay twice.  It is a reasonable argument that will be 
 blunted if this legislation passes.  So it might even be beneficial to the 
 long-term health of public broadcasting to make the system more efficient and 
 responsive to the public by cutting out government funding.
  
 Joe Buch
 
 --- On Sun, 2/13/11, Richard Cuff rdc...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 From: Richard Cuff rdc...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Internetradio] [Swprograms] [dxld] Defunding public broadcasting
 To: Shortwave programming discussion swprograms@hard-core-dx.com
 Cc: Internet radio discussion internetra...@hard-core-dx.com
 Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 2:44 AM
 
 Many public stations have edited their websites to mention this.
 
 There have been threats before, I believe Newt Gingrich led the last
 unsuccessful defunding attempt in the second half of President
 Clinton's first term.
 
 Speaking as a fan of Public Radio (and a longtime member of WHYY in
 Philadelphia) I am also hopeful this effort 

Re: [Swprograms] So what's the new name of National Public Radio?

[David Goren]

Oy! 

On Jul 8, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Richard Cuff wrote:

 It's NPR...but the official name is now just the initials,
 accentuating the fact that people consume (!) NPR on a variety of
 non-radio platforms.

most of which use some sort of radio waves, right? wi-fi is radio in my book.



 
 See 
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/07/AR2010070704578.html?hpid=topnews
 
 or
 
 http://snipurl.com/z5tv9
 
 Richard
 
 -- 
 Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
 
 International broadcasting / shortwave blog:
 http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com
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[Swprograms] Fwd: [RADIO-STUDIES] BBC Radio series starting tonight

[David Goren]

Begin forwarded message:

 From: David Hendy davidjhe...@yahoo.co.uk
 Date: June 14, 2010 7:19:11 AM EDT
 To: radio-stud...@jiscmail.ac.uk
 Subject: [RADIO-STUDIES] BBC Radio series starting tonight
 Reply-To: David Hendy davidjhe...@yahoo.co.uk
 
 Hi,
  
 I thought list-members might be interested to know that my five-part 'media 
 history' series starts at 11pm tonight on BBC Radio Three, and runs every 
 night this week. It's called Rewiring the Mind, runs in 'The Essay' slot, 
 and it looks at ways in which media have shaped ways of thinking since about 
 1900:
  
 The Essay: Rewiring the Mind, 11pm, Radio 3::
 
 The historian of broadcasting, David Hendy, explores the ways in which the 
 electronic media have shaped the modern mind.
 
 Episode 1 (Monday 14th June): The Ethereal Mind:
 How did wireless conquer the world in the early years of the twentieth 
 century, and how did a fascination with radio among scientists and writers 
 unleash new ideas about the transmission of thought and the utopian potential 
 of invisible forces?
 
 Episode 2 (Tuesday 15th June): The Cultivated Mind:
 
 How effective were the efforts of the BBC to improve the 'public mind' 
 between the wars? Did broadcasts such as W.B. Yeats's poetry recitals or E.M. 
 Forster's talks foster ideas of a 'spiritual democracy' and an enlightened 
 citizenry?
 
 Episode 3 (Wednesday 16th June): The Anxious Mind:
 
 Tonight the reporting of the Holocaust in 1945 and television coverage of the 
 Challenger Space Shuttle explosion in 1986. If media have made us all 
 witnesses to horror and tragedy do they also help us to come to terms with 
 suffering, or just leave us depressed at the wrongs in the world?
 
 Episode 4 (Thursday 17th June): The Fallible Mind:
 
 Two seminal TV programmes: the American drama Marty, broadcast in 1953, and 
 the BBC's Face-to-Face, from 1960, used unflinching close-ups to reveal human 
 beings as flawed individuals. Did they make us more compassionate - or just 
 more obsessed with the private lives of others?
 
 Episode 5 (Friday 18th June): The Superficial Mind:
 
 Might the Internet, despite its wonderful power as a repository of 
 information and creativity, be slowly degrading or enhancing our mental 
 abilities? Are our brains ready for it?
 
 (Presenter: David Hendy. Producer: Matt Thompson).
 
  
 The series will also be available to listen to on BBC I-player for up to 
 seven days after broadcast.
 
  
 For further details and to listen again after broadcast - go to the BBC 
 website, follow links to Radio 3, then 'The Essay':
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x3hl
 
  
 David.
 
  
 David Hendy,
 
 Reader in Media  Communication,
 
 University of Westminster.
 
  
 
 

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Re: [Swprograms] Low-tech radios connect some Haitians - CNN.com

[David Goren]

I think partly it may be that on the ground ham operators were already scarce 
in Haiti. I monitored the various disaster nets frequently in the first days 
after the quake, and with one possible exception, (a verification of a request 
for supplies) heard no contact with any hams in Haiti.

But I did note that in the news reports it was all about people using Twitter 
before their cellphone batteries died, no mention of the possibilities of radio 
communication.

