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Articles in this issue include:
Seeking Satire Song "I AM Hillery" (STEVE BAUER )
Carts... (MARK TRENCHARD )
Re: Should the government cater to parents? (was Nation (Carl M Kadie)
Nostalgia: when WCFL changed format (Paul Richards)
Re: Confused about city of license (GRANTZ)
Radio Drama is alive and well (WEOS-FM )
Radio Hall of Fame (slutsky)
KAAM-1310 Dallas/Fort Worth to All-Sports (C.D.)
Re: Modem Mania in Rochester NY (Robert Smathers)
old radio recordings (Chris P. Mezzolesta)
RE: Subcarriers on TV?? (GL857)
RE:Washington,D.C. Radio (Harrison S. Wyman )
Re: **RADIO WATCHERS REPORT - Boston ** (Paul Anderson)
Re: Radio Watchers -Boston (Scott D Fybush)
Re: Radio Watchers -Boston (Paul Ryack)
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Subject: Seeking Satire Song "I AM Hillery"
From: STEVE BAUER <fnbw1100@ink.org>
Organization: NONE
Last Spring while vacationing in the Washington D.C. area,
WRQX (107.3) played a parity of the song "I Am Woman", but it was
"I Am Hillary."
I did not have access to a tape recorder and since have been trying to get
a copy of this song.
If anyone has it or knows how I can get a copy, please let me know.
My snail mail address is:
Steve Bauer
3908 W. 18th St. N.
Wichita, KS 67203
I will be happy to supply a tape if necessary.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Steve
------------------------------
Subject: Carts...
From: MARK TRENCHARD <trenma@saturn.wwc.edu>
Organization: Walla Walla College
Does anyones know if there are any companies that are buying used carts
anymore? CartMart used to be where I sent my old ones, but I can't find
them anymore. Any Ideas?
Mark Trenchard
Program Director (Positive Life Radio)
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Subject: Re: Should the government cater to parents? (was National Writers...)
From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M Kadie)
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
In alt.censorship, mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
>``The airwaves'' (propagation of energy in the electromagnetic spectrum)
>constitute a limited resource. This resource can only be used when the
>users cooperate. Establishing this cooperation is the purpose of such
>agencies as the FCC.
But the FCC is only one of many ways to establish cooperation. For
example, for real estate, even for rare real estate such as in
Manhattan, we use a system of public and private ownership and
leasing.
This was the system in the U.S. from 1922 to 1925 and it worked well.
See _Tribune Co. v. Oak Leaves Broadcasting Station_ (Cir. Ct., Cook
County, Ill., 1926), reprinted in 68 Congressional Record 216 (1927)
for an example of a court applying standard common law property
principles to resolve conflicts (without the need for content
control).
So why do we have an FCC instead of some alternate scheme? Well there
was interference in 1926 and 1927, around the time the Radio Act of
1927 was being considered by Congress. Senator Key Pittman of Nevada
suggested at the time that this interference was caused to pressure
Congress. He said on the Senate floor on Feb. 18, 1927:
Oh, yes; of course the radio broadcasters of this country want this
bill passed. Does anyone doubt that? Do not Senators know that
nearly every telephone company in the United States in every little
town is getting someone to send a telegram saying, "Pass this bill"?
What do the senders of those wires know about it? Why was it that
just recently broadcasting concerns of the West all changed their
wave lengths, sometimes a hundred degrees, to have them conflict,
and the next they said, "If you do not pass this bill, you will have
that same condition for another year"? Why have we not had that for
a year? Why does it happen just now?
Mr. President, I do not believe I am naturally suspicious, but when
telegrams pour in from all over the United States to Senators from
people who know nothing about this legislation, and cannot know
anything about it, urging its passage, I know the stimulus comes
from somewhere, and where should the stimulus come from of the
passage of this bill?
The bill is fair to only one institution. It is fair to the monopoly
that will be created under it.
[68 Congressional Record 4111 (1927).
