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            Articles in this issue include:

Legal ID (was Re: Chicago AM 1000 now officially WMVP)    (b.j. mora)
>From The Voice of Labor    to the Voice of    God        (Rob Schaller)
Legal ID?  (Was: Re: Chicago AM    1000 now officially WMV    (jwg)
RE: WMVP AND LEGAL ID                    ("James    D. Morrow" )
Re: Chicago AM 1000 now    officially WMVP            (Harold    Hallikainen)
Re: BBC    on KALW    Overnight                (Jerome    Durlak)
Re: Radio Watchers -Boston                (Richard A Chonak)
Questions re: WBZ purchase of WEEI and Boston sports ra    (John Francini)
RE : RADIO WATCHERS - Boston                (Bill Corea)
Re: RE : RADIO WATCHERS    - Boston            (William A. Goldsmith)
China clamps down                    (Jeff Herman)
Re: Confused about city    of license            (Jeff Billman)
RE: Confused about city    of license            (JOHN SCHMIDT )
Highwater #11 articles available ftp            (San Francisco Fractal)
Re: Radio 4 - Sat.                    (Robert Smathers))
Re: Subcarriers    on TV stations??            (Harold    Hallikainen)
Critical talk radio                    (Patrick Burkart )
Re: any    tounge-twister calls out there?            (John Seboldt)

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Subject: Legal ID (was Re: Chicago AM 1000 now officially WMVP)
From: [e-mail] (b.j. mora)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

[e-mail] (Oliver Tse) writes:
>[e-mail] (Scott D Fybush) writes:
>>[e-mail] (Oliver Tse) writes:

>>>I heard the following official station ID at
>>>9:07pm Central Time on Thursday October 29 during
>>   ^^
>>>"You are listening to Blackhawks hockey on Sports 1000,
>>>WMVP Chicago."

>>That may not have been a legal ID...

it's legal, alright... not exactly at the top of hour, though.
[i'm assuming that WMVP/WLUP-AM is licensed to Chicago]

>On Friday November 5 at 4:00am Central Time (I regularly wake up at
>5am as I work out at the YMCA at 6), I heard what sounds like a legal ID:

>    "WMVP Chicago's Sports 1000 ...".

that sounds legal, too.

>I thought a US station is required by the FCC to broadcast a legal ID
>(call letters and city of license) at +/- 10 minutes within
>the top of the hour.

i don't think the FCC specifies a particular time interval, only that the
station's legal ID be at the top of the hour or as close to it at a natural
break in the programming.  Routinely I've heard stations give legal ID's
as far as ten minutes before the hour... in the middle of a stop set.

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Subject: From The Voice of Labor to the Voice of God
From: [e-mail] (Rob Schaller)
Organization: Motorola Inc.

I was told that in a Sun Times article within the last few weeks that WCFL
(104.7 FM) was being bought by another company and that the programing
format of the station was going to change to a religious format.  The
station was having money problems.  It would be interesting to see how
successful the station would have been if it covered the entire Chicago
Metro area.  Its format is certainly unique to a radio market that is very
segmented.


Rob Schaller
Email: [e-mail]
AOL Email: [e-mail]
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Form a bikepool today...ride a tandem to work!

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Subject: Legal ID?  (Was: Re: Chicago AM 1000 now officially WMVP)
From: SEDV1.acd4.acd.com![e-mail] (jwg)
Organization: /u/jwg/.organization

In article <2b76s9$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Scott D Fybush) writes:
   [e-mail] (Oliver Tse) writes:
   >I heard the following official station ID at
   >9:07pm Central Time on Thursday October 29 during
   >a Blackhawks hockey game:

   >"You are listening to Blackhawks hockey on Sports 1000,
   >WMVP Chicago."

   That may not have been a legal ID.  The legal ID has to come within
   five minutes of the top of the hour, and must consist of the call
   letters and city of license, with only a frequency or channel no.
   allowed to separate the two.  It's very easy for a station to use
   a legal-sounding ID most of the hour, like:

   "Country 98, WCTK-FM Providence"

   and then just hit the legal once at :55 or :56...

