I was thinking that with the renaming of Airwaves, and the growth of
the mailinglist and readership, that I would put out the call for
readers who would like to be 'Radio Watchers"
I would like to develop a dialogue with one or two people in different
major-metro areas who wish to be 'AIRWAVES Radio-Watchers' in their
city. You would be the one(s) to send in the quarterly arbitron
ratings for your market, pass along local radio happennings and
generally keep the list/group informed.
Now we have a couple of people who are doing this from time-to-time,
and a couple (like Mark and Scott) who do it fairly regularily. What I would
like to put together is a team of individuals who would be responsible
for reguar features about media in their local area. This invitation
is open to readers all across the globe. In fact I would like to
extend a SPECAIL encouragement to people outside of North America,
since we don't hear nearly enough from them.
This project is not intended to limit or replace existing posters from
given cities. All are welcome to post. This idea is more to try to
create a core of reguilar posters who keep track of media in their
areas and can pass on information regarding same.
Does this sound like you?
Send me some mail and lets talk.
Bill
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Subject: Car Radio Question
From: stuart@apollo.hp.com
Organization: Unknown
Ok, this may have been covered at some point in the IRJ past, and there's no
doubt another forum that might offer some help on this, but I'll give Airwaves
a shot.
I'm in the market for a GOOD car radio. Not a tape player, not a cd player, notan equalizer, not booming speakers. Just a GOOD AM/FM receiver designed for a
car. The premium I'm interested in is AM reception (not that FM reception is
unimportant). I prefer an analog tuner, since AM requires finer tuning
than most digital tuners provide. I suppose some sort of antenna
booster is also a consideration. The basic thing I want is good
long-range AM reception capability (day or night, but naturally
especially at night). My car is an ordinary Toyota Corolla, and it has
a factory-installed AM/FM mono unit, standard retractable body
antenna. I also want a receiver that isn't overly affected by the
usual electrical pollution found in cities.
Does anyone know of (or know where I should look for information on) something
as basic as this? Most car audio stores only offer the usual trendy glitzy
stuff, with almost all of the focus being on tape/cd players and speakers. I
need reliable info, since a demo of a unit in some audio store is hardly an
effective sampling of its reception features.
Help. Please. There's GOTTA be somebody out there who knows something about
this sort of thing.
-stuart@apollo.hp.com
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Subject: Re: CKLW is all talk? Ne
From: dd711@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles W. Reti)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Neil Parks writes (in reply to earlier post re:CKLW:
>> Dj> I don't know what brought on the demise of their legendary top 40
>> Dj> format, but one day they were playing the current hits, the next
>> they
>> Dj> lost their edge.
>>
>> It may have been the "Canadian Content" law that did them in. The
>> Canadian government came up with the short-sighted idea that radio
>> stations should play a certain quota of local product whether it was
>> popular or not.
>>
>> CKLW-FM tries to sound like the old top-40 CKLW format.
True of CKLW FM, even some of the old BIG 8 jocks like Tom Shannon
still play the oldies to this day. IMHO, what toppled CK in the
70's , and many other AM rockers of the day, was the rise of FM
and album rock. The fact that so many people were buying stereo
albums and not bad sounding 45rpm singles, listening to them on
"HI-FI" stereo systems instead of plastic table radios had to
have affected AM listenership. Also, the fact that many AM music
directors refused to recognize heavy sales of a significant new
music product by refusing it airtime drove many of us to FM.
ALmost sounds like the College radio vs. mainstream FM clones