[PRCo] Re: DW

[Fred Schneider]

I take something back ... it's been so long since I listened in the  
middle of the night that WITF no longer broadcasts DW, I suspect in  
response to a lack of public interest in world events.

On Aug 29, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Deutsche Welle is also a news service that broadcasts in the United
> States to English and German speaking listeners and to readers over
> the internet.   They broadcast in other parts of the world in 28
> other languages.  There are four links below.  The first is the link
> to their regular written news on the internet off my bookmarks.
>
> WITF-FM, the public radio station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
> alternates Deutsche Welle's broadcasts in German and English at 2 AM,
> 3 AM, 4 AM and 5 AM and they also broadcast over the internet.   That
> is the second link below.    I've found that, with the American
> public loosing interest in world events, I have to try a little
> harder to find out what is going on beyond our borders and what the
> rests of the world is saying about us.   There may be some place in
> your local area that also carries it.   Unfortunately, the hours are
> simply typical ... they run it in the middle of the night because no
> one give a damn about anything outside their own little pond.
>
> The final two like from Wikipedia, the on-line, you can edit it
> yourself encyclopedia, explain DW and new DW for those who care to
> read it.   Basically DW started out as a new service similar to Radio
> Free Europe.   New DW is a musical service.   But you can read the
> details or ignore.
>
> The third link is BBC internet news service.   It will give you two
> choices once you open it; an international page or the United Kingdom
> page.
>
> http://www.dw-world.de/
>
> http://www.witf.org/
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Deutsche_Welle
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/
>
>
>
> On Aug 29, 2007, at 1:23 AM, Jim Holland wrote:
>
>>> Robert Rockwell wrote:
>>> Deutche Welle (pronounced vel ah) "German Wave" sort of.
>>
>> Thank You, Robert. Knew the Deutsch part but couldn't not nohow  
>> figger
>> how to spell the VelAhhhh form the pronounciation!
>>
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