Where I live news on the radio is already a thing of the past. Radio "news"
consists of reading the newspaper. Thank you Cumulus.

I'm aware there's at least one station in the US who uses a news feed
from our BBC.

Is there any interest in our slant on news?
--
Philip de Cadenet G4ZOW
Transmitters 'R' Us
http://www.transmittersrus.com

"Paul Jensen" wrote in message ...
"Shannon" wrote in message
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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?

Where I live news on the radio is already a thing of the past. Radio "news"
consists of reading the newspaper. Thank you Cumulus.

Paul Jensen
Florida's Emerald Coast

In LA KNX and KFWB (both Infinity stations) are pre-empting news with
sports, that is complete games. And oh yes, the new 'Liberal' network
called Air America starts today, evidently with time leased on KBLA
1580==Ted Shireman

"Ted Shireman" wrote in message
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"Paul Jensen" wrote in message
...
"Shannon" wrote in message
...
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?

Where I live news on the radio is already a thing of the past. Radio
"news"
consists of reading the newspaper. Thank you Cumulus.

Paul Jensen
Florida's Emerald Coast

In LA KNX and KFWB (both Infinity stations) are pre-empting news with
sports, that is complete games. And oh yes, the new 'Liberal' network
called Air America starts today, evidently with time leased on KBLA
1580==Ted Shireman

What games are on KNX?

Ted Shireman wrote:
"Paul Jensen" wrote in message ...

"Shannon" wrote in message
...

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?

Where I live news on the radio is already a thing of the past. Radio "news"
consists of reading the newspaper. Thank you Cumulus.

Paul Jensen
Florida's Emerald Coast


In LA KNX and KFWB (both Infinity stations) are pre-empting news with
sports, that is complete games.

KFWB has the sports. KNX has the cooking and computer shows that they
got by luring people from KFI....

And oh yes, the new 'Liberal' network
called Air America starts today, evidently with time leased on KBLA
1580==Ted Shireman

Didn't have a radio near me at work....how did that go?

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?



Larry W4CSC
POWER is our friend!

"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.

On 31 Mar 2004 23:06:40 GMT, "Don Forsling" wrote:


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.

Well (blush), I may have exaggerated a bit, but you know EXACTLY what
I'm talking about.......I hope.



Larry W4CSC
POWER is our friend!