Podcasts permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any convenient occasion. I do it while taking my daily (more or less) 3 mile walk, while I’m “plodding along”. While there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of great podcasts from other sources, the ones sponsored via public radio have been vetted through the worthy objectives of the medium. Here’s what I’ve been listening to recently. I hope you might find these suggestions — in roughly 90 minute bites -- helpful in enhancing your own enjoyment of radio, our favorite medium.
__ __ “The Man With a Plan to Reshape Broadcast TV” ON THE MEDIA - NPR and WNYC New York Public Media Late night host Stephen Colbert has accused CBS of spiking an interview for fear of backlash from the Federal Communications Commission. The MAGA movement is trying to shift television to the right and the legal theory that the FCC is using to put pressure on the networks. Host Brooke Gladstone speaks with Jim Rutenberg, writer-at-large for The New York Times, about how Trump’s FCC is reviving a nearly century-old rule to crack down on late-night talk shows. Rutenberg explains why MAGA’s embrace of the FCC’s regulatory powers to go after “liberal bias” in the media signals a shift within the Republican party. Brooke also sits down with Daniel Suhr, the president of a legal advocacy group called the Center for American Rights and the architect behind the legal theory that the FCC is using to put pressure on TV networks. They discuss his goal to make network TV look more like the AM radio band. (54”) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-man-with-a-plan-to-reshape-broadcast-tv “Mexico's Deadly Drug Cartel Feud” FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT - BBC Radio 4 Kate Adie introduces stories on Mexico's cartel war, President Trump's State of the Union address, the Russian soldiers escaping the front-line, and a slow boat journey in Benin. (28”) ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s2zn — — A compendium of these suggestions, plus on occasion additional pertinent material, is published every other month in the CIDX Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club (CIDX). For further information and membership information, go to www.cidxclub.ca John Figliozzi Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide” 11th EDITION, with comprehensive listings of radio programs on AM, FM, shortwave, satellite radio, internet-wifi radio and podcasts, available from universal-radio.com, amazon.com. amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.com.au PLEASE NOTE: Times change and some things just get passed by. Such is the case with THE WORLDWIDE LISTENING GUIDE. This 11th Edition will be its last. Once the current crop of issues is sold, the series is sold out for good. For 35 years, starting with THE SHORTWAVE RADIOGUIDE, it has been my pleasure to provide to select listeners a written record of some of the best programming available on public media radio everywhere. The media landscape is changing — much for the good, but some that’s concerning. This is especially true for the jewel that is public service media. But it’s also clear that radio — all its platforms — is de-emphasizing schedules and embracing the freeing capacity of podcasting. It’s also clear that — happily — there are some fine accessible and more timely resources for finding that public audio content available online. So for the next few weeks I will be compiling some of the best of those to share with you and provide places where you can still gain the information that the WWLG has tried to provide for these many years. On to the future! _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
