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Yes, how government is used to Rape us. Thats how I would put it. With criminal guests like that on, the State Police should watch every show. Maybe one of them will slip up , like Celona.
Talk radio Democrat-haters will LOVE this!
Hello from seat 12F* ON THE RUNWAY in Little Ark, Rockansas, the one-stop on SWA's BWI-to-Dallas flight.
If you haven't seen today's Washington Post:
TOP CENTER, PAGE TWO:
Post columnists postulate who'd be The Short List for each presidential candidate's running mate.
#1 choice under Barack Obama: Jack Reed, whom The Post calls "a thoughtful and cautious wonk who is often mentioned as a future Pentagon chief," given Reed's background ("West Point grad, Army Ranger, a leading Democratic expert on military affairs").
And the article notes that, "like Obama, he opposed the Iraq war from the start."
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
* Why seat 12F is THE BEST SEAT ON THE PLANE on Southwest Airlines: It's the only seat without-a-seat-in-front-of-it, SWA's version of legroom.
Hello from seat 12F* ON THE RUNWAY in Little Ark, Rockansas, the one-stop on SWA's BWI-to-Dallas flight.
If you haven't seen today's Washington Post:
TOP CENTER, PAGE TWO:
Post columnists postulate who'd be The Short List for each presidential candidate's running mate.
#1 choice under Barack Obama: Jack Reed, whom The Post calls "a thoughtful and cautious wonk who is often mentioned as a future Pentagon chief," given Reed's background ("West Point grad, Army Ranger, a leading Democratic expert on military affairs").
And the article notes that, "like Obama, he opposed the Iraq war from the start."
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
* Why seat 12F is THE BEST SEAT ON THE PLANE on Southwest Airlines: It's the only seat without-a-seat-in-front-of-it, SWA's version of legroom.
Re: Talk radio Democrat-haters will LOVE this!
Not quite true Holland. If you were on board one of Southwest's 28 737-500s, (easily noted because the tail number is in the 500 range), then you would have to sit in Seat 11A for the same 'Southwest effect'!
www.seatguru.com !
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Southwest_Airlines/Southwest_Airlines_Boeing_737-500.php
DING!
Geoff
Holland Cooke said:
Not quite true Holland. If you were on board one of Southwest's 28 737-500s, (easily noted because the tail number is in the 500 range), then you would have to sit in Seat 11A for the same 'Southwest effect'!
www.seatguru.com !
http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Southwest_Airlines/Southwest_Airlines_Boeing_737-500.php
DING!
Geoff
I WISH!
<< If you were on board one of Southwest's 28 737-500s, then you would have to sit in Seat 11A for the same 'Southwest effect'! >>
As much as I fly -- which is TOO much -- I've only been on one of those.
Most of SWA's fleet are the shorter '37s.
Nerd Alert: Next time you're at the airport, look on-top-of Delta/Northwest/United 737s/757s/767s/A320s.
If you spot what-looks-like a mosquito bite, that's our old USA Today Sky Radio antenna radome.
It -- and the receiver in the E-bay, and cabling -- is now roughly 70 lbs of dead weight.
But once-upon-a-time...
[cue harp swirl]
http://hollandcooke.com/skyradio.ram
(See if you recognize two ex-Providence radio voices I brought to Washington for the adventure.)
(And SEE the-voice-you-only-HEAR on ABC6, Washington voice-O-God freelancer Mike Lewis.)
[cue harp swirl]
That-thing-under-the-dome was the distant cousin of technology in the nosecone of the Patriot Missles that Bush, Sr. lobbed into Desert Storm...and the grandfather of Sirius Satellite Radio. We bounced a 56K bit stream off now-defunct G-Star III to 453 jets, and gave 'em 3 live audio channels 1992-1994.
Our first-ever install was United's N5151UA a 757 I spotted in Seattle a couple months ago.
And my butt knows THOSE seats REAL well.
Good evening from Texas,
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
www.MyRI.TV
<< If you were on board one of Southwest's 28 737-500s, then you would have to sit in Seat 11A for the same 'Southwest effect'! >>
As much as I fly -- which is TOO much -- I've only been on one of those.