On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Richard Cuff wrote:

 While I admit I haven't caught every word of every newscast since
 Haiti's 7.1 earthquake of last week, this story below was the first
 I'd seen regarding the role of amateur radio in Haiti.
 
 I consider it unusual and, sadly, a sign of the times, that it took 8
 days for a news story on amateur radio to surface.
 
 Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
 
 http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/20/haiti.amateur.radio/index.html?hpt=C2
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[Swprograms] OT: Help for struggling shortwave stations

[David Goren]

Dear shortwave friends:

Pardon the interruption of the usual discussions on this list. I am  
trying to gauge the interest level in an idea I have had for a few  
years. As a shortwave listener/dx'er I am particularly fond of the  
small domestic broadcasters heard in the tropical bands, and on other  
parts of the shortwave spectrum. These stations have gone off the air  
in recent years at an alarming rate. The world of communications is  
going through great change, and it's understandable that shortwave is  
being supplanted by other modes.


However, I hear from time to time, that certain domestic shortwave  
broadcasters have gone off prematurely or involuntarily due to  
technical difficulty, or lack of funds for electricity or other  
station related necessities.  I would like to develop a portfolio of  
stations that have a strong desire to continue broadcasting on  
shortwave, but are lacking for a certain part, or technical knowhow.  
If you would like to be part of this effort, please contact me. I am  
looking for those who have knowledge of stations that are going  
through difficulties, but would like to be on the air serving their  
local community. I would also like to hear from those who could  
support the effort in various ways, through contributions, technical,  
monetary or otherwise.


I am partly inspired the great monetary and organizational efforts  
expended by amateur radio operators to transmit from a rarely heard  
territory. In this case, my primary interest would be to empower  
domestic shortwave stations to serve their local audience with a  
secondary benefit being continued audibility for shortwave listeners  
and dxers.


Thanks for hearing me out, and 73,

David Goren
http://www.shortwaveology.com


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[Swprograms] Harry Helms

[David Goren]

Here's another obit, this time from the ARRL.

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/11/18/11201/?nc=1


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Re: [Swprograms] OT: end of a mini-era

[David Goren]

I enjoyed the first hour of a two hour English block from All India  
Radio today starting at 1700 on 7550. Quite audible, with some fuzz  
around the edges. Lovely Bengali music, news, and Bollywood film  
reviews delivered in a hardboiled style.



On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Richard Cuff wrote:


I was happy to hear Radio Bulgaria on 6200 and 7400 the other evening
come through very nicely.  Seems so rare to hear English language
programming in Easy Listening quality nowadays... 8-(

Oh...and I have a Camry with 244k miles that I am hoping to squeeze
another 50+ kmiles out of...

Richard cuff / Allentown, PA

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Eric Floden  
eric.f99...@gmail.com wrote:


However, less and less to listen to now.


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[Swprograms] Speechification

[David Goren]

A blog/podcast roundup of great speech centered radio/audio.


http://speechification.com
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Re: [Swprograms] OT: Q and A - Missing the Crackle of AM Radio - Question - NYTimes.com

[David Goren]

True, but I have many small .mp3 sized radios that include AM...they  
manage to tuck in a ferrite bar somewhere.


On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Scott Royall wrote:

Anyone who knows how radio works knows why, it's all about the  
antenna--or

lack thereof.

-Original Message-
From: swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com
[mailto:swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Richard Cuff
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 15:23
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: [Swprograms] OT: Q and A - Missing the Crackle of AM Radio -
Question - NYTimes.com

Not shortwave, but a question from someone who wondered why MP3
players generally have FM tuners but not AM tuners.

The article notes that C. Crane offers a (rather pricey) MP3
player/recorder with a combination AM/FM tuner.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/technology/personaltech/08askk-001.html?_r
=18ciremc=cir
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[Swprograms] Audiodocumentary.org

[David Goren]

Apologies if I've posted a link to this before...but the site has been  
redesigned and is regularly updated. They post links to sources of  
online audio docs.


dg
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Re: [Swprograms] Fwd: [ODXA] Speaking of BBC Radio 4...

[David Goren]

I bet some of the music is taken from some of the Cambodian offerings  
of Sublime Frequencieshttp://www.sublimefrequencies.com/


This label, a project of Alan Bishop of the weirdo rock band, The Sun  
City Girls, has issued some really interesting recordings of music  
recorded off am, fm and shortwave radio. We've played some at the  
Listening Lounge.


On Aug 1, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Richard Cuff wrote:


And this suggestion back from the ODXA's Fred Waterer...

Rich C


-- Forwarded message --
From: Fred Waterer programming_matt...@yahoo.ca
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Subject: [ODXA] Speaking of BBC Radio 4...
To: o...@yahoogroups.com


A fascinating program is available for a few more days, perhaps the
best program I have heard in some time.

It looks at the music scene in Cambodia in the late 60s and early 70s,
and the development of Khmer Rock...a fusion of traditional
Cambodian music and Western Rock and Roll, which at the time blasted
across the border from Vietnam via AFVN (clips included).

