[Speed Gibson,
Saturday February 5, 2005 at 9:16pm]
Archiving NARN and the Commish
PinkMonkeyBird is calling us to arms, to demand archiving of the weekly NARN and Hugh Hewitt programs. As he notes, he called in to the NARN third hour today as well.
For a while, KRLA was offering continuous replay of Bennet, Prager, Medved, and Hewitt, but apparently it wasn't popular enough to merit the cost and was withdrawn.
As for NARN, there is the Taxpayers League's site, but I have found it operational less than half the time. Besides, the NARN is replayed Sunday nights on The Patriot, though that doesn't help with Taxpayer's League Live and Rabus (sic?) on the Right.
Now, if I were a rich man, I'd have a staff recording all my favorite shows, then editing them down into tidy segments that I could pick and choose. I'd also have them enter them in a Nexus type search engine so I could find what Hugh said about a given topic six months ago, so I could find and replay it from the archive.
But, since I'm not a rich man, I get by with premium subscriptions to Rush Limbaugh and Dennis Prager. Rush has both live streaming and four weeks of archives, including an occasional internet only fourth hour. He also uses a great codec in Windows Media Player, with remarkable fidelity at just 20 kbps. Prager has 64 bit MP3 downloadable archives, about the last three weeks I believe. Both archives are commercial-free.
Bill Bennett is starting up a similar service, about $5/month like Rush & Prager. So PMB is right in at least asking why Hugh isn't doing the same.
There are other alternatives, like recording them. For under $200, you could buy a cheap receiver. VCR, and TV. Set the Receiver to 1280 AM, patch the audio to the VCR, which you can set to record at the proper time, up to six hours.
There is also software like Replay Radio that, given a broadband or at least stable dial-up connection, can also record almost any program available on the Internet for you. It can also record "line input" from a receiver. There are also fancier MP3 players that can help you skip commercials and speed up play back.
That said, I still join PMB in asking that Hugh Hewitt add archiving, which I would be willing to pay the usual $5/month for. I will send Hugh & Generalissimo an email tomorrow.
For a while, KRLA was offering continuous replay of Bennet, Prager, Medved, and Hewitt, but apparently it wasn't popular enough to merit the cost and was withdrawn.
As for NARN, there is the Taxpayers League's site, but I have found it operational less than half the time. Besides, the NARN is replayed Sunday nights on The Patriot, though that doesn't help with Taxpayer's League Live and Rabus (sic?) on the Right.
Now, if I were a rich man, I'd have a staff recording all my favorite shows, then editing them down into tidy segments that I could pick and choose. I'd also have them enter them in a Nexus type search engine so I could find what Hugh said about a given topic six months ago, so I could find and replay it from the archive.
But, since I'm not a rich man, I get by with premium subscriptions to Rush Limbaugh and Dennis Prager. Rush has both live streaming and four weeks of archives, including an occasional internet only fourth hour. He also uses a great codec in Windows Media Player, with remarkable fidelity at just 20 kbps. Prager has 64 bit MP3 downloadable archives, about the last three weeks I believe. Both archives are commercial-free.
Bill Bennett is starting up a similar service, about $5/month like Rush & Prager. So PMB is right in at least asking why Hugh isn't doing the same.
There are other alternatives, like recording them. For under $200, you could buy a cheap receiver. VCR, and TV. Set the Receiver to 1280 AM, patch the audio to the VCR, which you can set to record at the proper time, up to six hours.
There is also software like Replay Radio that, given a broadband or at least stable dial-up connection, can also record almost any program available on the Internet for you. It can also record "line input" from a receiver. There are also fancier MP3 players that can help you skip commercials and speed up play back.
That said, I still join PMB in asking that Hugh Hewitt add archiving, which I would be willing to pay the usual $5/month for. I will send Hugh & Generalissimo an email tomorrow.