RADIO-RELATED STUFF: CATCHING UP ON SEVENTY WEEKS WORTH OF SHORTWAVE AND OTHER RADIO NEWS

            A giant boot to the head to all the media outlets who cut back live programming during the COVID-19 pandemic. You are the media; your job is to keep us informed. Kudos to Radio Romania International for following the reverse of this trend.

Sad about WCSQ-LP going off the air.

Also sad about KKAA going off the air. Seemed like not even a shadow of its former self, though, compared to how it did in the first few years of its existence.

Wonder why that Catholic network that was on mediumwave in Portugal shut down.

Glad Australia is at least sort of back on shortwave.

People say shortwave is a dead medium, which, granted, it is in most of the world, but it's astounding that there always seem to be new ones being planned or coming on the air.

Can't find a stream for CHAH 580 Edmonton.

When it comes to international, and for that matter, domestic public broadcasting, whether it's the VOA, Radio Canada International, Radio Australia, Radio New Zealand, or even the BBC, these days the medium is like two people running a three-legged race starting out in two different directions.

Private shortwave broadcasters won't do anything about continuing to air people like Brother Stair and Tony Alamo until we, the listeners, start doing something about it. For my part, might I suggest recruiting clients from the many Christians who are on YouTube, Blog Talk Radio and other platforms to replace those should-be banished false Christians. 

 

Is Weather Radio Canada still planning to go off the air soon?

 

Sad to hear about the death of Noel Green in the UK. I appreciated his contributions to Glenn Hauser's "World of Radio."    

Hey, CBC, rather than using Radio Canada International as a de facto third domestic service for ethnic Canadians, why don't you put third language programming on your main Radio One network, seeing as how you're always banging on about how we old stock Canadians are going to become the minority, how awesome immigration is and how poorly the Natives and Inuit have been treated. Alternatively, you could switch your second radio network, the perpetually failing CBC Music or whatever its called this week, entirely to programming in indigenous and other unofficial languages.

Emily Keene's comments on World of Radio 2068 about girls into the radio hobby shows you truly can't pigeonhole people.

If there has been more political talk on the ham bands in the last few years it is because more and more people realize there's something rotten in the state of Denmark.