The result is a quirky rock music, often sounding like psychedelic
garage bands. I've been surfing the net all day listening to and
reading about this music which until yesterday I didn't know existed.

Its also sobering to listen to the music and these artists, because
after April 1975 almost all of them died at the hands of the Khmer
Rouge, in the infamous killing fields. All for the crime of Rock and
Roll...for being artists, intellectuals, free thinkers and famous in a
land being driven back into the middle ages.

Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields

Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields
(Duration: 30 minutes)
Availability:

3 days left to listen

Last broadcast on Tuesday, 13:30 on BBC Radio 4.

Synopsis

Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll stars who
emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound known as Khmer Rock.
Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, almost all these singers and
musicians were killed, but they are still revered by Cambodians today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lrv50

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Re: [Swprograms] OT: Future of Digital Radio

[David Goren]

The other is that while it's true from their standpoint that there  
is a downside
risk to depending outside companies like Reciva to provide the  
portal, he fails
to note that by using their portal they lock you into their products  
and no
others.  It's the Apple argument.  Great if you like Apple products,  
bad if you
don't.  And oh, if Apple (or in this case) Pure Digital ever get  
bought or go

belly up you are left nowhere.


Really? My Apple computers can also boot into Windows or Linux...







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[Swprograms] Fwd: BBC’s Radio 4's America na to tap AIR producers, stations

[David Goren]

Thought news of this new BBC 4 program about the US might interest  
this list. In this case AIR stands for Association of Independents in  
Radio,...


Begin forwarded message:


From: Sue Schardt s...@airmedia.org
Date: April 19, 2009 10:09:47 AM EDT
To: airda...@packard38.webcrossing.com
Subject: BBC’s Radio 4's Americana to tap AIR producers, stations
Reply-To: airda...@packard38.webcrossing.com

I’m so pleased to share the press announcement below that was issued  
yesterday in the UK about a new BBC program focusing on the U.S. and  
distributed via Radio 4. You may have seen Erin’s Friday  
announcement here that the BBC has joined AIR's ranks, and we’ve  
been consulting Executive Producer Maria Balinska in recent months  
on commissioning freelance work as they craft an authentic  
representation of the U.S. for a British listening audience.


Maria previously produced the popular BBC international  
“eavesdropping” program A World in Your Ear, which was cancelled in  
2007 (to our dismay). She recently moved to DC, and is very excited  
to tap the AIR ranks, build a contributor list, and to try out new  
ideas.


Here’s a bit more from the Americana’s mission statement. snip  
Combining discussion and reportage, Americana will hear from the  
front line of change – political, cultural, social – across America,  
getting between the coasts to the towns and cities of the ‘flyover  
states’ to engage the listener with America in new and unexpected  
ways. The show’s guest list will be deliberately eclectic, ranging  
from emerging cultural stars (like comedian Tina Fey and Austin- 
based creator of the King of the Hill cartoon series Mike Judge) and  
provocative commentators (like conservative Michelle Malkin and  
‘progressive populist’ Arianna Huffington) to leading thinkers (like  
Chicago based Garry Wills, Stanford African American conservative  
Shelby Steele and Steven Waldman, CEO of Beliefnet.com the country’s  
largest faith and spirituality website)

. snip

The journalistic and production standards are high for the program.  
The production team will be commissioning one 6 to 8 minute feature  
per program/week. They are, Maria says, “looking for engaging  
stories which provide original insights into contemporary America  
and which use sound imaginatively to enhance the narrative and to  
provide the listener with a strong sense of 'bei ng there.'” Maria  
is familiar with AIR’s recommended fee structure and says that the  
rates they’ll pay fall within the range we’ve outlined. http://tiny.cc/E6TQ9


The Americana team is in the process of sorting out what particular  
issues and themes will be of immediate interest to the program - and  
will be posting them on the AIRdaily in the days/weeks ahead.


If you want more information, you can contact Maria directly at maria.balin...@bbc.co.uk 
, or call AIR at 617 825 4400.


:: PRESS RELEASE ::

Americana brings voices from across America to BBC Radio 4

Americana, a new weekly programme presented from the world’s most  
powerful country by Matt Frei, launches on BBC Radio 4 this spring.


Matt will be joined in the Washington DC studio by an eclectic panel  
of guests. Emerging cultural stars, provocative writers and some  
current prominent thinkers aim to give the Radio 4 audience an insi  
der’s guide to the people and stories shaping the USA. Americana  
will also team up with radio stations around the country, bringing  
reports and features from places off the beaten track.


America’s first black president has made ‘change’ his mantra. The  
meltdown of Wall Street has dislocated the country’s status.  
President Obama is trying to change the way the country carries out  
its diplomacy. Americana will look at what these changes mean for  
America itself, and the rest of the world.


Mark Damazer, Controller BBC Radio 4 says on his blog today: “Since  
Alistair Cooke’s death and the demise of his Letter From America, I  
have been thinking about a new programme that would ruminate about  
America - one that would give fresh insights– from the city streets  
of Chicago and LA, to the small towns of Tennessee and Montana.  
Americana will bring Radio 4 listeners a sense of the country’s  
vibrant and often complicated character.”


