From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid
On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:50:22 +0000, Bice wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 23:08:56 -0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 02 Nov 2017 21:01:03 +0000, Bice wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yeah, my wife was upset when the local NPR station went from a format
>>> of news during the day and classical music in the evenings and night
>>> to a 24 hour news format.
>>>
>>> There used to be an NPR station from Philly, I think, that I could
>>> pick up here that used to play a lot of jazz in the evenings.
>>
>>There's even some uncontaminated news feeds: the BBC World Service for
>>one.
>
> And to bring this full circle, our local NPR station can't afford
> round-the-clock staffing, so from around midnight to 6am they switch to
> the BBC World Service. I usually hear the switchover from that back to
> the local coverage as I'm driving to work in the morning.
>
Interesting: the World Service is almost never listened to it in the UK,
though it takes over the BBC Radio 4 (wall-to-wall speech: news, drama,
books, current affairs, comedy and satire) channel between 01:00 and
06:00, but that's not the audience its made for. I used to listen to it
on SW in NZ, on LW when travelling in Asia (back in the late '70s) and
again when I was working on projects in Austria and the UAE.
I admit a bias, though. I was an IT contractor in the BBC during the
early 80s, supporting BBC domestic radio and especially Radio 3, which is
basically wall-to-wall classical music with a bit of drama, jazz and
modern orchestral - think John Adams, orchestral FZ). I enjoyed working
there and liked the people a lot.
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