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From: Martin Cosgrave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 10 January 2000 16:20
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Subject: GeeK: time-compression technology
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:39:20 -0500 (EST)
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http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/010600radio-ads.html
...software commonly used by radio stations to snip out dead air between
words on talk programs, allowing more space for advertisements.
ADVERTISING
Radio Squeezes Empty Air Space for Profit
By ALEX KUCZYNSKI
Rush Limbaugh said he noticed it about two months ago. Listeners to
his daily radio show were sending in e-mail messages by the thousands,
asking why there were more commercials on his three-hour talk-radio
program.
"At first I didn't know what they were talking about," Mr. Limbaugh
said. "I was talking for the same amount of time every day."
He may have been speaking for the same amount of time, but his words
were, without his knowledge, being sucked into a temporal never-never
land. A new kind of digital technology was literally snipping out the
silent pockets between words, shortening the pauses and generally
speeding up the pace of Mr. Limbaugh's speech.
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