Presenter Matt Frei says: “ I’m very excited by the prospect of  
Americana. There is nothing like it on national radio. I feel sure  
the discussions with leading thinke


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Re: [Swprograms] Happy 10th anniversary to the swprograms list

[David Goren]

I have the infrastructure set up for this group...let me know if you
all think it's a good idea.


I do, though I don't mind that kind of chat being part of swprograms  
either, as it's been.






Rich C

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Joe Buch josephb...@yahoo.com wrote:



Maybe the time has finally come to address the shortwave part of  
this group's title.  In order not to have to change the address in  
hundreds of e-mail address books, I suggest we leave the actual e- 
mail address alone and only adapt the title slightly.  Instead of  
SW referring to shortwave, why not Simply Wonderful or possibly  
Silly Wonkers?  The possibilities are endless.  Your turn.




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[Swprograms] Still Ga-Ga For Radio

[David Goren]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4413487/Why-were-still-ga-ga-for-radio.html
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[Swprograms] OT...Fwd: Leonard Bernstein: An American Life -- all day on KCRW

[David Goren]

Not shortwave, but a high quality series airing and streaming on KCRW...

Begin forwarded message:


From: Steve Rowland steve_rowl...@mac.com
Date: December 31, 2008 1:15:15 PM EST
To: airda...@packard38.webcrossing.com
Subject: Leonard Bernstein: An American Life -- all day on KCRW
Reply-To: airda...@packard38.webcrossing.com

Hey folks,
KCRW, in another bit of innovative programming, will be airing my 11
part series:

Leonard Bernstein: An American Life narrated by Susan Sarandon

all day tomorrow. hope some of you can tune in for bits and pieces of
it.

www.kcrw.org


warm regards to all -
with wishes for a year filled with peace and love,

steve




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Re: [Swprograms] OT Jean Shepherd

[David Goren]

There's a smattering of stuff here:

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/AC


On Dec 27, 2008, at 1:16 AM, Eric Floden wrote:

I am reading a fine book about radio* and have become curious about  
Jean Shepherd.  I would love to hear some of his overnight shows but  
my limited searchin has come up empty.  Any ideas on where to find  
some of his old stuff?


thanks

ef


* it's mostly limited to US radio, and covers such topics as Imus,  
Elvis, WDIA, Jon Millar, Bob and Ray, Rock and Roll . . .


Something in the air : radio, rock, and the revolution that shaped a  
generation / Marc Fisher.

by Fisher, Marc.

New York : Random House, c2007.
Call #: 791.44 F53s
Subjects
Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History.
URL http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2006047353-d.html
URL http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2006047353-b.html
Web Access to:: 
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xviii, 374 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:   
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-338) and index.
ISBN:   
0375509070
9780375509070
LCCN:   
2006047353
Contents:   
The magic of radio -- Survivor -- Omaha morning -- Harlematinee --  
The transistor under the pillow -- Booze, broads, bribes, Beatles --  
Rebel -- Night people -- The jingle-jangle morning -- No static at  
all -- Playing the numbers -- Niche player -- Shock and awe --  
Scattering seeds -- Full of sound and fury -- Back to the future --  
Magic.


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[Swprograms] Fwd: [RADIO-STUDIES] BBC's dilemma over who would announce a nuclear attack (The Independent, 3 Oct 08)

[David Goren]

Begin forwarded message:


From: Salvatore Scifo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: October 4, 2008 10:50:24 AM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [RADIO-STUDIES] BBC's dilemma over who would announce a  
nuclear attack (The Independent, 3 Oct 08)

Reply-To: Salvatore Scifo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Source:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/bbcs-dilemma-over-who-would-announce-a-nuclear-attack-949703.html

BBC's dilemma over who would announce a nuclear attack

By Cahal Milmo
Friday, 3 October 2008
'Whitehall was obsessed as much with the voice that would be used to  
announce Armageddon as it was with protecting what was left of the  
British population'


This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been  
attacked with nuclear weapons. In the normally prosaic world of  
public safety announcements, they were probably the two most  
chilling sentences ever recorded in readiness for release across  
Britain's airwaves.


But secret documents released today, revealing for the first time  
the full text of the warning to be broadcast by the BBC in the event  
of a nuclear war, show that Whitehall was obsessed as much with the  
voice that would be used to announce Armageddon as it was with  
protecting what was left of the British population.


Senior civil servants in charge of drawing up the pre-recorded radio  
announcement became concerned that only a recognisable broadcaster  
should be used for fear that an unfamiliar voice would create the  
impression that Auntie had been obliterated.


The quandary was deepened when it emerged that the only BBC employee  
to have been given the appropriate security clearance for the  
project was a relatively unknown retired newsreader called Hugh  
Searight. None of the BBC's star broadcasters – Angela Rippon,  
Michael Parkinson, Frank Bough or Richard Baker – were judged to  
have been checked to the required level. The apocalyptic tussle  
between the Beeb and three Whitehall departments in 1973 and 1974 is  
detailed in documents released at the National Archives in Kew, west  
London.


