Re: CHAT: Names of radiostations (was: Re: The young Tolkien)

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> > [...], NRJ (for young teens, endlessly repetitive), [...]
Lars Henrik Mathiesen:

>It took me a while to find out that NRJ is supposed to stand for
>energy. I'm guessing that it started in Sweden, where the name of <j> is
>/j\i/ (or something like that). <NRJ> = /enER"j\i/ =
><energi>.
Actually, that's a French station, so <j> should be
pronounced [Z]. In Sweden we say "energy". I guess
that makes a lot of Swedish teens think that English
<j> is pronounced [dZi]. The way we pronounce it, it
should be named "NRG". Or, of course, teach people that
it's a French station.

>(Before that, it also took me a while to figure out that /es\ji/ on Swedish
>news was the state railways: <SJ> = Svenska Järnvägar (sp?)).
Close. It's "Statens Järnvägar." :)

Regarding callsigns, I've gone through the entire site
of the Swedish national radiostation SR, and not been
able to find any info on callsigns whatsoever.

Oh, and in Stockholm we have a bunch of radiostations
and none of them are called either the call sign or
the frequency. Off the top of my head we have SR P1,
SR P2, SR P3, SR P4, NRJ/Energy, Power Hit Radio,
Mix Megapol, Lugna Favoriter ("Slow Favourites"),
Vinyl 107 (actually, that one's on 107.1), WOW!,
Easy, Radio City and Radio Stockholm, plus a load of local
stations, which are called Radio + the area in which it's
broadcast (like Radio Botkyrka and Radio Nacka).

All of these stations suck except the SR stations.
I only listen to P3.

||| daniel

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