{"id":10050,"date":"2014-06-26T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10050"},"modified":"2014-06-26T19:11:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T23:11:46","slug":"bbc-world-service-portugal-vs-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/bbc-world-service-portugal-vs-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC World Service: Portugal vs. Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WorldCupBall-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10054\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WorldCupBall-001.jpg\" alt=\"WorldCupBall-001\" width=\"850\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WorldCupBall-001.jpg 850w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WorldCupBall-001-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WorldCupBall-001-100x34.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a>Earlier today, I tuned to the <strong>BBC World Service<\/strong> on 17,830 kHz at 16:00 UTC, hoping they would be covering the USA vs. Germany game of the <em>FIFA World Cup<\/em>. I was pleased to hear World Cup coverage the moment I tuned in\u2013but was a little disappointed that\u00a0BBC\u00a0had selected\u00a0the Ghana vs. Portugal game. \u00a0Still,\u00a0I can&#8217;t complain; this BBC service is, after all, intended for Africa. And a lot was at stake\u00a0for Ghana&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, I listened to the BBC coverage of that game while watching the USA vs Germany game stream over ESPN. I also watched a little of the Portugal\/Ghana game, and realized I had an advantage over others streaming the game because the shortwave coverage from the BBC was almost <em>5 seconds ahead of the live stream<\/em>. That&#8217;s the power of shortwave: <em><strong>goals at the speed of light<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>For your listening pleasure, here is the full recording I made from the BBC World Service today. <a title=\"Click to save\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BBC17.83MHz26JUN141600Z\/BBC-17.83MHz-26JUN14-1600Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/BBC17.83MHz26JUN141600Z\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWLingDotCom\">@SWLingDotCom<\/a> it was about time you used that &quot;goals at the speed of light&quot; sentence \ud83d\ude42 73<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ????? ????????? (@K7al_L3afta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/K7al_L3afta\/statuses\/482299684556644353\">June 26, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I tuned to the BBC World Service on 17,830 kHz at 16:00 UTC, hoping they would be covering the USA vs. Germany game of the FIFA World Cup. I was pleased to hear World Cup coverage the moment I tuned in\u2013but was a little disappointed that\u00a0BBC\u00a0had selected\u00a0the Ghana vs. Portugal game. \u00a0Still,\u00a0I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,746,1409,2114,1167],"tags":[104,327,3053,4106,3054,4121,3052,266],"class_list":["post-10050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-recordings","category-specials","category-sports","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-football","tag-recordings","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2C6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10046,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-radio-impala-rwanda\/","url_meta":{"origin":10050,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Radio Impala (Rwanda)","author":"Thomas","date":"June 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, while recording the BBC coverage of Portugal v. 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Moreover, we have good\u00a0friends\u00a0from Germany visiting;\u00a0of course, they wanted to see who their winning team will be playing in the final match come Sunday. 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A digital Pidgin service for West Africa is being launched today. It will shortly be followed by new online services in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya, aimed at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2-1024x678.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2-1024x678.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kenwood-R-1000-Encoder-Dial-2-1024x678.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7317,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/shortwave-radio-recordings-bbc-world-service-hausa\/","url_meta":{"origin":10050,"position":3},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: BBC World Service Hausa","author":"Thomas","date":"September 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: the BBC World Service Hausa language service recorded on 17,885 kHz on September 16, 2013, starting at 19:30 UTC. 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