In one memo from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, a  
senior manager suggests an authoritative Voice of the BBC was  
required for the advent of nuclear destruction.


The memo said: The reassurance that the 'BBC is still there' would  
not be gleaned from a recorded announcement by an unfamiliar voice.  
Indeed, if an unfamiliar voice repeats the same announcement, hour  
after hour... listeners may begin to suspect they are listening to a  
machine... and that perhaps the BBC has been obliterated.


The debate arose from a Cabinet Office review of procedures to be  
followed in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, with 12 regions set  
up with an underground facility ready to play the announcement on a  
pre-arranged radio frequency.


The documents offer no clues as to who was chosen to make the  
recording but experts on Britain's nuclear war preparations say it  
almost certainly went ahead. Dr Kristan Stoddart, of the Mountbatten  
Centre for International Studies at Southampton University, said:  
The whole enterprise seems macabre but the one thing that the  
British government ensured was done very well was the contingency  
planning for the aftermath of a nuclear attack.


This is an edited transcript of the script to be used after a  
nuclear attack:


This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been  
attacked with nuclear weapons. The number of casualties and the  
extent of the damage are not yet known. Stay tuned to this  
wavelength, stay calm and stay in your own homes. Radioactive  
fallout is many times more dangerous if you are directly exposed to  
it in the open. Roofs and walls offer substantial protection. Make  
sure gas and other fuel supplies are turned off and all fires are  
extinguished. You should refill all your containers for drinking  
water after any fires have been put out, because the mains supply  
may not be available for long. Until you are told that lavatories  
may be used again, other toilet arrangements must be made. Water  
means life. Don't waste it. Ration your food supply, because it may  
have to last for 14 days or more. If you live in an area where a  
fallout warning has been given, stay in your fallout room. When the  
immediate danger has passed, sirens will sound a steady note. The  
all clear message will also be given on this wavelength. Do not go  
outside the house. Radioactive fallout can kill. We shall repeat  
this broadcast in two hours' time. Stay tuned to this wavelength,  
but switch your radios off now to save your batteries until we come  
on the air again.


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Re: [Swprograms] OT: XM/Sirius -- have they complied with FCC requirements? WSJ article

[David Goren]

Just to nudge this towards radio programming. Which sport makes for  
the best radio listening?


I'm not much of a sports fan (having been a clumsy runt-ish child  
with a father who watched sports but little cared who won). That  
said, I do enjoy listening to baseball play by play on the radio.  
Back in my college days, I cut my teeth on Jon MIller broadcasts for  
the Baltimore Orioles.




On Jun 13, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Ted Schuerzinger wrote:


On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:31:51 -0400, in shortwave you wrote:


Ted:

Surely, you and those like you are an exceedingly small  
minority...  g


Actually, the Midwesterners I know on various sports fora tend to  
think

ESPN and other media are biased towards East coast sports teams, and
care far less about, say, the Yankees vs. the Red Sox than anybody in
New York or New England would.  Those who are baseball fans especially
enjoy watching the big spenders lose.

And to be honest, the sport I watch most is probably tennis.

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Re: [Swprograms] Fwd: Bill O'Reilly Thinks You're Crazy

[David Goren]

Dittos, Rush, er I mean John.

On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:12 PM, John Figliozzi wrote:

I don't know why.  We debate the state of commercial and public  
service media here all the time.  The remit of this group is quite  
wide and always has been.  If the problem is that the post diverges  
from your view of things, you could rebut what was said.  But to  
criticize someone for posting it is a bit weak IMHO.


John Figliozzi

On Jun 10, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Scott Royall wrote:


I'm saddened that this was forwarded in this group.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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dx.com] On Behalf Of Richard Cuff
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:55 PM
To: Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: [Swprograms] Fwd: Bill O'Reilly Thinks You're Crazy

Those in the group who may be critical of the policies and  
approaches

of US commercial TV news media may find this item of interest.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA


-- Forwarded message --
From: Josh Silver, FreePress.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Subject: Bill O'Reilly Thinks You're Crazy
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Dear Friend,

Watch the Video and Thank O'Reilly

Last night, Rupert Murdoch launched a laughable attack against you,
the media reform movement, and journalism itself.

His on-air bully Bill O'Reilly called us crazy and fascist ---
you, me, and the millions of others who want media reform. These
people are doing a lot of damage to America, O'Reilly yelled. Our
crime? Calling for journalism that's more honest, just and  
accountable

to the public.

When Bill O'Reilly goes after you, you must be doing something  
right.

So we've decided to return the favor, and tell him two things: (1)
Thanks so much for the compliment and (2) please stop pretending  
to be

a journalist.

Tell Bill O'Reilly: Stop Pretending to Be a Journalist

At this weekend's National Conference for Media Reform in  
Minneapolis,

O'Reilly sent his stalker reporter Porter Berry to ambush legendary
journalist Bill Moyers. But Berry got far more than he bargained for
(watch the video). Moyers stood his ground with the Fox News crew  
and

challenged O'Reilly to stop smearing people under the guise of
journalism.

