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non-USA Radio Programs on USA OTA Radio

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Although numerous British TV shows have been/are on USA OTA TV (usually PBS), I'm not aware of any music oriented radio programs produced outside the USA (maybe BBC radio or maybe Australian radio - due to the language issue).

Perhaps an "International Hour" of BBC/Australian produced radio content could garner significant ratings on USA OTA radio.


Kirk Bayne
 
kfbkfb said:
Although numerous British TV shows have been/are on USA OTA TV (usually PBS), I'm not aware of any music oriented radio programs produced outside the USA (maybe BBC radio or maybe Australian radio - due to the language issue).

Perhaps an "International Hour" of BBC/Australian produced radio content could garner significant ratings on USA OTA radio.


Kirk Bayne
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I can't think of any international music programs in the US either. KBCO Denver suppoesdly plays music from around the World? Of course, NPR stations have the BBC world service.
 
kfbkfb said:
Although numerous British TV shows have been/are on USA OTA TV (usually PBS), I'm not aware of any music oriented radio programs produced outside the USA (maybe BBC radio or maybe Australian radio - due to the language issue).

Perhaps an "International Hour" of BBC/Australian produced radio content could garner significant ratings on USA OTA radio.


Kirk Bayne
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Who would listen, other than expatriates of those countries now living in the US? In any case, streaming is a better platform for such programming.
 
KeithE4 said:
I'm still trying to figure out exactly who is listening to the BBC overnights. Insomniac academics?
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I’m listening to BBC News on KUHF here in Houston as I type this. I enjoy the broad international coverage of world events that are too often overlooked or ignored by American media.

Been listening to the BBC World Service since 1966, so longtime fan.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
I’m listening to BBC News on KUHF here in Houston as I type this. I enjoy the broad international coverage of world events that are too often overlooked or ignored by American media.

Been listening to the BBC World Service since 1966, so longtime fan.
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No argument with either paragraph. But after 11 PM, I'm sleeping, not listening.
 
Possibly top songs of the week countdown show(s) [BBC - Australian radio - Indian radio?].

Could fill a couple of hours on a Sunday night, for example.


Kirk Bayne
 
kfbkfb said:
Possibly top songs of the week countdown show(s) [BBC - Australian radio - Indian radio?].

Could fill a couple of hours on a Sunday night, for example.
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Definitely not the BBC's countdown show. The Official Chart, which airs on BBC Radio 1, is broadcast live on Friday from 11:00 am to 12:45 pm Eastern Time (which is afternoon rush hour in the UK). By the time Sunday arrives, the week's singles chart will already have been available for two days.

Official Singles Chart Top 100
 
I listen to BBC overnights, either on KUOW (the local NPR FM) or KOAC, an AMer out of Oregon. It's more interesting than anything else on at night, aside from the South Asian music a station up north plays between 2-6 a.m.

I think Chinese media companies have placed their programming on some US stations, but I'm not sure if it's still going, or how many stations actually carried the programming. A lot of NPR stations carry the CBC's "As It Happens", and the community station I used to work at carried CBC Sunday Morning.

I think the CBC used to have an international overnight show, where the BBC, Deutsche Welle, ABC Australia, and a few other international broadcasters' news and feature programs played. That was years ago, though.
 
CBC still has their overnight show on their network each night. I wish that they would air it here in the USA on public radio.
 
boombox4 said:
I think Chinese media companies have placed their programming on some US stations,
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Correct, as well as Radio Sputnik from Russia.

One of the problems with BBC and other foreign programming is it tends to be non-commercial, and requires someone to edit the programming to insert breaks for commercial stations. Otherwise, it airs on non-commercial stations.
 
BBC News we've already covered. Technically World Cafe on many public stations.

Would anyone be interested in a music show from the UK? I'm not feeling it for current music but oldies? You might find a niche for a syndicated (or NPR) couple of hours covering 60s/70s/80s charts, and how they differed from the US (especially with punk, which we re-branded as New Wave.).

My experience isn't typical, but in my SWL days in the 70s I regularly listened to "Records 'Round the World" on the BBCWS and some music shows on Radio Nederland.
 
WPLN (AM) in Nashville runs nothing but a simulcast of the BBC World Service 24/7. There are a couple of stations in DC which are just China Radio International or Radio Sputnik - are there any other stations which do nothing but simulcast a non-US station?
 
kfbkfb said:
Although numerous British TV shows have been/are on USA OTA TV (usually PBS), I'm not aware of any music oriented radio programs produced outside the USA (maybe BBC radio or maybe Australian radio - due to the language issue).
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Most of the local NPR affiliated news stations already air the BBC during overnights.
 
kfbkfb said:
I was thinking about music programs, it seems like it could be interesting to hear the weekly music countdown shows (even if the song list has already been published) on the BBC and Australian (and maybe Indian) radio.
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Interesting, yes. Profitable, no. That's why it's not done. Have you tried seeking these shows out online?

Here's a link to a radio station in India:

 
I did listen online briefly, the non-USA shows could be used to fill Sunday nights on OTA commercial radio.


Kirk Bayne
 
Those issues could be handled by a USA Satellite based music delivery service, the result would similar to the USA sourced syndicated content that now plays in the evenings on many USA commercial radio stations.


Kirk Bayne
 
kfbkfb said:
Those issues could be handled by a USA Satellite based music delivery service, the result would similar to the USA sourced syndicated content that now plays in the evenings on many USA commercial radio stations.
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not gonna happen. It's cheaper to create their own in-house. If it's something you're interested in, you should seek it out.
 
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