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- Fred Stiening said Then you get into the nuances of putting a percentage on overlap – is it population or square miles or ad revenue? Government handouts always have strings. Contrary to the Chamber of Commerc...
- TheChairman said Apparently, the FCC refers to it as their 'Duplicative Programming' rule: no more than 25% duplicate content for stations with more than 50% contour overlap. To me, this is different (more...
- Fred Stiening said The FCC is considering changes to an existing ru!e (or more likely ending it) that limits the number of hours per day of a simulcast broadcast by two or more stations in the same market owned by the s...
- Fred Stiening said Post bankruptcy iHeartMedia is headed to Nashville, at least part of it https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2019/12/02/iheartmedia-chooses-nashville-second-headquarters/2586162001/
- TheChairman said Yes, from Tulsa to west of OKC we noticed 4 or 5 stations were simultaneously broadcasting the same content.
- Fred Stiening said Thank you for the report. Out in Oklahoma, some entity went around taking over several dozen unviable small town stations and organized them under the banner of the Gospel Station Network, simulcastin...
- Fred Stiening said Here is the Libertarian free market 5ake from Reason https://reason.com/2019/11/30/the-nations-biggest-dairy-is-failing-despite-relentless-government-intervention/ FYI, Dean's is not in the cheese...
- TheChairman said Along those lines, here is my informal AM radio survey along some of the Interstates & US highways, during our seasonal migration from MI to AZ: Michigan: AM is nearly extinct, perhaps a faith or...
- CC1s121LrBGT said It's always surprising to me when Republicans unite to take money from the people and give it to the entertainment industry that gives almost exclusively to their opposition and comes out public...
- Fred Stiening said This might be the final nail in Music Radio https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/congress-am-fm-act-copyright-law-terrestrial-radio-1203412412/#article-comments It used to be that radio labels would prov...
- CC1s121LrBGT said > " If the democrat socialists gain total control, your 'social-credit' may affect your food options, increase your pricing, or delivery might be halted altogether. " These demo...
- Fred Stiening said The first line of protection is the bagging area is a scale – so each item scanned has a known weight that should match what is being scanned. Some clever people figured out Amazon does not imme...
- CC1s121LrBGT said I've read that there is already a discount for self-checkout. The old "five finger discount" where items are bagged without being scanned or a code for a lower priced produce item is ma...
- TheChairman said Yes, that's true for a few, but most of us still shop in a local store. On that note, I think customers should get a discount for self-checkout & bagging (no cashier). Neither myself nor my...
- Fred Stiening said With grocery pickup and delivery, the arrangement of the store no longer matters. In fact, 5 years from now, there may no longer be a need for a building. Wide aisles, lighted vertical display case...
- TheChairman said Perhaps the low price is a Walmart 'loss leader' to get people in the store. As with most (US) grocery chains, it is purposely located at the rear of the store. My wife drinks a lot of milk...
- Fred Stiening said How can my Walmart afford to sell regular milk at $0.58 a half gallon? Even at Aldi's, the price is $1.69 This week, Dean Foods declared bankruptcy. https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Expert-we...
- Fred Stiening said Jack Ryan Season Two is out for Amazon Prime customers I doubt Tom Clancy would be happy, but he is dead, so that is that. I remember reading that the filming was going to occur in Venezuela on locati...
- Fred Stiening said Second post
- Fred Stiening said First post!
- CC1s121LrBGT said Halloween over, Thanksgiving coming very soon. Don't say "Happy Turkey Day" to these folks, it may "trigger" them. They are already looking for a "safe space". 😉 ht...
- CC1s121LrBGT said What you say is true. I would argue that there is little demand for it in crowded markets as well- the world is moving to internet streaming. From a technical perspective, however, Digital Audio Broa...
- CC1s121LrBGT said What is the revenue and is it enough to pay for leasing transmitter, paying for the associated property taxes and electricity?
- Fred Stiening said DAB is an FM only technology. Much of medium wave AM has been turned off around the world. AM stations have already been offered FM translator licenses for free. This proposal is only of value in...
- Fred Stiening said Since there is no original programming on the non-profit owned stations and no studio to maintain and no office staff to pay, how is it possible to lose money?
- CC1s121LrBGT said Decades overdue… but still behind Europe where broadcasters broadcast a group of digital signals as a package – like cable TV or Sirius XM radio does. Much more efficient that way. This i...