   "Country 98, WCTK-FM New Bedford Providence."

   <...snip...>

   -=Scott Fybush - [e-mail]=-


   [Moderator's Note:  Far be it from me to question you <grin>, but my
   antiquated understandings were that it was 2 minutes either side of
   the hour *or* at the first natural break in programming as close to
   the top-of-the-hour break.  No?  Bill]

Gawrsh, I hear stations all the time slipping a quiet ID into their :50
break, using it as their only ID.  WMGI/Terre Haute IDs this way, and uses
their "Magic 101" handle otherwise.  WFXF/Indianapolis did the same while it
was still The Fox.  WZZQ/Terre Haute recently began simulcasting on an AM
sister; they do a "WZZQ WBFX Terre Haute" during the :50 and then use their
Joe Kelly WZZQ-only ID at :00.

Does this count as "natural break in pgmg as close to the top of the hour?"
Or are these stations in violation?

jim grey
[e-mail]

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Subject:      RE: WMVP AND LEGAL ID
From: "James D. Morrow" <[e-mail]>
Organization: Central Michigan University

In an earlier discussion on Chicago's WMVP and legal IDs, it seems that a
clearification is needed on what constitutes a legal station ID.  First, a
legal ID must be presented hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at a
natural break in the program.  The ID must consist of 1) the station's call
letters, followed by the community or communities of license.  The station's
licensee as stated on the station's license may be inserted between the call
letters and the station's location. No other insertion is permissible.

James Morrow
Graduate Assistant
Central Michigan University
<[e-mail]>

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Subject: Re: Chicago AM 1000 now officially WMVP
From: [e-mail] (Harold Hallikainen)
Organization: NONE


In article <2b76s9$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Scott D Fybush) writes:


>That may not have been a legal ID.  The legal ID has to come within
>five minutes of the top of the hour, and must consist of the call
>letters and city of license, with only a frequency or channel no.
>allowed to separate the two.  It's very easy for a station to use
>a legal-sounding ID most of the hour, like:
>
>"Country 98, WCTK-FM Providence"
>
>
>[Moderator's Note:  Far be it from me to question you <grin>, but my
>antiquated understandings were that it was 2 minutes either side of
>the hour *or* at the first natural break in programming as close to
>the top-of-the-hour break.  No?  Bill]


    73.1201 Station Identification

    (a) When regularly required.  Broadcast station identification
announcements shall be made: (1) At the beginning and ending of each
time of operation, and (2) hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at
a natural break in the program offerings.  Television broadcast stations
may make these announcements visually or aurally.
    (b) Content.  (1) Official station identification shall consist
of the station's call letters immediately followed by the community or
communities specified in its license as the station location:  Provided,
That the name of the licensee or the station's frequency or channel
number, or both, as stated on the station's license may be inserted
between the call letters and station location.  No other insertion is
permissable.
    (2)  A station may include in its official station
identification the name of any additional community or communities, but
the community to which the station is licensed must be named first.

    Various other sections in this area cover station identification
for simulcast operations and subscription TV stations.  The above rule
is from my October 1, 1992 copy of the CFR.

    My 1986 copy of the Rules says pretty much the same thing.  My
1980 copy is substantially the same, but it required specific FCC
authority to include additional communities in the ID.  When I got
started in all this (back in 1969), as I recall, we were required to run
an ID on the top and bottom of the hour, plus or minus two minutes,
unless such an ID would interrupt a speech or other performance.


