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

* John Cowan said on 2001-07-13 14:34:22 +0200
> taliesin the storyteller scripsit:
> > That is: they never say it [callsigns] on the air,
>
> Really?  I thought it was the relevant international treaties
> (not just domestic regulations) that required the callsign to be
> broadcast at least once an hour during normal hours of operation.
The names are usually short (to fit in a RDS-screen I guess, see
http://www.rds.org.uk/rds98/whatisrds.htm). On my radio at home I
have NRK P1, NRK P2, NRK P3, NRK MP3, NRK alltid klassisk (~always
classical), NRK alltid nyheter (~always news, with BBC World in the
evenings and night), NRK alltid storting (live transmissions from
parliament) which are the state-run ones, RADIO 1 and P4 (typical
trucker-channels), NRJ (for young teens, endlessly repetitive),
the Voice (mostly various variants of house), and a weird one at
100.0 FM with fundamental christians some days and a far-right youth
party (fundies in their own way) others... well that's the ones I
can recall right now anyway. No talk-radio, and all FM. I've never
found any stations on AM or short/medium/long wave.


t., who hates NRJ because it blocks out the Voice

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