RadioBanter - The end?

adam214 wrote:

Mark Zenier wrote:
In article ,
David wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:29:16 GMT, (Mark Zenier)
wrote:
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Huh? East Asia Today disappeared a year or so ago with much complaint
from the listening public.
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Since I get the World Service 24/7 in breathtaking hifi sound via XM
and Sirius I haven't seen any need to torture myself with the
Singapore relay.

Singapore (and Thailand) has been notably crappy this time of year.
9740 is weak, except for maybe an hour or so around sunrise, 6195 is
full of Mongolian interference, and 7160 has something else stepping on
it, too. Some days, the best signal at 16:30 is 3915, and that's not
saying much.

The French Guiana is coming in ok in the afternoon but that's pretty
much the same vanilla Beeb news/chat you can get on the local NPR
station late at night. My local NPR outfit has an allergy to
broadcasting the Beeb's best (IMHO) stuff, the science shows and
documentaries. And the shortwave drops out at 01:00 for an hour
when the documentarys come on.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

I'm lucky i live in Australia, whilst most stations don't broadcast to
Australia directly.But im close proximity to Asia so i can piggy back
and listen to Asian streams, especially the SE asian one and sometimes
the S asia ones (esp DW radio).Also you can listen to Radio Australia in
USA and almost everywhere, despite being underfunded as is ABC
(australia broadcasting corporation)generally.You hear genuine
australian stuff not just stuff broken down in bite size pieces for
world consumption.Hell i even listen to this its better than the
mainstream media in Australia.Sorry to peddle but it is good.

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/tuning/unitedstates.htm

Yours truly
Adam

I've listened to RA's news programs, and they are mainly of interest to
local and regional audiences. As a news junkie, I find that unfortunate.
I find that the BBC and RN (and DW, although DW can't be heard in
English to the Americas any more) have much better news coverage, with
the Beeb being the most inclusive. I've heard complaints that the best
of RA's feature programming isn't audible in the US at all, or is on at
inconvenient times, probably as a result of the massive time difference
between Australia and the US. In short RA is very much a regional
broadcaster. I suppose that if you're in Australia or the South Pacific,
that would be nice. But for Americans it's boring. Plus, I have a real
hard time forgiving RA for broadcasting weeks of cricket while the
tsunami disaster was unfolding in their backyard. I had to turn to the
Beeb, and I never looked back.