Harold

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Subject: Re: BBC on KALW Overnight
From: [e-mail] (Jerome Durlak)
Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto

In article <2b76rn$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David A. Kaye) writes:
>
>Just a note to say that KALW in San Francisco (91.7) is now running the
>BBC live overnight from midnight to 6:00am.  This marks the first time
>KALW has been on 24 hours a day since its start in 1940 as the first FM
>in the West.  KALW Information Radio is a non-commercial affiliate of
>NPR and APR, and also carries programming from Canada's CBC, and local
>public affairs, arts, and music programming.
>

Which BBC service is broadcast during the wee hours - Radio 1,2,3,4?
Is this a satellite feed?

On a related note: is there a service whereby one can obtain specific
BBC programs on tape? Through BBC Enterprises I believe one can
purchase weekly compilations of the previous week's programming.

Cheers,

Richard Clark
(sharing an account with [e-mail])


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Subject: Re: Radio Watchers -Boston
From: [e-mail] (Richard A Chonak)
Organization: l'organisation, c'est moi

In article <2bdcvv$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Scott D Fybush) writes:

|> 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 - [e-mail]=-

Judging by the on-air IDs, WQTV 68 has become WABU already, but the
only change in programming I've noticed is that they run a different
cheesy home-shopping channel overnight.   ;-)

And speaking of TV, has anybody mentioned WBZ TV 4's news deal?  BZ's
news department has started producing a ten p.m. show for independent
super-station WSBK, called "WBZ News 4 on TV 38", giving dishowners and
_some_ cable viewers nationwide an opportunity to see a Boston newscast
five nights a week.

Back to VHF: now that WBZ's competitors have revamped their graphic
look, leaving BZ's hokey sky-blue set in the dust ("The anchors look
like they're reading the news to us from Heaven!"), will BZ be far
behind in ordering a new Miami look?

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Subject: Questions re: WBZ purchase of WEEI and Boston sports radio
From: @nntpd.lkg.dec.com:[e-mail] (John Francini)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton, MA


Being an avid listener of AM radio in Boston, I've been following with
interest the news in this group about WBZ 1030 AM's impending purchase of
WEEI 590AM. I'm a news-sports junkie, so I tend to listen to these stations
a fair bit.

Is it likely that WEEI's format will wander away from all-sports? Will
WBZ's wander away from all-news+Patriots? Any thoughts?

Other related questions:

Is there a chance that WBZ may get the Boston College football games back?
Why did they leave? Gill Santos does, IMHO, the absolutely BEST football
play-by-play on radio, bar none!  I miss him doing BC!  Dale Arnold was very
poor, and Dick Lutsk is OK (he's obviously been taking Gill Santos
lessons), but I'd like to hear Gill doing them again...

BTW: Why is Lutsk on WEEI? I presume it's because BC picks and contracts
the game announcers, not the station, yes?

Would they likely move the Bruins and Celtics to the 50Kw signal?

And what of the Red Sox? When is their contract with WRKO up for renewal?
The game talent isn't too bad -- Joe Castiglione is locally-grown, and
quite descriptive enough, though the other guy (whose name escapes me), is
competent, but has too-smooth a style for the idiosyncratic Boston sports
auidence, IMHO. [I'd like to hear Ned Martin back on Boston radio, but
that's another story]

Did WEEI's poor ratings start after the conversion to all-sports?  Or were
they poor while they were all-news?  [If that was the case, then why is WBZ
such a leader? Does 50KW on a clear channel do so much for you that the
programming is "easier" than if you've got a weaker carrier?]

Sorry for all the questions, but discovering this group has been like a kid
discovering Toys "R" Us for the first time in his life...

Thanks,

John Francini


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Subject: RE : RADIO WATCHERS - Boston
From: [e-mail] (Bill Corea)
Organization: Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc

In article <2bibaj$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mark
Shneyder 2-4219) writes:

> I stand corrected. Yes, Harvard Broadcasting's 3KW WHRB-95.3FM is
> indeed a commercial station. Of course, no one could ever accuse them of
> operating/programming just like any other commercially licensed station
> in town...:-)
> (The only exception to that might be Cambridge's 'beatiful music'
> WJIB-740AM(250 KW during th day and meager 5 watts at night) which is a
> commercial station but sells no ads).
>
Isn't that where WCAS (Wikus Island Broadcasting, also in Cambridge)
used to be?