- Fred Stiening said The FCC is seriously looking at allowing AM stations to go "all digital" which would allow FM quality sound on AM. Most new cars are compatible already with all digital AM, but that transist...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Clear ISIL! Trump must have heard the nonstop ads for it on Music Radio 77, WABC back in the 1960s!
- CC1s121LrBGT said Detroit? "Go to California, where the World is Your Toilet"
- CC1s121LrBGT said Impossible! That bacon is Impossible! Just a guess, but anything's possible. https://impossiblefoods.com/company/
- Fred Stiening said Hollywood producer Robert Evans has died. I can't think of another person less worthy of my attention. The moderated comments on Variety are just sickeningly sappy. https://variety.com/2019/fi...
- Fred Stiening said Nancy Pelosi apparently thinks she is the assistant Commander in Chief, and that President Trump must clear his decisions with her first. Wisely, Donald Trump did not tell Ms Pelosi that we were about...
- Fred Stiening said John Conyers has died. He was the congressman for the city of Detroit, and very much responsible for turning Detroit into the cesspool it became.
- Fred Stiening said How is it possible that a 4 pound boneless pork loin roast costs less than 1 pound of bacon?
- CC1s121LrBGT said I enjoy the chat here. Sometimes serious, sometimes kidding around. Fred has attracted an interesting group to his web site and I really enjoy it.
- briand75 said Fred – we moved to TN in Sept. Time for some needed peace and quiet. Have been working from home so I do have some time to chat 🙂
- briand75 said No problem CC – the folks here are all great and I would sacrifice for you, Fred and the rest!
- Fred Stiening said Is Tesla the mysterious potential buyer of GM's shuttered Lordstown Ohio assembly facility?
- Fred Stiening said It is easy to forget that our president once appeared on professional wrestling. He is a big fan of boxing, which is why he was friends with Don King. Trump is no Patsy, and certainly not a Richar...
- CC1s121LrBGT said All that and more. The worst is that she is undermining the Department of Justice and obstructing justice. Obstruction of Justice is a crime that DOJ prosecutes the non-political class.
- Fred Stiening said Well, well. Nancy Pelosi is in Jordon now undermining the State Department and the Commander in Chief. I sure hope she doesn't talk to any Russians or people who know a person who has once talk...
- CC1s121LrBGT said Nice pivot!
- Fred Stiening said If true, then he needs to testify in front of the relevant House Committee. If he ignores their subpoena, they can hold him in contempt posthumously.
- Fred Stiening said But many robots have six degrees of freedom
- CC1s121LrBGT said That would be you, briand75, I need you to start paying your fair share so that I get my free healthcare and free green power. 😉
- CC1s121LrBGT said And a robot prison for robots that don't pay their taxes. At least they will not have to pay back taxes since they have no backs…. to whom will the talk radio station adds sell their advic...
- TheChairman said Hmm, I seem to recall McCain being on that junket as well, but perhaps I'm confusing it with some other foreign 'meeting' into which he stuck his nose.
- Fred Stiening said Glad to see that you were still around. Maybe we should talk 😉 You know what they say about democracy as it pertains to wolves and sheep. With Medicare for all requiring huge taxes on employment, this...
- Fred Stiening said It seems like I'm the only person who remembers Nancy Pelosi going to Syria in 2007 and meeting with Bashir Assad, without coordinating with the Bush administration. I think we need a transcript o...
- briand75 said People seem to act a lot like sheep. Some catch phrase like "pay their fair share" and they all mob together and want to elect an evil person who will destroy this nation. Sad.
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Listening to John Denver on my new Amazon Echo…
If you have ever listened to AM radio driving through rural West Virginia, about once an hour you are going to hear “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, essentially the national anthem of WV.
I have spent time in the Shenandoah River Valley, and it is in Virginia. On its journey to become part of the Potomac River, it briefly crosses the extreme tip of the panhandle that is part of WV only to justify the Union annexation of a part of Virginia without the consent of the legislature in Richmond – but the bulk of the residents of WV have probably never been to the panhandle unless they work in a government facility named after Robert Byrd.
There is some strong urge built into humans to want to have a sense of group identity, even when it is based on a lie. The authors of the song had never been to West Virginia.
Wikipedia reminds me that the B&O railroad runs through the panhandle which was very important during the civil war.
Dixie was written by an Ohio native in his New York apartment.
