Re: [Swprograms] OT International News

2009-04-09 Thread jfiglio1
Agreed, Sandy. I did write to BBC America and they did send me a very nice response saying--in effect--that ratings for the morning news were low and that they have decided to place their limited resources into improving the BBC News America evening (7 and 10 p.m.) effort which has shown an incr

[Swprograms] DX Listening Digests 9-030 and 9-031; WOR 1455

2009-04-09 Thread Glenn Hauser
NOTE: the April 5 edition, 9-030, still had a link to 9-029 in the previous notification! Thanks to Roberto Scaglione for outpointing this. Be sure you haven`t missed 9-030 at: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9030.txt And now the next and latest one: DX Listening Digest 9-031 has now been posted at

[Swprograms] OT International News

2009-04-09 Thread Sandy Finlayson
I know this is off topic but it is distressing that BBC America has dropped their three hour morning block of BBC News. It isn't getting any easier to get international news via the conventional media in this country We are the poorer for it. Sandy

Re: [Swprograms] HD Radio -- NY Times

2009-04-09 Thread Richard Cuff
David Pogue always does a very good job of deconstructing technology into understandable, relevant pieces. A couple key points in the article: "To get a wider sampling [of experiences with HD], I asked my 100,000 Twitter followers if they’d tried HD radio. Sixteen people responded." and: "That