Hello, boomers’ radio. How did you end up in the culture wars? Alex Clark
It was a rain-sodden Friday night at the end of another week of lockdown ennui and anxiety; what could be more soothing than pottering about, aperitif on the go, listening to some decent tunes? And hark! A brand new radio station to ring the changes, one promising not merely a schedule brimming with aural treats but one carefully curated to reflect the tastes, the sensibilities and the vitality of an entire generation.
Boom Radio, launched last week on Valentine’s Day, set its stall out in uncompromising fashion, with a poem, an Ode to Boomers that is part mild grievance (“You are the original influencer”, it insists, there when “music was fearless and came from the heart”, when live performances were more than “‘an experience’ to film on your phone”) and part rallying cry to the postwar babies who, it says, changed the world and are still running “at full speed” (“
Hello, boomers radio How did you end up in the culture wars?
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Quiz on radio broadcasting
February 13, 2021
Hello, world: Listeners tune into a community radio service in Assam’s Dibrugarh district - RITU RAJ KONWAR
Hello, world: Listeners tune into a community radio service in Assam’s Dibrugarh district - RITU RAJ KONWAR×
In 2011, during their 36th annual conference, Unesco delegates decided that World Radio Day will be celebrated on February 13 each year. This is a quiz about the world of radio broadcasting.
Radio gaga
1 An explanation offered for this three-letter term was one of the first wireless radio stations started by Albert Hyman, Robert Almy and Reginald Murray. Which is the term, often used to refer to amateur radio stations or operators?