Most of SWA's fleet are the shorter '37s.
Nerd Alert: Next time you're at the airport, look on-top-of Delta/Northwest/United 737s/757s/767s/A320s.
If you spot what-looks-like a mosquito bite, that's our old USA Today Sky Radio antenna radome.
It -- and the receiver in the E-bay, and cabling -- is now roughly 70 lbs of dead weight.
But once-upon-a-time...
[cue harp swirl]
http://hollandcooke.com/skyradio.ram
(See if you recognize two ex-Providence radio voices I brought to Washington for the adventure.)
(And SEE the-voice-you-only-HEAR on ABC6, Washington voice-O-God freelancer Mike Lewis.)
[cue harp swirl]
That-thing-under-the-dome was the distant cousin of technology in the nosecone of the Patriot Missles that Bush, Sr. lobbed into Desert Storm...and the grandfather of Sirius Satellite Radio. We bounced a 56K bit stream off now-defunct G-Star III to 453 jets, and gave 'em 3 live audio channels 1992-1994.
Our first-ever install was United's N5151UA a 757 I spotted in Seattle a couple months ago.
And my butt knows THOSE seats REAL well.
Good evening from Texas,
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
www.MyRI.TV
Re: I WISH!
The -500s are the short ones! 101' 8" (28 in fleet) The 737-300s are 109' 7" (194 in fleet) and 737-700s 110' 4" (310 in fleet)!
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Our first-ever install was United's N5151UA a 757 I spotted in Seattle a couple months ago.
And my butt knows THOSE seats REAL well.
[/quote]
Last time of the 14 times I have seen N515UA was March 7th 2007 in Logan! Previous time before that, was in Providence on June 1st 2004!
Regards
Geoff!
Holland Cooke said:
The -500s are the short ones! 101' 8" (28 in fleet) The 737-300s are 109' 7" (194 in fleet) and 737-700s 110' 4" (310 in fleet)!
[/quote]
Our first-ever install was United's N5151UA a 757 I spotted in Seattle a couple months ago.
And my butt knows THOSE seats REAL well.
[/quote]
Last time of the 14 times I have seen N515UA was March 7th 2007 in Logan! Previous time before that, was in Providence on June 1st 2004!
Regards
Geoff!
This'll be EXTREMELY nerdy...
RE "I have seen N515UA:"
TRUE airplane nerds will note that this particular 757 isn't-just-ANY-757!
TAIL number is N515UA.
NOSE number is 5151 ETOPS.
"Extended Twin Operations," meaning it can fly some over-ocean routes that other '75s can't.
TRUE STORY: Before the FAA let us drill a 1" hole in that $55 million aircraft, we had to make a-pile-of-paper [including CAD] that weighed MORE THAN THE AIRPLANE!
The on-air staff had been rehearsing, in real-time, for over THREE WEEKS, feeding the satellite and everything, with nobody listening. When we first installed that aircraft, and it was our one-and-only, we (USA Today) and United had a big debut moment/ceremony planned. But it never happened, because 5151 got pressed-into-duty ("a hot spare" for another '57). So I simply went into the studio during a spot, and told anchor-on-duty-at-the-time "We're ON!"
Then I got daily routing, to go find 5151. I'd "check-ride," to test the satellite footprint, and hear program content/audio processing/etc. in-the-environment. One day, I got on in Philadelphia, and flew to LAX; where the crew changed, and I didn't. I stayed on and flew back to Miami...all-in-one-day...IN COACH. Another day, several installs later, I took a 737 to Mexico City. 'Never left the airport, before we flew-on-to...wherever.
BEST-EVER observation: One Saturday afternoon, the crew let me do the in-flight announcement, from the aft galley. As I announced what was available on each of our 3 channels (news, sports, and a United-only talk channel), we saw passengers lean down to fish earphones out of the seat-back pockets. On the Sports Channel (channel 7 on UA and DA; channel 8 on NWA), we had a Notre Dame football game on, from Mutual. I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP! Earphones at the time were those TUBES. Remember? Stethoscopic acoustic TUBES that'd plug-into the armrest. Two passengers were doing a tug-O-war over one...and one of the passengers was A NUN!
