Online Radio and TV

New Zealands only shortwave broadcaster…. On shortwave, they broadcast to the pacific, and can be heard as far away as North America and Europe. They have a page here at WRN. This is their homepage. (They are currently on their summer schedule - remember our winter in the northern hemisphere, is [...]

The BBC and Sci-fi channel have announced that the recent Dr. Who series (shown last year in the UK and other places around the world.) Will be shown in the USA on the Sci-Fi channel this spring. It will air Friday evenings at 9PM. Last year, the pilot episode was shopped to [...]

Another broadcaster with a long history in shortwave, and now online. This is Deutsche Welle, the German National broadcaster. Their English language home page can be found here. They have a choice of 30 languages (at their page.)
There are a variety of different audio programs available. (Audio and TV as well)

China Radio International is another important international broadcaster, currently they broadcast. They were founded in 1941 and broadcast in 43 languages. Further… they boast 208.5 hours of broadcasts every day. The English language division is one of it’s most important divisions.

The Voice of Russia has been broadcasting since 1929. Currently they broadcast over shortwave in 32 langauges. The programs below are around thirty minutes long. The following direct links seem to be from the World Radio Network (WRN) page for the Voice of Russia

I’ve been interested in foreign languages since at least 6th grade, when I saw the course offerings for High School language classes. Unfortunately I didn’t make much progress in High School in the required Spanish Language class and in College moved on to German classes. Later, I studied some French on my own [...]

Many of the news sources I’ll be posting for a while are state sponsored, aren’t they biased? Yes, likely. In fact, I’d tend to think that most any news source has it’s biases. That’s exactly why I think it’s important to hear news from multiple sources. It helps to paint a [...]

Yes believe it or not there are a lot of free resources for online audio in English and many other languages….
All of the audio and video feeds that I’m providing links to are free and legal. Many of these are provided by international broadcasters, others are available through the World Radio Network (WRN). [...]

One of the areas I’m going to be spending some time on here is shortwave radio. I guess I should start by answering “why shortwave radio?” Many people think that the internet has meant the death of shortwave radio and it’s just another old medium that’s outdated and outlived its usefullness. I [...]

While we’re on the area of big broadcasters…. The Voice of America is yet another big international broadcaster with wide reach and content in many languages. Like the BBC they have been around the airwaves for years and are embracing some of the newest distribution techniques as well. Direct Links follow…