Re: [Swprograms] Digital radio news

["John A. Figliozzi" <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I see you, me, Scott and a few others could have a lot of fun with this topic over a few adult beverages. :)

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> On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:00 PM, "Ted S." <fedya@xxxxxxxxxx> 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....
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