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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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Category Archives: Presidential Elections
Share the Wealth
Here is the complete text of Huey Long’s speech to the nation in the 1934 broadcast nationwide on the NBC radio network. http://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth-speech.php As you read it, see how much it shares with the speeches of Donald Trump and Bernie … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Donald Trump, Republicans
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First impressions
CC (can I call you C for short) posted this so deep in comments that people won’t see it – it’s worthy of its own thread http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/cleveland-hero-charles-ramsey-8702415 I’m shocked, I tell you. CC noticed (and I did as well) Mr … Continue reading
Posted in Collapse of America, Presidential Elections
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Detroit Justice
http://wchbnewsdetroit.com/2429656/detroit-home-owner-claims-she-and-her-baby-are-forced-to-live-with-squatter/?omcamp=DNL-DNL Unless things have changed in Detroit, Ms. Peterson has zero chance of a court ruling in her favor. She’ll be lucky if the publicity of this situation doesn’t result in a group of people arriving at her house and … Continue reading
Democracy in Action
If you weren’t glued to C-SPAN all afternoon, you could have missed this. Fox News Radio specifally covered it up on the top of the hour. There is big trouble brewing inside the Democratic Party. A party’s “platform” is mostly … Continue reading
Overheard in Park Ridge
If the name sounds familiar, Park Ridge is the Chicago suburb where a young Hillary Clinton grew up and began to admire Barry Goldwater – before she went off to college and was consumed by the charms of Bill Clinton. … Continue reading
And the Winner is….
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, the individual who has the legal responsibility to pass a budget in the House and send it to the Senate for approval, which he has done like clockwork – only to have Harry S. … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Election, Presidential Elections, Republicans
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“You didn’t build it”, but neither did you.
Back on July 4th, I posted some thoughts about how much work it took by our society that I was able to eat a meal at Penn Station in New York City – how the water was being carried by … Continue reading
Romney to NAACP: Go F* yourselves
That’s the message WOL-AM in Washington DC heard http://woldcnews.com/1017127/mitt-romneys-naacp-speech-hes-wasnt-even-pretending-to-care/ Hey, it worked for Bill Clinton and Sister Souljah http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/does-romney-need-a-sister-souljah-moment–20120312 In other Communisty news, Jesse Jackson Jr, a current member of the US House from Chicago has vanished without explanation. Dad … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Election, American Politics, Republicans
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Saudi Arabia and the Three Generation Rule
In Saudi Arabia, women are property, have no right to vote, and are not allowed to drive. The country is officially 100% Muslim as not being Muslim is a capital offense. There are no elections. There is no Democracy or … Continue reading
What Republicans could learn from Mr Black Detroit
This story becomes interesting now that President Obama has announced he supports Gay Marriage, creating an opportunity for Republicans if they only understood a bit more how fragile the Democratic Party alliance is (and actually wanted to win). One of … Continue reading
Posted in Presidential Elections
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