Chinese Radio - Internet / Airwaves

[roddy]

A couple of posts elsewhere made me think this might be a useful topic . . .

Does anyone know of any Chinese radio stations, either on the internet or broadcasting conventionally, that are particularly good for learners? If so, post a website address / frequency and broadcast schedule here . . .

Roddy

[889]

VOA's Chinese broadcasts have a somewhat laboured texture, rather like their English broadcasts. They're pretty easy on foreign ears, though, and can be downloaded below:

http://www.freexinwen.com/chinese/stream-time.htm

[Guest Andrew]

Chongqing radio

http://203.93.111.169/cqbs.ram

& HK's putonghua station

http://www.rthk.org.hk/live6.ram

If you get the program replay radio you can download chunks of internet radio easily to your computer or cd. You can get a free demo version that only lets you record 5 minutes at a time, but quite good for learning.

[PollyWaffle]

here are loads of links:

http://www.comfm.com/live/radio/?c=cn

polly]

EDIT: does anyone know why China National Radio (any of the channels) hasn't been working for about a month now?

EDIT2: make sure you hit the next button down the bottom, cos there are heaps more chinese stations in the following pages

[travelyak1]

Chinese air waves for listeners

Here is a daily service on Short Wave which is very informative - the

Mandarin might be basic - try it out and reply:

Beijing TIME Meter band Frequency

20:44 to 21:00 13 21.560 or 21.545

20:44 to 21:00 19 15.660 or 15.670

23:00 to 23:15: 16 17.540 or 17.520

Please reply to oystalme@online.no if you think its fine.

If you have no radio try proxy for www.vot.org

With thanks and kind regards from oystein

[Guest Ch1nam4n]

There's also VOT (Voice of Taipei), which is a mix of both English and Chinese. From what I've listened to, it's mostly English stuff, except for the commercials, but it'll give you some clues as to what's popular in Taiwan, at least...The link is below.

Voice of Taipei

[cometrue]

china radio international

http://www.crienglish.com/news/

and its music station

http://www.crimusic.com.cn/

[Guest Ch1nam4n]

I can't get the CRI feeds to play here at work, and I'm positive it's a firewall issue. Do you know which ports that uses so that I can open them up on the firewall?

[cometrue]

I can't get the CRI feeds to play here at work, and I'm positive it's a firewall issue. Do you know which ports that uses so that I can open them up on the firewall?

i m afraid i have no idea! i don't know the conditions in the US...

[Guest Ch1nam4n]

Oh well, thanks anyway....

[Xiao Kui]

This is the main CRI site (putonghua page). I tried the others posted in this thread a couple months back with little success, but this one is working great for me. You can choose any article/transcript and then listen to the radio broadcast of it. It´s good listening material for intermediate/advanced learners, but not for beginners cause it´s FAST - what I need right now cause I have a hard time understanding the news - I have to really concentrate. Anyway, looks like an endless supply of tingli practice.

http://gb.chinabroadcast.cn/chinese_radio/index.htm