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            Articles in this issue include:

Re: Suburban New York City Radio News            (Steven    J. Sobol)
Re: What AAA *Really* Means                (David A. Kaye)
call letter history                    (Neil Parks)
Re: Seeking Radio Station                (Neil Parks)
Re: What Satellite is "COOL GOLD" on?            (Elmer Beachley)
Re: Radio Fantasy                    (Mark Roberts)
Highwater #10 articles available            (San Francisco Fractal)
More Details about KCOU                    (Mark Roberts )
Re: who's responsible?                    (Mark Roberts)
Re: who's responsible?                    (Lewis V. Bernstein)
RE: Subcarriers    on TV??                    (GL)

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Subject: Re: Suburban New York City Radio News
From: [e-mail] (Steven J. Sobol)
Organization: The Tiny Software Company, Cleveland

[e-mail] (David A. Kaye) writes:

>
> : >1.  WEHM 96.7 FM for East Hampton which is partially owned by Billy
> : >Joel and Christie Brinkley has changed its format from AC to Adult
> : >Album Alternative also known as AAA.  They are now aiming for a
> : >25 to 44 audience.
>
> Pardon my high density head here, but what exactly is Adult Album
> Alternative?  The only "alternative" music I'm familiar with is stuff
> which is not normally played on radio.  This lets out most "adult" music
> unless they're thinking of playing polkas, orchestrion, and caliope music.
>

So that's what AAA means!

I would imagine it's the new format played by WENZ Cleveland, KNDD Seattle,
WWCD Columbus, etc., with a heavy new music/progressive/college music format.
Just a guess....


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Subject: Re: What AAA *Really* Means
From: [e-mail] (David A. Kaye)
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access    [phone]  [login: guest]


Juergen Bartels ([e-mail]) wrote:

: Last saturday Johnny Walker (a DJ of BBC Radio-1) interviewed an American
: pop-singer and ask him the same question. This guy was a bit embarrassed
: because he did not know, but still used the 'AAA' expression.

Antagonistic Artist Affectations?
Another Acronym Anachronism?
Anorexic Anchovy Albums?

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Subject: call letter history
From: [e-mail] (Neil Parks)
Organization: PC-OHIO PCBOARD - Cleveland, OH - 216-381-3320

(This msg was originally posted by Max Moody on the Rime network.
I thought the people who read this newsgroup might enjoy it
also.)

 * Originally By: Max Moody
 * Originally To: All
 * Original Area: BROADCASTPR-R
 * Forwarded by : Blue Wave v2.12

        THE FACTS AND FUN BEHIND CALL LETTERS

        Most people in the television business have heard of
WLS-TV/Chicago.  But how many know those venerable call letters stand
for "World's Largest Store," a slogan for Sears and Roebuck, the company
that put WLS radio on the air?
        Or how many know that WPIX-TV/NY's call sign alludes to "The
Picutre Newspaper," a slogan for The Daily News, which  competed with
The New York Times by offering more pictures?  Like many businesses in
the 1920's, The Daily News got into the fledgling radio business (in
this case, WPIX-AM) to help promote its core business.
        Other broadcast pioneers carved their initials onto the airwaves
like WABD for Alan B> Dumont, who launched channel 5 in NY (not Fox's
WNYW) with those call letters.  Dumont, creator of the Dumont Network,
which competed for a time with CBS and NBC, named another of its
stations, WTTG in Washington, DC after his chief engineer, Thomas T.
Goldsmith.
        Call letters have existed since the first days of radio, when
the US Commerce Dept. created th3em to keep track of the frequencies it
was licensing.  Doug Bailey, a member of the Broadcast Pioneers Club,
says the government usually assigned three-letter call signs in radio's
earliest days.  "But they figured that if radio caught on, they'd run
out of combinations pretty quick, so they switched to four-letter
cominnations."
        The old, three-letter combos have always been considered
valuable because they're easy to rememebr.  So, companies that have them
sometimes move them around as they've traded stations.
KYW/Philadelphia, for example, moved rto Cleveland for a while and then
returned, Bailey recalls.  And WJZ starte dout in NY, but later moved on
to Baltimore.  Both call signs are Westinghouse-owned and were
eventually attached to TV stations as well as the original radio
outlets.
        Other call signs have been valuable because particular owners
wanted them.  Ted Turner reportedly paid $50,000 for the call sign WTBS,
which had belonged to a small FM radio station operated by thge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  "We wanted to be TBS, just like
CBS," Turner said.  TBS, of course, also stood for Turner Broadcasting
System.
        A 1979 survey byNATPE found that most call signs stem from one
of three sources.  They often allude to a station's city of license,
such as WPVI for Philadelphia 6 (VI is Roman numeral for 6),
WDIV/Detroit for Detroit 4 or KMSP for Minneapolis-St. Paul.
        Call signs also frequently represent the initals of the
station's original owner, such as WJLA/Washington, DC for Joel L
Albritton, or KMPH-TV/Visalia, California for Mike, Pete, and Harry
Pappas.  And they represent promotional slogans, such as WGN for
"World's Greatest Newspaper," the tagline for the Chicago Tribune.
        Another slogan gav e birth to the well-known calls attached to
the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, WSM, though those letters had nothing
to do with country music or the Opry initially.  They stood for "We
Shield Millions," the slogan for the insurance company that first put
the station on the air as an AM radio outlet.  WEM-TV was later sold and
the new owner changed the calls to their present-day WSMV-TV.
        Some calls were assigned at random, but quickly acquired slogans
to fit them.  WSB in Atlanta came to mean "Welcome South, Brother" and
KGW/Portland, Oregon pikced up the slogan "Key to the Great West."  WBBM
in Chicago is said to have adopted the slogan "We Broadcast Better
Music" in its early days.
        other call signs described something about their cities of
origin.  KPRC/Houston dates back to 1926 and stands for (what were then)
the three chief industries of the area: (k)otton, port and rail center.
WIS in Columbia, SC, stood for "Wonderful Iodine State."
        And some call letters carry a spiritual message, built in by the
churches or evangelists who originally put them on the air.  WKBW in
Buffalo, NY stands for "Well-Known Bible Witness," an epithet for
evangelist Clinton Churchill, who eventually sold his TV station to what
was then Capital Cities.  KCIK-TV in El Paso, Texas stands for "Christ
Is King" and WJBK-TV in Detroit stands for "Jesus Be Kind>"
        For some station owners the appeal of a call sign wasn't that
the letters created an acronym but that it had more colorful
applications; WXYZ in Detroit once went with the slogan "The Last Word
in Radio," and the letters WZZM in Grand Rapids, Michigan, are said to
have appealed to the station's owner because they look the same right
side up as upside down -- "and that comes in handy," said a respondent
to NATPE's call letter source survey, "in case your TV falls off the
table."


