North Texas Radio

Romanian Revolution – 1989

David — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:38:33 +0000

ITN News Footage of Romanian Revolution (1989-90) | Full Compilation – 2:42:53

Posted on YouTube
ITN Archive

“One of the most decisive moments in the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was Ceausescu’s December 21st speech (or lack thereof). This speech was an annual event and carefully scripted by the regime to insure both success and the appearance of popular support. Workers, military units and other popular organizations were bused to the capitol and given orders on where to stand, when to applaud and what to sing…
this year the tide turned.” – World History Commons

NBC News – Breakdown – The last speech
December 21, 1989 – 2:21

Posted on YouTube
Alex Kosty

Nicolae Ceaușescu’s last speech
December 21, 1989 – 7:30

Posted on YouTube – Captions Available
Kremlinescu Georgescu Rusescu

Fighting for Bucharest TV Tower/Complex
December 23, 1989 – 23:18

Posted on YouTube
ITN Archive

The Ceaușescus Trial and Execution
December 25, 1989 – 1:16:37

Posted on YouTube – Captions Available
Andrei Păunescu

Trial: 0 → 1:08:12
Execution*: 1:08:13 → 1:16:37

*“It happened so quickly that a military journalist videoing the trial captured only the last round of bullets and the crumpled bodies on the floor.” – The Guardian

Transcript of the closed “trial”, December, 1989 – Making the History of 1989
Inside the Securitate Archives (informers, collaborators, destroyed files) – Wilson Center
My Life as a Spy – Under surveillance in communist Romania – Associated Press
Former Communist Prisons in Romania – UNESCO
The Trials of the Romanian Revolution – Cultures of History
Romanian Revolution of 1989 in Rare Historical Pictures – Rare Historical Pictures
Archive of the Romanian Revolution 1989 – Romanian Revolution of December 1989
Remembering the Romanian Revolution –europeana
Romanian Revolution – Grokipedia

Please Stand By

David — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:49:58 +0000

It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!

David — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:19:19 +0000

Greetings from North Texas Radio,
We would like to wish y’all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

As part of the season’s celebration we will be presenting special Christmas programming. Starting from 6pm Christmas Eve – Texas time – throughout Christmas Day, we’ll be streaming nonstop Christmas music. The songs will be a mixture of classics and rarities. As usual it won’t be “safe” for work or kids but then again… North Texas Radio has never been safe.

David

Eartha Kitt
Santa Baby (1953)

Posted on YouTube by
Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine

Web Design for Accessibility

David — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:22:42 +0000

Leroy Anderson
The Typewriter (Composed 1950 – 1st performance 1953)

Posted on YouTube by
Aleksandr Trofimov

I’ve been setting up the site for keyboard accessibility and ran into a problem on Safari. Using the tab button on the keyboard, the sidebar was being skipped. Turns out in Safari Settings in the Advanced Tab you have to check the box “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage”. The navigation works fine in Firefox, Chrome and Edge by default.
Safari Settings>Advanced Tab>Check Box – “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage”

As I was going through sources to add to this list of links it became a rabbit hole. I’m scoring 94-100 on Google PageSpeed insights for accessibility, which is a good start for basic settings. On some of the sites I looked at though (which had paid services coincidentally) I scored pretty bad – one of them even said my site was breaking the law, WTF.

I’ve tried to list the most helpful free sites.
— David

Resources
Microsoft – Accessibility/Disability Support
Apple Accessibility Features
AbilityNet – Digital Accessibility Free Resources
ADA – Fact Sheet – Web Content and Mobile Apps

Tools
Google PageSpeed Insights
Wave – Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
W3 -Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
A11Y – Checklist

axe DevTools Browser Extensions
Firefox
Chrome
Edge

Dictation

David — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:23:07 +0000

Talk, talk, talk, it’s only talk
Comments, clichés, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It’s only talk, cheap talk
— Adrian Belew

King Crimson
Elephant Talk (1981)

