Re: [Swprograms] Matinee Idle

2010-01-02 Thread Scott Royall
The idea of tuning via my laptop and wifi has a certain appeal. -Original Message- From: Scott Royall [mailto:roy...@conchbbs.com] Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 8:01 PM To: 'Richard Cuff' Subject: RE: [Swprograms] Matinee Idle Question, is anyone doing a directory of international br

Re: [Swprograms] Matinee Idle

2010-01-02 Thread Richard Cuff
Yep. Some do this better than others; the BBC World Service website is updated pretty well. So is the CBC. For the most part, Radio National is also current (at least during the regular season). The CBC, better than most broadcasters (at least in my own opinion), has successfully sorted out tha

Re: [Swprograms] Matinee Idle

2010-01-02 Thread Scott Royall
What occurs to me is that, if international broadcasters really do see the Internet as a legitimate transmission medium, they have to make a quantum leap in the attention they give their websites. (Yes, that's all one sentence.) -Original Message- From: swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com

Re: [Swprograms] Matinee Idle

2010-01-02 Thread Richard Cuff
It's interesting how our expectations have changed over the years. Back in the day, one knew that Australia and New Zealand radio offerings were substantially altered during the mid-December to mid-January period (Roger Broadbent called this period the "silly season" a while back), but there was no

Re: [Swprograms] Matinee Idle

2010-01-02 Thread Glenn Hauser
That figures: you will not find any sign of Matinee Idle on the current RNZI program grid at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/schedules.php nor any single program it replaces, including ``Radio National``, which merely means relaying whatever is on the domestic network, but instead if on from 2335 to 0