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            Articles in this issue include:

am                            (Bernie    Wu)
Re: Digital Audio Delivery                ("Terry    M. Stader)
Free radio, and    KOPN-Columbia MO (community radio)    (Jay Teutenberg    )
Re: Imus correction                    (Aaron Barnhart)
FCC's indecency    ban struck down    in court        (Jeff Herman)
Indecency stayed.. Again!                (WEOS-FM )
Re: Indecency and safe harbor                (Sean Keric Murphy)
Update on lifting of indecency ban            (Jeff Herman)
More on    FCC's stricken indecency ban            (Jeff Herman)
Question.                        (Steven    Critchfield)
Re: : Questions    about WBZ,Boston            (Scott D Fybush)
Re: Question/comment about WBZ's new IDs        ("Terry    M. Stader)

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Subject: am
From: [e-mail] (Bernie Wu)
Organization: Computers & Dreams BBS  [phone] HST

>If you want to get good reception on the AM band, there's nothing
>like a REALLY LONG wire to get the job done.  If you can run it on
>the roof of an apartment building or under the eaves of your house,
>you'll do even better.  Next, hook up a ground connection to the
>ground bus on your radio's circuit board.  Tie it to a metal stake
>and pound it into the ground.

If i hook up where my receiver says GND to the 3rd prong on an
electrical outlet, is that like a ground or will that blow up my
stereo?

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Subject: Re: Digital Audio Delivery
From: "Terry M. Stader KA8SCP" <[e-mail]>
Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link

This digital audio delivery is very interesting! Is there an archive
site where people have actually converted talk shows or whatever into a
digital format? Has anyone thought of actually distributing this format
through the networks? Is there a standard digital audio format amongst machines?

With technology advancing so fast with compression schemes and what
not... wouldn't it be great to be able to listen a broadcast you missed?

One issue I guess to overcome would be the copyright... but that could
be imbedded in the file, right? I mean you can order the transcripts
from 60 Minutes... why not order them in the digital audio format?


Terry M. Stader, KA8SCP, America Online (AOL) Ham Radio Club Host
Macintosh Amateur Radio Software List Maintainer
Internet: [e-mail] or [e-mail]
Packet:   KA8SCP@WA1PHY.#EMA.MA.USA.NOAM

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Subject: Free radio, and KOPN-Columbia MO (community radio)
From: Jay Teutenberg <[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE


Hi gang,

  I am part of a group of volunteers who are fighting the mainstreaming
and professionalization of our radio station. I have obtained your
addresses from information send to me by frank haulgren of the
radio resisters bullitin. I am seeking any and all info pertaining
to free radios battle with the corporate sell outs. Our resistance
effort here in Columbia has only begun to organize since learning
thru the net that we are not alone. I feel that net/national info
is crucial to our getting a handle on this problem. Our station is
no longer going to represent the minority community, it wants to
compete with commercial stations for 30% of the 25-45 aged affluent
listeners.
  I am interested in any micro-radio info, since we may loose.
  I do not yet have usenet access from our freenet site, so
please send me internet radio journal, and as many archives as
you have time to.

Please folks, when in doubt, send,send,send. The more info the better.

thanks,
jay

P.S. I am also interested in any related email addresses. Is there
an email address for pacifica?



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Subject: Re: Imus correction
From: [e-mail] (Aaron Barnhart)
Organization: MCSNet Subscriber, Chicago, IL

[e-mail] (Mark Field) wrote:
:
:
:
:Possibly talent is in the eye of the beholder, if you listen to stern you
:have heard him whine about how Imus stole all his bits, a some
:what suspect claim at best. You may not think Imus has talent but he certianly
:has "juice". How many times has Bubba Clinton been on with stern? Not to mention
:an array  of Governers and Senators that are heard regularly on Imus in the
:Morning.

In fact, a great many of the younger jocks give Imus credit for making
personality radio such a big-money bidness.  I just heard Garry Meier
say as much the other week on WLUP.  Imus and Larry Lujack are considered
by many to be pioneers for bringing some much-needed scepticism and
crankiness to the airwaves.  (Lujack, in particular, taught a whole
generation of broadcasters, including Jonathon Brandmeier, Rush
Limbaugh, John Records Landecker, Bob Sirott, and yes, David
Letterman, that if you were having a lousy morning, refusing to fill
the air with a lot of senseless chatter, rocking continually on your
squeaky chair, crumpling paper, etc., people would eat it up anyway.
There's more to good radio than that, of course, but ambience counts for
something.)

WFAN was WHN (country), and when they changed formats there was a big
hullaballo because WHN had a solid 5.0 share.  A flat share but a
solid one nonetheless.  Well, WFAN was sputtering.  Then WNBC went on
the block, and WFAN bought it and moved down the dial to a nice
boomy signal on a clear frequency.  They got Imus as part of the deal,
and they've never looked back.  So you could *say* it was the signal
and the NBC listeners, whatever: the point is since Imus came on
board, WFAN has been a big hit.  Their PM said not too long ago in
the sports pages of a Chicago daily that its success is directly
attributable to the high visibility of Imus.

