Mark Howell had written:
| On 27 Aug 2004 01:44:50 GMT, (Mark Roberts)
| wrote:
|
| Music stations also didn't hate news in those days.
|
| Actually, they did, but by government edict, they had to do it.

Then why did (at least some of them) promote it so much?

It certain added to the feeling that if you didn't tune in, you
would miss something. That's been missing from most radio stations
for a long time.

| Try to imagine "The Big 89" (WLS) without Lyle Dean.
|
| The better stations elected to do news well, since not doing it was
| not an option under the regulations then governing the industry. But
| most of them were pretty much rip 'n' read operations with no real
| staffing even then.

The rip 'n' read criticism is fair, for at least some of the
operations. But I do recall that the Storz stations had 24/7
coverage and fairly frequent use of obviously local phoners, even if
the on-scene coverage was sometimes lacking.


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