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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:18:27 EDT iona 🐝

   This is a clever way of presenting necessary but dry information:

   http://www.nova.fr/frequences

   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:26:51 EDT iona 🐝

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      Radio Nova is a hidden gem of radio. It's mostly music through the day but it can swerve from obscure early Beatles through Northern Soul, Nigerian hip-hop, Malian music and drum'n'bass. Great little station out of France.

      1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:28:19 EDT iona 🐝

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         Breath of fresh air when you are used to BBC 6 Music, which is good (and in English) but can often veer into "white men with guitars" territory at the detriment of other styles of music.

      2. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:47:12 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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         @iona I love Radio Nova!

         A large part of my music collection is made up of their wonderful compilations "25 ans de Radio Nova" and "Nova Tunes".

         I also feel lucky to have collaborated with them on some projects back in the day, meeting some of the wonderful collections of great people that converge there!

         1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:55:52 EDT iona 🐝

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            @mayel I turn it off when they do a long speech segment because while I can read French, I don't understand enough spoken French to get anything out of it (it's a long time since I was either at school or in France!) but I love the music output.

            We don't have anything like it in the UK - everything is very tightly formatted and quite mainstream, even "jazz" and "alternative" stations. Jazz FM UK appears to be aimed at bankers.

            1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:57:00 EDT iona 🐝

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               @mayel It's funny, there's a station from Belgium that you can pick up here most of the time and I understand it pretty much perfectly. But French when spoken by French people? I don't get any of it. 🤔

               1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 07:01:32 EDT iona 🐝

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                  @mayel I do have a Nova related question:

                  What are the things they do at the top of the hour? Someone says something and a sound effect says 'yay!' and someone else says something and a sound effect goes 'boo!'

                  I don't understand what's being said because it's very fast, so I'm not sure what's going on! What are they saying?

                  1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 07:11:46 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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                     @iona many of them are excerpts from films, like this crazy piece of art (which some Nova people had a hand in making): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Classe_américaine

                     1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 07:12:23 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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                        @iona here are some of them transcribed, so you can use an auto-translator on them: http://www.k-netweb.net/blog/?post/2013/07/10/Les-tops-horaire-de-Radio-Nova

                        1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jul-2018 05:28:30 EDT iona 🐝

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                           @mayel Sorry for the delayed response - everything descended into chaos the other day.

                           Thanks for posting this! Interestingly, there aren't many French ads on the Nova online feed anymore. They use some kind of ad-replacement tech to put British ads in the breaks. 🇬🇧

                           I love Fip as well, which often seems a bit less talky. Fip is so popular here that people on the South Coast of England transmit it as a pirate!

            2. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 07:14:00 EDT Mayel - ghost account

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               @iona That's a pity! a lot of their stuff has a nice mix of edgy politics, sureal art/culture, and lighthearted humour. Which reminds me I should subscribe to some of their new podcasts! :)