Hi.
While I agree that radio was once much much better than it is today, I see
little point in bemoaning the fact as it is certain that the kind of radio
that we all grew up with will never return. This may come as a shock to
some of you but the FCC doesn't give a damn how the general public feels,
nor does the United States Congress. They exist to serve the corporation,
because it is the corporation that most people in the FCC will turn to for
employment should they leave the FCC, and it is the corporations that put
up the money that get the Congressmen elected. Moan all you want, but big
corporate broadcasting is here to stay, and the government is 100% behind
it, and they honestly don't care whether you like it or not.
I see little point in hashing the state of broadcasting over further. It
is what it is.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 05:43 PM 7/22/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, I was going to say the late 90's,.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:15 PM
>Subject: Re: slightly off topic, but maybe of interest to some
>
>
> > Well, Jeff, I'm sure that's a matter of oppinion, but I'd say that
> > radio
> > started to go downhill in the late 1970's and early 80's, when the AM
> > broadcast band started being taken over by talk radio stations of various
> > kinds. ... Then, as we got into the 1990's, we saw the big conglomorates
> > like Clear channel purchasing groups of AM and FM stations, and getting
> > into
> > the automated sindicated broadcast mode.
> >
> > That, to me, was really the end of good locally-run personality-filled
> > radio
> > as we knew it!
> >
> > 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: slightly off topic, but maybe of interest to some
> >
> >
> >> When did you all notice radio going down hill? I noticed it around 2000
> >> and in 2001 when returning to Detroit only to discover that half or more
> >> then half the band was purchased up by Clear Channel and ot other large
> >> corportations!
>
>
>
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Louis Kim Kline
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