HDRadio.com offers an iOS app to let you find those secret HD radio stations, along with information for those Luddites who have ignored the HD radio ads for a decade.
I’m in North Carolina, and Everyone in North Careolina Loves Sports! I decline letting it GPS track me – this app is a national search, after all! So I enable a filter by Sports and click on NOrth Carolina, and this is what I get:
Instead of listing the 4 or 5 sports stations in North Carolina, it gave me a list of every small town in North Carolina, even those that have no radio station. Scrolling is not intuitive, and if you switch away from the app and come back, the app is DOA.
I’ve heard there is a great sports network in New England that carries Boston Red Sox Games. Since Breast Cancer awareness month is not over yet, maybe I can catch the World Series. I don’t know the call sign [weei]… How can I find what I’m looking for? I have no idea where the station is – Boston? New York? Maine? New Hampshire?
To do a national search, the only option is to enter a zip code. Anyone know a zip code for Kennebunkport Maine?
Probably written in the Ukraine.
It would be interesting to know how many of radio station web sites are written and maintained in India.
I subscribe to the CFR newsletter to keep an eye on what the globalists are doing. Today they realized Republicans may scuttle the TPP. Time to roll out the NSA files and put a few Republican Heads on a stick outside the village in case they start getting uppity and thinking they have a say in making decisions
Hmmmm. Word on the street there is some 33 radio stations in the U.S. and a few are HD radio that are Chinese owned? I mean ‘Red -China’ owned not the ‘Good-China’ Taiwan. Is this true?
Supposedly they are playing pro-chinese propaganda like Radio Free Europe did back in the day of the cold war.
Or is one of these daytime talk radio heads yanking my chain?
I have started looking for them
parrott
Or do a blog search here on China Radio International. If you heard that on the radio, it was from them looking at Drudge pointing to a Reuters “news” story.
There are lots of US stations carrying Russian and Persian language broadcasts. CRI is roughly what Voice of America is – it projects Chinese opinion to US listeners to promote “understanding”. Some portion of the programming is for teaching Mandarin Chinese or teaching Chinese to speak English. It’s relatively benign. I find it less objections than the BBC carried on Public Radio stations.
Here is one item from 2011
http://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=1136
well, If it is ok with by buddy Art, it is OK with me.
I think I like listening to the spaceman best with a little Evan Williams and coke. he is on that AM640 Toronto station that starts with a ‘C’. I cannot remember it .
ioys,m where is our old bud CC, he maybe deer hunt’n this time of the year. Hey Art I bougth an new CB radios , got me one of those skip anteenna’s I can hear guys in arizona. I know I can talk to Charlotte! will holler at you one evening .
Parrott
I don’t have a CB radio 😉
CFRB?
China just allowed direct currency trades between the yuan and the Swiss Franc. Back when the Soviet Union was falling apart, I wondered if a failed Communist country was less of a threat than a successful “free” Russia. China is even more so. Get used to liking ramen noodles and riding a bicycle
That would be CFMJ. CFRM is 1010.
http://www.640toronto.com/
BTW, Nearly all the stations that are in “legacy Canada” start with a C, as do those in Cuba. In fact the second letter in is also significant in terms of geography, note the Toronto stations start with a CF. 😉
Wikipedia has a chart of this I remember looking at a while back
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_prefix
It’s a little confusing at first – each letter of the alphabet is subdivided. 16 countries share the letter C. The ITU covers not just broadcast radio and TV, but things like amateur radio call signs. I haven’t traveled outside of the US and Canada, but my sense is this convention isn’t used outside of North America. Relatively few US TV and FM stations “brand themselves by the callsign, instead using Eyewitness News 7 or Froggy 109.3 – since they are normally line of sight only, you don’t normally see Over the Air TV stations from 1000 miles away.
When my family was living in Statesville NC, I did once experience ionospheric reflection – channel 2 and 3 were the most suspectible. It was near sunset and lasted around an hour. We didn’t have an outside antenna – this was just the antenna built into a portable TV. My memory is fuzzy, but I think the station was in Denver (CO), but it might have been Dayton. My dad was not overly interested in this, which surprised me a bit.
That is a cool Wiki link. Another on North American call signs pointed out that while the ITU reserves the CB prefix for Chile, the Canadian government uses it anyway for its own Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stations.
The province of “Newfoundland and Labrador” was governed out of the UK for the first half of the 20th century and didn’t join Canada until after WWII, so its stations still start with a V rather than a C.
You’re never too old to learn new things. We probably mentioned it before, but for newcomers, France still claims to possess islands just off the coast of Canada. Maybe Canada should invade and start a Falklands style war
Oh hell yeah !
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-radio/
Interesting. I will have to see what they say. I have been listening to Canadian radio so I can lean to speak Canadian. : )
parrott