|
Sorry,Howard Stern-Goodbye TIVO
Big deal.....yawn....
HDD DVD is nothing new. The broadcasters have nothing to worry about as millions and millions of viewers will still tune in and watch the commercials. Your could change the date of this story to 1980 and replace HDD-DVD with VCR and you'd have the same load of baloney. $500 million to has-been Howard is retarded though. I wonder if they did this to keep XM from swallowing them up. Sounds like a "poison pill" strategy. wrote in message ... by Mike Rogers.(Mike Rogers in Tokio) www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers134.html I don't read that damn lib lew rockwell site,but I saw this article at another site that linked it to that damn lib lew rockwell site.The aricle does concern Shortwave Radio (Hey,I am always on topic,y'all just know) and other forms of electronic video and audio too.Soon as this Key Largo movie on tb is over,I am going to cut the light and get my beauty sleep.I have to watch Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart have that big shootout on that boat. cuhulin |
Brian - KB9BVN wrote:
Big deal.....yawn.... HDD DVD is nothing new. The broadcasters have nothing to worry about as millions and millions of viewers will still tune in and watch the commercials. Your could change the date of this story to 1980 and replace HDD-DVD with VCR and you'd have the same load of baloney. $500 million to has-been Howard is retarded though. I wonder if they did this to keep XM from swallowing them up. Sounds like a "poison pill" strategy. It made up my mind. I won't subscribe to a service that will pay an outrageous price for something I wouldn't listen to for free. -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:15:48 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Brian - KB9BVN wrote: Big deal.....yawn.... HDD DVD is nothing new. The broadcasters have nothing to worry about as millions and millions of viewers will still tune in and watch the commercials. Your could change the date of this story to 1980 and replace HDD-DVD with VCR and you'd have the same load of baloney. $500 million to has-been Howard is retarded though. I wonder if they did this to keep XM from swallowing them up. Sounds like a "poison pill" strategy. It made up my mind. I won't subscribe to a service that will pay an outrageous price for something I wouldn't listen to for free. You sound like my Dad, about 5 years before he got cable TV. |
I have been getting Philip Swann's www.tvpredictions.com email
newsletters for about five years or more and his Swanni Sez email newsletters too.So the article wasen't news to me at all.I only posted it here because I thought somebody might be interested in reading it.I never watch Howard Stern or listen to him either or any of those other crappy programs on tv or radio.lib means libertarian,if y'all haven't figured that out yet. cuhulin |
|
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:10:27 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: David wrote: You sound like my Dad, about 5 years before he got cable TV. So I'm supposed to pay for something I won't use? The only thing I would ever listen to on Sirius is WSM and I am listening to it right now on the computer. I spent what Sirius would cost along with a second phone line and dial up internet to get broadband internet and basic cable service for the same price. I only spend a couple hours a month in my truck and a few more at the grocery store or doctor's office. Please explain the logic of your statement. You need to spend more time listening to the radio. It'll improve your disposition. |
David wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:10:27 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: David wrote: You sound like my Dad, about 5 years before he got cable TV. So I'm supposed to pay for something I won't use? The only thing I would ever listen to on Sirius is WSM and I am listening to it right now on the computer. I spent what Sirius would cost along with a second phone line and dial up internet to get broadband internet and basic cable service for the same price. I only spend a couple hours a month in my truck and a few more at the grocery store or doctor's office. Please explain the logic of your statement. You need to spend more time listening to the radio. It'll improve your disposition. Actually, I enjoy building and repairing the radios more then listening to them these days. I have severe tinitus so I have to have the volume quite high to listen to fading signals. I loved to sit up all night and listen to international broadcast when i was a teenager, but that was a long time ago. Still, you haven't explained why I should subscribe to a service I don't need, or want. I looked at both XM and Sirius and I wasn't impressed by either. As far as Satellite radio, I built a C-band satellite system 15 years ago to listen to the radio stations carried a SCPC or subcarrier on the TV satellites. Have you ever built a radio and had the joy of hearing