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On 19 May 2005 03:13:03 GMT, Korbin Dallas
wrote: I wish you were running the FCC, stations these days simply don't do any public service. Running recorded Public service programs at 4 am on a Sunday morning won't cut it in my book. If they ran them at 6pm would you listen to them? Rich |
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These rules were thought up before PLL transmitters.
Analog mini transmitters can be all over the dial. The new digital ones can lock dead on. Wrong. Mistuned, overdriven or modified PLL transmitters can be all over the dial too. "Digital" does NOT automatically mean "better." |
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"Rich Wood" wrote in message ... | On 19 May 2005 03:13:03 GMT, Korbin Dallas | wrote: | I wish you were running the FCC, stations these days simply don't do | any public service. Running recorded Public service programs at 4 am on a | Sunday morning won't cut it in my book. | If they ran them at 6pm would you listen to them? If they actually had some meaning to my life, yes. But you and I both know that, as these programs aren't exactly profit-centers, they get some pretty scant funding which limits the ability for them to actually attain relevancy. Good to hear from you, Rich! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Brandeis ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- For direct replies, take out the contents between the hyphens. -Really!- |
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On Thu, 19 May 2005 16:25:47 +0000, Rich Wood wrote:
On 19 May 2005 03:13:03 GMT, Korbin Dallas wrote: I wish you were running the FCC, stations these days simply don't do any public service. Running recorded Public service programs at 4 am on a Sunday morning won't cut it in my book. If they ran them at 6pm would you listen to them? Rich No, I did not run those lousy programs. Public service should be part of what the station does every day. The typical Public service programs hidden away on Sunday morning do the public no good. The station might was well be playing music. -- Korbin Dallas The name was changed to protect the guilty. |
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Public service should be part of
what the station does every day. The typical Public service programs hidden away on Sunday morning do the public no good. Remember when top 40 stations had talented and clever news people who actually crafted listenable newscasts? They were fun on slow news days and credible when the public need arose. Public service was also part of the format-- not a block of shows hidden on the schedule. Fred Cantu Austin, TX |
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On 24 May 2005 07:20:50 GMT, "fredtv" wrote:
Remember when top 40 stations had talented and clever news people who actually crafted listenable newscasts? They were fun on slow news days and credible when the public need arose. Public service was also part of the format-- not a block of shows hidden on the schedule. Fred Cantu Austin, TX In the Tampa area, during the 50's, 60's and70's.. News was frequently an afterthought. Rip and Read was the norm. (And most of the news budget went for the TTY, telco, and service, rather than the humans doing the actual reading. A -few- stations had a real news team, but it -all- depended on how profitable they were. As profitability suffered, news was the first to go. Public Service? The stations that were on 24x7 simply put their "What's happening in the schools" programs on at 3 am. They put on transcriptions supplied by the government ("Forests today!", "Army Recruiting" and so on) and occasionally programs provided by the teacher's unions. Did they ever identify the propaganda pieces as such, or the suppliers of them? No.. They were -boring- and total wastes of time. How much did they put into those shows? Nothing. No budget.. Just get a talking head to come into the station one afternoon and have them talk about how great things were. Get the Sheriff's spokesman? Good. Get the head of the school board. More boredom. At the TV stations, the "public service" was aired either late at night, or early on Sunday mornings. Again, the budget for those shows was very limited... Get a news guy to sit in one chair on a empty set in the studio, and some local politician to sit in the other set... Have 2 cameras with static shots of the two folk, and let the tape spool. No one listened to them at 5 am on Sundays. The only exception to that was when the news director did a "Sky is falling" show about energy that aired in prime time. "We will be totally out of oil by 1995!" (this was in 82 or there abouts.. ) - At the rate we are going, by 1995, there won't be any cars moving. We have to buy econoboxes that get 50 mpg if we want anything available to make plastic with." "We have to have mass transit that runs on something other than oil so that our economy can survive." .... Like the Tampa Bay tourist economy would survive on coal burning airplanes carrying tourists into town? Well, Joe is long dead.. The folk he interviewed from the Sierra Club are long dead. (They were in their 70's then).. and the show got NO ratings at all. But -THAT- was the limit of "public service" on the air in the 70's and 80's.. |
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"fredtv" wrote in message ... Public service should be part of what the station does every day. The typical Public service programs hidden away on Sunday morning do the public no good. Remember when top 40 stations had talented and clever news people who actually crafted listenable newscasts? They were fun on slow news days and credible when the public need arose. Public service was also part of the format-- not a block of shows hidden on the schedule. Yes, I remember that from the 50's and 60's. Every time one of the newscasts came on, I would go to the other local Top 40 station until the news came on on that station, when I would go back. All my friends did the same thing. Fortunately, the US realized what places like Mexico had known all along: the market will provide amply for news needs and specialized news and information stations will be created naturally. Mexico has, in general, more and better news and information stations than the US does, and none was ever forced to do news and information programming. |
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David Eduardo wrote: Fortunately, the US realized what places like Mexico had known all along: the market will provide amply for news needs and specialized news and information stations will be created naturally. Mexico has, in general, more and better news and information stations than the US does, and none was ever forced to do news and information programming. Mexican stations were (are?) still forced to run that dreadful Sunday night program, though (didn't it sound like someone was talking over a barrel?) |
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wrote in message ... David Eduardo wrote: Fortunately, the US realized what places like Mexico had known all along: the market will provide amply for news needs and specialized news and information stations will be created naturally. Mexico has, in general, more and better news and information stations than the US does, and none was ever forced to do news and information programming. Mexican stations were (are?) still forced to run that dreadful Sunday night program, though (didn't it sound like someone was talking over a barrel?) La Hora Nacional still is a must carry. However, we are talking about an hour that typically has a 3.0 rating for persons using radio, so it is not important. Mexico City has more news and talk stations than NY, LA and Chicago combined. |
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