wrote in message
oups.com...
I also thought it was interesting that they seem to be keeping track
of
"page impressions" (which I take to be 'hits) on their website. You
can
have a whole lot of hits without anyone actually bothering to read
anything! Consequently, getting lots of hits does *not* mean you're
getting your message out.

Hell, search engines do a lot of hitting these days;
popularity shouldn't be based on the number of
hits a web site gets.

--Mike L.

Yeah, and when they can get a shortwave radio for
1/5 the cost of the Worldspace receiver, guess what
they'll get??

--Mike L.


"David" wrote in message
...
They share.

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:45:25 GMT, "David Eduardo"
wrote:


"David" wrote in message
.. .
On 19 Mar 2005 19:23:57 -0800, (Jim) wrote:


The BBC West Asia service is available Free to anyone in Nepal
with a
$200 Worldspace receiver.

Which is about twice the average monthly income of a Nepalese, I
believe.

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:25:04 -0500, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:

Yeah, and when they can get a shortwave radio for
1/5 the cost of the Worldspace receiver, guess what
they'll get??

--Mike L.

Y'all really are dinosaurs. It's the 21st Century. Lo:

http://www.firstvoiceint.org/How/Satellite.html

David wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:25:04 -0500, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:

Yeah, and when they can get a shortwave radio for
1/5 the cost of the Worldspace receiver, guess what
they'll get??

--Mike L.

Y'all really are dinosaurs. It's the 21st Century. Lo:

http://www.firstvoiceint.org/How/Satellite.html

Nah, we're just still smart enough to operate a SW receiver, 'tard boy!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

David wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:25:04 -0500, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:

Yeah, and when they can get a shortwave radio for
1/5 the cost of the Worldspace receiver, guess what
they'll get??

--Mike L.

Y'all really are dinosaurs. It's the 21st Century. Lo:

http://www.firstvoiceint.org/How/Satellite.html

Move along, 'tard boy... there's no satellite radio to be heard here.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

David wrote:

On 19 Mar 2005 19:23:57 -0800, (Jim) wrote:
......
The BBC West Asia service is available Free to anyone in Nepal
with a $200 Worldspace receiver.

http://www.worldspace.com/programmin..._asiastar.html

Except that in April Worldspace is going to
encryption and will require a monthly license, more
than the monthly income of most Nepalis etc.

Radio for the elites indeed.
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see]http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~vz6g-iwt/index.html

Dan Say wrote:

David wrote:

On 19 Mar 2005 19:23:57 -0800, (Jim) wrote:
......
The BBC West Asia service is available Free to anyone in Nepal
with a $200 Worldspace receiver.

http://www.worldspace.com/programmin..._asiastar.html

Except that in April Worldspace is going to
encryption and will require a monthly license, more
than the monthly income of most Nepalis etc.

Radio for the elites indeed.

Problem is, the elites are all the suits at the BBC care about. They've
even said that they don't want to be heard by the average person. So
they're going to satellite radio and FM relays in cities where the rich
and powerful congregate (there's one in San Francisco but not in
Sacramento; I doubt very much that Omaha will ever have any BBC
programming). Apparently the BBC is just interested in narrowcasting-the
selected targeting of the rich and powerful to the exclusion of
everybody else. It's a sad end to what was once the great news reporting
service in the world, the one that tried to tell the news honestly to as
many people as it could reach.


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"David" wrote in message
...


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:25:04 -0500, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:

Yeah, and when they can get a shortwave radio for
1/5 the cost of the Worldspace receiver, guess what
they'll get??

--Mike L.

Y'all really are dinosaurs. It's the 21st Century. Lo:

http://www.firstvoiceint.org/How/Satellite.html

Still costs too much, because the "as little as $150"
is not what they will pay; in the third world, it
tends to cost higher. Many people there already
own shortwaves and they don't have our need to
have the latest gadget.

If it's the 21st Century, how come we're still listening
to AM radio and watching analog televisions??

--Mike L.

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Jim wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:23:26 -0800, running dogg
wrote:

Problem is, the elites are all the suits at the BBC care about.
They've
even said that they don't want to be heard by the average person.

They have? Link, please?

Yes, they have. Don't have a link at hand, but they have indeed
indicated in the
past that they are more interested perhaps in reaching the elites
who have a
hand in shaping policy, etc.

You'd have to go back and research the shortwave literature.

There's a reference in the 2003 Passport, page 81. The
current head of the BBC sniffs at the idea of wanting
to be heard by Detroit automobile workers.

--Mike L.

"David" wrote in message
...

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:21:18 -0500, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:



Still costs too much, because the "as little as $150"
is not what they will pay; in the third world, it
tends to cost higher. Many people there already
own shortwaves and they don't have our need to
have the latest gadget.

If it's the 21st Century, how come we're still listening
to AM radio and watching analog televisions??

--Mike L.

$68 wholesale. There is a foundation.

AM radio and analog TV aren't relevant.

Tell that one to the people who own the stations. Locally,
the AM stations do quite well against the FM stations,
and there's a big reason why some industry types
are getting worried about the cutover to digital
television; not enough people are buying digital
tv's.

--Mike L.