KDKA IS 90 THIS YEAR!

[loeper]

I actuallY HAVE a shortwave radio someplace. after these posts I am thinking of digging it out and dusting it off to see what I have been missing. sounds like a lot of total nut jobs out there to listen too.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Haven't really played with a shortwave since I was a kid and enjoyed laughing at Vladimir Posner's Soviet propaganda
that was coming out of Radio Moscow. (must run in the gene pool....my father says his grandfather liked to sit
at his shortwave and scoff at the B.S. that Joseph Goebbels was putting out there in the 30's. Antenna brackets
are still on that house).

 

[almaniac27]

Haven't really played with a shortwave since I was a kid and enjoyed laughing at Vladimir Posner's Soviet propaganda
that was coming out of Radio Moscow. (must run in the gene pool....my father says his grandfather liked to sit
at his shortwave and scoff at the B.S. that Joseph Goebbels was putting out there in the 30's. Antenna brackets
are still on that house).

I think North Korea has an english-language propaganda broadcast, I bet it's good for a chuckle or two.

 

[Savage]

"KDKA doesn't sound a day over 85." ZZZZZzzzzzz

Don't you mean: FFFFFFfffffff (simulated IBOC)

 

[Der BURGHermeister]

They did a broadcast from the Vintage Grand Prix but their listeners thought it was a car lot remote. ; )

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

The big one left is WWCR out of Nashville. They let pretty much any nutcase with enough money on, I was listening once and some guy goes on a rant claiming that the secret world government is run by a cabal of lesbians.

Do you know that American shortwave outlets aren't supposed to target domestic listeners?

Oh, in practice, WWCR and the like do just that...but their patterns filed with the FCC aim from Tenneesee to, say, Europe or Mexico, and what do ya know...a bunch of U.S. population is in between.

WBCQ does the same out of far eastern Maine. Their transmitter is about a 2 minute drive from the Canadian border, and they aim at "Mexico" or "Central America" from good ol' Monticello ME.

There is no FCC program control for SW stations, just like there is no control over the programming AM and FM stations air (the FCC has an FAQ on this, and no, you can't complain if your local station dropped classical music). Thus, WWCR and WBCQ and others are free to run programs that would naturally target domestic audiences.