Thank O'Reilly for Making the Case for Media Reform

The O'Reilly ambush is typical Fox News fare. Murdoch uses his media
empire to attack his political foes and -- not to inform citizens or
tell the truth. The fight for media reform is about regular people
like you and me fighting undue corporate control of the media. This
kind of abuse of media power aggravates progressives and  
conservatives

alike.

Murdoch seeks to take down a people-powered movement that is a
gathering force in America. Over the past few years, media reformers
have chalked up tremendous victories against nation's largest media
companies. When the FCC attempted to unleash a new wave of media
consolidation late last year, more than a quarter-million people
contacted Congress, culminating in a Senate vote that rejected a
massive giveaway to Murdoch and his cronies.

We're fighting government propaganda and protecting free speech and
choice on the Internet. Our work is a threat to titans like Murdoch
who want to hoard control over news and information in America.

By signing the letter you're telling O'Reilly: We are not
intimidated. We want better journalism. Attacks from you only show  
how

much we need media reform.

Thanks for all that you do,

Josh Silver
Executive Director
Free Press
http://www.freepress.net/

1. Forward this e-mail to 10 of your friends. We need you and  
everyone

you know to stop Murdoch's assault on journalism.

2. For more detail, read my article at the Huffington Post.







Take action on this important campaign at:
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Re: [Swprograms] Fwd: Quirks Newsletter Update

[David Goren]

Indeed, somehow the listener has to remember to sign up in September.  
They're assuming an awful lot there.


On May 29, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Richard Cuff wrote:


A pox on CBC's IT staff for these delays.

You'd think they'd have the new system tested  up  running before
dismantling the old system.

After all, you don't want to ignore your customers (i.e. listeners)
by not telling them what you're working on, after you have worked so
hard to get a rhythm established.

My two cents, anyway.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA


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From: CBC Member Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Subject: Quirks Newsletter Update
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Dear Subscriber,

In April we told you that the Quirks  Quarks newsletter would have to
be offline until May while a new system for managing newsletters at
CBC was developed. Unfortunately, this has taken longer than
anticipated and we have to tell you that our newsletter will remain
offline until our new season launches in September. We apologize for
the inconvenience.

In September, we will launch the new Quirks  Quarks newsletter. To
sign-up at the member centre, go to
http://links.cbc.ca/a/l.x?T=jncickeobelfojjnengefjbdM=1 .

While our newsletter is not yet available as a subscriber choice,
please be assured when you log into the member centre in September our
newsletter will be listed. An invitation will be sent to you when it's
available.

Regards,

Bob McDonald




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[Swprograms] OT/2LO Transmitter

[David Goren]

AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship at Royal Holloway and the  
Science Museum


The 2LO Transmitter: Technology, Material Culture and Metropolitan
Modernity in Inter-War London

This PhD project is focused on an iconic object within the history of
British radio broadcasting, the 2LO transmitter used for early  BBC
broadcasts in London.

The project will develop two inter-linked strands of interest ?  
first, the
project considers the relationship between the 2L0 transmitter and  
British
radio broadcasting in the specific context of inter-war London.  
Second, it
will consider how the transmitter has been stored, restored and  
displayed in

a variety of geographical locations.

At present, the 2LO transmitter is currently stored in the Science  
Museum
and there are plans to develop a gallery exhibiting objects such as  
2L0
within a major gallery featuring communications history. The  
project will
build on the technical histories of early broadcasting and seek to  
locate
2LO  within a variety of societal, technological and media related  
contexts

from the 1920s onwards.

The PhD student will be an enrolled student in the Geography  
Department at
Royal Holloway, University of London, and will also have staff  
status at

the Science Museum.  All fees are paid by the AHRC, with a tax-free
maintenance grant (currently £13,600 + £2000 London weighting for  
2007/8

students who meet AHRC eligibility criteria).

The studentship will be co- supervised by Professor Klaus Dodds and
Professor David Gilbert at Royal  Holloway, and by Dr Tim Boon, Chief
Curator and John Liffen, Curator of  Communications, at the Science  
Museum..


Applications are invited from suitably qualified and/or experienced
candidates. A minimum of a 2.1 degree at undergraduate level is  
normally
required in an appropriate subject area, plus a recognised  
postgraduate
programme of research training or its equivalent in a relevant  
specialist

area (e.g. media history, urban studies, cultural geography, modern
history, cultural studies, history of science or technology,  
museum  studies

etc).

An ability to work both independently and as part of a team  will be
important to the success of the project.

Interested candidates are strongly recommended to contact either  
Professor
Dodds or Professor Gilbert before making an application:   
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Full details of the studentship are available at:
http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/postgrads/AHRC-SM.html

All candidates must make a formal application for a PhD place at Royal
Holloway before Tuesday 27 May 2008. Applications can be made at
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Studying/Admissions/pgapplication.html

Candidates should indicate clearly that they are applying for the AHRC
Collaborative PhD Studentship with the Science Museum, and should  
attach a
full CV and short statement (max 1000 words) indicating their  
suitability

for the project.

