{"id":10510,"date":"2014-08-13T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2014-08-13T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:26:22","slug":"radio-is-dead-not-according-to-mullins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/radio-is-dead-not-according-to-mullins\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio is dead? Not according to Mullins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10515\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_n055vjJudf1s0ayqpo1_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10515\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_n055vjJudf1s0ayqpo1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"Garth Mullins\" width=\"564\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_n055vjJudf1s0ayqpo1_1280.jpg 564w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_n055vjJudf1s0ayqpo1_1280-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_n055vjJudf1s0ayqpo1_1280-100x55.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garth Mullins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Garth Mullins is an SWL and a radio geek: \u00a0yes, he&#8217;s one of us.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Mullins\u00a0believes that radio is now experiencing a renaissance. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ideas\/episodes\/2014\/08\/07\/end-of-the-dial-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to his brilliant documentary, <em>End of the Dial<\/em><\/a>, which was recently re-broadcast on the CBC program <em>Ideas<\/em> with Paul Kennedy. Best 54 minutes you&#8217;ve ever spent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/134559759&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out Garth&#8217;s website:\u00a0<a title=\"Garth Mullins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garthmullins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.garthmullins.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garth Mullins is an SWL and a radio geek: \u00a0yes, he&#8217;s one of us. What&#8217;s more, Mullins\u00a0believes that radio is now experiencing a renaissance. \u00a0Listen to his brilliant documentary, End of the Dial, which was recently re-broadcast on the CBC program Ideas with Paul Kennedy. Best 54 minutes you&#8217;ve ever spent. Be sure to check [&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":[56,3,43,5],"tags":[29,3079,3176,314,3174,3175,84],"class_list":["post-10510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","tag-cbc","tag-documentaries","tag-end-of-the-dial","tag-future-of-radio","tag-garth-mullins","tag-ideas","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Jw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15393,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/garth-mullins-the-coming-zombie-apocalypse\/","url_meta":{"origin":10510,"position":0},"title":"Garth Mullins: &#8220;The Coming Zombie Apocalypse&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"November 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Garth Mullins is an SWL and a radio geek--he's also a Sociologist and radio producer. Garth's latest radio doc, \"The Coming Zombie Apocalypse\" was recently featured on the\u00a0CBC program Ideas with Paul Kennedy. While the documentary doesn't focus on shortwave radio, Garth did give a nod to shortwave at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Garth-Mullins","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Garth-Mullins-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10521,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/snow-on-the-dial-the-voice-of-denendeh-falls-silent\/","url_meta":{"origin":10510,"position":1},"title":"Snow on the Dial &#8211; The Voice of Denendeh Falls Silent","author":"Thomas","date":"August 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If you enjoyed Garth Mullins' radio documentary \"End of the Dial\" you might also enjoy his \u00a0follow up, \"Snow on the Dial-The Voice of Denendeh Falls Silent.\"\u00a0 Mullins also\u00a0produces the podcast,\u00a0East Van Calling,\u00a0which focuses on radio and various social justice issues in Canada. 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Kind of a loose format, and with such a small staff that we were all doing each others' jobs. 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