Saturday, July 07, 2007

Listening to the World - American Samoa

Pardon me if I don't have this entirely correct, but it's a bit more complicated than I was first expecting.

American Samoa is an "American unincorporated unorganized territory." "Unincorporated" means "not under the jurisdiction of a particular American State." "Unorganized" means that the territory's government is not established or overseen by the US, even though it is a US territory.

American Samoa is the only unincorporated unorganized territory that has a civilian population -- all the rest are either home to military bases or completely uninhabited. I had presumed that there would be a military base there. I was wrong, there were bases there in World War Two, but they have now been abandoned.

But the important question remains -- just what is the quality of their "Hit Music Radio?"

Well, it sounds just like American radio, except for the occasional advertisement in Samoan.

Here you go, have a listen.

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