Andre wrote in message
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"Mike Terry" wrote in message
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Passport to World Band Radio is a deservedly popular publication. The
2004
edition, published in October 2003, marks its 20th anniversary. Read
our
review of the latest edition.

http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/booklist/html/passport.html




Regular users of Passport are familiar with the publication's
editorial scope and rationale, but we would like to see a brief
mention of the alternatives to "World Band" when such options exist.


Larry Magne should think of another alternative and acceptable words
other than "World Band" to all the shortwave aficionados around the
world. The word "World Band" is only used for commercial
advertisements that describes a radio that has the capability to
receive foreign broadcasts in shortwave medium.

The marketing people at Sony came up with the term World Band as a
"sexier" alternative to shortwave, but the technology stayed the same.

http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/cr031106.html


Andre

What do you suggest? World Band Radio seem appropriate; perhaps
International Broadcast or International Broadcast Bands sound better?

Sony coined "Whole Earth Radio" then "World Band Receiver" I don't know of
any other variants. The earliest advert for Whote Earth Radio that I have
seen is the one that appeared in National Geographic, September 1980, Vol.
158, No. 3 introducing the revolutionary Sony 2001 the one that started them
all (not Sony 2001D/2010) . That ad and the ones that followed it in NG
seemed to have taken the place (if not the exact page) of the everpresent
Zenith TransOceanic ads.

RG