that first far away signal? How about the pure satisfaction of building a commercial station and transmitting the first signal? Or have you only opened a box and turned on someone else's idea of a radio? In other words, there is nothing wrong with my disposition, just that you want me to do things your way and it just won't happen. As far as new technology? I've worked on and built commercial radios you'll probably never see. Some of them will be used to track the recently announced space probe to Pluto. I learned to solder at eight when I built my first radio kit. I was hooked. At 13 I was working part time in a radio and TV shop repairing radios to make money to buy tools to build more radios. -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
BDK wrote:
It made me decide to get Sirius, as I actually liked XM better. I would pay 13 bucks a month for a decent signal of Howard alone! BDK Enjoy it. I didn't find anything on XM or Sirius that i wanted to hear that I can't already hear, here. -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
BDK wrote: It made me decide to get Sirius, as I actually liked XM better. I would pay 13 bucks a month for a decent signal of Howard alone! BDK Enjoy it. I didn't find anything on XM or Sirius that i wanted to hear that I can't already hear, here. Ten channels of every concievable genre of rap music, ten channels ditto of alt rock, and so on (including talk, everything from Nazi to anarchist)! There is such a thing as too much choice, IMO. I looked at a Sirius playlist when I was in Radio Shack (I only went in because my car was getting an oil change at the Goodyear down the street) and I was quite underwhelmed. Satellite radio's sole redeeming feature seems to be that it will tell you on the screen the artist and title of the song being played. 120 channels and every one of them have junk, just like satellite TV. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
Only ten channels? I can get much more than that (local Jackson area
Radio Stations) right here in the daytime and night time on any of my old beat up Radios.Hey,I can get more Radio channels than that on my DirectTV. www.musicchoices.com (I listen to Easy Listening often on my DirecTV) and in two months,I am going to buy meself a Lyngsat free to air satellite rig www.forthepeople.org and get even MORE Radio channels/Radio Stations too.I get much,much,much more with my Linksys Wireless B Music System internet Radio too. www.linksys.com and my computer too. cuhulin |
Ever heard of poding with a ipod? You can have your OWN radio
station,cheap. cuhulin |
David wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:31:38 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: I looked at both XM and Sirius and I wasn't impressed by either. There's your problem. You looked at them. try listening to them. Your sense of humeor must have died a very painful death. How about the pure satisfaction of building a commercial station and transmitting the first signal? I enjoy putting big-ass non-commercial stations on the air a lot more. Commercial radio is generally run by assholes. I don't know about ''pure satisfaction'' though. That sounds a little fruity. Its "fruity" to take a pile of dead and damaged equipment, rebuild it and put it on the air? I dismantled, moved, reassembled and got a 1952 RCA Transmitter ready to use even though parts were no longer available. BTW, it wasn't a commercial station. I was a broadcast engineer at a number of stations, both military and civilian, and yes, I do derive satisfaction from doing what others couldn't. Arrive at a transmitter site to find the current staff had everything so FUBARed that they had given up, then put the transmitter back on the air. In fact, the US Army awarded me their version of a first phone as a civilian acquired skill when I was drafted in the early '70s. As far as "big-ass" I worked on a Comark 130 KW transmitter with a 5 MW ERP that was non commercial. -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:12:31 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: David wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:31:38 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: I looked at both XM and Sirius and I wasn't impressed by either. There's your problem. You looked at them. try listening to them. Your sense of humeor must have died a very painful death. How about the pure satisfaction of building a commercial station and transmitting the first signal? I enjoy putting big-ass non-commercial stations on the air a lot more. Commercial radio is generally run by assholes. I don't know about ''pure satisfaction'' though. That sounds a little fruity. Its "fruity" to take a pile of dead and damaged equipment, rebuild it and put it on the air? I dismantled, moved, reassembled and got a 1952 RCA Transmitter ready to use even though parts were no longer available. BTW, it wasn't a commercial station. I was a broadcast engineer at a number of stations, both military and civilian, and yes, I do derive satisfaction from doing what others couldn't. Arrive at a transmitter site to find the current staff had everything so FUBARed that they had given up, then put the transmitter back on the air. In fact, the US Army awarded me their version of a first phone as a civilian acquired skill when I was drafted in the early '70s. As far as "big-ass" I worked on a Comark 130 KW transmitter with a 5 MW ERP that was non commercial. I've supervised and maintained a 120 kW Comark S-Series (3 IOTs). The most powerful TV station in the #2 DMA as a matter of fact. I've emergency repaired 3'' Heliax with beer cans. So what? ''Pure satisfaction'' however sounds like what happens about 10 milliseconds before you die. |
