Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen and everyone watching I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek!
Now I know right from the start. This isn't probably gonna be the most enticing
video out there, but it's one that I wanted to do through a while.
It's just addressing the question. Well, why do I do a radio show every week?
What why not every two weeks?
That was a terrible joke, but you know, why do I do it?
You know, sometimes you might see in a lot of my videos nowadays. I'll promote the show
I'll say you know, check out the VORW Radio show here or listen on this or that or the other thing
And maybe you listen, maybe you're a regular listener you checked it out
Maybe you said, "I can't stand when he does that!", you know....
"I I want to claw up the walls whenever he even mentions the name of that show" or whatever.
Maybe you didn't even know about it. That's completely fine.
I just wanted to talk about it for a video and just share, share my thoughts on it anyway.
Number one. What is my radio show exactly?
Well, it's a broadcast that I do every week. It is broadcast every Thursday and then there are repeat airings
every Saturday and Sunday.
It's a show. It's called VORW Radio International.
It's also just known as Voice Of The Report Of The Week and it's an hour-long broadcast,
which features my miscellaneous talk and commentary and then I'll play some listener requested music.
It's an hour-long program though and in it. It's not a religious show. It's not a political show.
It's a show where you know, I'll just go on I'll get on the microphone usually at the beginning. I'll talk about whatever's going on.
Sometimes I'll address questions from listeners. I'll talk about philosophical stuff.
Sometimes I'll try to be motivational and I emphasize the word try.
But I'll just I'll just address topics that I wouldn't normally talk about on the YouTube.
Sometimes I'll cover your current events and I'll give my thoughts on them,
sometimes I really won't have a lot to say but it's miscellaneous talk and discussion, for maybe the first
20-25 minutes and then after that I'll just play some listener requests,
give information about the music as well. I try to make it a musical appreciation
hour and try to expose people to more genres and songs and I try to give some background info on the music and
Then I'll just try to shout out whoever, whoever happens to be listening in and that's what it ends up being.
So I always try to define it as a light entertainment program because that's what I think,
genre-wise, it really fills in best. So that's what the show is.
Alright. Well, we know what it is.
How exactly do you broadcast it? You know, I'm just gonna get through like the who what when where why how
type a deal with this. Well, how do I get the show broadcasted? Well, it's a radio show and
I have it broadcast via multiple means. Of course, online, you could find it on SoundCloud
I think that's probably the easiest way for a lot of people to find it
You could just find it and you could listen on-demand on SoundCloud
soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
You could listen in on TuneIn via some of the radio stations that carry it also on the TuneIn app.
But the primary way that I broadcast this show is via shortwave radio
Now I can go on and on and on and on about shortwave radio. So I'm going to keep it short.
No pun intended there. But shortwave radio, It's a broadcast medium that is similar to AM radio
Except the signals can travel extremely far.
I, for instance, you can have a transmitter in Florida and
Let's just say it's on the right frequency and has the right power. You can broadcast it and it can reach an entire continent
with good signal strength from one end to the other.
So using the medium of shortwave
I'm able to get my radio show out to huge huge geographic areas,
have broadcasts that target the entirety of South America,
Europe, all of North America and so on. And shortwave radio in
North America, Western Europe, you know, it may not be the most widely used medium
But just looking at it by the numbers for instance if a broadcast of mine can target
potentially
300 million people
Let's say it's able to come in pretty good signal coast-to-coast across the entire US
It can theoretically reach over 300 million people
Now obviously a small percentage of them actually own shortwave radios and an even smaller percentage
are listening to them at the current time.
But you're guaranteed just purely by the numbers to be reaching an audience. And that's the audience that I try to reach in
developed countries but in developing nations
Because of the distance aspect a shortwave radio is still primarily
even used by many individuals to get news
information and entertainment
So I do have multiple broadcasts that are beamed to Cuba
Where internet access may be restricted or might not be the best and also broadcasts that are beamed into Central South America
And even of course across North America for any listeners who may be in very rural areas
Who just might not have the money they might not know how to use a computer
They might not have to be able to afford one all the time. You know, everyone's lifestyle
Conditions where you live it varies so much from place to place and even person to person
Really? I just try to target anyone who listens and shortwave radio is still a medium that has its listeners
Of course in the US whoever Tunes in is whoever tunes in
Be it people who just found an old shortwave radio in the attic and is scanning around and found my show
Hobbyists, amateur radio operators, and people who just have emergency portable radios just spinning the dial
Whoever tunes in I really welcome with open arms!
So I use shortwave radios by primary broadcast means for those reasons
It's also a way to reach an audience that I really wouldn't reach via YouTube
And also shortwave radio is a broadcast medium that absolutely fascinates me
So, of course it's a lot of fun for me to do
just purely from that aspect. So that's how I broadcast the show.
And it goes out via two radio stations
WRMI in Okeechobee, Florida
They have a dozen 100 kilowatt transmitters and lots of huge antennas and that's where most of
my broadcasts are sent out of as well as well as the tune in streams
Also I use radio station
WWCR in Nashville, Tennessee
And they have a good signal. I only use them for one broadcast because their air time is very expensive
but they get a good signal out to a lot of North America and
Their signal makes it even over to the Middle East as well.