Senator Robert B. Howell of Nebraska said at the time (on the floor):
"As this bill now stands, it is what the great radio interests want."
See Thomas Hazlett's article in the _Journal of Law and Economics_,
133, 145 (1990) for more evidence that the interference problems of
1926 were precipitated in principal part by government and by
cooperator broadcast industry efforts.
Why did Congress go along?
Again and again Representatives and Senators raised concerns not
about inference (which was in fact a secondary matter for those
debating the radio act) but about the pervasive, instantaneous, and
influential nature of the new medium. Congress appears to have been
fixated on the great promise of the medium, to have feared it use
as a political weapon against incumbents, and to have wanted to
prevent industry leaders from having the discretion to deny giving
political candidates access to the airwaves. [Regulations that
the FCC still enforces. -cmk]
Once again, those in power had set the stage for a recurrence of
the monopoly rent/content control _quid pro quo_ established in the
time of Henry VIII [with newspapers-cmk]. The only major difference
was in the sophistication of the dialogue. Unlike Henry VII, the
American politicians of the twentieth century had artfully covered
their true intentions with a more digestible public interest
coating.
-- Jonathan W. Emord in _Freedom, Technology and the First Amendment_
[A wonderful book on this topic.]
- Carl
--
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
= kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
--
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
= kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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Subject: Nostalgia: when WCFL changed format
From: testnet!paul@pegasus.att.com
Organization: NONE
(Was WLUP now officially WMVP)
Yes! I remember (and can re-remember, thanks to the magic of audio tape)
when WCFL was about to change.
Whoever was on (Lujack? Winston?) was saying things like "stations around
the area are listening in to see which radio station I will endorse. Well my
endorsement goes to radio station KHJ (laughter in background). Now this
may be a problem since KHJ is in Los Angeles. So I suggest you just keep it
right here. Because WCFL is changing to a beautiful music format.
Beautiful music is great to make love to. Now can I have a show of hands of
how many of you like to make love? (pause) WELL! I can see that many of you
will be staying tuned to AM 1000 ...."
Re the sports format: How late is WSCR on in the winter? New York sunset?
Columbus sunset? Allnight with 10 watts? Dallas sunset?
------------------------------
Subject: Re: Confused about city of license
From: GRATZ@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (GRANTZ)
Organization: University of Maine System
It's been a while since I've researched these F.C.C. rules, but, know-it-all th
at I am here goes: Broadcast stations are licensed to provide a certain qualit
y signal to a given area. A station licensed to Lake Success, NY doesn't have
to have any presence there, but its signal must cover (many stations licensed t
o New York City have transmitters in NJ) the area. Remote control being possib
le, studios and offices don't have to be (and often aren't) where the transmitt
ers are.
As for station ID's, the law says they have to contain the call letters a
nd the city of license, back-to-back (the frequency or channel can be in-betwee
n). They must be aired within two minutes of the top of this hour (as someone
mentioned in an earlier post) or at the closest natural break in programming.
If the station in question is slurring the real locale and tacking on something
else, they're violating the spirit of the law, but probably not it's letter.
I remember reading, lo, those many years ago, that calls that attempts to disgu
ise the area of operation, e.g.: Greater Cincinatti's W-A-A-
A. Covington were fround upon by the F.C.C., but as a radio listener you know t
hey've been turning the blind eye toward that kind of activity.
Irwin Gratz, Maine Public Radio, Portland ME
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Subject: Radio Drama is alive and well
From: WEOS-FM <@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:BLACK%HWS1@HWS.bitnet>
Organization: NONE
With the discussion on radio drama, NPR and other independent producers
are offering new dramas each year. Each week, NPR feeds four seperate half
hours of its NPR Playhouse. In addition, their are a lot of the "spoken word"
series, such as Selected Shorts.
The Star Wars series was also popular on WEOS. The 13 part series was produced
back in 1981 and is availble for purchase from Highbridge Audio on CD or
Cassette, who underwrote the re-release of the series.
