I worked with John when he was head of news for Univision, and then did several of the Radio Martí evaluations and some unnamed projects with him as well. He is indeed on of the very best I have ever worked with.
Interestingly, and testament to the way-back death of shortwave radio, in the 60's I was able to review the raw "street" data from the ratings in the principal Ecuadorian cities. Because they did in-home coincidental with only prior hours recall, they had to do tens of thousands of interviews.
and? He claimed not to know Project 1933, oops, 2025. This may be a shock: it was a total lie. As is the no cuts to social security thing.
It does make one wonder who, other than hobbyists and diplomats, were listening to all these shortwave stations even in the 70s. I suppose SOMEBODY entered Radio Moscow's essay contests LOL. I was a pretty avid listener Radio Nederland, Radio Canada International and a few others (even the ever-present HCJB, which gave me my first exposure to "Jesus Rock"), but ministries and governments spent a lot of money on these stations--what were they actually gaining?
Please! The Project 2025 does have considerable overlap with much of the Republican platform, but that does not mean that Trump has ever endorsed that initiative nor does he agree with all the points in it. He did not write it,, he did not endorse it and obviously did not read it.
I entered one of their essay contests as a sixth-grade kid in 1967. The contest was centered around the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and involved answering a number of questions about Russian and Soviet history, as well as some more current topics.
Did you see the vintage Crosley transmitters? Those dated from the mid-1930s and early 1940s. Some continued in operation as late as 1989.
Yet that perspective ignores the fact that, now, about two generations after shortwave was at all common in any part of the world, nearly nobody has a radio with any shortwave bands on it.
What difference does that make in evaluating the effectiveness of a radio band that next to no one can listen to now?
Traditional transmission depends on both a transmitter and a receiver. Where in the world today would you find homes with shortwave radios in them?
China has domestic SW in the less urban areas to the West and Northwest, and has a good number of stations. In most urban areas, though, people will not have SW radios.
Yes I did! They had the 175kW Crosleys and 250kW newer Collins. Those are still there at the now-museum.
It's odd that Trump supposedly had no idea who the title sponsor of his own convention was (The Heritage Foundation). Really, it doesn't have to even be fully enacted on the federal level, red states are already enacting it and with no federal DOJ to push back will turn most of them into theocracies
The BBC has only recently allowed Americans to watch their stream without a cable subscription.
I entered a couple of those! Didn't win, though, which was probably a good thing since doing so might have earned me an FBI or CIA dossier. Come to think of it, I probably have one as a result of receiving a copy of Mao's "little red book" and several issues of Peking Review from Radio Peking in the late '60s. In 1970, I was one of the half-dozen winners of a letter-writing contest held by Radio Canada's "Listeners' Corner" mailbag program. I got several LPs of Canadian music (folk and classical) and the thrill of hearing my letter read on 9625 khz!
The BBC’s current international efforts revolve around the video news channel, as well as the World Service audio webstream, local rebroadcasters, and podcasting.
From the age of 11 onwards I received all kinds of material from places that would have been considered adversaries of the U.S., including many communist bloc countries. I figured even then that corresponding with such stations probably earned me a FBI and/or CIA file. Did I ever care about that? NO!!!😛🤣
