An announcement from the BBC World Service: Shortwave transmissions of the radio service to Europe closed for good yesterday. Powerful images are triggered. Back in the 70s, the World Service and other radio transmitters over shortwave was the only broadcasting alternative available if you were tired of the one – 1 – radio channel and one – 1 – TV channel of the Norwegian state broadcaster. On World Service you could hear live commentary of English football matches on Saturdays and of midweek evening action. That is, if the weather permitted, often the noise made it quite hard to discern if Peter Lorimer had scored or missed the big opportunity. And then, on Saturdays at 6 PM local time, James Alexander Gordon presented the official — classified — football results. It was amazing to discover the other day that he is still doing this. Like the shortwave noise, hearing him pronouncing the team names and scores brings back the media world of the 70s. Tune in to the BBC on web radio next Saturday and experience a living media legend.
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Oh, this really took me back to the 70s. Like the nerd I am, I used every opportunity to find alternative news sources. I listened to everything from Radio Moscow to Radio Teheran and the Vatican (the latter used to have a pretty decent short wave service), but the World Service was something else entirely. I still remember hearing first about the murder of Earl Mountbatten on BBC. The coverage then, as now, made our local state broadcaster seem amateurish. Thank god for web radio and satellite TV, I say. :-)