The FBI investigated the Kingmen’s $50 cover of “Louie Louie” by a group of Portland teenagers for as long as Robert Mueller investigated Russian collusion with the Trump campaign… and reached the same conclusion – that there was no evidence. The FBI spent 2.5 years and lots of tax money looking for evidence that the song was obscene as it had been alleged.
Decades after they concluded their investigation, the obscenity was found in plain sight. The teenage drummer had dropped his drum stick during the single session recording and when he did, he dropped the F-bomb. The kids didn’t have enough money to record the song a second time and had used a single microphone that picked up the drummer in the distance.
Listen to the 1963 hit and focus on the @0,54 mark. You will hear it and once you do, you can not “unhear” it… you are better at investigating than 1/4 decade of a highly paid team of top FBI investigators! 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJmtHxbNjt4
Salon Magazine MAY be kaput
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/salon-media-announces-5-million-131321765.html
That would be pocket change for Vladimir Putin
YouTube seems to be moving advertisements so they follow the video you are watching, which means the advertiser only pays if you watch the entire video. If this is right, perhaps this will cut down on the 20 minute selfies and computer voices reading unlicensed copyrighted material.
Regarding the “In the News” article on KPFA FM Berkeley, CA…
Probably much more politics at Pacifica than any other group of stations – fighting about local versus national control of the loose network of stations.
When I lived in Houston in the 1990s the Pacifica station there was almost all music and very little politics… at least during the non-work hours when I was able to listen. As a person that likes a wide variety of music, I listen often and just turned it off when the socialists interrupted the music. It was the opposite of its sister station, WBAI in NYC that is mostly socialists and very little music.
I share all this because next year marks the half-century anniversary of its bombing. As far as I know, KPFT remains the only US station that was bombed by domestic terrorists to silence it. … so freedom of speech was a freedom we must all defend and it pre-dates Facebook and Twitter.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/KPFT-was-bombed-for-the-first-time-45-years-ago-6256126.php
Enjoy your Memorial Day and honor those that made the ultimate sacrifice for defending our Freedoms, including but not limited to Freedom of Speech.
And free cheese
WNZK-AM in Dearborn Heights Michigan has an interesting feature I had not noticed until now. There have been a few AM stations that have entirely different transmitters located very far apart for daytime and nighttime operations, but WNZK has the distinction of operating on a different frequency after dark. It is on 960 MHz during the day, but switches to 680 MHz after sunset to protect a Canadian radio station in Quebec
This may be the end of progressive talk radio
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/444232-bill-press-to-end-his-daily-radio-show
(The WordPress database was clobbered again, so a few comments were lost)
Grumpy cat has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/business/media/grumpy-cat-dead.html
..but one less father. The father of KFI’s Tim Conway Jr. has passed away. Better known than the son, the son has a good local show:
https://kfiam640.iheart.com/featured/tim-conway-jr/
“Listen to Tim Conway Jr. Weekdays from 6 PM – 10 PM on KFI AM 640!”
[That would be 9 PM – 1 AM ET for all you readers in Pineville, Hooterville, Mayberry and points beyond. 😉 ]
I MAY have completed my move to Pineville NC.
You MAY have heard there was a special election in the 9th Congressional district of NC. Because Republicans have no party discipline, something like 8 people ran in the primary. Mister Bishop, sponsor of the HB2 gay bathroom bill in the NC Legislature won handily and has a September match with a fairly moderate Democrat.
However, since I am now in Pineville, I am now in a gerrymandered “voting rights” district represented by Alma Adams, widely known for her extensive hat collection. District 9 is just a faint memory.
Alma, with her 900 hats and 40 point victory margins, looks like a winner. You should be well represented.
I can’t wait for my free cheese!
I know you have a passion for trains. Recently I rode on the California Zephyr from Osceola, IA to Denver, CO with my 9-year old son. On our return home to Minnesota, I saw that the Curbside Classic website had just published a great feature on the Zephyr: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/uncategorized/trackside-classic-1949-70-california-zephyr-a-silver-thread-across-america/
I was again in Denver last week, and I saw one of the Union Pacific Big Boy locomotives at the Forney Museum of Transportation. On my return, I saw that Curbside Classic had just published a feature on the Big Boy: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/trackside-classic/trackside-classic-1941-union-pacific-4-8-8-4-no-4014-amazing-things-happen-in-wyoming/
My taste in trains goes more to complex switching yards, train dispatching, interlockings, and more the business of freight rather than passenger trains. Google News told me about the Big Boy restoration, but I will be busy for a few days.