New BBC and Absolute radio streaming URLS

I don't know about usage in Germany, but in (IME) in the UK, Australia, and NZ "radio" might mean any kind of radio broadcast of audio, whether of speech, music, weird experimental sound sculptures, etc; or combinations thereof.

#Paul

Radio (or wireless!) in the UK effectively means 'sound transmission by radio waves' If it's speech, it's colloquially known as 'talk radio'. Sometimes.

it's different for him locally, or maybe he invented his own meaning.

Also, it is known to happen that German people, too, get their music from sources other than dead relatives.

Most classical music is from dead people.

Oddly enough my father - long since dead - only left a few records of note.

Some wartime jazz, and a dreadful song

But it did wake me up to the steel guitar, which although I never learnt to play one, I still love to hear played well...

I think he means speech radio, i.e. BBC Radio 4 in the UK, WOR in New York City and 2YA in NZ.

We need a better description than 'talk radio': there is far too much crap and assorted political raving around to lump it all together under that the same heading as Radio 4 or WOR.

At least when one of the political ravers is called a 'shock jock' you know what to expect.

The best steel guitar player I've seen live is B J Cole, whi has been known to tour with Hank Wangford & the Lost Cowboys. I don't normally listen to C&W, but I'll go to one of their gigs any time.

Indeed. Radio 4 is definitely far too much crap and assorted political raving...

Indeed. Instead if being called an 'expert' or a 'political commentator'

Ah - Hank Wangford, yes, great boys and girls!

Ah they gigging this year?

Same here of course. But this thread began with the topic of quality at the top. Of course most stations and all the local ones offer little more than a sound background fpr the advertisements. But BBC, especially Radio 4 and to a far lesser degree some German programs are different.

Nothing on their website ATM: Hank is getting on a bit, so I'll be a little surprised if they hit to road again. I last saw him during one of his Village Halls gigs, so a while ago.

Surely not true since the development of electric music.

When I listen to a Philip Glass piano piece, I'm listening to classical music IMHO.

In the UK, the principal supporter of classical composers for a while was the Grateful Dead.

Stephen

One of the best orchestral concerts I've been to was at Cambridge Corn Exchange in 2000, when the Britten Sinfonia played a concert of pieces by John Adams and Frank Zappa.

Definitely a good fit in the Contemporary Classical category.

I would say the reverse. there is far less advertising on radio than on television, and the BBC advertises more than anyone. Its just paid for by the EU and by the license fee payer, and consists of wall to wall progressive left Marxist and woke propaganda

Billy Joel's album _Fantasies & Delusions_ is a collection of classical compositions for solo piano. It was released on the Sony Classical label. A nice touch was the way the album cover adopted the look of the sheet music publications of G. Schirmer, Inc.

In every country you were is at least one classical music station on FM.

France: France Musique (already mentioned)

Belgium (French speaking): RTBF Musiq 3: RTBF listening does not work on my PC, this one works:

Belgium (Dutch speaking): VRT Klara

Netherlands: NPO Radio 4 I hate it when the music is played in a website and not in a separate TAB.

WDR 3

Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz (Koblenz, etc)

listening in website, or here:

Germany, Nationwide (DAB+, but not everywhere on FM) Deutschlandfunk Kultur (not 24h classical music) FM-Frequencies:

Germany, Nationwide (DAB+, but not everywhere on FM) Klassik Radio (commercial) Not on FM in Nordrhein-Westfalen and Rheinland-Pfalz

Have fun! Rink

Op 14-3-2021 om 9:49 schreef Unsteadyken:

I do not see links to radio stations on this website....

I wonder whether anyone has considered running studios a couple of seconds early (so when they play the pips at 12:00:00 it's actually 11:59:58) and delaying FM by the same amount that DAB is inherently delayed, to keep them in sync ;-)

For a station that only plays recorded music and doesn't have any second-accurate timechecks, they don't even need to run the studio early.

Or do different radios have different amounts of buffering of the received data before playing it as an analogue feed to the speaker?

That choice is up to the designers of the radio. A longer buffer gives more resilience against temporary delays in transmission.

David