But I also in the past I've used radio stations
WBCQ
WINB that's in Pennsylvania, I've used stations in Germany, the UK,
even in Armenia and I think Uzbekistan I had a broadcast to Asia once
going out from there and a station in Bulgaria too, we can't forget about them.
But I have this show broadcast all over the world via shortwave radio as well as the Internet.
Why do I do it? Well, if you say why do you go through all this effort to do this show?
Of course, there's other shows like it out there
Why do you do it? What really motivates me to do this show each and every week is probably two things:
Number one -
Just the aspect again of the broadcast medium and my fascination of shortwave radio,
you know.
It's something that I had wanted to do for a long time
Really ever since I discovered the medium of shortwave back in 2013
I'd wanted to have my own show out there and
Being able to purchase airtime from these brokered stations and finally do it. It's really been a dream of mine
So to be able to fulfill that
That's one reason that drives his show. But the second and most important
reason that I do this show each and every week is the listeners!
It does have a good deal of people who tune in of all backgrounds,
you know, all over the world of all backgrounds you have people who are living in war-torn areas
that listen on their shortwave radios. You have people who are
students, you have people who are doctors, police officers, in the military...
And everyone in between - a wide range of listeners.
And the correspondence that comes in every week is really what motivates me the most to do this show!
I just share my thoughts and play some music but for a lot of people perhaps it provides that
entertainment
It fills a niche that a lot of people really didn't know I needed to be filled a lot of people they say
You know
It really helps if their anxieties it covers issues and topics that some people struggle with it
some people you know it and you know
it's just something that comforts a lot of people I suppose helps a lot of individuals out and
When I see those messages sometimes I can't believe it. I say well, how can you know, how can this show do that?
You know it
puzzles me sometimes
But I see those messages and that's what inspires me to keep doing this each and every week
So it's really the correspondence and the impact that this show has
Large or small as long as it's impacting even one person out there
That's really good enough to justify it in my opinion to keep it going!
But that's what keeps me motivated and gives me that morale to keep doing it each and every week
It's the impact of this show upon people all over the world. That's just so incredible,
just so wonderful, and really inspirational! On my end that that gives me that motivation to do it every week and
you know go through all the effort it takes to to make this show and then to get it sent out and
Transmit it to those who listen to it
That's why I do this show each and every week because it's something that's truly an enjoyable experience
all around on
One final note a few people might be wondering, you know, that's you know, that's nice
It's it's it's nice to hear about that and all but why don't you just stream it on YouTube?
You know, why don't you just you just do that?
Well two reasons and number one, of course, I think and this is just my personal opinion
It's an audio-only program and I think when it comes down to podcasts and whatnot
it's just it's too things used to be a lots more similar, but just things have changed with the times and
You know to try to label it as such and stream it on YouTube
I think it would just be misleading people so I don't do that. Number one number two
It has its copyright issues which are fine with shortwave and I take care of everything there. But with YouTube that would also
Present some issues and I just don't want to delve into that but perhaps going forward
I may take just the lectures that I give at the beginning of every programme and
I might just go ahead and try and post those maybe in bulk up to YouTube for anyone who's interested
So that might happen going forward
But on a final note, I hope you could check it out
If you're interested again, it's a light entertainment show something that I do every week
It's something that I really look forward to every week. So it's a pleasure to put together and to record the show
I hope you could check it out. You could find it on soundcloud
soundcloud.com again
soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int
You could listen in on many shortwave frequencies
And broadcast times and most importantly this broadcast the only way that I'm able to do it because airtime is very expensive
And I don't have the money to keep it going. Is through listeners support and
donations. It's a listener funded program. If you tune in, you like what you hear, chip in, help it out.
It needs your help, you know, to keep it going! And of course when the goal isn't met I make reductions wherever necessary
That's something I don't enjoy doing but if you want to keep it going
Donations are welcome at Patreon at patreon.com/thereportoftheweek
That's patreon.com/thereportoftheweek or via PayPal to the vorwinfo@gmail.com
But that's why I do this radio show every week and it's been a dream of mine since 2014
I briefly got it on the air in
2015
And then I finally got it on the air full time
From 2016 onwards and you know, it's evolved over the years so had its twists and turns its ups and downs
But it it's something incredible
Something that's very special and it's just it's it's truly wonderful
It's almost an honor to do it every week to those who tune in. Ff you ever want to do a show on shortwave,
I mean, I recommend you research it look into the medium look into these radio stations that
sell their airtime. Shortwave needs good programming out there, you know,
It certainly does and it's a way that you could still reach an audience even in 2018.
There's more people listening to shortwave radio than you think. So, you know, it's something that's ever of interest to you
Give it a shot!
You never know where it'll take you! That's why I do my show every week and that's all that I have for you.
Hope you could tune in if you're interested, and this will probably the next video coming up will be a food review.
Thank you for checking out this video. Take care! I'm your host TheReportOfTheWeek.