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April 1st 04, 12:06 AM

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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On 30 Mar 2004 05:18:58 GMT, (Shannon) wrote:

With news updates on cell phones and watches, and immediate Internet
news coverage, will listening to news on the radio become something of
the past?

Listening to anything on radio is becoming increasingly difficult.
It's a tossup between the talking head saying "News-Talk 730 - WSC" 25
times every 10 minutes, trying to jack up the ratings by saturating
the listeners with RCA marine communication's shortwave callsign (730
is WSCC) and the saturation advertising playing the same spots 8 times
an hour in a string of like spots played 8 times an hour for 6 minutes
STRAIGHT with no programming whatsoever.

Is it any wonder noone is listening?

It's certainly a wonder that the spot load on "News Talk 730" is as heavy as
you claim it to be if, as you say, no one is listening. Know what? I'll
bet that lots and lots of people are listening. I wonder why these
advertisers (and so many of them, too) are paying to have their spots not
listened to by anybody. Odd. What's really odd is that the station seems,
by your count, to be airing 48 minutes of spots an hour. Isn't that a tad
unusual? I really don't know the answer.