{"id":879,"date":"2010-10-14T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T11:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2010-10-14T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T11:23:55","slug":"nprs-bob-boilen-on-radio-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/nprs-bob-boilen-on-radio-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8217;s Bob Boilen on radio listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BobBoilen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-880\" title=\"BobBoilen\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BobBoilen-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BobBoilen-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BobBoilen.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>I like Bob&#8217;s contemporary take on radio listening. Embrace old and new technologies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s the thing. I have radios that pick up FM, AM and short wave signals, but I also have an IP, or internet radio, that picks up signals that are broadcast from various sources. So while I\u2019m cooking in my suburban Maryland kitchen, I can listen to WFUV originating from the Bronx, or The Current from Minneapolis or KEXP in Seattle. These are traditional radio signals but they are no longer bound by geography. Before finishing the meal I whipped up, I could also potentially hear a homemade folk music show from Norway, some classical Hindi music, a tech show and so much more.<!--<\/p--><\/blockquote>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the <a title=\"American Songwriter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americansongwriter.com\/2010\/10\/why-radio-still-matters-by-npr-musics-bob-boilen\/\">full article on American Songwriter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Listen the <a title=\"All Songs Considered page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/music\/allsongs247\/?refresh=true\">NPR&#8217;s All Songs Considered station<\/a> online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Bob&#8217;s contemporary take on radio listening. Embrace old and new technologies: Here\u2019s the thing. I have radios that pick up FM, AM and short wave signals, but I also have an IP, or internet radio, that picks up signals that are broadcast from various sources. So while I\u2019m cooking in my suburban Maryland [&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],"tags":[315,313,314,274,20],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","tag-all-songs-considered-online-station","tag-bob-boilen","tag-future-of-radio","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34651,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/hobart-radio-internationals-three-part-interval-signals-specials\/","url_meta":{"origin":879,"position":0},"title":"Hobart Radio International&#8217;s three part interval signals specials","author":"Thomas","date":"October 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who writes: While listening to my recording of yesterday's Unique Radio broadcast over WINB, I noticed that the Radio Hobart International segment featured the second of a three-part interval signals special. 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Quite a nice piece of work and my first foray into SDR after 60 years of analog radio (K7ZB). 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