The Empire Strikes Back, produced in 1983, starts in January in 10 parts.
It also will be offered for purchase. Check your NPR station for the series.
WE will air it SUnday Night at 730PM.
I also forgot to mention Joe Frank. He has a Thanksgiving type special and
a new series starting in January.
==================================================================
|Michael R. Black |BITNET: BLACK%HWS1@HWS |
|General Manager, WEOS-FM | or BLACK@HWS |
|Hobart & William Smith Colleges|PHONE: 315-781-3456 |
|Geneva, New York 14456-3397 |FAX: 315-781-3916 |
==================================================================
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Subject: Radio Hall of Fame
From: slutsky@tesla.njit.edu
Organization: NONE
The Radio Hall of Fame now occupies permanent display space within
the Museum of Broadcast Communications located in Chicago's Cultural Center.
This year's black-tie induction ceremony will be held this Sunday in
Chicago [got a tux Bill?] and will be made available to stations by
Westwood One. In New York City it will be carried at 9 PM by WABC.
Larry King will be the host while inductees include the late Rick
Sklar, Rush Limbaugh, veteran Chicago air personality Wally Phillips
(of WGN) and Norman Corwin (great writer and producer behind "We Hold
These Truths" and other historic broadcasts). Previous inductees include
Don Imus, (can Stern be far behind) Paul Harvey, Mel Allen, Casey Kasem,
Bruce Morrow, and Charles Osgood.
Bruce Slutsky
slutsky@tesla.njit.edu
------------------------------
Subject: KAAM-1310 Dallas/Fort Worth to All-Sports
From: "Chip (C.D.) Kelley" <chipk@bnr.ca>
Organization: NONE
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS reports that the new owners of KAAM-1310 Dallas
will switch them from adult standards to all sports next month (12/15).
They will become Dallas/Fort Worth's first all- sports radio station,
and that will leave Houston as the only top 10 market without an
all-sports station.
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS reported last week that KAAM's new owners said
that they would not change the format of KAAM. They also report former
owners Bonneville are looking at buying another Dallas FM to go along
with their classic rock KZPS-92.5.
Other Texas bits of news...
Group W has taken over KIKK-FM-95.7 Houston/KIKK-650 Houston to go along
with their KILT-100.3/610 Houston. It gives them Houston's #1 and #2
radio station. As part of the changes, KIKK will carry Moby in the mornings
from ABC 5AM-9AM (originating from country WKHX Atlanta). Moby used to
be on in Houston on rock outlets KSRR-96.5 "97 Rock" and KLOL-101.1.
Also, as part of the merger, 19 KIKK employees were let go. KIKK's fine
country oldies format has been scrapped and is now simulcasting KIKK-FM
fulltime.
i
Also letting go of people is news KRLD-1080 Dallas, which let go of about
15% of their staff. They are rumored to be going for a more news/talk format.
Crosstown WBAP-820 Dallas has dropped the remaing country music from its
format except for their overnight truckers' show. WBAP's full-service country
format made it #1 in the latest Arbitrons.
KYOK-1590 Houston and KJCE-1370 Rollingwood-Austin (formally KFGI) "K-Juice
1370" become the first Texas stations to carry SMN's new Urban Gold black
oldies format.
The owners of Spanish KESS-1270/contemporary christian KLTY-94.1 Fort Worth
are purchasing nearby KAND-FM-107.9 Corsicana. KAND-FM can be picked up
in the southern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth area, but they are weak in
the northern areas. I bet on a Spanish format (KLTY was Spanish at one
point and Dallas has been without a full-power Spanish outlet since the
change) - maybe even a FM-FM simulcast with KRVA-FM-106.9 McKinney like
KRTS-92.1/KRTK-97.1 do in Houston so that one covers the southern area
and one covers the northern area?