Has WCAS finally given up the ghost?

Is this "WJIB" related to the WJIB-FM that became WCDJ and then
W??? Country 97?


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This is ME talking, not my company.

Bill Corea                     Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc
[e-mail]                       San Ramon, California
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Subject: Re: RE : RADIO WATCHERS - Boston
From: [e-mail] (William A. Goldsmith)
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <2bibaj$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mark Shneyder 2-4219) writes:
>operating/programming just like any other commercially licensed station in
>town...:-)
>(The only exception to that might be Cambridge's 'beatiful music' WJIB-740AM(250 KW
>during th day and meager 5 watts at night) which is a commercial station
>but sells no ads).
5 watts at night on 740????  I worked there back in the late 70s (when it
was alternative/folk WCAS) and when we signed off at sunset, the Canadian
on our channel came through loud & clear on the air monitor. I can just
imagine how well 5 watts would do.  e

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Subject: China clamps down
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Herman)
Organization: University of Hawaii

Gang,
   Just got this off the UPI newswire; I interpret it as meaning that up
until now, there wasn't much coordination of radio frequencies within
China, and that the government is reasserting its absolute control.

Jeff.
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    BEIJING (UPI) -- China's highest leaders have issued new regulations
restricting access to radio frequencies in the latest of a series of
moves to assert control over media, a state-run newspaper reported
Saturday.
    The order, approved by President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng, was
designed to end ``disorder in the management of radio communications,
the use of frequencies and establishment of radio stations,'' the
official China Daily said.
    ``Those found operating radio stations and using radio frequencies
without official approval will be subject to inspection and punishment,''
Wu Jichuan, minister of posts and telecommunications, told the
newspaper.
    The regulations legalize the state's monopoly over radio
communications, including mobile telephones, pagers, telecommunications,
and radio and television stations.
    The article did not specify when the regulations would become
effective.
    ``All radio stations, whether run by individuals or units, must
obtain approval from radio management committees and observe the new 10-
part regulations,'' the article said.
    China's radio stations, including mobile communications, topped 2.5
million by the end of last year, growing at an annual rate of about 20
percent over the past decade, the article said.
    Since mobile telephones were first permitted in 1986, the number of
users has grown to 460,000, and China's 6 million users of radio paging
networks put the country third in the world after the United States and
Japan.
    The regulations were the latest in a recent spate of edicts aimed at
controlling both broadcast and print media.
    On Oct. 8 the government banned unauthorized satellite dishes,
estimated to number in the millions. If enforced, the ban would cut
access of ordinary Chinese to television news and programming from Hong
Kong and Western countries.

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Subject: Re: Confused about city of license
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Billman)
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.

In article <2bdcv5$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]> wrote:

[stuff deleted]
>       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).

When I started out in radio, I got an earful from our station engineer
because I id'ed the station by call, then frequency, then city of license.
 (We did live id's.)  Can you truly put the frequency in the middle?  I
realize more than likely the engineer was just trying to drill how to do
proper, unambiguous id's into the mind of this young pup, but still my
curiosity is piqued.

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Subject: RE: Confused about city of license
From: JOHN SCHMIDT <[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE

Well you might be!

The FCC rules have changed and become more liberal over the years.

When I was first involved in this business, the "main" studio location had to
be within the community of license, except that it could be at the transmitter
location, even if outside the city of license.  The transmitter (for comm'l AM
and FM stn's) could be anywhere that provided a "city grade" signal over the
entire community of license (3.16 mv/m for FM,  5 mv/m for AM, 5mv/m covering
80% of community of license at nite.)  (NCE stations never have had a signal
strength requirement as far as I know).

