{"id":335,"date":"2011-11-08T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T18:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=335"},"modified":"2011-11-08T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T18:33:30","slug":"actually-the-internet-is-now-an-option-for-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Actually, The Internet Is Now an Option for AIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered today that All India Radio news broadcasts actually are available on line. It&#8217;s just that AIR has done a very good job of hiding them, by hosting the audio files on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsonair.com\/\">completely separate site<\/a> from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allindiaradio.org\/\">main site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a good thing for me, as while the diction of their announcers is pretty good, it is still accented English, and when one adds the degradation of a long propagation path to the signal, it turns what was a perfectly intelligible news bulletin into something only partly intelligible.<\/p>\n<p>To see what I mean, compare <a href=\"http:\/\/yourlisten.com\/channel\/content\/107758\/AIR%20Bengaluru,%202011-11-08\">what I recorded over the air<\/a> (note that this contains a minute or two of the music that aired prior to the news bulletin) to <a href=\"http:\/\/yourlisten.com\/channel\/content\/107760\/AIR%20Downloaded%20Newscast,%202011-11-08\">what I downloaded from their web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered today that All India Radio news broadcasts actually are available on line. It&#8217;s just that AIR has done a very good job of hiding them, by hosting the audio files on a completely separate site from their main site. It&#8217;s actually a good thing for me, as while the diction of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}