A week ago tonight I reported on a development in Tampa radio > The announcement was not hard to pre-guess. As I > suspected, Mark announced his "retirement" from his > three-hour Sunday evening show, one of the very few > liberal voices (Lionel, Saturdays, another) on FLA. The > "choice" of retirement was "offered" to him over lunch
Then I speculated on what would replace his local take on what was largely local content > last show after being cut. Maybe at the staff > meeting tomorrow, when they plan whether to > give us the 2nd repeat of Limbaugh or the next > repeat of Hannity, someone will mention that Well, I was wrong about at least this. He was not replaced with either of my guesses, but not a lot better, with a repeat of their local afternoon drive show which was originally recorded the day after the Bush SOTU speech, adding nothing to what has been said before. Unless, of course, you missed the PM drive show on Wednesday and feel the need to catch it now. (!) This is an interesting thought about HD. Now that CC seems to feel the need to eliminate programming that may not pay its way, (ironic, in that the listener to the alternative viewpoint is probably the more likely one to go out now and buy an HD receiver, becoming an early [only?] adopter) then the whole concept of what to offer the listener in the context of nighttime HD becomes open for analysis. IOW, if they view the night time hours as so un-important that they can merely fill it with days-old repeats, then what is the justification for all the expense of HD conversions for AM night ops. --- Another thought comes to mind when thinking of stations that rebroadcast days-old talk shows. This is the concept of being a "station of record" which is a promo that FLA runs every so often when they get in a self-back-patting mood. A *newspaper* can be a Newspaper of Record. I can go to the circulation department and order a back issue, or find it at the library, and can look up a story at my leisure. "Record" implies that the information they broadcast is accessible to anyone at some undefined future point to check facts, or for whatever purpose. That's because a newspaper pushes information out in "parallel" mode with a lot of "data busses" (sections) available at once. Radio stations present their product in "serial mode" with a single channel data buss, limited not by how fast one reads, but by how fast (slowly) they push it to you. A radio station CANNOT be a "Station of Record" because there is no practical way for any listener to access a previously broadcast story, on terms that are reasonably available to the listener. He or she would have to go to the station and convince them to make available logging tapes (if they are even available) (unless there are a few stations that are archived by 3rd parties for a fee). I'd bet a court order would be needed for this to happen. Has anyone ever done this? I hear that there are stations that do NOT archive content to avoid such situations, similar to the idea of businesses archiving (or not) e-mails. Well, time for Drudge. Saying Iran offering to rebuild Iraq. Maybe put a couple of 2 megawatters for us to shoot for. - Bob 2234 est _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
