You might want to try the Tapin radio software. If there is a radio
station anywhere in the world that streams on the Internet you can
listen through Tapin. If they have missed a few there is a link in the
help menu to request it. I listen to some obscure community radio
stations in Australia and New Zealand with perfect reception. I tend to
stick with English language broadcasts, but if you understand any other
languages there are stations that broadcast in most languages. There is
even a station that broadcasts nothing but the sounds picked up by a
microphone under the ice off the coast of Antarctica. I first heard
about Tapin radio on the Blind Tech email group and I found it just by
googling the word Tapin.
On 12/22/2016 12:46 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
It started on Election night when I wanted to hear Democracy Now's reporting
and couldn't get to their live stream on their website. I thought, just
possibly, I could find them on WBAI which is the New York City affiliate of
the Pacifica network. It's on my desktop. I didn't realize that one of the
buttons on my radio which sits on the window sill in my office and can,
therefore, get FM reception, was also set to that station. I was so
delighted to find Democracy Now on election night on the radio. Then, in
December, I stopped being able to access the program download from the
website. Each day, up to that point, I could listen to the daily program
whenever I chose. But they're doing fundraising this month. So when I go to
the link on the website for the program, there's a fundraising message that
has to be closed before I can access the, "listen", link. It can be closed
with a mouse by someone who can see, but I can't close it with a keyboard
command. That means, that I arise earlier than I'd like to each day, so I
can hear the program on WBAI radio at 8 a.m. A few weeks ago, Democracy Now
had a 20th anniversary celebration, which was streamed. I thought it would
be on WBAI as well, but it wasn't. But by now, I'd begun to turn on WBAI
occasionally to see what was on. Last night at around 5 p.m., I heard The
Brad blog, which I've seen on the web. Whoever Brad is, he talks about all
sorts of things in which I'm interested. Then, at 6, there was a newscast.
There was also an interview with the author of a New Yorker article on
immigrants. I can't find the article in the current Newsline edition of the
magazine. This morning I heard an American Indian guy who was talking about
the history of how his people have been treated in America, starting with
George Washington. Back in the 60's, we listened to WBAI all the time. I
learned about the Vietnam War, feminism, consciousness raising groups, black
liberation, all sorts of things. I kept listening until the mid 70's when I
became very displeased with Pacifica's coverage of the adoptions from
Vietnam. In retrospect, I still think they were providing some incorrect
information. However, given everything that has happened, I'm not as
outraged as I was at the time. I'm sorry that I stopped listening. I think,
from some things that I've read, that Pacifica has been going through some
difficult times. But I've heard some interesting stuff lately. You might
see if you can access a Pacifica station and see how you feel about what
they broadcast.
Miriam
