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Originally Posted by Glowing Bits!
In our town (Wrexham), we have a station called 'Calon FM', it's inside the University and broadcasts all sorts of stuff, sadly it's only outputting 25 watts. I live about 4 miles away and can't receive it, it's mainly aimed at the town centre and surrounding areas.
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I've just listed to Calon on my PC, and you could on your PC or an internet radio. I doubt if there is any radio station transmitting on an RF frequency which is not streaming (oh, I forgot, Radio 5 does not - figure that one
! -something to do with sports coverage rights).
As for the American NPR subscriber model, I listen to quite a few NPR stations, most of the large cities have at least a couple, and towns and sometimes universities will have one. They are a little bit like Radio4, but giving up some time to local stuff. They seem to be holding their own in terms of survival; I don't recall of any of them collapsing. Of course, subscription is voluntary, but not necessary to be a listener.
But especially in the present era, I think that many Americans are very glad NPR is there and not commercially controlled with political affiliations.
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