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Henmi
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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Location: Japan
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 Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:12 pm Post subject: How can you watch the debate for Presidential election? |
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Hello everyone. My name is Henmi from Japan.
I have been wondering how the people can watch the debate for US Presidential election. I could watch and listen to only interesting part of it on TV news.I want to watch the whole debate but in vain through the US TV
stations. I need to pay something to install some aplication for it. I don't want to.Fortunately I got to know that I could through the BBC station.
1.How do Americans living out of US get that kind of informations free of
charge?
2.Can Americans in US watch and listen to the debate anytime and free of
charge? ( The reason I ask this is the US has no national TV stations like
BBC in England and NHK in Japan ) |
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ilya
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: How can you watch the debate for Presidential election? |
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I watched the second round of debates free of charge in Russia. On national TV. That`s funny but all our federal channels belong to State. There are many local regional channels.
I`m sure Kerry in winning debates because he know what he talks about. |
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject: Re: How can you watch the debate for Presidential election? |
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| Henmi wrote: |
| 1.How do Americans living out of US get that kind of informations free of charge? |
When I lived in Japan, I could see bits of free U.S. news from CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/) and Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/).
| Henmi wrote: |
| 2.Can Americans in US watch and listen to the debate anytime and free of charge? ( The reason I ask this is the US has no national TV stations like BBC in England and NHK in Japan ) |
We could watch it live on any of the major networks for free (CBS, ABC, NBC, and PBS are typically broadcast over the air to anyone with a TV antenna; CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News are available on most cable systems you must pay for). PBS is the government run station. Besides educational shows for children, it has The NewsHour program (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/). It is boringly respected like BBC. |
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Henmi
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:08 am Post subject: Thanks |
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Thank you, ilya.
I am very happy to know how's going in Russia. So you have national TV station and it broadcasts the US Presidentail debate. It tells your country thinks it will make difference to the world.
Bob, thank you for introducing many TV stations. I have jsut put some in my bookmark. But news are often edited, I can't watch the whole debate.
I wonder why Japan's TV staions don't broadcast it. Many people are interested in it. Does it cost a lot to buy the right to broadcast it? If it is, Japan should do. To my disappointment, I don't know how to make proposals.
Should I write to the TV stations or newspaper companies? |
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:28 pm Post subject: Alternate Streaming Audio |
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| Henmi wrote: |
| I wonder why Japan's TV staions don't broadcast it. Many people are interested in it. Does it cost a lot to buy the right to broadcast it? |
It should be free. But maybe the time for live broadcast is bad. Or maybe it is expensive to hire fast translators. Maybe not enough people are interested to make it worth the stations' time and money.
Anyway, it may be broadcast live on the following News and Talk radio station out of Los Angeles:
http://www.kfi640.com/main.html
It is 1:30pm local time as I write this. It will start in 4.5 hours (6pm Pacific Time). The station offers streaming audio (see the "Listen Live" link).
Good luck. |
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Henmi
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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It's 10 am. on 15th now in Japan .
I am watching the last debate video on the Yahoo News.
They are talking about domestic topics this time.
Japan has the same problems. Now in Japan on the Diet they are exchaning questions and answers. But it's boring. They don't focus on one topic.
Each of them makes long speech. I know the situation is different.
But we should learn how we exchange opinions and debate.
Thank you, Bob. |
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