** GREECE [and non]. Metropolitan Opera live broadcast on SW! Saturday April 9 at 1850 as I tune across fair 15630, V. of Greece, am surprised to hear two YLs in English discussing Handel and Rossini, one of whom is Renée Fleming. Sounds like a Met intermission feature, and then Greek voice-over translation. This is happening only because of the strike in Greece, as VOG plugs into an ERA domestic network authorized to carry this, but back at Lincoln Center they are very protective of Met broadcast rights, and would likely nix it getting out for one and all to hear on SW. Fortunately the voice-over translator person is not on strike, whew.
Per http://www.operainfo.org/ this week it is `Le Comte Ory`, an obscure opera by Rossini, and indeed for the single intermission just ending, ``Renée Fleming interviews Diana Damrau and Joyce DiDonato``. As music resumes (without voice-overs!), I also check our local MORN affiliate, KCSC 90.1 OKC and match it up to 15630, except KCSC is running 8 seconds behind VOG, maybe its own self-imposed delay to match analog with tardy IBOC. In case there are more strikes subsequent Saturdays, this year`s Met season runs thru May 14, all starting at 1700 UT except the last, ``Die Walküre`` an hour earlier in order to get the patrons out before dark. Ha, the penultimate, May 7 has a Greek angle, Strauss` ``Ariadne auf Naxos``, altho set in Wien. BTW, if you miss a live Saturday Met broadcast, you may catch it 8 days later on Radio Cultura FM, São Paulo webcast, Sundays at 1800 UT, via http://www2.tvcultura.com.br/radiofm/programacaofm.asp I wonder if they have to wait for a CD in the mail? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. V of Turkey, UT Sunday April 10 at 0313-0332, `DX Corner`, listened on webcast. Started with radio news items, none of which mentioned SW frequencies – R. Nepal at 61, new Sudan opposition station by youth, VOA via Maputo FM, Bangladesh gets Thomson SW transmitter, Egypt broadcasting officials sacked, H20/shower radio --- look familiar? We`ve seen them all somewhere in the last two weeks; it seems that at least four of them appeared on the Media Network blog. Is that one of never-credited sources? After annoying pop music break, read a bunch of reception reports starting with Dario Gabrielli in Italy. The last one asked that scripts of the radio news be posted on website in case one missed the program. Can`t do that, she said, too understaffed, but will add `DX Corner` to seven available podcasts. She also invited suggestions on how to improve the program, adding or subtracting features. How about some real and attributed DX news to justify calling it `DX Corner`?? And can the reading of reception reports, of no interest to other listeners. Also publish or even spell her name instead of mumbling it, so I don`t have to refer just to ``she/her`` as host/ess. BTW, elsewhen on VOT I still hear the familiar voice of Sheref Isler, who supposedly left the station last year, or was it 2009, and requested us to remove all previous references to his name in DXLD. Is he back, or are we only hearing old continuity announcements and program reruns? Finally found the podcast page: http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/Galeri/Podcast.aspx?dil=en and it looks like there are 18 of them, with DX Corner now at the top of the list. In fact, all eight fortnightly editions so far this year are available. But I`d rather pick up some of the feature shows. At 0343 I check the SW frequency 9515 and find it with a quite good signal during the music fill portion of the broadcast. // 6165 eastward of course is totally blocked here by RNW Bonaire. Are TRT quite confident none of that signal will mar reception in its own target area? IIRC, 9515 is the frequency R. Ankara was using when I first heard it in the late 1950s or early 1960s; quite nostalgic. BTW, during this very same hour on UT Sundays, and lasting until 0700 UT, is an excellent world music show on KALW San Francisco, `Tangents`, webcasting via http://www.kalw.org/listen.html Its host Dore Stein is partial to Turkey, having led several musical tours there, but taking a break this year, instead bringing Turkish musicians to the Bay Area. More at http://www.tangents.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### _______________________________________________ Internetradio mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/internetradio To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