Posted on YouTube by
Bill Bruford

Spoken Command	Output
period, dot	.
comma	,
question mark	?
exclamation point	!
new line	Moves to a new line
new paragraph	Creates a new paragraph
open quote	“
close quote	“
colon	:
semicolon	;
align center	Centers the current paragraph
indent	Indents the current paragraph
decrease indent	Reduces indentation of the current paragraph
dollar sign	$
start spelling	Begins spelling mode for dictating symbols or letters
stop listening	Stops dictation
start listening	Starts dictation
press alpha	Presses the ‘A’ key (using ICAO/NATO phonetic alphabet)
bold	Toggles bold formatting
save document	Saves the document

The table shows the basic dictation commands. Using a mic hooked up to or on your computer is pure gold. Getting off the keyboard when you can saves an incredible amount of time.

It’s pretty simple, might take a few days to get it all down and get used to it but you gotta keep it up. I tend to fall off.

Spoken Command	Output
Period or Full stop	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point or Exclamation mark	!
Apostrophe	‘
Open quote / Close quote	” “
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
Open parenthesis / Close parenthesis	( )
Dash	–
Ellipsis	…
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Caps on	Capitalizes first letter of each word
Caps off	Stops capitalization
All caps	Next word in ALL CAPS
No space	Removes space between words
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Delete last word	Deletes the last word
Undo	Reverts last action
Redo	Reapplies undone action
Heart emoji
Smiley face
Car emoji
Stop dictation	Stops dictation

Spoken Command	Output
Period or Full stop	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point or Exclamation mark	!
Apostrophe	‘
Open quote / Close quote	” “
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
Open parenthesis / Close parenthesis	( )
Dash	–
Ellipsis	…
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Caps on	Capitalizes first letter of each word
Caps off	Stops capitalization
All caps	Next word in ALL CAPS
No space	Removes space between words
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Delete last word	Deletes the last word
Undo	Reverts last action
Redo	Reapplies undone action
Heart emoji
Smiley face
Car emoji
Stop dictation	Stops dictation

Spoken Command	Output
Period	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point	!
Apostrophe	‘
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Delete last word	Deletes the last word
Undo	Reverts last action
Press [key]	Simulates key press
Open [app name]	Opens specified app
Pause voice typing	Pauses dictation
Stop dictation	Stops dictation

Spoken Command	Output
Period	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point	!
Apostrophe	‘
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Open [app name]	Opens specified app
Go back	Goes back
Scroll down	Scrolls page down
Scroll up	Scrolls page up
Delete	Deletes last word or selected text

Spoken Command	Output
Period	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point	!
Apostrophe	‘
Open quote / Close quote	” “
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
Open parenthesis / Close parenthesis	( )
New line	Moves to next line
New paragraph	Starts new paragraph
Bold	Applies bold to next text
Italics	Applies italics to next text
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Undo	Reverts last action
Heart emoji
Smiley face
Car emoji

Spoken Command	Output
Period	.
Comma	,
Question mark	?
Exclamation point	!
Apostrophe	‘
Open quote / Close quote	” “
Colon	:
Semicolon	;
Open parenthesis / Close parenthesis	( )
New line	Inserts line break in a cell (Alt+Enter equivalent)
New cell	Moves to the next cell (Tab or Enter equivalent)
Select [word/phrase]	Selects specified word/phrase in cell
Delete [word/phrase]	Deletes specified word/phrase
Undo	Reverts last action
Heart emoji
Smiley face
Car emoji

Mac – Commands for Dictating Text
Dictate Text on iPhone
Microsoft – Voice Typing
Dictate in Microsoft 365
Voice to Text on Android
Dictation – as assistive tech

I used Grok to compile the tables and set them up as .csv files, exported them to Excel, and then pasted them in the WordPress tables.

They’re all pretty similar to each other with a couple of extra commands in Excel and Word. I needed to learn how to set up tables in WordPress, so there you go.