Short-listed candidates will be interviewed at the Science Museum  
in June.

  The studentship commences on 22 September 2008.



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[Swprograms] Slightly OT: PRX wins MacArthur

[David Goren]

I know PRX has been mentioned here before.




* NEW AWARD: PRX Gets MacArthur Genius Organization Award *

Atlantic Public Media (parent of Transom) is the co-parent (with the
Station Resource Group) of the Public Radio Exchange (prx.org).
Today, it was announced that PRX is a recipient of the 2008 MacArthur
Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, a kind of Genius
Organization Award. We are all very proud of the wonderful team at
PRX and all they've done to make public radio more public. PRX will
use the $500,000 grant to establish a cash reserve fund, a content
venture fund, and to develop new technologies. Read more at the PRX
blog:
http://about.prx.org/2008/04/prx_selected_for_macarthur_fou.php


Drop over any time,

Jay Allison
Atlantic Public Media
Woods Hole, Massachusetts





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[Swprograms] Fwd: [RADIO-STUDIES] RTE Mediumwave Closedown

[David Goren]

Begin forwarded message:


From: Jonathan Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: March 26, 2008 6:37:11 AM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [RADIO-STUDIES] RTE Mediumwave Closedown
Reply-To: Jonathan Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED]


In case you missed it - RTE's Mediumwave Goodbye is worth listening to

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/specials/1193939.html . RTE has now signed  
off its MW services.


Hope they keep it up for a while on the web at least.


Jonathan Marks


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[Swprograms] : NY Times: Possessed (Harry Shearer on Shortwave)

[David Goren]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/fashion/06POSS.html?_r=1oref=slogin

The New York Times
January 6, 2008
Possessed
Comic Relief via Shortwave
By DAVID COLMAN

“THE great joke of our era is that this is called the information  
age,” said the actor and humorist Harry Shearer. In other words, if  
information is free, you get what you pay for. Since childhood, Mr.  
Shearer has tried to get the genuine article, even if that has  
meant spending a little time and effort to do so.


It was at the peak of radio’s popularity that Harry Shearer was  
born in 1943 in Los Angeles. He tuned in quickly: not only was he a  
child actor whose first gig was on Jack Benny’s radio show (“I was  
passing as a child,” he said), but he had a feverish fascination  
with radio itself. As a boy, he looked down on the Art Deco carved- 
wood radio console in his family’s living room, preferring the more  
sensitive RCA model in his room (“an early vomit-green plastic  
radio”), which he fiddled with nightly like a junior Marconi.


“I would try and find the most distant station possible,” he said.  
“I knew something happened when it left Hollywood and then came  
bouncing back from across the country a half a second later. It  
sounded weirdly magical to me. If there was stuff in the air, I  
wanted to receive it.”


Today the vomit-green RCA exists only in the Smithsonian of his  
memory. A dedicated hobbyist in the radio tradition, Mr. Shearer  
has gone through 40 to 50 radios: a Hallicrafters table-size  
shortwave, an early Sony ICF and countless others, big, small,  
portable and pocket-size.


He even forsook the exploding world of television in the ’60s for  
the increasingly anarchic world of radio. “I never saw ‘I Dream of  
Jeannie,’ ” he said. “I think of it as an enhanced childhood.” Even  
today, though he writes and acts as prolifically as he always has,  
it is his voice (of a dozen or so characters on “The Simpsons”)  
that is probably most familiar to us.


Although he gets romantic talking about his lifelong love of the  
medium, it is always his latest radio that gets pride of place in  
his heart and on his desk.


“I didn’t call any of them ‘Steve,’ or get attached to them as an  
object,” he said in the anchorman deadpan for which he’s known. “If  
they stopped working, I didn’t keep them.”


For some eight years now, his flame has been a Sangean, model  
ATS-909, a digital shortwave radio. The 909 may not have the reach  
of fancier shortwave radios, but for Mr. Shearer’s purposes, it is  
nearly perfect. It is simple enough to involve little in the way of  
instructions, yet allows for the obsessive tinkering and tuning  
that is the hallmark of the radio hobbyist. (An optional 30-foot  
shortwave antenna boosts it to another level of sensitivity.)


It’s not the most attractive radio on the market, but Mr. Shearer  
does not care. “We have a Tivoli, we have a Bose, all the famous  
radios,” he said, ticking off high-design brands. “This is my  
companion. I’ve always been more about functionality over looks.  
This has all the buttons I need and not much else. There is one  
that says ‘Page,’ and I’ve never pressed that. I don’t know what  
would happen.”


Though he loved searching out new music back in the ’60s, he has  
settled comfortably into the armchair of the fanatical global-news  
enthusiast, for which the Sangean is ideal. Though the BBC stopped  
broadcasting shortwave to North America in 2001, a move that still  
pains shortwave fans, he has figured out how to receive the  
transmissions on his own radio via the Internet.