         . . . sorry no attribution, but found this in the news letter
of a friend's station.
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Subject: Re: Seeking Radio Station
From: [e-mail] (Neil Parks)
Organization: PC-OHIO PCBOARD - Cleveland, OH - 216-381-3320

 * Originally By: Bryan D. Boyle
 * Originally To: Neil Parks
 * Originally Re: Re: Seeking Radio Station
 * Original Area: INTERNET
 * Forwarded by : Blue Wave v2.12

@FROM   :[e-mail]
@SUBJECT:Re: Seeking Radio Station cal
In article <297ee3$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Neil Parks)
writes:
|>WFUV New York:  <F>ordham <U>ni<V>ersity

As a former ops director and ast. CE, WFUV stands for <F>ordham <U>niversity's
<V>oice.

just a change...thought you'd like to know...

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Subject: Re: What Satellite is "COOL GOLD" on?
From: [e-mail] (Elmer Beachley)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh



Kool Gold is on Spacenet 3 transponder 13   3.21/3.39 discrete stereo

Elmer Beachley [e-mail]

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Subject: Re: Radio Fantasy
From: ucsd!tyrell.net![e-mail] (Mark Roberts)
Organization: Tyrell Corp.

Mark Parisi ([e-mail]) wrote:
: After about thirty years of following radio and its many changes, I have
: come up with the following scenario.  What if, in 1951, Alan Freed had to
: deal with the myriad of consultants and marketing research data involved
: in today's radio programming?  What would have happened to popular music?

<much omitted>

Touche', Mark!

: Meanwhile, it's back to "Classic Hits Radio".........

: Mark Parisi
: MIT
: Barker Library
: Cambridge, Mass.

And you live in a _decent_ market.  Try living out here.  Another year,
another country station.  Modern rock available only from an out-of-market
rimshot.  No AAA station.  All the news/talk stations owned by an arm of
the Mormon Church.

Your humorous post concisely explains why so many people find radio so
irrelevant to their lives.  A friend of mine who owns four stations complains
that it's ever more difficult to sell time; his advertisers don't get results
any more.  And three of his four stations are either #1 or #2 in their markets.

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Mark Roberts   [e-mail]  [e-mail]
Development Center Analyst, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Hallmark isn't on the Internet, so I have nothing to disclaim.
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Subject: Highwater #10 articles available
From: [e-mail] (San Francisco Fractal Factory)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

anonymous ftp to netcom.com
cd pub/andyrose/Nov93
get Nov3

Please e-mail if there's something you really think should
go in.

