global tv.

[da]

My walkman's picking up "Global TV". I guess a neighbour might be using an fm-broadcaster to put their TV onto a different set of speakers? Although the range seems a bit wide, it doesn't matter much to me, though I had been using that same frequency to broadcast my computer's speakers to my walkman. Whatever; it's tunable.

As far as I can tell, while I washed dishes, I just listened to the last 20 minutes of the latest episode of "24" which ends with a nuclear launch and someone's arm being voluntarilly removed so they could escape the FBI. It was fascinatingly bad.

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[cypherpunk95.livejournal.com]

Actually, the audio for Global (channel 3) really is in the FM dial. In 1st year undergrad, I used to have my stereo set to that as an alarm clock. My residence roommate got really annoyed at waking up to cartoons. :-p

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Heh. Better cartoons than shock-jock radio, says I.

Not that it matters to either of our lives, but an IRC friend tells me Global's actually channel 6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_high_frequency explains that 6 runs from 82-88mhz. Since I was listening at 87.7 or so, this makes sense.

The only thing that's suprising to me is that I never happened to notice before, but it's not I go looking around the radio-dial terribly frequently.