Here in Chicago we saw Steve Dahl and Garry Meier take on a clearly
addled and fading Larry Lujack and drive him into pasture.  Lujack
demanded Dahl and Meier's afternoon slot; about that time their 5-
year deal was up.  They flew, took listeners with them, and Lujack
lasted a year at PMs before Cap Cities bought out his contract.

In New York, by contrast, Howard Stern took on Don Imus, called him
an old geezer and said he was stealing his (Stern's) material.  As
Meier has suggested, Imus's icon status is all the rebuttal Don needs
to make.  Anyway, Imus did *not* lose steam, was not on the fade, and
when Stern jumped to K-ROCK Imus just kept going and now is arguably
the second most visible radio jock in the country behind Stern.

So all in all I would have to say the ol' geezer's doing pretty well.

-- Aaron


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Subject: FCC's indecency ban struck down in court
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Herman)
Organization: University of Hawaii

The following news item should be of interest to many of you.

Jeff (amateur radio: NH6IL)
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USA TODAY Update
Nov. 24-25, 1993
Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network

TV PROGRAMMING RULES ARE EASED:
   The federal government's attempts to restrict indecent TV and
radio programming got another slap in the face Tuesday. Several
Federal Communications Commission rules banning indecent
programming on broadcast and cable TV are unconstitutional, said a
U.S. Court of Appeals. A ban on indecent television and radio from
6 a.m. to midnight was lifted, as were other rules.


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Subject: Indecency stayed.. Again!
From: WEOS-FM <@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE

Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals has rejected the FCC's arguments on
the new, stricter midnight to 6am safe harbor. The standard will still be
the 8PM-6am hours the FCC is currently sticking to.
However, while the court felt the FCC was too broad in its defintions of when
children were in the audience, it upheld their right to channel indecency to
hours when they are not in the audience. THerefeore, the FCC will once again
say, "We'll Be Back."  You can add your own Arnold accent to make this sound
more authentic. Have a safe holiday weekend.

==================================================================
|Michael R. Black               |BITNET:    BLACK%HWS1@HWS       |
|General Manager, WEOS-FM       |      or   BLACK@HWS            |
|Hobart & William Smith Colleges|PHONE:     [phone]         |
|Geneva, New York  14456-3397   |FAX:       [phone]         |
==================================================================

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Subject: Re: Indecency and safe harbor
From: [e-mail] (Sean Keric Murphy)
Organization: Princeton University

Looks like we're back to the drawing board...today's New York Times had
a front-page story on yesterday's DC Circuit ruling that there was no
constitutional basis for banning indeceny on broadcast media.  The three
judges ruled on a TV case specifically, but the ruling applies to radio
as well.  The midnight to 6am "safe harbor" has not really been enforced
yet, due to repeated appeals in the DC Circuit.  The FCC will not
prosecute any case of broadcast indecency which takes place between 8pm
and 6am for the time being...they're still trying to gather evidence to
support a midnight-to-six ban since the courts have denied the Jesse
Helms-inspired 24-hour ban.

So, the courts continue to protect indecency, even if they can't
conclusively define it.  A small, but important step for broadcasters.

Sean Murphy
Station Manager
WPRB, Princeton NJ  103.3 FM

[e-mail]

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Subject: Update on lifting of indecency ban
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Herman)
Organization: University of Hawaii

Gang,
   Here's the full text hot off the UPI newswire.

Jeff
*****************************************************************************
From: [e-mail] (UPI)

Subject: Appeals court throws out indecency regulations
    government agencies, radio, media
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 4:13:22 PST
ACategory: international
Slugword: us-indecent-update
Priority: regular
ANPA: Wc: 202/170; Id: a0299; Sel: na--i; Adate: 11-24-N/A; V: update
Codes: ut, upi1749, o., to, upi, &ngwrxx., &nxerxx., &ngarxx., &birrxx.,
    //na--i/, na--i

    WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A federal appeals court in Washington Tuesday
overturned federal regulations that prevented radio and television
stations from airing ``indecent'' material except during late night
hours.
    The three-member panel threw out the Federal Communications
Commission regulations, which prohibited broadcasters from airing
``indecent'' material between the hours of 6 a.m. and midnight, on
ground they infringed on the First Amendment rights of broadcasters.
    First Amendment advocates, entertainers and broadcasting groups
challenged the ban, which had not taken effect pending the court review.
    The FCC indecency regulations cover language or material that may be
offensive to community standards, such as ``sexual or excretory
activities or organs.'' The regulations overturned by the court did not
cover obscene material.
    Radio shock jock Howard Stern has waged a public battle with the FCC
against the guidelines.
    Infinity Broadcasting Corp., which owns Stern's syndicated show, has
been fined more than $1.2 million for violations of the policy. Infinity
officials did not comment on the ruling.

