Talk:Sound of Hope

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I have to ask editors to stop inserting the "an independent non-profit news and entertainment service". It is intentionally misleading. It claims to be "independent". Colipon+(Talk) 18:59, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What does "independent" even mean here? It's not very descriptive or helpful; the term "independent" is not even used at their own website and as far as I can tell the it mostly just means "non-mainstream" here. Sound of Hope is widely acknowledged to be FLG-affiliated (even within this article) and founded by FLG practitioners (here, page 11), so why not just say "FLG-affiliated"? rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 19:14, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Independent might mean not affiliated with the CCP, but I agree that it's vague. --HappyInGeneral (talk) 20:54, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Need to be rewritten or deleted

SOH tries to establish itself as the first Chinese America public radio, by focusing on the issues mostly cared by Chinese Americans and also introducing the public policies, services, and organizations of the US to Chinese listeners. It is the only Chinese radio which conducts English-language interviews and translates the content on-the-fly to Chinese listeners. Its flagship programs are Engage with America, 360 Car Talk, The Garden Talk, and Wealth Talk. Its stream can be heard at http://sfshow.bayvoice.net/gb/listening-onlin Operating from January 2004, the radio network also provides around-the-clock broadcasting through shortwave to mainland China, delivering mainly news, interviews and commentaries related to China and current affairs. Chinese version of SOH operates two websites, http://www.soundofhope.org to serve mainly China and http://www.bayvoice.net to serve San Francisco Bay Area. It has also an Apple and Android app which can be found and installed freely by searching "SOH" in AppStore and Google Play.

Too many external links, other pages won't be written like this.--Witotiwo (talk) 13:47, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]