As a part of de/re regulation the requirements for studio location were changed
to allow the main studio to be anywhere in the "city grade" signal area, even
if outside the city of license.  For a class "B" or "C" FM, or a powerful AM,
that covers a large area.  Studios  for FM's may also be at transmitter
location of co-owned AM station licensed to same community (but not
visa-versa).

You also can locate anywhere in the community of license even if outside city
contour (due to 80% rule, waiver, borders of community changing, etc) and can
locate anywhere even outside both city of license and city grade coverage "when
good cause exists .... and that to do so would be consistant with the operation
of the station in the public interest."  In this case, you must file for a
modification of CP or license.

The rules for multiple communities of license have been liberalized also, but I
don't have them handy.

STATION ID's

The Station ID rule has been mis-stated here recently (by the Moderator, among
others :-( )  The rule was for many years, + - 2 minutes of the hour, with some
exceptions.

Here is a rather shortened version of 73.1201, Station Identification:

(a) When Regularly Required. ...  (1) at the beginning and ending of each time
of operation, and (2) hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at a natural
break in program offerings. .....(TV aurally or visually).

(b) Content.  (1) Official station identification shall consist of the
station's call letters immediately followed by the community or communities
specified in its license as the station's location: PROVIDED, that the name of
the licensee or the station's frequency or channel number, or both, as stated
on the station's license may be inserted between the call letters and station
location.  No other insertion is permissible.

(2) A station may include in its official station identification the name of
any additional community or communities, but the community to which the station
is licensed must be named first.

(c)Channel:  (1) general.  Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, in
making the identification announcement the call letters shall be given only on
the channel identified thereby.

(followed by several exceptions concerning simultaneous operation in the
expanded (1605-1705) AM band, and for satellite stations., and finally an
exception for scrambled STV stations.

Somehow, I seem to remember the Commission also issueing a policy that
"deceptive" id's or id's which were inaudible or hidden in other program
content were not permissible.  This would conflict with (2) above, quite
possibly, but usually, the rules have priority over policy....  I know that a
local station was cited by one of the inspectors here for having an "inaudible"
id, because he claimed the bed music under it was too loud, sometime in the mid
'70s.  I don't know how the station responded to the NOV, but I suspect it was
along the lines of 'we will be more careful in the future'.

DISCLAIMER:::   These rules were abstracted from our rules service rulebook,
which has been found to be in error in the past.  To the best of my knowledge
they are current, but don't blame it on me if the FCC claims otherwise at YOUR
station.....

John

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Subject: Highwater #11 articles available ftp
From: [e-mail] (San Francisco Fractal Factory)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)


These articles, which appear in misc.activism.
progressive are available in ~ftp/pub/
andyrose/Nov93 as Nov10.  Anonymous
ftp to netcom.com

If you are interested in broadcasting a 30 minute
progressive news show please e-mail your
address to [e-mail]

Highwater #11 will uplink to Nat'l Public
Radio Sat. Service Wednesday Nov 10 0100 AM-
0129 Eastern Channel 11.




 Haiti press release
 Re:  14 arrested-assault on officer
 FCNL Code-Arms Transfers
 Haiti, Drugs and the CIA
 CIA Cesspool in Haiti;10,000 March in NY
 PEACE ACTION WASHINGTON REPORT Nov 2, 1993
 Alice Walker supports NYU Union
 Ethnic Cleansings A La Russe
 JAMAICA: Death sentences commuted
 "Free Trade" Realities in Honduras
 NAFTA: Maquila Worker on Hunger Strike
 NYU Unleashes Cops Against Union Rally
 Free the Moscow 16!
 AFGHANISTAN: 100s of asylum-seeker
 Alert from Korea!
 FBI murders in Waco, on videotape
 Anti-Abortion terror in the US
 Raise the Roof!
      West Valley Nuclear Wastes--Again??
 International No Shop Day
 (RAN) Oilcos target Burmese rainforest (pls write)

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Subject: Re: Radio 4 - Sat.
From: @triton.unm.edu:[e-mail]
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <2bib9a$[e-mail]>, Taylor <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Some time back, the BBC in their mad desire to replace radio 4 long
>wave with an all news channel, offered (or stated) that R4 was going
>to be put onto a commercial sattelite (ASTRA ?) as part of regular
>transmissions. (I think this was to keep all those people in Europe


I am not sure about the ASTRA thing (as I am only specialized in the
North American satellites - U.S., Canada, and Mexico satellites).