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Subject: More on FCC's stricken indecency ban
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Herman)
Organization: University of Hawaii

[Bill - this is the full text - it amplifies the initial article I sent.
I tried sending this second article earlier to  r.r.amateur.policy and
r.r.b but it never showed up on r.r.a.policy so I am sending it seperately
both both newsgroups. //Jeff]

Here's a more detailed article concerning the stricken FCC regulation.

Jeff
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From: [e-mail] (UPI)

Subject: Appeals court throws out indecency regulations
    government agencies, radio, media
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 4:13:22 PST
ACategory: international
Slugword: us-indecent-update
Priority: regular
ANPA: Wc: 202/170; Id: a0299; Sel: na--i; Adate: 11-24-N/A; V: update
Codes: ut, upi1749, o., to, upi, &ngwrxx., &nxerxx., &ngarxx., &birrxx.,
    //na--i/, na--i

    WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A federal appeals court in Washington Tuesday
overturned federal regulations that prevented radio and television
stations from airing ``indecent'' material except during late night
hours.
    The three-member panel threw out the Federal Communications
Commission regulations, which prohibited broadcasters from airing
``indecent'' material between the hours of 6 a.m. and midnight, on
ground they infringed on the First Amendment rights of broadcasters.
    First Amendment advocates, entertainers and broadcasting groups
challenged the ban, which had not taken effect pending the court review.
    The FCC indecency regulations cover language or material that may be
offensive to community standards, such as ``sexual or excretory
activities or organs.'' The regulations overturned by the court did not
cover obscene material.
    Radio shock jock Howard Stern has waged a public battle with the FCC
against the guidelines.
    Infinity Broadcasting Corp., which owns Stern's syndicated show, has
been fined more than $1.2 million for violations of the policy. Infinity
officials did not comment on the ruling.

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Subject: Question.
From: [e-mail] (Steven Critchfield)
Organization: Nothing in Paticular

I have about 4 months experience on college radio, and loved it. I'd like to
know were I could go to get into commercial radio, and format wouldn't matter
much. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

______________________________________________________________________________
        \  /         | Steven Scott Critchfield        |   Formerly a CSC major
       /-\/-\        | [e-mail]  |   at Tennessee Tech U.
      /  /\  \       |_________________________________|   Currently I am not
     /  /  \  \      | I don't attend or work for /     \  attending any school
 ___|__/____\__|___  | Vanderbilt University, so / This  \   at this time, and
     \/      \/      | how could anything I say /  space  \   would like to
     /\______/\      | reflect their opinions  / for sale  \   program for any
A n / a   r  c \ h y | or their pollicys      /   or rent   \   body.
_____________________________________________/_______________\__________________

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Subject: Re: : Questions about WBZ,Boston
From: [e-mail] (Scott D Fybush)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

[e-mail] (Mark Shneyder 2-4219) writes:

>They didn't take him off the air. Larry Glick got a little too big
>for his head a few years back(late '80s). He signed a 3-year deal with
>Sconnix Broadcasting, then the owner of a rival WHDH-850 which was doing
>all-talk.(Sconnix also owned WBOS-92.9FM, the last station to play country
>music in Boston until it resurfaced on 2 stations earlier this year).

In fact, WHDH was never a Sconnix property.  Sconnix' Boston AM
was WBOS-1600 and later WUNR-1600, before that station was sold off.

>Back to WBZ :
>As far as their new WBZ station promos/intros go, I personally don't care
>one way or another. Just because some high-paid radio consultant in
>Iowa decides that '50,000 watts of power' is an ear-catching lingo good
>enough to be aired on a major AM station in Boston, it doesn't really
>have to have make sense to the rest of us...'BZ is still a great station
>at what they do and how they run things...

Thanks for the compliment...but just to set the record straight, no
high-priced Iowa consultants were involved.  Our news director and
general manager wrote them and sat there while they were produced. The
voice, BTW, is the same guy who voices VH1.  Really.

I still want to hear what other people think of the new stagers...give
a listen to 1030 AM at the top or bottom of the hour and let me know...

-=Scott Fybush - [e-mail]=-
"While you're driving your car, we're driving 50 THOUSAND WATTS of NEWS
RADIO.  WBZ Boston...NEWS RADIO 1030...dah dumm...."

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Subject: Re: Question/comment about WBZ's new IDs
From: "Terry M. Stader KA8SCP" <[e-mail]>
Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link

John (and others),

I have noticed to that even the various radio personalities on the air
are boasting that they can be heard in 38 states! Sure they are a
clear channel station... but I wonder what the real issue is here. I am
not against it... don't get me wrong, I am just curious as to whether
their license is up for renewal? Are they ready to make another change?
Buy another station on the West Coast so they can simulcast and have 50 states?


Terry M. Stader, KA8SCP, America Online (AOL) Ham Radio Club Host
Macintosh Amateur Radio Software List Maintainer
Internet: [e-mail] or [e-mail]
Packet:   KA8SCP@WA1PHY.#EMA.MA.USA.NOAM


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