Ashley VK3HAG wrote:

(With Some Snippage to Pertinent Replies

N9OGL,

Copyright doesn't apply to "educational, discussions, ng posts etc"
(It
applies only to websites, magazines, music, broadcasts etc) so
therefore
IMHO any court in any democratic society would rule anything on a
newsgroup,
to be public domain.

Toiddie doesn't care what courts or governmental agencies do.
They're all "against him without any reason" anyway...! ! !

Whilst I sought permission from ARNewsline to re-transmit ARNewsLine
on UHF
CB in Melbourne out of courtesy, Mr Pasternack said he appreciated
the
courtesy, yet I could have started re-transmitting it without his
permission...(SNIP)

Bill's a fine fellow.

He read an item I wrote on line and asked to re-print it in
"Worldradio". I told him yes, of course. About 2 months later I got a
check from him for the use! I sent it back. It was free in the first
place...Nothing had changed, but I sure appreciated the offer.

Instead of wasting your time, effort & money on a pirate TV station,
fighting the FCC (our ACA isn't much better btw) why not volunteer
your time
and expertise to the local community radio and television stations as
I do?
Not only could you broadcast what you want, you could help save the
community station thousands of dollars by carrying out free
maintained and
repairs. I leave my broadcasting to broadcast services and amateur
to
amateur.

You miss the point, Ashley...This is ONLY about Toiddie being able
to express his own opinions as forcibly and frequently as he can. It's
got NOTHING to do with the business of operating a station or promoting
the arts.

And two questions for US ppl on he 1) Why does the cable channel
control
community television?

What we call "community television" or "public access" is so local
promoters, presenters, etc can "get on the air" without having to spend
all the cash to build thier own station.

The local cable company has the studios, the cameras, processing
gear, etc, and it can be rented to the "user" ready-to-go.

You should also note, that NOT swearing is more effective THAN
swearing.
Example: you start your show tonight and include lot's of 'hells'
'dams'
'****' etc, and people watch. Ten years down the track same thing.
But, if
you didn't swear for ten years at all, then one day came on air and
said
"This is bull****" it would be 200% more effective.

Toiddie doesn't have anything to say unless he connects it with
profanity.

I, too will be starting an on-air news bulletin, two in fact. One on
the
local community station, about amateur radio and a brief amateur
bulletin
for amateurs only who can call in to the studio (when I'm there) via
amateur
radio and go 'on air' with thier thoughts to help promote AR (instead
of
using the phone). This won't happen until I have co-ordinated a
frequency to
use with the local amateur club. Perhaps, N9OGL I could send/show you
the
correct way to format/run a newscast of any description.

P L E A S E send him the help anyway, Ashley! L O T S of it,
too!

N9OGL, if you have an Echo or IRLP node nearby would you like me to
connect
to it and give a demonstration on this. No point having a broadcast
of any
description until you have the fundamentals in place-grammar,
pronunciation,
spelling, don't bother, it's hard enough to capture a (any) audience
with
these traits.

We've tried to tell him...

The sad part is he's about to "graduate" from a "local" community
"college", yet his grammar and vocabulary, well..suck! I used to
(blindly) think that American education was above and beyond just about
anything else out there...To my chagrin Toiddie proved me wrong.

73

Steve, K4YZ