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In joewo writes:
The Fybush posts are wonderful. Perhaps there are other national
posts that can be generated. Such as the NATIONAL FCC change feed.
Perhaps an RSS of other radio/TV sites such as radio-info.com or
monitoringtimes.com or popcomm.com or DCTV.com or perhaps a Google
news feed of radio or shortwave or broadcasting. There are many radio
aggregator sites that focus on broadcasting for a certain area.
The editors of the radio-info.com and radioworld.com sites have both
declined to have rec.radio.broadcasting forward daily RSS feeds of their
news articles.
One of the challenges of other possible news feeds is to keep them
mostly confined to broadcast radio, and not TV or shortwave or scanner
listening. The dcrtv.com site is really great for Washington DC area
broadcasting news, but as far as I know, does not support RSS. Sites
might be interested in allowing rec.radio.broadcasting to abstract their
feeds (either Fair Use or something close to it), and RSS is usually the
best and easiest way to abstract updates at web sites automatically.
There are at two profiled feeds of the FCC Daily Digests to newsgroups
that I know of. One for amateur radio (Part 97) information, the other
for radio and TV broadcasting in the Bay Area of California (San
Francisco, San Jose, etc.). Tracking FCC actions for all broadcast
radio stations nationwide could be quite voluminous and noisy. What
kinds of pattern matches would you propose be profiled for
rec.radio.broadcasting? New stations? Significant enforcement actions?
Sometimes that's hard to do in a way that is useful and manageable for
the readership without a lot of reading and manual culling by an editor.
We might need an interested volunteer.
There has to be a number of ways to generate posts to this group that
would be truly informative content in addition to Fybush...which is
good of course.
Thanks
The original moderator of this newsgroup, the late Bill Pfeiffer,
coordinated a "Radio Watchers" program, where individuals around the
country, and world, would follow radio stations in their markets, and
sometimes surrounding regions, and report back to
rec.radio.broadcasting. Scott Fybush, the author of the Fybush Media
articles, was one of the original Radio Watchers, for the northeastern
U.S., and is probably one of the few remaining who continue to provide
updates to the net.
Given that the moderation system for rec.radio.broadcasting can support
several automated options, including posting from newsreaders, E-mail
submissions, web site scraping, and now RSS, it would appear that it
might be technically easier to capture and post the information, even
automatically. What would be the remaining challenge would be to find
good sites that would consent to relay of their material, and good
watchers to submit their own local observations and analysis.
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Paul W. Schleck
http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/
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