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What Makes a Successful Standards Radio Station

vchimpanzee said:
Not sure where to put this but I just had to say it.

I don't know what my station's policy is on weather bulletins. If they wanted to do EAS I guess they could.

But it just happened that the man was there for a baseball game. He said it was coming up in a few minutes but he was interrupting programming to say the National Weather Service had issued a Winter Storm Warning. Actually, he realized his mistake. It was actually a severe thunderstorm warning, and when I got home I had recorded a newscast which was on during this time. It did look that bad then, but when I got in the car it wasn't much of anything.
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That second paragraph should read in part, "If they didn't want to get FINED and eventually LOSE THEIR LICENSE, I guess they could run EAS.".
 
semoochie said:
That second paragraph should read in part, "If they didn't want to get FINED and eventually LOSE THEIR LICENSE, I guess they could run EAS.".
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Awwww, be kind to the ignorant. Chimp only knows when a song doesn't fit "his" definition of radio formats. He knows zilch about FCC rules and regulations.

Chimp, EAS is neither optional for stations or restricted to severe weather bulletins. It is the backbone to the nationwide system to alert the public about a variety of emergency situations. In fact, its most colossal failure to date was when a train derailed in Minot, South Dakota, releasing dangerous chemicals into the air, and the local authorities had both ignored upgrades to the system and changed dedicated phone numbers without telling the primary EAS station.

I seriously suggest that before you post things like this that you "think" you know, you stop and Google whatever it is you are about to post about. Ignorance does not enhance credibility.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Carl Hampton was not on during this, at least when I was listening. Just music. And it did seem to be different songs from what Carl would play.

Kind of boring if they're not going to do the live remotes that often, but there weren't any when I was listening.

"Heat Wave" may have been a song that would fit the format, but I'm not sure America's Best Music has ever done it. Timeless Classics might have.
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Did RD become "RadioDiary" when I wasn't looking?
 
K.M. Richards said:
Chimp, EAS is neither optional for stations or restricted to severe weather bulletins. It is the backbone to the nationwide system to alert the public about a variety of emergency situations. In fact, its most colossal failure to date was when a train derailed in Minot, South Dakota, releasing dangerous chemicals into the air, and the local authorities had both ignored upgrades to the system and changed dedicated phone numbers without telling the primary EAS station.
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Music Lover's hubby here. Here's what really happened. Truth has a liberal bias. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...2007/01/what_really_happened_in_minot_nd.html
 
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Music Lover said:
Music Lover's hubby here. Here's what really happened: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...2007/01/what_really_happened_in_minot_nd.html
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Let's not trust third-party news sites, okay?

Here is what Clear Channel officially filed with the FCC in response to their investigation:
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7020448511

I will admit that I misstated about the dedicated phone line (I meant the radio frequency used by law enforcement and public safety agencies in Minot) but when the radio failed because those officials had changed the frequency without notifying the LP-1 station they then tried to use a previous system with a dedicated phone line which had been disconnected per FCC requirements five years earlier.

Advice to you, Mr. Music Lover's Hubby: Never try to "gotcha" me. I have way too many research sources at my disposal.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Let's not trust third-party news sites, okay?
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Music Lover's hubby here. The only news my wife and I don't trust is anything obviously right-wing, such as Fox News. Of course, that's a discussion to be reserved for a political forum.
 
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K.M. Richards said:
Chimp, EAS is neither optional for stations or restricted to severe weather bulletins. It is the backbone to the nationwide system to alert the public about a variety of emergency situations. In fact, its most colossal failure to date was when a train derailed in Minot, South Dakota, releasing dangerous chemicals into the air, and the local authorities had both ignored upgrades to the system and changed dedicated phone numbers without telling the primary EAS station.
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They didn't have to run a weather bulletin at all when no one was there, I suppose. I don't know. If it was serious they could have used EAS.
K.M. Richards said:
I seriously suggest that before you post things like this that you "think" you know, you stop and Google whatever it is you are about to post about. Ignorance does not enhance credibility.
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I don't Google at home.
 
vchimpanzee said:
They didn't have to run a weather bulletin at all when no one was there, I suppose. I don't know. If it was serious they could have used EAS.
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The EAS system, to perhaps oversimplify, takes control of the radio station and issues bulletins / notices from government and civil defense authorities who have codes, equipment and procedures by which they gain access to the local primary station which then relays the message to all stations. It's not necessary to have anyone at the station for a "real" EAS alert.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Awwww, be kind to the ignorant. Chimp only knows when a song doesn't fit "his" definition of radio formats. He knows zilch about FCC rules and regulations.

Chimp, EAS is neither optional for stations or restricted to severe weather bulletins. It is the backbone to the nationwide system to alert the public about a variety of emergency situations. In fact, its most colossal failure to date was when a train derailed in Minot, South Dakota, releasing dangerous chemicals into the air, and the local authorities had both ignored upgrades to the system and changed dedicated phone numbers without telling the primary EAS station.

I seriously suggest that before you post things like this that you "think" you know, you stop and Google whatever it is you are about to post about. Ignorance does not enhance credibility.
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K.M., you're absolutely right! I'm getting crotchety in my old age and apologize to V-Chimp but I'm always in such a state of wonderment when I read his posts.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Then you will continue to look totally uninformed when you post.
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Good. I only intend to post about what I want to post about. I rely on the rest of you to educate me. And you do. Don't think that I'm not learning what is true and having a better understanding of why things are.

All I intended to do here was state that there was a man in the studio who did a weather bulletin because there was a need. If there had been no baseball game, the studio would have been unmanned. Whether they would have felt the need to air a weather bulletin, I don't know. I don't know what the rules are for that. As I said, if there was a re need, EAS could have been used.

Incidentally, WBRF, a country station, did its required monthly EAS test when I was listening. Very brief. Not a problem at all.
 
Am I interpreting the beginning of your last post correctly?

You're actually proud of being ignorant and will post anyway?

Humanity as we know it is coming to a rapid end.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Am I interpreting the beginning of your last post correctly?

You're actually proud of being ignorant and will post anyway?

Humanity as we know it is coming to a rapid end.
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Not proud. Just reasonably confident of getting answers.

I should have said "real need" above regarding EAS. This site has a software problem of some kind and I thought I fixed everything.
 
Years ago they used to have a talk show on my usual station. I hated finding that on but I was used to the fact that back then, music wasn't a part of the format all the time. Now that same talk show seems to be back during lunch. At least I can listen to Rush, if he's on, if I happen to be in the car.

But maybe this will interest advertisers. And anything connected with community service, which is what this is, has to be a positive. Usually, those interviews or whatever were part of the morning show, which is mostly music.
 
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