Look for Buzz to get a little personality this week.
(yeah)


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Subject: More Details about KCOU
From: Mark Roberts <[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE

Here are some more details about the bizarre shutdown of University of
Missouri campus station KCOU, from the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, 10-6-93:

Two weeks ago, a booby trap at MU student radio station clattered to the
floor, startling Residence Halls Association president Dave Cohen, who had
shut the station down pending a financial investigation.
    Cohen was not hurt by the cinder block that fell from a perch above
the door, but last night the brick boomeranged when the student congress,
owners of the station, fired KCOU's entire staff.
    The congress officially cited financial mismanagement, but distraught
station workers said today the booby trap was the underlying reason for the
mass firing.
    "The cinder block caused it all to happen," said program director Jeff
Boock.  "We would have been on the air right away if it wasn't for that."
    A student worker for the station confessed last week to setting the
trap and was fired by KCOU.  He says since denied involvement to university
police, who are still investigating the incident. . . .
    The decision took KCOU staffers by surprise, Boock said.
    "I was appalled, amazed," he said.  "I couldn't believe they had such
gall.  It was ridiculous."
    The radio station and its owner have had "bad blood" for a long time,
said Mike Mulvihill, a KCOU disc jockey and former general manager.
    "It's like dealing with a big, uncaring boss who just didn't" understand
how to run a radio station, he said.  [Editorial comment:  Welcome to
the real world, Mike!]
    The station was shut down by Cohen Sept. 20 for financial problems
stemming from a loss of $2,000 to $3,000 at a spring music festival and a
pending FCC fine for improper recordkeeping.
   [Another editorial note:  the station was still off the air as recently
as October 24; the last time I was in Columbia.]
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Development Center Analyst, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Hallmark isn't on the Internet, so I have nothing to disclaim.
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Subject: Re: who's responsible?
From: ucsd!tyrell.net![e-mail] (Mark Roberts)
Organization: Tyrell Corp.

[e-mail] wrote:

: if a radio station is chartered as a school organization (ie. submits a
: constitution, and becomes a "recognized student organization" by the
: student council), and then gets into trouble with the fcc, who is
: responsible for paying the fines incurred?  would it be the responsibility
: of the organization, or of the school?  (or does it simply depend on the
: school?)  mainly, who would the fcc go after?

KCOU at the University of Missouri faces this situation right now.
The station wasn't keeping its logs or public file.  The station is not
owned by MU (which owns KBIA, the NPR station); it is owned by the Residence
Halls Association.  The RHA is scrambling to find some way of paying the
fine, which initially was $25,000, I believe.

I  just posted an article about the KCOU situation.  The station is off the
air at present because of a dispute relating to the fine and the RHA
government and a concrete block that almost hit the head of the RHA
president.  Why hasn't this been on a daytime talk show yet, I wonder? :-)

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Hallmark isn't on the Internet, so I have nothing to disclaim.
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Subject: Re: who's responsible?
From: [e-mail] (Lewis V. Bernstein)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

In article <2asuj5$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
>
>
>as part of my ongoing research, i need to find out something else...
>
>if a radio station is chartered as a school organization (ie. submits a
>constitution, and becomes a "recognized student organization" by the
>student council), and then gets into trouble with the fcc, who is
>responsible for paying the fines incurred?  would it be the responsibility
>of the organization, or of the school?  (or does it simply depend on the
>school?)  mainly, who would the fcc go after?
>
>thanks in advance.
>
>-david belson
>

What entity is named on the license?  That's who's responsible
in the eyes of the FCC.

Lew Berntein
[e-mail]

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Subject: RE: Subcarriers on TV??
From: [e-mail]
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway

[e-mail] writes about Subcarriers on TV stations??:

>Hi,
>   Does anyone know if TV stations broadcast on subcarriers as well?  By this I
>mean do they have subcarriers services as are used by FM broadcast stations?
>Best Wishes,
>Henry.

There is a facility on TV broadcasts called SAP, which, I believe, stands for
Second Audio Program.  Unlike SCA on FM, SAP is readily and legally available.
In fact, most stereo TVs and VCRs are equipped with it.  Before you ask, no it
is not a matter of using the left channel for main and right for auxiliary,
the only (broadcast) channel in this area that is using SAP is also stereo,
but there have been times when the stereo has gone out due to poor reception
but the SAP has remained.  Probably something to do with using an FM
subcarrier rather than AM.

A couple of years ago, I was subscribed to the local cable service, and I
noticed that they carried the BBC World Service on a SAP signal with TNT, they
carried CSPAN Audio I (relays of various other international broadcasters) on
A&E, WXXI-AM on WXXI-TV (that's the one broadcaster to use it) and HBO carried
Spanish-dubbed soundtracks to their movies on a SAP signal.  Of course, these
are all put in place at the discretion of the local cable company, due to the
severe difference between methods of satellite TV and cable TV transmissions.

Hope this helps.

And now, an apparently appropriate sig....
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                                       _Eggs on Drugs_


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