Chip
------------------------------
Subject: Re: Modem Mania in Rochester NY
From: @triton.unm.edu:roberts@ariel.unm.edu
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
In article <2b76sf$j93@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
<GL8574@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu> wrote:
>> MODEM MANIA now airs on the TALK AMERICA Radio Network
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>> Here is a list of the radio stations that are part of the Talk America
>> radio network as of 10-8-93.
>> State Call Freq Power Coverage Location
>> ------- ------ ------ ------- ------------------ ------------------
>> NY WVKZ 1240 1,000 Albany Schenectedy
(...)
>Note to Rochester area listeners: For some reason, WYSL did not carry this
>program. Does anybody out there know, do they carry it at all, or do they
>carry it at some other time? If so, please let us know!
None of my local affiliates carried it either this past Sunday -- they
all were sports or some other talk.
The SCPC stations I recognized in the whole station list didn't have
the show either. Was there no airing this week (no show at all or
the time change messed up the show time)? It seems strange that
the 7-8 stations I checked didn't carry it at all Sunday.
Robert
roberts@triton.unm.edu
------------------------------
Subject: old radio recordings
From: ds003@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Chris P. Mezzolesta)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
I have previously posted regarding a cassette set containing the entire
broadcast day of CBS affiliate WJSV, Washington, DC, on Sept. 21, 1939.
This was produced by Greatapes in Minnesota.
Is anyone out there aware of any other recordings of this type in
existence? This included every second (practically) of the broadcast, all
the local inserts, tech difficulties, interludes, network programs, news,
commercials, etc etc. It was put in the National Archives at the time, and
I understand the original engineer who cut the transcriptions in '39 is
still alive and in the Washington area.
Any extended pieces of old broadcasts/airchecks, transcriptions of
broadcasts (not necessarily programs, but how the actual stations sounded
in those days) around??? If anyone has anything, or just info, please
E-mail. Thanks very much.
Chris
--
Chris P. Mezzolesta /// "Nobody ever lends money
Mentor, Ohio /// to a man with a
ds003@cleveland.freenet.edu /// sense of humor!!!"-
music music music!!! /// Peter Tork, "Head" (1968)
------------------------------
Subject: RE: Subcarriers on TV??
From: GL8574@ACSPR1.acs.brockport.edu
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
dk@crl.com (David A. Kaye) writes about Re: Subcarriers on TV?? :
>By the way, the TV subcarrier system is the way the BBC is distributed to
>its affiliates in North America. I had throught BBS was on C-SPAN's
>channel, though.
The BBC is on C-SPAN's channel *if* you are dealing directly with the
receiving satellite dish, and this *is* how the signal is distributed to its
NA affiliates.
You are confusing two ideas, though, satellite TV and Cable TV. Cable TV is
identical in most ways to broadcast, whereby the video is sent in supressed
sideband AM, and the audio in FM, with a few subcarriers to give you stereo,
SAP, telemetry, field communications, etc. The difference between Cable and
broadcast TV is the channel set.
Satellite TV, on the other hand is done by using one single FM signal per
channel. This signal carries the video as the baseband, and the accompanying
audio on a subcarrier. There is a lot of extra room for more than the
necessary number of subcarriers, and they may carry (and often do carry)
additional radio programming.
In the case of Greater Rochester Cablevision, what they have done (at least in
Brockport) is take the signal from CSPAN's satellite subcarrier, and, for lack
of a better place to put it, put it on a subcarrier on TNT, thus the move from
channel to channel.
This is some of the neat stuff I've learned by listening to Signals on WWCR
back when that was on. This program was carried by Let's Talk Radio and
featured, amongst other things, about a five-minute segment devoted to
satellite TV and radio.
Hope this helps.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Glenn C. Lasher, Jr. GL8574@ACSPr1.ACS.Brockport.Edu
gl8574@ACSSun1.ACS.Brockport.Edu
"I get insulted every time I turn on my TV,
"I'm told freedom of choice is a variety
"Of fifty kinds of breakfast cereals with different names
"Whose ingredients are all exactly the same!"
