Craig, An excellent piece, thank you.
I would add one more recent chilling event, threats by a US Congressman to put his staff to work monitoring AM talk radio for "improprieties", clearly a politically motivated attack. The FCC has been called in to discuss the reinstitution of the failed "fairness doctrine", which is guaranteed would eliminate the primary revenue stream of AM radio. Regardless of who proposes it, Congressman or dictator, whenever the government gets into the business of monitoring and overseeing what is said on radio, not much more is going to be said. Clearly a bigger issue, but still one that could drag AM back to where it was after FM grabbed up music and before talk radio took off. If you can't carry talk, and you can't play music, and sports broadcasting becomes increasingly restricted by the league monopolies, there's nothing much left. Nothing that is until the next EDS warning when hurricane, tornado or non-natural disaster strikes. But by then there will be no stations that can be heard more than a few miles, left to carry them. Curt ------- W. Curt Deegan Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida, USA At 11:37 AM 10/9/2007, you wrote: >I really don't want to start an overpowering thread, especially in the hot >part of the season, but I do want to make a quick comment on the state of >things. > >[snip] > >Craig Healy >Providence, RI _______________________________________________ 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]
