On Wedensday I decided to go out and buy myself a radio to listen to Japanese music. Population of Vancouver 500,000 people. Population in GVRD approx 2 million. Sendai city populcation 1 million. Vancouver has atleast 6 major FM radio stations that I can think of the top of my head (well I had 6 FM stations programmed into the radio back when I was in Canada). With general numbers in my head, I dediced to head out and buy myself a stereo set for about $100. A pretty allright price for a stereo, but I was also leaning towards getting myself a nice set of computer speakers. For only about $70 CAD you can get a pair of some really nice speakers + subwoofer. I decided to comprimise and go with the stereo set since I could plug it into my laptop and play music off that as well.
So after buying the radio set, I play with the system to realize that Sendai only has 3 radio stations. One of which I can barely get any signal to. The other 2 stations offer some music, but they talk like crazy and are loaded with commercials. I guess the number of radio stations isn't a function of population.
Wow, you people back at home are totally spoiled when it comes to radio service. Well, it's not all bad... I get to listen to Japanese voices all day. It might just be good for me :)
2 comments:
stream in radio from the rest of Japan on your computer perhaps?
Thanks for the heads up, forgot about that. Well there's the best of both worlds :)
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