"Tom Betz" wrote in message
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Quoth "T. Early" in
:

I guess the simple question, shorn of all the rhetoric, is whether
Air
America replaced programming by the Coalition of Artists and
Activists or not.

No, the owners of the station replaced programming by CAA. With Air
America.

By the way, CAA's programming still has a home on weekends.



That's a reasonable distinction. So should I assume that Air America
representatives did not approach the owners with an offer, knowing
that acceptance of the offer would result in CAA programming being
replaced?

Thanks, Bearcat. Besides, I think WLW used to have 500,000 watts or
something like that, so you're probably rf-damaged for the rest of your
life. I bet you glow in the dark and make fluorescent lights come on when
you walk in the room.

I downloaded OTS Juke so I play radio on my computer, and I've got some WLS
jingles intermixed with my music. And since the program has an excellent
dynamic processor, I try to create the Big 89 sound as closely as possible.
I'm still in the tweaking stage (as I have been for over two years).

I don't stream my "station" or anything, just play it for my sake till my
wife makes me turn it down.

On 14 Apr 2004 14:42:59 GMT, "T. Early"
wrote:

That's a reasonable distinction. So should I assume that Air America
representatives did not approach the owners with an offer, knowing
that acceptance of the offer would result in CAA programming being
replaced?

Offers like this are made every day. Broadcasting is win-lose
business. If one show comes in another has to go out.

WLIB is a commercial entity. If it's losing money because no one is
listening and they can't sell time, something has to give. Supposing
BET had a radio network and made the same deal? CAA programming would
go, also.

You can't blame Air America for seeing an opportunity and making
something of it.

Rich

Err, correction: "Relive," not "relieve."

73,

SL

"Corbin Ray" wrote:

I downloaded OTS Juke so I play radio on my computer, and I've got some WLS
jingles intermixed with my music. And since the program has an excellent
dynamic processor, I try to create the Big 89 sound as closely as possible.
I'm still in the tweaking stage (as I have been for over two years).

I don't stream my "station" or anything, just play it for my sake till my
wife makes me turn it down.

Truly cool! Yes, WLS had a sound that was
fatter than my Aunt Mary Kay, with a huge
bottom, to boot! I've visited the WLSHISTORY
webpage numerous times, and played the jingles
and listened to the airchecks, and, while I
was doing so, I realized that it isn't too
common to relieve *happy* memories, but I did.

When I listen to old airchecks of WLS, I relive
fishing with my late father, shoveling snow for
pocket money in those gloomy winters, going to
movies with my pals, and a couple of awkward
attempts at dating.

I hate to quote Carly Simon, but "these are the
good old days." Still, listening to airchecks of
WLS from ages past reminds me of how I came to
be who I am now.

73,

Steve Lawrence
KA0PMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"Rich Wood" wrote in message
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On 14 Apr 2004 14:42:59 GMT, "T. Early"
wrote:

That's a reasonable distinction. So should I assume that Air
America
representatives did not approach the owners with an offer, knowing
that acceptance of the offer would result in CAA programming being
replaced?

Offers like this are made every day. Broadcasting is win-lose
business. If one show comes in another has to go out.

WLIB is a commercial entity. If it's losing money because no one is
listening and they can't sell time, something has to give. Supposing
BET had a radio network and made the same deal? CAA programming
would
go, also.

You can't blame Air America for seeing an opportunity and making
something of it.


I don't blame 'em, but this thread has gotten long enough where the
original context, which concerned an article linked to by the original
poster, has gotten lost. The author of the article (which was
admittedly over the top) found some irony in the fact that a network
catering to those who are usually obsessed with multiculturism and
speech outlets for the "disenfranchised" would themselves
"disenfranchise" this type of programming. Another poster (also
above) took issue with this characterization, and it seems to me that
who did what to whom -is- relevant in that context. I also think it's
a reasonable assumption that had WLIB's programming been replaced by,
say, Michael Medved or Mike Reagan, we'd be hearing a lot about the
loss of CAA's "voice" from those who support Air America.

"Corbin Ray" wrote in message ...
I don't care who owns WLIB. But I will never forgive them for killing one of
the best radio stations in middle America. Remember what happened to WOWO,
50,000-watt blowtorch from Fort Wayne that covered 38 states and half of
Canada? The owner of WLIB bought them a few years ago, decreased their power
and changed their directional pattern just so that WLIB could increase its
own power to cover NYC. Then the owners dumped their damaged goods and sold
WOWO to someone else.

That was one of the saddest days in broadcast history for me. WOWO used to
have an incredible signal here in Kentucky. Back in the 70s, my radio
buttons were set on WLS, WCFL, WOWO, and 15 WLAC. And even though they
weren't still playing music, I was listening to them steadily every night,
right up to the sad night when their strong signal became a noisy whisper.

So as far as I'm concerned, WLIB can take a flying leap into the Hudson
River and let us have WOWO back.

That "noisy whisper"- Glad to see that the station and Mr. Limbaugh
have become a noisy whisper. We need as much fresh and QUIET air as we
can get!

That was one of the saddest days in broadcast history for me. WOWO used to
have an incredible signal here in Kentucky. Back in the 70s, my radio

I think I might have an audiotape I recorded of WOWO back in the 70's or 80's
from my location.

If I find it, I'll put it up on a website as a realplayer file.

I know I recoreded some of WOWO, because I used to listen to Ron Gregory's
"Hollywierd Report"