— David

We Have the Technology

David — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:17:43 +0000

We have the technology
Not available before
We have the technology

But thinkers and poets of the past
Oh, no
They had to leap into the dark so blindly
— David Thomas

Pere Ubu
We Have The Technology (1988)

Posted on YouTube by
Dzhakhar 96

Changes to the site (other than style):
On the Desktop, Tablet/iPad (landscape mode) will pretty much be the same.

On a phone, the Home Page is just the sidebar without the center content.
The sidebar has a list of the Recent Posts now so they can be accessed from there. Anything else will be on the Archives Page.

The main thinking behind the changes was trying to make it easier on mobile phones to just listen to the station and see what’s playing. I’ve cleaned it up too, works a lot better.

Still working on a few quirks, but it’s more or less back to normal.

— David

Hello world! V3

David — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:20:24 +0000

The Beatles
Get Back (January 30, 1969)

Posted on YouTube by
jose navea

Under Construction – I’ve been having issues with a few things on the site. Add-ons were conflicting with each other and I need to move away from proprietary page builders that lock you in. Their support is generally substandard.

I’ll name and blame – Elementor – For any ticket you send in they want your login info or it won’t be submitted, I had a question over the file system and in the ticket I explained that I had a backup on my computer that I was working with so I didn’t need anything done on the site. Just an answer to my question.

Their response was that they were unable to log in and asked for my info again (I put fake login info in the ticket). I’m reluctant to let anyone poke around to begin with and this was back when I was working on syncing with eBay and had customers names and addresses, I’m not giving that out.

As far as locking you in, to rebuild your site it’s a huge pain in the ass. It uses its own proprietary markup and database entries which can break the site and leave content and metadata after uninstalling. I nuked the site and am doing a fresh install.

I’m currently using the basic WordPress with Gutenberg blocks and it uses HTML markup, and can be moved to other platforms without a hitch. It can be easily converted to basic markup, plain text, rich text and so on.

— David

ETA – The Now Playing and Previously Played Archives are a priority.

DNS Propagation

David — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:40:26 +0000

Currently, the site has been having some issues, it was moved to a different server and it takes up to 48 hours for the DNS Records to make their way around the world. Hasn’t cleared here, should be fine for most everyone else.

There’s a big X right over Dallas, I can feel it.

DNS Checker – DNS Check Propagation Tool – dnschecker.org
DNS Propagation Checker – Global DNS Testing Tool – whatsmydns.net
DNS Propagation Checker: Real-time Global DNS Status – Site24x7.com
DNSMap – Worldwide DNS Propagation Checker – Global test – dnsmap.io
DNS Lookup – dnslookuo.io
For North Texas Radio – whatsmydns.net

ETA – It changes quickly with red Xs popping up here and there, then turning in into green and others turning red, it’s not as smooth as I thought. I figured it would be like a wave. This is a few hours later but it will be completely different in a minute.
— David

Music Submissions

David — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:46:35 +0000

ZZ Top
Heard it on the X – Gruene Hall (2019)

Posted on YouTube by
ZZ Top

At the station, I get way too many emails with irrelevant music submissions mixed in with a large amount of “business opportunities”, website crap, fake invoices, and people who claim to have incriminating videos of me.

If you are using one of these ridiculous music submission services, you probably aren’t reading this. On the other hand, if you are an artist that wants me to take a look at some of your music – in your submission put the subject in the following format:
NTRadio Music Submission – Artist/Band name

I personally wouldn’t recommend paying a music submission service that sends unsolicited, mass-mailed music requests. You’re wasting your money. It’s not just me, most stations probably just ignore them. They’re a waste of time. In my case, even if I played it, it wouldn’t increase your exposure. My station is a niche station. While I don’t have a ton of listeners, the average time that my listeners stay connected puts the major stations’ averages to shame.

For a station like this, it’s all about the music.

If I choose to add your music to the NTR playlist, I’ll let you know. If I don’t get back to you, please don’t take it personally.

— David

This page may be updated so check back – it’s with the contact info on the bottom of the sidebar on the Home Page.

When I’m Sixty-Four

David — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:13:46 +0000

The Beatles
When I’m 64 (1966)

Posted on YouTube by
TheFreddyShow