Radio 4 does show up on one of the North American birds -- it is
used as a filler for a backhaul circuit from London to Canada for CBC
radio.  It sometimes gets interrupted for news feeds and other services
coming to Canada from London, but R4 is there for most of the time.

Robert
[e-mail]
The North American satellite guru


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Subject: Re: Subcarriers on TV stations??
From: [e-mail] (Harold Hallikainen)
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo


    I agree with MOST of what was posted by John Schmidt.  However,

In article <2b76su$[e-mail]> JOHN SCHMIDT <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>I don't have my rulebook handy, but I don't think you can legally lease out
>the PRO channel.  It is not anywhere near a full quality channel.
>
>There also is space for a telemetry subcarrier for transmitter remote control.
>
>There is no provision in the rules for an "SCA" type channel for leasing to
>others for non broadcast-related private use.  There really isn't enough
>bandwidth, the sound carrier frequency is really too close to the edge of the 6
>MHz TV channel allocation.  If you crammed anything more in there, the
>deviation would push you over into the next channel, or in the case of
>band-edge channels, interfere with the services in the adjacent frequencies.
>

    73.665 allows use of TV aural subcarriers for the following
purposes:  Stereo (biphonic, quadraphonic, etc.), "operational
communications" (to use a term from part 74 of the rules, which includes
relaying material to other stations, remote cueing and order messages,
and transmitter control and telemetry), pilot or control signals to
enhance the station's program service (such as signals to activate noise
reduction equipment, program identification, etc.) and subsidiary
communciations services.
    73.667 defines subsidiary communications services as those that
do not enhance the main program broadcast services (such as stereo,
noise reduction activation signals, second language audio on an SAP
channel, etc.) or are not exclusively related to station operations
("operational communications" as discussed above).  Suggested subsidiary
services include functional music, specialized foreign language
programs, radio reading services, utility load management, market and
financial data and news, paging and calling, traffic control signal
switching, and point-to-point or multi-point messages.
    73.667(b) allows stations subsidiary communications services to
be private radio or common carrier in nature, with appropriate FCC
approval.
    It's interesting to note that the FCC did not put the BTSC
stereo standard in the Rules.  It is defined in FCC Bulletin OET 60 (of
which I do not have a copy).  It's pilot subcarrier of 15.734 KHz is
protected by 73.682(c)(3).
    Note that television stations also have the video blanking
interval available for "subsidiary" (or similar) communications.  Use
of the VBI is discussed in 73.682(a)(22) and following sections.  Lines
17 through 20 can be used for test and operational communications.  Line
19 is to be used for the transmission of a video reference signal.  Line
21 may be used for the transmission of program related data (such as
closed captioning).  When line 21 is not used for program related data,
it may be used for other display information that is broadcast in nature
(perhaps stock quotations or similar).  In addition, lines 10 through 18
and 20 may be used for "telecommunications" as defined by 73.646.  This
section lists teletext, paging, computer softwae and bulk data
distribution and aural messages as possible applications.

Harold


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Subject: Critical talk radio
From: Patrick Burkart <[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE

Brecht introduced the question of the revolutionary potential of live
theater to intermingle the roles of theater participant and theater
observer.  Actors, playwrights, and theater goers today still address
Brecht's challenge of interactive theater.  The boundary between passive
spectator and active artist gives way in revolutionary theater.

I think that it is possible to speak in the same way about talk radio: the
boundary between listener and programmer has to give way somewhere in
every medium, and the rupture in radio is talk radio.  But as we can hear
by listening, the talk radio we hear is far from revolutionary, but
strongly reactionary and neo-conservative.

