John: I wholeheartedly agree that the BBCWS of today is not the same as it once was. But, since I can't get the BBCWS via SW despite all the wishing I might do, I might as well extend that wishing to be for the "old" BBCWS <grin>. There is something about British English speakers that draws me in, just like their television programs on public TV.
I suspect that if I had an easy-to-use WiFi receiver, I'd set up my playlist to allow me to switch around between feeds of BBC R4 and R3, occasionally BBCWS, likely RNW, and maybe some CBC, as the moods would take me. But, alas, I don't have such a device yet. Since we are talking about it, I just started up a feed of BBC R4 on the computer to listen to for awhile.... Kevin --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kevin: > > I can say that clearly my BBCWS listening has fallen > precipitously. > It may be in part out of lingering resentment for the manner > in which > they dropped shortwave to NA, but I honestly think it's more > due to > the changes in WS programming policy that has turned it mostly > into a > news channel with frequent repetition of bulletins and > reports. It's > just not as interesting to me as a whole in that form. Having > said > that, I still think it's a valuable and valued service with > some > interesting and well produced content. But it definitely is > more uni- > dimensional than it once was in the recent past. > > John Figliozzi -- ------------------------------------- Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com http://postoilgeography.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
