For me, just tea, please. :) -----Original Message----- From: Swprograms [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John A. Figliozzi Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 21:17 To: Shortwave programming discussion Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news
I see you, me, Scott and a few others could have a lot of fun with this topic over a few adult beverages. :) Sent from my iPad > On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:00 PM, "Ted S." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
