"Mike Terry" wrote in
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people won't need an AM/FM radio receiver

Why I don't listen to radio any more.......

"News Talk 1250, WTMA"
"Your home for news and talk, 730 WSC"
"News Talk 1250, WTMA"
"Your home for news and talk, 730 WSC"
"News Talk 1250, WTMA"
"Your home for news and talk, 730 WSC"
"News Talk 1250, WTMA"
"Your home for news and talk, 730 WSC"
"News Talk 1250, WTMA"
"Your home for news and talk, 730 WSC"
"News Talk 1250, WTMA"
"Your home for news and talk, 730 WSC"
The minute record is held by WSCC (WSC is RCA Communications' marine
callsign) at 12, in 60 seconds. The hourly rate record is held by WTMA at
237/hour during a local talkshow where they ran out of subjects.

I've called into both and BEGGED them to go easy on the self-promotional
repetition, to no avail. "We all know what the station's callsign is and
what frequency it is on.", I tried to convince them. Deaf ears....all
deaf. Someone told me they do that so we don't forget in case the ratings
people call us.

Pick any station with either computer or talking heads....same thing.
"News Radio 750, WSB"...over and over and over.

When the rating company called to ask me what station I listened to, I told
her I liked BBC-2 better than BBC-4, but listened to both. She was
speechless until I explained where REAL radio broadcasting was still being
produced. Thank you, people of the UK! I offered to pay my radio tax to
BBC to help pay my share of the internet server costs. They told me thank
you for offering but it wasn't necessary. I replied to that with an offer
to pay for BBC-TV on broadband of the local programming so I could watch
great British comedies less than 5 years old like PBS intermittently
broadcasts. They're actually thinking about it!

Broadcasters in the USA have killed radio and TV. Remember when NAB used
to limit the spam to 10 minutes an hour with actual PROGRAMMING for 50
minutes? We'll never see that, again.....

Dammit.....

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