{"id":62742,"date":"2025-04-30T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62742"},"modified":"2025-04-30T06:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:01:21","slug":"carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-radio-nacional-de-espana-april-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-radio-nacional-de-espana-april-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos\u2019 Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Radio Nacional de Espa\u00f1a (April 29, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff<\/a>, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report<\/a> of a special Radio Nacional de Espa\u00f1a broadcast. Note that the Spanish version of this post follows the English version:<\/strong>
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This illustrated radio listening report was particularly special to me. It’s a radio station’s acknowledge of the importance of a battery-powered radio in emergency situations.<\/p>\n

Spain went through a massive blackout, which left the population used to mobiles without knowing what to do. But then along comes the simple battery-powered AM-FM radio, a device that in developed countries ends up being despised and overlooked, since with a cell phone you can have access to news from all over the world.<\/p>\n

However, there’s one *tiny* detail.<\/p>\n

No matter how modern (and expensive) a mobile is, it can only work with electricity and, of course, a cell phone signal. And, in a massive blackout like the one Spain, Portugal and parts of Europe were facing, with no cell phone signal or Internet, mobile is useless.<\/p>\n

Well, I can speak about this subject with authority, since last year in Porto Alegre, where I live, a flood left me without electricity, telephone and Internet for 6 days.<\/p>\n

But back to Radio Nacional de Espa\u00f1a. They broadcasted today a compilation of audios from news aired by the station during the blackout, and what draws attention is the fact that it highlights the importance of radio in critical situations. One of the phrases in this compilation is pithy:<\/p>\n

“Es el dia de los transistores, los viejos, los de pila.”<\/i>
\n(It’s the day of radio receivers, the old ones, the ones with batteries).<\/p>\n

And there are testimonies from people who said they gathered their neighbors to listen to the news on the radio, or even put a radio on their balcony connected to a speaker so that the neighbors could hear the news from Radio Nacional de Espa\u00f1a. I believe this was the first time I heard a major broadcaster making such a clear recognition of the importance of the radio.<\/p>\n

The younger generations will have to learn that they cannot depend solely and exclusively on the Internet.<\/p>\n

For better or for worse.<\/p>\n