Author Archives: Fred Stiening

Hopefully, fairly soon you’ll see an interesting post on the current status of radio shows and hosts from 15 years ago.   As mentioned in the Alex Jones post, shows were assigned a sequential ID number so I have pulled a … Continue reading →

If you haven’t already heard it, Elon Musk has made the decision to allow Alex Jones to return to X (formerly known as Twitter) after a 5-year “permanent’ ban. This decision was largely due to a lengthy interview that Tucker … Continue reading →

Many of you know that I worked as a computer software programmer and designer for the NASDAQ stock market from 1997 until 2002 during the peak of the “dot com bubble”.  I am not a securities lawyer and I don’t … Continue reading →

The chatGPT thing that you’re starting to hear about is at least as important to the future of humanity as the internet was in 1995.    If I was to describe it in one sentence, it has an uncanny ability … Continue reading →

My instructions to ChatGPT Write a 90 second script about people working in a radio station during a hurricane The result (after picking appropriate? free video)

I grew up in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.  The Pittsburgh Railway company was owned by Andrew Carnegie’s empire.   An important aspect of the streetcar system was that it allowed the workers to get to his steel factories. This map was for sale … Continue reading →

It’s been many months since I’ve looked at the data the software downloads from the FCC each night. As long as this website has existed, which is almost 20 years, the FCC has maintained a list of radio stations that … Continue reading →

Greetings! The handful of people who have been here for a long time may remember that I left this website up primarily as a way to keep in touch in the event that society fell apart. Well, unfortunately, it looks … Continue reading →

Inside Radio Scott Shannon was a legend with ABC radio, based out of New York City.  After Cumulus took over ABC, Scott Shannon was kicked loose and landed over at wcbs- FM, which is where he finished his career.   His … Continue reading →