The way talk radio is programmed on commercial radio stations nearly
prevents a Brechtian approach to free and unrestricted performativity on
the radio.  The restrictions talk show hosts and producers put on speech
are significant.  It's not free speech because you can't say everything
you might want to say over the air.  Besides, commercial radio time is not
free at all, but costly, and the petty tyrants behind every
microphone cut callers short who don't play by their rigged rules or who
don't sound perfectly normal.  Uncritical talk show hosts working for
commercial radio stations generally present themselves as free speech
exercising populists who
magnanimously give "the people" their say with a new, interactive
technology.  This is only a ruse and a commercial gimmick.

It's plain to see that talk radio could be democratic if it
were a free resource available to everybody and under the management and
directorship of a popular majority.  While the popular national talk show
hosts like to pose as benificent benefactors of a democratic technology
which gives the radio to "the people," their programs are not really
reflecting popular opinion at all.  Instead, they are constituting the
false appearance of a unified opinion.  People with a radio or with radio
access during the workday are privileged; people with a radio and a
telephone have more access; managers with free time, a free phone, and a
free radio have even more access; people with celluar phones and time to
waste have the best access of all.  Of course these technocratic elites
are going to jam the lines to agree with what any managerially or
bureaucratically minded host is going to say.

Moreover, disagreement and dissent are programmed out of talk shows as
much as possible, leaving gullible listeners with the impression that
there is a preexisting consensus which is confirmed with every single call
and whch they should align themselves along should they choose to call.
This is also called "groupthink" by sociologists.  On popular talk radio,
the "dittohead" phenomenon represents this problem very well.

The dittohead phenomenon is a threat to any society, community, or group
which values democratic procedure in public debate and policy making.

I think that prank callers are the only hope for an entrenched,
anti-democratic, technocratic talk radio elite which enjoy talk radio
hegemony.  Prank callers should preserve the interactivity of talk radio.
There is no other format where consumers of live radio influence the
programming with their own speech.  Talk radio listeners consume their own
speech, performing on live radio before an audience they believe is
responsible for "public opinion."

Before talk radio, it was impossible to say that the listeners could
actually participate in radio, except in the most demeaning and indirect
of ways, like following the instructions of an advertiser or requesting a
song.  Listeners had no agency whatsoever in struggling to make radio over
into their own product.  Now, at least, it is possible to get your own
eighteen seconds, or if you're good eighteen minutes, of talk radio fame,
and reclaim ground snatched up by little talk show dictators.

In my next letter, I want to offer some tips to would-be prank callers.

You're all in my prayers,

RIOTGIRL


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Subject: Re: any tounge-twister calls out there?
From: [e-mail] (John Seboldt)
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access System: 510-704-1058/modem


[e-mail] writes:

>>
>>>Are there any hard to announce calls in use?  Something like KZJd, WFBL
>>>(which is in Syracuse, or was), WTQJ, KQPL, etc.  (just making these up
>>
>> Waterloo, Iowa:  KLWW!  didn't listen to them much in the 70's, but boy, I
>> thought I'd never wanna work there just for that reason.  They even called
[stuff deleted]
>>
>> :    John Seboldt...Mpls, MN...As a ham, K0JD...as a human...well,...    :
>> :     [e-mail] <alternate:  [e-mail]>      :
>> =====}>         LIFE+UNIVERSE+EVERYTHING=42 (Douglas Adams)        <{=====
>>

>I live in Waterloo and am a former resident of Cedar Rapids, which is 50 miles
>away.  I think that station was actually KWWL, and it is now known as KWLO.
>The TV station here in Waterloo is still KWWL.

>Timothy J. Sprengeler
>Student, University of Northern Iowa


KLWW was the FM associated with those stations at the time.  Of course,
KWWL is another example.  Can you imagine the owners talking about their
stations?  Can you imagine a company that would own two such call signs?!

--John


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