Comments on: Classic FM and overseas listeners

By: Nigel

Nigel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:27:11 +0000

I think it’s time for a serious international review of copyright, patent & licence restrictions – Not only are overseas people prevented from listning to UK radio, but I assume I in the UK am prevented from listning to fascinating radio from overseas. (Part of the problem is that copyright is granted for far too long).

Radio used to be an international medium. Back in the days when mediom wave (AM) was more common, the BBC used to publish the schedule of forighen stations in the “Radio Times” (UK’s main listings mag) – there was an encouragement to listen to overseas radio.

Then FM came along, with shorter coverage range, but much better quality, and most people only listened to ther local/national stations.

With the web we (should) have the best of both worlds, international radio (TV too in the future perhaps) with good quality. But as usual it’s the copyright & patent lawyers who have to spoil it all for us.

I’ve often wondered why copyright extends to 70yrs after the creator’s death but patents only last for 5-20yrs (10years seems enough for both to me)

Nigel

By: David Treacy

David Treacy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:52:16 +0000

I have difficulty in getting Classic Fm in my sisters Co Dublin home which is 700 feet above sea leavel. The fm band is so jammed up with junk stations, that it is a nightmare. Reciantly a friend from Belfast told me that The DAB radio service is going to be improved in the next year or so, and that Classic FM, BBC Radio 3 and 4 etc will become available all over Ireland. I fear that this is too good to be true!
It is great to be able to vote on each piece of Classic Fm music, but a computer with a broad band connection is not very portable.
David Treacy
Castletown Co Laois.

By: Bill & Dorothea King

Bill & Dorothea King — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:21:29 +0000

Jonathan,

You have a great web site. I have bookmarked you and will visit regularly. We have only recently discovered ClassicFM, and for a month have been listening nearly non-stop. Then, today, suddenly……..nothing!

It looks like they found us! An out of the country IP address (Germany.) I had no idea they worked this way, since their sign-up lists every country in the world in the drop-down menu.

We find it unbelievable in today’s world of blogcasts, iTunes broadcasts, etc., that we are locked out of listening to the UK’s Classic FM! I can listen to radio stations from all over the world on my computer here. Without your web site’s explanation, it would never have occurred to us that the location of our IP address made ClassicFM no longer available to us.

Thanks for your help. Keep up the good work! The Kings in Heidelberg

By: Pete Hunt

Pete Hunt — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:52:44 +0000

An addition to my last post – Heart 106.2 works perfectly too!

By: Pete Hunt

Pete Hunt — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:47:20 +0000

I live in Honduras, Central America and have a Honduras ISP and IP address (and no proxy settings). I connected to http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk and did a search for Classic FM. A click on the link and Classic FM was streaming through Windows Media Player. So maybe the restrictions have been lifted ??

By: Terry Stride

Terry Stride — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:51:55 +0000

I have found that you can listen to all the UK broadcaste via satellite if you are in Europe, all you need is a digibox off ebay and a satellite dish pointing to the Astra Satellite on 28.2, then you are in business, you will find all the Radio listing that you should be able to pick up on http://www.wildsat.com just look at free to air. there is also a lot of usful information on the website “digital spy” just look in there forums under satelliite/ freesat hope this helps

By: Robert Heitler

Robert Heitler — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:14:30 +0000

I have been unable to get through to classic fm, even with your ideas. Do you have any new ones? Without out classic fm the only culture and good taste seems to be yoguret with friut in it.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:12:59 +0000

Is there an mp3, ogg, pls, or m3u stream of Classic FM that can been listened to outside the UK? I have a device that won’t allow Windows Media streams like .asx or .asf. PLEASE HELP!!!

By: terry stride

terry stride — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:06:17 +0000

Better connection http://campusfm.um.edu.mt/

By: terry stride

terry stride — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:07:56 +0000

You will find that Campus FM rebroadcasts cLassic FM most of the day

http://campusfm.um.edu.mt/pages/schedule.html