-Brenda Kahn
_Eggs on Drugs_
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Subject: RE:Washington,D.C. Radio
From: Harrison S. Wyman <HW5750A@auvm.american.edu>
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
It was published in the Washington Post a few weeks ago that Infinity
Broadcasting purchased WPGC-AM&FM for $60 million. Donnie Simpson
signed on to have his morning show distributed nationally by Unistar prior to
Infinity's purchase of WPGC. To my knowledge, the plans to distribute Simpson's
show are still on.
WPGC-FM is an urban contemporary station that is currently first in local
radio ratings, located on 95.5. WPGC-AM is an all-business format located on
1580.
------------------------------
Subject: Re: **RADIO WATCHERS REPORT - Boston **
From: @nntpd.lkg.dec.com:anderson@funyet.dnet.dec.com (Paul Anderson)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
In article <2ba9kr$pop@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, fybush@world.std.com (Scott
D Fybush) writes:
>[For those unfamiliar with the situation, WEEI's 590 kHz signal
>is nulled very sharply to the west to protect WTAG-580 in
>Worcester MA, 5 kw 45 miles to the west. In 1991, when WEEI
>became all-sports, they began leasing AM-1440, then WFTQ, in
>Worcester to simulcast their signal. Ratings have been poor
>to nonexistent for 1440-WVEI.]
>
How does WVEI's audience get measured? The only time the WVEI call letters are
mentioned is in the quick hourly legal ID. I would think many listeners, even
though they are tuned to 1440 AM, would report they are listening to WEEI.
Paul
Paul Anderson anderson@funyet.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation
4 Technology Drive, Westford MA 01886-4196 (508) 635-8239
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Subject: Re: Radio Watchers -Boston
From: fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder 2-4219) writes:
>* According to published reports, another potential FM shopper appears
> to be Group W(owner of WBZ-AM and 'maybe' soon-to-be-owner of WEEI-AM) which
> seems to be looking to establish a strong FM-AM-TV presence.
> If someone out there owns an FM station in the nation's 9th largest
> market, this is might be your time to cash in...:-)
This is not news. WBZ radio and television are completely renovating
our studios on Soldiers Field Road (just look at all the work-zone
mud on my car! :-) and the plans include space for at least 2 additional
radio stations. That was in the plans a year ago...and it's all you'd
expect from _any_ major group owner rebuilding a major market facility.
There are no major discussions going on right now with any FMs...and as
soon as there's something to announce, I'll let everyone know.
Some other sale news: WLVI-TV 56 Cambridge-Boston, an independent
station, has been sold by Gannett to Tribune for $25 million. WLVI
will be a key station in Tribune's new WB network. And Boston
University has taken control of independent WQTV 68 Boston. The
calls will become WABU-TV when the FCC says so. Rumor has it
that BU's noncommercial WBUR-FM will move in to the WABU space
further down Soldiers Field Road from WBZ.
-=Scott Fybush - fybush@world.std.com=-
------------------------------
Subject: Re: Radio Watchers -Boston
From: pryack@mtholyoke.edu (Paul Ryack)
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
Mark Shneyder 2-4219 (nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu) wrote:
> in early May of this year...Non-commercial WGBH-FM, WHRB-FM and WBUR-FM
> have daily jazz shows...Alternative rock station WFNX-FM and an AC
> outlet WMJX both have Sunday morning/afternoon jazz shows...
>
> -Mark
>
For what it's worth, WHRB, 95.3, is a Class A COMMERCIAL station.
It may not be well sold, but it is indeed commercial.
/a former WHRB SM
--
Paul R. Ryack, M.D., M.P.H. |pryack@mhc.mtholyoke.edu
|W1ETH@K1MEA.#WMA.MA.USA.NOAM
There are certain sections of |fax: (413)532-9141
New York, Major, that I wouldn't|
advise you to try and invade. |
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