He's an example of how bad education is in the last few decades.
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He's an example of how bad education is in the last few decades.
P.S. Search engines are your friends. So is, with caveats galore, Wikipedia.
Joylovepulse said in a previous post that he came to the US from Korea. He also appears to be fairly young. Why would you expect him to know who a purely domestic newsmaker from three generations ago with little relevance today such as Jimmy Hoffa was?
The signal just boomed up the East coast though, where as a kid I used to catch the skywave signal at night like it was next door. The format it was playing at the time wasn't my kind of music but the thing I really remember was how good the audio sounded.
I didn't have a high end, wideband AM receiver or anything. It was just a normal 1970's clock radio with a string dial tuner, but it did have better high frequency response than today's digital tuners, enough that I could tell the difference in sound quality between AM stations. I remember the high frequencies sounded shockingly clear on WQXR with at least twice as much energy as any other station I could hear on that radio, whether local or skywave. I have a clear recollection of the wow factor that station's sound quality had on me any time I landed on it.
Did 1570 have a reputation for sounding as good as I remember it back then?
I would expect anyone who finished high school here to know that.
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Joylovepulse967
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Well I’m 26 I have a cerebral palsy. I went to special Ed school in Long Island,New York. I did study American history and they did not teach jimmy Hoffa. And I did came to USA in 2000. I was six year old .
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Interesting. As I recall, in my first Junior High round of American History, the labor movements of the 20's and 30's were a key element. By the time I got to High School I was in Ecuador and American History was a required subject and it got right up to the Hoffa and "contemporary labor movement" era.
Besides, it is a fascinating story. The film "Hoffa" is a good portrayal of the story, focusing on his disappearance. His body was never found, leading to many stories and theories and lots of dark humor.
If Joylovepulse came to this country in 2000 at the age of 6, he would have started high school around 2008. By that time, the Vietnam War, the social upheaval of the '60s, the end of the Cold War, the events of 9/11 and their aftereffects all would have been in the American History curriculum, as would much previously ignored African American history. The labor movement and its major figures, from Lewis to Hoffa to Chavez, certainly are worthy of mention, but how do you fit what is now, with the decline of union influence in America, much more of a historical footnote than a major moment in history, into a semester or two of coursework?
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Joylovepulse967
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I started high school in 2009 and I grand in 2015
When you were in junior high and high school, hadn't Jimmy Hoffa only just been named president of the teamsters union, not gone to jail yet, and his disappearance would have been 15 years in the future? He might have popped up in the nightly news once in a while but I'm guessing the big events in American history class during the late '50s and early '60s were the Civil War, WWI and WWII.
I was speaking of the time up to the mid-60's. I was not out of grade school in the late 50's. In Junior High, the 50's labor movement (Reuther and Meaney and the post-war adaptation of unions to times of prosperity) was contrasted with the depression era and the socialist influence on trade unions.
By the time I studied labor in High School, it was in the context of the changes in politics in the free world, such as the "Labor" party in England, the Democrats in England vs. the totalitarian influences of Perón, Franco and other Latin American despots like Rojas in Colombia and Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela and the retraction in Mexico from the socialist influences in the post-Revolution years.
The disappearance came later, but his entry to power in the 50's marked a change from the reformists to the more traditional unionism of the 30's. The CIO's expulsion of the Teamsters was considered, internationally, to be an important point in the US labor movement that distinguished it from the far more socialist movements in much of the rest of the world.
The disappearance made a good movie. But the break between the Teamsters and the AFofL-CIO was of historical importance.
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Joylovepulse967
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Why we talking about American history. We was talking about wfme am tower move ? Why change subject? Lol ?
Is it? What about the prospect of WFME buying another station and letting 1560 go dark? Maybe it's not worth rebuilding. What else is potentially out there besides 1190?
1560 (ex-WQXR) upgraded from 10 kW non-directional to 50 kW directional in 1956 and added the fourth tower in 1965.
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Joylovepulse967
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"This change in signal coverage will be permanent." Sounds like things are moving quickly.
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Joylovepulse967
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What do you think so
"Soon we will be announcing a new way you can hear Family Radio in the NYC area."
Sounds like they're preparing their audience for changes.
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Joylovepulse967
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maybe new 107.9
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