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- briand75 said And the engineer used to monitor the flow of cooling water to the final transmitter tube(s). I don't remember if they were triodes or pentodes?
- briand75 said Aha – Fred we knew there was a small Latino aspect in your background 🙂
- CC1s121LrBGT said Yeah. I liken it to the naysayers complaining about Steve Job's "alternate reality field" during his presentations, voodoo doctors influencing people by telling them they will get them...
- Fred Stiening said Not owning an HD radio, I realize now that I did not understand the issue. In order to keep the HD signal synchronized with the analog signal in the situation you lose HD coverage – that means...
- CC1s121LrBGT said I've seen the term used to describe that President Trump was and is gaslighting middle America to think that he would be and is a good President. See for example these two books: https://www.am...
- Fred Stiening said Thank you for confirming what I was guessing by reading between the lines. so I guess Donald Trump is gas-lighting all of us to make us believe we are going crazy, at least the liberals amongst us.
- Fred Stiening said Univision Deportes (not ESPN) now directs people to https://www.tudn.com/ Most of the content concerns Soccer teams in Mexico, not Football or Baseball. There is not even a facade that their listener...
- CC1s121LrBGT said It is an interesting term in that it only became popular recently and is from a 1944 movie and 1938 book. It re-surfaced in recent years and became a pop-term because the Never-Trumpers used it as a...
- Fred Stiening said So I learned the gaslit is a psychological technique in which a person has techniques applied to them in order to convince themselves that they are going crazy. I guess the origin is a movie that I di...
- Fred Stiening said Apparently, I missed the fact that Univision was successful in finding a buyer for The Gawker Network, back in April at an undisclosed price. Gawker declare bankruptcy after they lost the lawsuit invo...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Might have an interesting to expansion to SRG someday soon: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223
- CC1s121LrBGT said Watch out for Cuomo – he, as NY Attorney General, pressured Verizon to end all their USENET feeds because some of them had pornography. I wonder if he applied the same totalitarian pressure for...
- Fred Stiening said Why is that important to you?
- Fred Stiening said And the FCC and Federal Reserve are deliberately structured to prevent interference from Congress or the president. I am undecided at this point whether Donald Trump had these totalitarian instincts f...
- Fred Stiening said Someone once said that if you control the language, you control the culture. I'm glad that you picked up on my snarky remark about Bob Pittman (Mister AOL) attempting to take credit for something...
- Fred Stiening said Yet another internet social media company destroyed by the impulse to censor its users. I would bet the person who uploaded Kitty porn to Tumblr do it on purpose, kind of like the anti-gun people goin...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Actually, that depends on what our definition of "podcast is" is. 😉 I haven't looked recently but had posted here several times over the years that iHeart's podcasts are not really...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Maybe you will be able to do something really fancy soon. now that WordPress' parent has purchased a $1.1 Billion dollar product for what some are saying is less than $3 million… way to go...
- Fred Stiening said "They" say you start dying when you stop learning. It looks like I fended off the ultimate today. I wanted to do something for a long time that you would think is simple to do. The list of blo...
- Fred Stiening said The current generation of transmitters don't even need a remote relay to them. What you described happens in software in the transmitter. As long as it's connected to the internet, no human su...
- Fred Stiening said Just coincidentally, I ran a program this morning that resolves IP addresses to host names. Sometimes when a new IP address shows up, the lookup times out. One of the host names had something to do w...
- Fred Stiening said There is an old saying that if you don't test your backups, you have no backups. I can vouch for that first-hand. Hopefully I have successfully fixed the data. My alternative would have been to re...
- CC1s121LrBGT said cars are to trains as podcasts are to radio AND craigslist is to newspapers. Which agency and how many federal employees will oversee content at SRG? I anticipate two regulator government employees f...
- CC1s121LrBGT said It may increase sales at McDonalds. Expect more globalization and more large corporations to have another advantage over small mom and pop businesses. Most podcasts have gotten smart that listeners z...
- briand75 said Amen to all of this. Slippery slope? Yes and we are sliding down it ever more quickly.
- Parrott said well, sorry I posted this here, unfortunately our cat is dying. The long goodbye, more /less, is on. Yeah I know 21years one month is a long time for a cat, but she's a good cat and we'...
- TheChairman said With regard to your first comment above, there is one AM talk-radio station in far northeast Michigan (L.P.) which has an FM translator over in Petoskey. I can't tune the FM station until after...
- Fred Stiening said OK, I now understand the problem. I attempted to move a portion of the comments back to this main thread, since it was getting way too far away from talking about music. The problem was each comment h...
- Fred Stiening said There is an implicit assumption there is an employee. Back in the good old days, stations were required to have a full-time engineer. Then we started having clustered stations where one engineer coul...
- Fred Stiening said So mucking around in the database will just make it worse. I will attempt to copy paste
- Fred Stiening said I can still see them in the control panel, and they are pointing to the new post ID, but for some reason they didn't show up. I guess I should not trust plug-ins with less than 1 million downloads
- TheJerseyDevil said I like that auto racing great Roger Penske now owns Rolling Stone.
- TheChairman said Oddly, the snippets still appear in the 'Recent Comments' column, but when I click on anything from our sub-topic (Alpena FM radio station), it's a no go…
- Fred Stiening said Ow! BBC tells TuneIn to take a hike https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/12/bbc-to-pull-all-radio-services-from-tunein-uk/
- Fred Stiening said A further refinement. This has a lot less to do with humans then it does with Google. I've modified the station directory so that when you click on a city name, you get a list of stations for only...
