On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:28:55 -0500, in shortwave you wrote: > I think you've misunderstood, Ted. The criticism of government > policy regards allowing (in fact fostering) concentration of control > over a public resource--not a public vs. private broadcasting > argument.
One of the points I was trying to make is that having that 800-pound gorilla with the government imprimatur is also a form of concentration of control. Not that I particularly care for the state of broadcasting here in the US. I wouldn't necessarily mind some good spoken-word broadcasting that wasn't of the call-in variety; after all, I listen to the various international broadcasters. But one of the impressions I get from discussions like this -- not just here, but in the game show forum I mentioned in responding to Rob, as well as the TCM boards -- is that a lot of the complaining comes down to, "How horrible it is that there's not more of the format of programming *I* like!" (You should see on the TCM boards whenever they run more recent movies.) I don't have any good answers, though. > P.S.: I think it's WEPN that's transitioned to FM from AM in NYC. > WFAN is on both 660AM which should be reaching into the Catskills > even in daytime, and FM. I must not have made my previous post clear; yeah, I fully know that it's WEPN that went Spanish-language sports. Just this week WFAN's station IDs went to mentioning the FM frequency first, which makes me wonder when they're going to leave AM.... _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