RE "I have seen N515UA:"
TRUE airplane nerds will note that this particular 757 isn't-just-ANY-757!
TAIL number is N515UA.
NOSE number is 5151 ETOPS.
"Extended Twin Operations," meaning it can fly some over-ocean routes that other '75s can't.
TRUE STORY: Before the FAA let us drill a 1" hole in that $55 million aircraft, we had to make a-pile-of-paper [including CAD] that weighed MORE THAN THE AIRPLANE!
The on-air staff had been rehearsing, in real-time, for over THREE WEEKS, feeding the satellite and everything, with nobody listening. When we first installed that aircraft, and it was our one-and-only, we (USA Today) and United had a big debut moment/ceremony planned. But it never happened, because 5151 got pressed-into-duty ("a hot spare" for another '57). So I simply went into the studio during a spot, and told anchor-on-duty-at-the-time "We're ON!"
Then I got daily routing, to go find 5151. I'd "check-ride," to test the satellite footprint, and hear program content/audio processing/etc. in-the-environment. One day, I got on in Philadelphia, and flew to LAX; where the crew changed, and I didn't. I stayed on and flew back to Miami...all-in-one-day...IN COACH. Another day, several installs later, I took a 737 to Mexico City. 'Never left the airport, before we flew-on-to...wherever.
BEST-EVER observation: One Saturday afternoon, the crew let me do the in-flight announcement, from the aft galley. As I announced what was available on each of our 3 channels (news, sports, and a United-only talk channel), we saw passengers lean down to fish earphones out of the seat-back pockets. On the Sports Channel (channel 7 on UA and DA; channel 8 on NWA), we had a Notre Dame football game on, from Mutual. I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP! Earphones at the time were those TUBES. Remember? Stethoscopic acoustic TUBES that'd plug-into the armrest. Two passengers were doing a tug-O-war over one...and one of the passengers was A NUN!
Probably find 515 flies to Hawaii and back, the only true ocean route United use their 757s.
It will be interesting to see if UA start any services across the Atlantic with 757s, to compete with British, Northwest, American, US Airways and Delta who among others are using them to take advantage of Open Skies!
Geoff
self confessed aviation enthusiast!
It will be interesting to see if UA start any services across the Atlantic with 757s, to compete with British, Northwest, American, US Airways and Delta who among others are using them to take advantage of Open Skies!
Geoff
self confessed aviation enthusiast!
Okay, ONE more story, then we can get back to dissing Dave Barber...
Okay TWO more stories.
Placido Domingo -- one of The Three Tenors -- was performing a conference at Ravinia (the Tanglewood-type place hear Chicago). We carried it live on UAL channel 8 ("The United Entertainment Network," as Gene Hackman said over the Gershwin music in our :10 ID). The ONLY place it was being broadcast was on Sky Radio, sponsored by American Express. From the stage, Domingo sang hello to United passengers listening-in.
On that same channel one Sunday night, when David Lawrence was doing his syndicated "Online This Week" show, he gave away software and other techy prizes to callers...but you had to be calling on GTE Airfone from a United flight. THAT was cool.
STOP ME before I reminisce again!
We can get back to giggling about Dave's cable show now.
That -- and all those anonymous hostile radio-info.com snipes that greeted his arrival at WPRO -- will tell folks-from-other-markets who are looking-in how warm-and-welcoming we Rhode Islanders can be...
Okay TWO more stories.
Placido Domingo -- one of The Three Tenors -- was performing a conference at Ravinia (the Tanglewood-type place hear Chicago). We carried it live on UAL channel 8 ("The United Entertainment Network," as Gene Hackman said over the Gershwin music in our :10 ID). The ONLY place it was being broadcast was on Sky Radio, sponsored by American Express. From the stage, Domingo sang hello to United passengers listening-in.
On that same channel one Sunday night, when David Lawrence was doing his syndicated "Online This Week" show, he gave away software and other techy prizes to callers...but you had to be calling on GTE Airfone from a United flight. THAT was cool.
STOP ME before I reminisce again!
We can get back to giggling about Dave's cable show now.
