I quit watching the news years ago. A couple of rounds a day through cultivated lists on my Twitter account and I’m done in five minutes. Anything that deserves a more in depth read gets forwarded to email.
I used to like having the news on while I shaved, but now it’s strictly the BBC’s shipping forecast ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000n9h ).
I listen to BBC4 at midnight and this comes on, and I don’t know how they abbreviate things. I think they are talking about particular bouys or routes, but some have weird names like “automatic” or “artificial” tacked on to the place name.Is the pressure in millibars? How do you decode it? Does BBC have a map for the places talked about in the shipping forecast?
They then talk about seas in meters, and often barometric pressures, I assume in mb.
The music is spooky and cool. It must be something well known. Violins doing an up and down tempo di valse melody with a sort of descant of flute arpeggios above them, which I guess are summoning breaking waves, whitecaps, foam, whatever. Very cool intro/outro music.
I listen on the SDR of University of Twente's Ham Radio Club, at
websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
So, in essence, I am listening in real time, to a LW AM radio attached to an antenna in the Netherlands. I get their midnight shipping forecast at about 1900 Tampa time, or 2000 during the summer.
Enjoy the good parts of the BBC, but am saddened by their doctrinaire socialist Kool-Aid drinking news staff.
Do love hearing "The Queen" play at 0000 Z.