--- Craig Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
An automated
> reply is better than none at all.
I don't really see how you figure that. To me they are equally useless.
> It's interesting to see radio destroying itself from so many
> directions.
> Ridiculous FCC requirements, cookie-cutter programming aimed at
> everyone and
> really pleasing very few, intentional interference from IBOC and
> squeezing
> in every last possible signal. No wonder internet streaming
> listenership
> has increased so much in the past year.
>
These proposed FCC requirements are simply a wrongheaded attempt to do
something to address problems caused by prior deregulation going too
far and/or having unanticipated results. When they permitted unattended
operations, it wasn't really expected that stations would do this 24/7.
Stations owners trying to cut costs came up with that, and absent any
enforced requirement for emergency/weather/disaster alerts, many owners
weren't going to spend for it.
There's an old proverb that says that when people are left to do as
they please, they usually imitate each other, and that's sure where we
are programming-wise...
Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop
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