request: streaming internet radio in putonghua ?

[Tommie]

My question is:, is there 'normal' internet radio in putonghua available somewhere?

e.g. http://english.cri.cn/webcast/programs.htm is IMO neither live, interesting nor purely Chinese.

I am looking for something which is streaming, live - hence 'always on'

(e.g. http://www.classicfm.nl/ 'Luister live'-button),

not downloadable 'Audio-on-demand' as with Deutsche Welle (http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,4703,00.html) or BBC.

Could anyone please help?

Many thanks in advance!

[gato]

Here is a list of Chinese radio stations available online

http://www.guang.net/radio.htm

For example:

mms://alive.bjradio.com.cn/AM603

北京人民广播电台首都生活

Right now, a talk show on relationships is on.

http://www.rsi.sg/chinese/main/index/1/1/gb/.html

Radio International Singapore's Mandarin broadcast

[gato]

For example:

mms://alive.bjradio.com.cn/AM603

北京人民广播电台首都生活

Right now, a talk show on relationships is on.

It's just past midnight here, and now they are doing a talk show on sexual health. Mostly middle-age male callers. Hmm.

[imron]

Not to mention cri's live radio stream it mostly streams Putonghua.

[Tommie]

Thank you All !

I'm just listening into some programs.

Gato, actually some 'Talk'-programs will be very useful for me,

(no matter the context)

as there will be much more recognizable language

than e.g. from news programs.

(I only had medium (comprehension) level in Chinese 14 years ago)

[flameproof]

On the topic of interesting listening material something came to my mind...:

I have heard some stories about radio shows in China were people can call in with relationship or sexual problems. Something like "Dr. Ruth" in Chinese. But I never found such a show, I just come across dead boring stuff.

Does anybody know such a program? How would it be called in Chinese? Something that's streamed online for easy recording would be really great.

[gato]

I posted about one before:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?p=111146#post111146

北京人民广播电台首都生活

[roddy]

Merging then.

[flameproof]

For example:

mms://alive.bjradio.com.cn/AM603

北京人民广播电台首都生活

Right now, a talk show on relationships is on.

It's just past midnight here, and now they are doing a talk show on sexual health. Mostly middle-age male callers. Hmm.

That's the general URL:

http://am603.bjradio.com.cn/

Seems there are are lot podcasts about relationship callers: http://t8.rbc.cn/list?uid=84073

That link is a goldmine for podcasts! There are about 1900 podcasts, all related to "relations" in one way or another. You need IE to listen, Firefox will not work. It seems a bit harder to D/L the audio stream with IE. I managed it by opening "source" and then searching for the *.wma file, to then D/L it with FlashGet. Is there any IE tool to make it easier?

The sites translates also well with google language tools.

Here is a general program schedule: http://audio.rbc.cn - not sure if there is AM603

Update: Program schedule for AM603: http://audio.rbc.cn/calendar.form?radio_id=3

Edited March 20, 2009 at 01:23 PM by flameproof

[fredrik_w]

Here you can find four channels broadcasted from Shanghai:

http://www.radioshanghai.cn/

[c_redman]

These two are in the US, but are all Mandarin (though at least the second one changes to Spanish on weekends). If you're connecting from the US, the bandwidth is great, and you don't have the 12-15 hour time difference.

KAZN -- AM 1300

(covers southern California area)

http://www.mrbi.net/kazn.htm

http://www.am1300.com/

mms://38.96.148.89/kazn

WKDM -- AM 1380

(covers New York area)

http://www.mrbi.net/wkdm.htm

http://www.wkdm1380am.com/

mms://38.96.148.29/wkdm

[Shi_Lei]

Hi There,

I can recommend radio free asia. They have one or several reports every day. The good thing is, you can not only download it, but you can also access the one to one transcript. This way I always listened to the report first, and then read the transcript to see how much I understood, and finally listened and read at the same time.

Listening to them you will also learn a lot about all kinds of protest, resistance, dissident imprisonments etc. That is their main focus of reporting.

They often make phone interviews into deep China to confirm reports about protests etc. The interviewees are often enough locals with very heavy accents. This is a great way to check how much "real" Chinese you actually comprehend.

Cheers

[Gaogao]

Hi!

Here you can browse some: http://www.radiotower.com/ I usually listen to news stations, they´re all fine.

[fredrik_w]

Shi_Lei,

Radio Free Asia sounds interesting, my only problem is that I live in Shanghai and Radio Free Asia is blocked...

[daveonhols]

Hi,

When I relocated from London to Singapore my colleagues got me a going away present. It's a wireless internet radio that can pick up thousands of radio stations from all around the world, including Beijing.

It's called reciva radio, and they have a website [ https://www.reciva.com/index.php ] where in theory (only used the web version once before) you can listen to all those stations over the internet instead of through the box which they sell you.

For China they have 200+ stations from Anhui Farm Radio to Xinjiang Traffic Radio (seriously) but I tend to stick to Beijing ones because I am worried that I'll end up listening to some strange dialect by accident. I just noticed that they also have WuHan Shao Er which claims to be for kids so should be good for beginners. The only problem is that right now I only get static out of it which could be because of the time difference (I guess it's 3am or something similar out there).

Most of the time I just use the box instead of listening through the internet and my Chinese friends get very surprised when I don't tell them what it is and switch on some radio station from their home town unexpectedly!

[Sean93]

Hi,

This is TV rather than radio, but I found it interesting!

http://watch.squidtv.net/asia/china.html

[Meng Lelan]

Tried it but I'm not sure I understand how it works? Is this real programming in real time as it is playing? And you have to download software to get this real programming in real time on the computer?

[imron]

Yes, it appears to be realtime streaming of TV channels. I just tried it then and it works fine without downloading any special software (I'm using a Mac but it uses a Windows file format that should play in Windows Media Player without any trouble).

Not only that, but unlike Youku, if you're overseas you can actually stream it in real time without delays The problem is, there's never anything interesting on CCTV

[chalimac]

Lots of diantai:

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4abdfcab0100d2zb.html

[Meng Lelan]

Yeah, well, that's a worldwide phenomenon, nothing interesting on TV.