{"id":28122,"date":"2017-09-06T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28122"},"modified":"2017-09-06T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:52:17","slug":"paul-walker-featured-on-vov-webite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/paul-walker-featured-on-vov-webite\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Walker featured on VOV webite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/vovworld.vn\/en-US\/about-us\/us-listener-personal-connection-makes-me-want-to-listen-to-vov-573697.vov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voice of Vietnam<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Paul-Walker-VOV-2-e1504716678165.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28127\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Paul-Walker-VOV-2-e1504716678165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>US listener: \u201cPersonal connection makes me want to listen to VOV\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><strong>(VOVWORLD) &#8211; The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) turns 72 this Thursday. Over the past 7 decades, VOV has served as a bridge linking Vietnam with people all around the world. Paul Walker, an American radio presenter and a loyal listener of VOV, says it is the personal connection that makes him want to listen to VOV and learn about Vietnam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a 6-hour drive from Washington we reached a small town in Pennsylvania near the border with Canada. It was a peaceful, quiet place with houses dating back more than 100 years. Paul Walker, a young radio presenter, met us in front of his house with his radio gears already set up.<\/p>\n<p>With a small table and chair, 2 antennas, an analogue receiver, a tuner, and a digital recorder, Paul finds it interesting to listen to foreign radio programs. Paul said he picked up an obsession with radio when he was a kid and this passion has grown year by year. Now he is doing radio for a living.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started listening to the radio as a real young kid. In fact listening to the radio is what made me want to get into radio. I listened to that growing up and now I get paid to play music. I wanted to do it as a kid and that\u2019s what I do now for a living. I\u2019m actually a radio presenter here in the United States, play music on the radio, put together commercials, manage FB pages for radio stations and general stuff like that,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>Paul started to listen to VOV in the summer of 2015 and since then VOV has become an indispensable part of his listening schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Paul said he listens and sends in reception reports to VOV quite often with every detail he recorded with his radio equipment: \u201cI like the music, especially when they play the older music. I also like to listen to news because I like the different perspectives, different opinion on it because other countries see things differently than we do and I like to hear that. I like the Letterbox program that is one of my favorites, I like to hear how other listeners tune into VOV and what they like about it and it seems like a fairly large amount of people like the music so I know there\u2019re many of us out there. VOV\u2019s English announcers are very friendly\u201d[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vovworld.vn\/en-US\/about-us\/us-listener-personal-connection-makes-me-want-to-listen-to-vov-573697.vov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading at the Voice of Vietnam online&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Voice of Vietnam) US listener: \u201cPersonal connection makes me want to listen to VOV\u201d (VOVWORLD) &#8211; The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) turns 72 this Thursday. Over the past 7 decades, VOV has served as a bridge linking Vietnam with people all around the world. Paul Walker, an American radio presenter and a loyal listener [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,43,5],"tags":[1031,4156,34,5498,6485],"class_list":["post-28122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","tag-dxing","tag-paul-walker","tag-shortwave","tag-voice-of-vietnam","tag-vov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7jA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63850,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/voice-of-vietnam-features-carlos-illustrations-in-mailbag-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":28122,"position":0},"title":"Voice of Vietnam features Carlos&#8217; Illustrations in Mailbag Post","author":"Thomas","date":"September 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Carlos Latuff who writes: Dear Thomas, I'm happy to share with you and all our friends at the SWLing Post the feedback I received from the French-language department of Voice of Vietnam radio, which published the illustrated radio listening reports when Typhoon Kajiki hit Vietnam in August.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Latuff-VOV-Mailbag-2.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Latuff-VOV-Mailbag-2.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Latuff-VOV-Mailbag-2.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Latuff-VOV-Mailbag-2.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":64110,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-the-voice-of-vietnam-september-30-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":28122,"position":1},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of the Voice of Vietnam (September 30, 2025)","author":"Thomas","date":"October 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares the following\u00a0illustrated radio listening report of a recent Voice of Vietnam broadcast. 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