Posts Tagged: Radio and TV

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Posted by Alan McLeod on Tuesday, July 1, 2003 in Radio and TV, Me and Mine, Food and Drink - 5 comments

...and I am going to quit playing for a while. 11 days off. Drove for 4 of them. 3300 km or so. Other 7 full of cleaning out the house which appears to have sold pending closing. Some thoughts from between Kingston and PEI, the length of the St.Lawrence: • The two best looking parts of Canada on …

Web Radio

Posted by Alan McLeod on Thursday, June 19, 2003 in Radio and TV, Web, Blogging and Computers - 3 comments

I love web radio as I love radio. You don't get the romance of the signal fading in and out but crappy buffering almost makes up for it. I love media that let you know they are there. I have recently switched to using the Windows Media Player - and it's excellent listings pages - and so have had …

I watch TV

Posted by Alan McLeod on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 in Radio and TV - leave a comment

I watched some TV this week and I learned some things: • The second greatest Briton who ever lived, according to a BBC 2 vote held last November was Isambard Kingdom Brunel maker of bridges, ships and tunnels in the mid-1800's. His largest ship that saw service, the SS Great Eastern, laid the …

WBZ

Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, June 13, 2003 in Radio and TV - 4 comments

I am listening to WBZ radio 1030 AM here on the east end of Lake Ontario with pretty much the same signal strength I had most nights in PEI. WBZ is the oldest licenced station in North America operating now for 83 years. They claim they are heard throughout the continent east of the Rockies …

CBC Radio 3 wins Webby awards

Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, June 6, 2003 in Radio and TV, Web, Blogging and Computers - leave a comment

The Webby Awards were awarded yesterday out of San Fran and CBC Radio 3 has won the Broadband category. You have to have broadband to get this service in both senses of the word "get". There is a lot coming at you in both sound and vision. Peter has called CBC Radio 3 and certain other CBC …

Radio Boy

Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, May 18, 2003 in Radio and TV, Me and Mine - leave a comment

There are certain personal interests one is wise not discussing during courting. One of mine is the habit of listening to long distance radio in the middle of the night. I have about ten radios including a real nice wind-up model originally designed for third world listeners to BBC World Service …

Davids Swick and Bowie

Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, May 16, 2003 in Radio and TV, Music and Sound - 2 comments

I got my new copy of the CD soundtrack to Christiane F, a cheery little movie about a teenage addict in West Berlin in the 1970's. I saw the movie when it first came out at Wormwoods in Halifax in 1981 or so and soon after picked up the lp which I had until one of the record purges during …

CB Radio for Today

Posted by Alan McLeod on Saturday, May 3, 2003 in Radio and TV, Web, Blogging and Computers, Music and Sound - 2 comments

Jevon has recently written about egos and blogging. This made me consider what writing on these things is like and I keep coming back to that wonderfully dead-end technology of the 1970's - CB radio. • In both, you get on the medium, yap about what ever comes into your head and use funny names …

Brent

Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, April 27, 2003 in Radio and TV - 5 comments

I have developed a bad habit of emailing Brent Bambury over the last few weeks. I can't help it. Those of you out of the Eastern Ontario range of CBC radio will only know him as the former host of CBC TV's Midday and the current host of Radio 1's Groove Shinney. Luckily for we in Kingston and East …