running dogg wrote:

Don Del Grande wrote:

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. 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).

Where is the BBC World Service FM relay in San Francisco? The only FM
presence I am aware of in the area is KQED FM, and that's just one
hour or so of news per day, isn't it?

From what I've heard, KALW, the SF school district station, broadcasts
Newshour at 2pm. I've never actually heard it here, but I read that in
the Chronicle in an article making fun of the BBC's style.

As I thought - it's not a 24-hour-a-day sort of thing. (KQED
simulcasts BBCWS Mon-Fri at 9-10 PM and 1-2 AM (except that Friday
night/Saturday morning is only 1:30-2 AM), and weekends 3-4 PM. (The
online stream also carries BBCWS when the over-the-air station covers
something that they're not allowed to have on the stream for whatever
reason. I remember listening to KALW broadcast old "The Goon Show"
episodes when I was in college 20 years ago.)

Actually, a number of cable systems in the San Francisco area have BBC
World Service 24 hours a day if you hook the cable up to a radio with
an external FM antenna connection (the service is provided by C-SPAN).
I don't remember any show ever being removed from the broadcast
(including the 1990 World Cup Final - I for one listened to it on BBC
while watching the SIN/Univision broadcast with the TV sound turned
down, rather than the ABC broadcast (which had commercials at the
time)). (I have a feeling I wasn't alone; the BBC would not broadcast
the 1994 final except on a special frequency to a small part of the
world.)

-- Don