David wrote:
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:12:31 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: David wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:31:38 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: I looked at both XM and Sirius and I wasn't impressed by either. There's your problem. You looked at them. try listening to them. Your sense of humeor must have died a very painful death. How about the pure satisfaction of building a commercial station and transmitting the first signal? I enjoy putting big-ass non-commercial stations on the air a lot more. Commercial radio is generally run by assholes. I don't know about ''pure satisfaction'' though. That sounds a little fruity. Its "fruity" to take a pile of dead and damaged equipment, rebuild it and put it on the air? I dismantled, moved, reassembled and got a 1952 RCA Transmitter ready to use even though parts were no longer available. BTW, it wasn't a commercial station. I was a broadcast engineer at a number of stations, both military and civilian, and yes, I do derive satisfaction from doing what others couldn't. Arrive at a transmitter site to find the current staff had everything so FUBARed that they had given up, then put the transmitter back on the air. In fact, the US Army awarded me their version of a first phone as a civilian acquired skill when I was drafted in the early '70s. As far as "big-ass" I worked on a Comark 130 KW transmitter with a 5 MW ERP that was non commercial. I've supervised and maintained a 120 kW Comark S-Series (3 IOTs). The most powerful TV station in the #2 DMA as a matter of fact. I've emergency repaired 3'' Heliax with beer cans. So what? ''Pure satisfaction'' however sounds like what happens about 10 milliseconds before you die. Have you built anything that's in use in space? -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message ... David wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:12:31 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: David wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:31:38 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: I looked at both XM and Sirius and I wasn't impressed by either. There's your problem. You looked at them. try listening to them. Your sense of humeor must have died a very painful death. How about the pure satisfaction of building a commercial station and transmitting the first signal? I enjoy putting big-ass non-commercial stations on the air a lot more. Commercial radio is generally run by assholes. I don't know about ''pure satisfaction'' though. That sounds a little fruity. Its "fruity" to take a pile of dead and damaged equipment, rebuild it and put it on the air? I dismantled, moved, reassembled and got a 1952 RCA Transmitter ready to use even though parts were no longer available. BTW, it wasn't a commercial station. I was a broadcast engineer at a number of stations, both military and civilian, and yes, I do derive satisfaction from doing what others couldn't. Arrive at a transmitter site to find the current staff had everything so FUBARed that they had given up, then put the transmitter back on the air. In fact, the US Army awarded me their version of a first phone as a civilian acquired skill when I was drafted in the early '70s. As far as "big-ass" I worked on a Comark 130 KW transmitter with a 5 MW ERP that was non commercial. I've supervised and maintained a 120 kW Comark S-Series (3 IOTs). The most powerful TV station in the #2 DMA as a matter of fact. I've emergency repaired 3'' Heliax with beer cans. So what? ''Pure satisfaction'' however sounds like what happens about 10 milliseconds before you die. Have you built anything that's in use in space? He built the tinfoil hat he wears does that count? |
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:42:42 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: David wrote: Have you built anything that's in use in space? Is this a ****ing contest? The point is you said ''pure satisfaction''. This offends me. Nothing is ''pure'' and therefore a perfectionist is never satisfied. Your phrase ''pure satisfaction'' therefore is gibberish. |
| All times are GMT +1. The time now is 05:08 PM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
RadioBanter.com