ian_heys wrote: > ....On the question of NPR, having lived near Washington DC many years > ago I believe that WAMU (American University) was the national base > station, and all the other stations picked up their national relay > programs from them - but I could be wrong, it is about forty years > ago....
A very minor point, but for the record, there is no NPR flagship station. Unlike the commercial radio networks that used to exist in the USA, NPR does not own or operate any radio stations itself. It provides an extensive schedule of programs, some which are produced by NPR itself, while others are produced by member stations and officially distributed by NPR. In addition, there are many other programs available to NPR member stations, some distributed by other networks (at present, the main one is American Public Media) that also make use of the Public Radio Satellite System, which is administered by NPR but not actually owned by NPR. Other programs are distributed online. So technically, no other stations are taking a feed from WAMU. Some of the time, WAMU broadcasts a feed from NPR (traveling a few blocks via satellite). Some other stations are broadcasting the same feed from NPR at the same time, but they aren't getting it from WAMU. (Except on very rare occasions when the entire satellite system fails and the network continues to operate through an ad hoc assemblage of point-to-point connections.) I formerly worked for an NPR member station, but it's been more than ten years since I retired, so some things will have changed in that time. I think the overall structure is still as I have described it. LMS 8 nightly running on Raspberry Pi OS. Mostly virtual players, occasionally with SB Radio, Boom or Classic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RobbH's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67008 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115201 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
