Has anyone here ever listened to the BBC stations via the Internet? I'm an especially big fan of BBC-2, which is targeted at adults, I suppose 25-54, and promotes itself as the most listened to radio station in the world.
A terrific mix of pop/rock music, interviews, fun and games, and most of all, personalities. Very smart, witty, articulate folks, but also very accessible and down-to-earth. Steve Wright (on here from 8-11 a.m.) is really great. Amazing to hear them do traffic reports on a national scale. Evenings (there, starting about 1 p.m. our time), you hear a lot of specialized programs, musical docs and so on.
I fell in love with BBC-2 when I made a trip to Great Britain years ago, and I've been listening to it ever since.
Question is: Does something like this have a place here? I think NPR would do well to develop somthing like it. BBC-2 is, to me, far broader in appeal than what NPR does (a little too upper crusty for me) yet still very high in quality.
A terrific mix of pop/rock music, interviews, fun and games, and most of all, personalities. Very smart, witty, articulate folks, but also very accessible and down-to-earth. Steve Wright (on here from 8-11 a.m.) is really great. Amazing to hear them do traffic reports on a national scale. Evenings (there, starting about 1 p.m. our time), you hear a lot of specialized programs, musical docs and so on.
I fell in love with BBC-2 when I made a trip to Great Britain years ago, and I've been listening to it ever since.
Question is: Does something like this have a place here? I think NPR would do well to develop somthing like it. BBC-2 is, to me, far broader in appeal than what NPR does (a little too upper crusty for me) yet still very high in quality.