Getting his news from the most reliable (and often most remote)  
sources, Mr. Shearer said, gives him great satisfaction. As even a  
cursory overview at the Information Age will tell you, nothing is  
really free: you pay the price when you don’t get the real story.






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Re: [Swprograms] Willis Conover lives...in Georgia

[David Goren]

Hi Rich:

I recently put up some audio pertaining to Willis Conover, and the  
effect of his program on musicians in the Soviet Union. It's in the  
Listening Lounge section at shortwaveology.com.

Hope all is well,

David

On Dec 28, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Richard Cuff wrote:

 Wandering the web between the holidays, I came across a mention of
 Willis Conover - longtime VOA jazz program host and global jazz
 emissary - at the US's embassy site in Georgia.

 As of October, 2007 the VOA has made Conover's programming available
 to Tblisi's Radio Syndicate 104.3.

 Interesting to see that Conover's legacy lives on; kudos to the VOA
 for recognizing the role of Conover in establish global dialogue.

 See http://georgia.usembassy.gov/releases/2007/release20071019.htm.

 Richard

 -- 
 Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

 International broadcasting / shortwave blog:
 http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com
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[Swprograms] John Peel Book

[David Goren]

 THE PEEL SESSIONS: A Story Of Teenage Dreams And One Man's Love Of  
 New Music
 by Ken Garner
 BBC Books, an imprint of Random House
 Published 4 October 2007
 ISBN: 978-1-8460-7282-6
 19.99 sterling
 352pp (192pp illustrated in colour; 160pp mono matt paper)

 THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE JOHN PEEL SHOW

 Once upon a time there was a lonely public schoolboy whose dream  
 was to play the music he liked to other people on the radio. And  
 when he got his Radio 1 show, John Peel helped thousands of young  
 bands to realise their dreams too, inviting them to BBC Maida Vale  
 Studios to record 4 songs in an afternoon, for broadcast later.  
 Every new band's dream was to do one of these Peel Sessions. Some  
 became stars (Pulp), others disappeared (The Would-Be's). Teenagers  
 tuned-in, taped, listened again, and again. Some would drift away,  
 only to rediscover the show years later, or find their children  
 listening-in. Peel's love of new music kept his dreams young and  
 that's why listeners loved him. The astonishing story of the Peel  
 Sessions is a story of teenage dreams, for teenagers of all ages.



 INCLUDES

 * Complete A-Z Sessionography of all 4400 Peel Sessions, listing  
 bands, tracks, dates, line-ups and recording details

 * Day-by-Day diary of every Peel show, 1967-2004

 * The Festive Fifties

 * The Peelenium

 * Classic Sessions

 * First Heard Here

 * One Session Wonders

 * LIsteners' Memories

 * Ten Who Didn't Do A Peel Session, Actually

 * Ten Who Really Did, Honest







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Re: [Swprograms] OT: Beware XM Roady XT

[David Goren]

Maybe  one of your clients' settings needs to be adjusted. Joe's  
messages show up as text in my email client.


On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Ted S. wrote:

 On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:32:31 -0400, in shortwave you wrote:

 I have figured out how to beat the system.

 Not to be picky, but now that you've done that, can you configure your
 email client to include the message in the text/plain part of the
 message?  I can only see your message in HTML, which is quite
 irritating.

 -- 
 Ted S.
 fedya at bestweb dot net
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Re: [Swprograms] Big Ben to fall silent for maintenance

[David Goren]

I'd be curious to hear what others are listening to via the internet.  
I'm using my new-ish macbook, as my internet radio.

I listen to KBON, a really great Cajun/Zydeco/Blues station out of  
Eunice, Lousiana. FIP, a freeform mix station in Paris, the CBC Far  
North services in Yellowknife, and Iqualit. Tango FM from Buenos  
Aires, and La Vallenata from Colombia. I continue to search for good  
local radio wherever it may be.

Also, what sites do people use? I like Public Radio Fan. I've found  
some good links on Mike's radio world, but many of them are duds. No  
matter what the site, I seem to spend a lot of time trying to connect  
with no sound in the interim, and again many dud links...so I miss  
the immediacy of hearing audio at the twist of the dials.







On Aug 9, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Richard Cuff wrote:

 I'm not that much different...though I would add the ABC, RTE
 (Ireland), RNW, and DW to that mix.  Also I listen to both the BBC WS
 and R4.

 Richard

 On 8/9/07, Sandy Finlayson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 My listening habits are now almost 100 % internet based.  I listen to
 output from the CBC, the BBC [particularly Radio 4] and now that the
 'football season' is starting again I will be listening to BBC WS for
 Sportsworld.  I also listen to a number of stations that carry  
 Classical
 music.

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[Swprograms] OT Looking for tape of rebels taking over a shortwave station

[David Goren]

I'm looking for recordings where the station has been taken over by  
rebels, either during the takeover or after. Thanks for any leads. I  
have a vague memory of hearing sound somewhere on the internet from  
an African station in this kind of situation.
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