Andy,
If there's a tape version of the program, that someone could transfer to one
of the various PC-audio formats, I'm sure we could upload it to someone's
personal web space for distribution. I believe I have ~20 Megs available.
Nat
> I sincerely apologize that I reminder all of you again
> and again to please tune in to my radio show today,
> but then, when many of you tried to do exactly as I
> asked, you found that the station, for the day, was
> not streaming on the net at all, without even
> bothering to tell me about it.
>
> My radio show is a mixture of local and state and
> national politics, weekdays, each weekday, 9--noon, on
> AM1320 WJGR in Jacksonville. Also the show, most days,
> can be heard on the internet at http://www.wjgr.com
> although apparently not today.
>
> I am exceedingly unhappy with the radio station. I am
> not an employee. I buy my time. I am in independent
> contractor. I host the show, produce the show, sell
> the ads. I am more or less a radio station in a radio
> station. And...I pay extra for the simulcast on the
> internet. And...the station apparently was not
> intending to let me know that I was due a refund for
> today's show....
>
> The show was a surprising success. Although I did not
> receive even one call from out of town, from the
> u.s.m.a. folks or from the metricAmerica folks, which
> I can now rather easily understand, the show stayed
> busy the entire 3 hours with local calls, including
> more pro-metric than anti-metric.
>
> I confess that I had expected at least a few metric
> experts to carry the day for me. I was not intending
> to work quite as hard as I did today.
>
> We will try it again soon. I will make sure the
> station definitely has me hooked up to the internet,
> without any doubt about it. And I will then again
> solicit the usma to participate.
>
> I have been doing my thing for metric since back in
> 1978 when I was elected to the Florida House. Way back
> then I successfully sponsored and passed a bill
> creating and funding the Florida Metric Council,
> working closely with Syd Andrews and Doyle Connor. And
> I also passed a bill which required dual speed limit
> signs! Back in 1981! For 2 years the speed limit signs
> in Florida were put up as dual signs! And then that
> damned Governor Martinez came along, not satisfied to
> halt the dual signs, but demanding that all which had
> been erected had to be removed and destroyed!
>
> I no longer harbor any political ambitions. But I
> harbor some serious ambitions about turning my little
> local radio show into a national talk show. I solicit
> your help. I ask you for your help. And I will
> continue to work with you in every way possible to
> speed up metrication.
>
> I believe our goal must be to muster some national
> commitment in 2001 that we will now move toward full
> and complete metrication in the U.S. by some definite
> date.
>
> Sincerely,
> Andy Johnson
> http://www.wjgr.com each weekday, 9--noon, east coast
> on-air: 904-389-1320
> office: 904-596-7335
> fax: 904-389-3399
>
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