- Fred Stiening said I'm tentatively going to say yes, and I have a $300,000 Google Beach towl to prove it
- Fred Stiening said I basically agree with that. It appears that they want to migrate their listeners away from Radio. Bob Pittman has said from the beginning that they are in the content business, and radio is only one...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Do you think Google takes cash to promote websites? Think about it.
- CC1s121LrBGT said "Of course, this fundamentally misunderstands what a podcast is and why people listen to them." I think what they are doing is smart – they are using the radio to promote their low-cos...
- CC1s121LrBGT said I was going to blame it on the Fed's easy money policy. 😉
- CC1s121LrBGT said Re-fried news… sort of San Diego stations, but not really. from December 2018 : https://radioinsight.com/headlines/172835/mexican-owner-pulls-105-7-max-fm-san-diego-programming-in-rent-dispute/...
- Fred Stiening said This is gay pride week in Charlotte. Gay sounds not inclusive enough okay, so let’s just call it pride week, but not proud boys. I was watching a somewhat depressing documentary last night on Yo...
- Fred Stiening said There is an implicit assumption there is an employee. Back in the good old days, stations were required to have a full-time engineer. Then we started having clustered stations where one engineer coul...
- Fred Stiening said Since I have been somewhat inattentive, I didn’t notice that first light has a new host. It used to be hosted by dirk van, then some other guy, And now NBC news a.k.a. Cumulus media has hired Mi...
- TheChairman said No, it was definitely an FM station, typical of the 'classic hits' genre found all over Michigan and elsewhere. I had my radio on 'seek'… after it went around the dial once, an...
- Fred Stiening said So, you are confirming what I anticipated was going to happen. It’s not rocket science. On every car radio that I have owned, there is a button that switches you between AM and FM – Or in...
- Fred Stiening said This is an interesting case at least for me. The FCC did something really foolish it seemed like a good idea at the time. They expanded the a.m. band from 1620 to 1700 kHz to free up space in the a.m...
- Fred Stiening said This doesn’t apply to this station, but clear channel…oops… iHeartRadio is going to drastically change their weekends. They intend to start airing podcasts with many of their stations on weekend...
- Parrott said speaking of ‘Local’ , the local flavor of WEBY Milton FL. is going away. I listen to WEBY for Tom Gresham ‘Gun Talk’ , which he has been real good lately describing the...
- Fred Stiening said Nirvana has arrived! Krispy Kreme has just announced that they’re going to deliver fresh donuts directly to your front door. https://wtvr.com/2019/08/09/krispy-kreme-is-now-delivering-doughnuts-...
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Cox sells its radio division to early SiriusXM investor
Cox’s fortune was the result of the work of James M. Cox, a newspaper owner from Dayton Ohio, who ran for President in 1920 for the Democrats, with a young Franklin Delano Roosevelt as his Vice President. He lost in … Continue reading
Posted in Radio Owners, Station Sales / Transfers
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1,000 new FM “stations” to save AM
The FCC gave AM stations an opportunity to request an FM translator without requiring them to buy an existing license. Around 1,000 licenses have been applied for. Here is The List When this process is complete, most AM stations will … Continue reading
Posted in FM Translators, Saving AM radio, The FCC
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Chris Christie’s Radio debut
WFAN decided to give New Jersey governor Chris Christie a sports radio DJ tryout. Well, it certainly got a reaction. http://nypost.com/2017/07/10/chris-christie-wfan-show-would-be-damning-of-what-radio-is/
Posted in Talk Radio
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Cumulus launches rights plan
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/06/05/cumulus-media-adopts-anti-takeover-defense.html The market capitalization of Cumulus Media (NASDAQ: CMLS) is down to a mere $14 million, carrying debt of around $2.4 billion. The board just executed a preferred rights agreement intended to block a takeover attempt if any owner or … Continue reading
Posted in Cumulus Media, Radio Owners
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Rhabdomyolysis
Clark Howard hospitalized Clark Howard needed to have a chat with Don Imus. Imus has made warning the public about the overtreatment of benign prostate cancer his mission in life. Rhabdomyolysis is the situation in which your kidneys are overwhelmed … Continue reading
Posted in Clark Howard, Talk Radio
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The end of AM radio
It is painfully obvious now that the way the FCC is going to “save” AM radio is to destroy it. Part of the dowry that arrived with the Countess is a Bose wave radio. Other than infrequent use inside the … Continue reading
Posted in Saving AM radio, The FCC
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The Urge to Merge
A media merger that has been speculated about since the NAB convention has happened. TV companies that got cash windfall from the spectrum auction are in a buying mood. One such company is Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair owns around … Continue reading
Posted in The FCC, Trump 2017
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FCC formally proposes ending Main Studio rule
With some exceptions, all radio stations are required to have a “main studio”, which is open and staffed during business hours within close proximity to the community of service where the radio station is located. FCC proposal The new Republican … Continue reading
Posted in The FCC
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Hugh Hewitt in talks with MSNBC
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/sources-hugh-hewitt-in-talks-for-msnbc-show.html When Hewitt took over for Bill Bennett to do the 6-9 AM shift, I wondered if he was going to last as a morning guy. The purported MSNBC show would be an evening show, so it seems unlikely Hewitt … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Talk, Salem, Salem Radio, Talk Radio
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“Going concern” warning expected for IheartMedia
Marketwatch Story In the accounting business, one of the obligations of auditors is to evaluate whether the business has the resources and income to sustain itself as a business in the future. When the auditor feels the obligation to issue … Continue reading
Posted in IHeart Media
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