That -- and all those anonymous hostile radio-info.com snipes that greeted his arrival at WPRO -- will tell folks-from-other-markets who are looking-in how warm-and-welcoming we Rhode Islanders can be...
Re: Talk radio Democrat-haters will LOVE this!
Really don't see how much a boring white liberal midget from New England helps Obama in a national race. ;D
Jack's "military" record is paper impressive not practice impressive. Inspection of that record by the media would render Jack even smaller.
Holland Cooke said:
Really don't see how much a boring white liberal midget from New England helps Obama in a national race. ;D
Jack's "military" record is paper impressive not practice impressive. Inspection of that record by the media would render Jack even smaller.
And while we're talking presidential politics...
What if YOU had the new president's ear?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4vt_Fpz3s
What if YOU had the new president's ear?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zq4vt_Fpz3s
OK, OK, OK...I admit it...IT WAS *MY* FAULT.
"LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL..."
But seriously...
I cannot BEGIN to describe what I'm witnessing here in Toronto.
Best way would be to say "this is what USA radio looked like in the 80s."
BIG crowd.
LOTS of people-in-their-twenties.
Music Directors, News Directors...the jobs that disappeared YEARS ago in the USA.
And everybody looks..."hip," very cosmopolitan.
Like...SHOW BIZ. What-radio-ought-to-be.
Meanwhile, in the USA, firings continue...
"LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL..."
But seriously...
I cannot BEGIN to describe what I'm witnessing here in Toronto.
Best way would be to say "this is what USA radio looked like in the 80s."
BIG crowd.
LOTS of people-in-their-twenties.
Music Directors, News Directors...the jobs that disappeared YEARS ago in the USA.
And everybody looks..."hip," very cosmopolitan.
Like...SHOW BIZ. What-radio-ought-to-be.
Meanwhile, in the USA, firings continue...
Holland,
While you're there, see if you can get CHWO 740 to export some of its magic here for programmers to look at. 50 kW non-D into a half-wave high tower at 740 gives a monster night signal. Used to hear it in RI when the CBC ran it as CBL. We at WVCH have to cut power at night down to 6 watts to protect 'em...
While you're there, see if you can get CHWO 740 to export some of its magic here for programmers to look at. 50 kW non-D into a half-wave high tower at 740 gives a monster night signal. Used to hear it in RI when the CBC ran it as CBL. We at WVCH have to cut power at night down to 6 watts to protect 'em...
I
Ill alert the media
Guest
Skynet74 said:
You may wanna go to the Toronto board first and give them 30 days advance notice
Mentioning Michael Moore always seems to de-rail any conversation, BUT...
If you saw the movie "Bowling for Columbine," you might have felt as uncomfortable as I did by the way Michael Moore treated Charlton Heston. OK, OK, I buy Moore's underlying point...but Heston seemed so old and infirm that Moore's technique seemed unfair.
That aside, you might also have been as-intrigued-as-I-was by Moore's premise that USA media treatment of violent crime has been racially polarizing. And when Moore takes the viewer through-the-tunnel from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, we see a very different black/white vibe.
THAT is just one of the ways being in Toronto feels "foreign." You think "Canada," and you think "Doug & Bob McKenzie," right? White guys guzzling Labatt's at a hockey game? Thnk again. This is a VERY diverse city. Walk down the street, and there seem to be as many asians as blacks as whites. There are Indian/Pakistani-accented voices on major stations here.
The vibe here is THE OPPOSITE OF insular snipes posted on this site which sought to make Dave Barber feel so unwelcome as a new Rhode Islander. At the airport here, advertising for Cuba tourism (!) uses the slogan "Friendly and diverse."
And there's a sophistication here that you don't feel in New York, let alone Nort' Providence. A hipness.
Want to hear some GREAT -- and very-different-sounding -- radio?
Stream-into Bill Carroll's morning show on 1010CFRB (www.cfrb.com).
ALL LOCAL VOICES, ALL LOCAL PROGRAMMING.
"Local, local, local," eh?
I was here in August, doing a project for that particular station, and found myself saying-something-most-consultant-haters-on-this-board wouldn't-ever-expect-to-hear-from-a-consultant: "DON'T CHANGE A THING!"
Actuallly, I did make one fundamental imaging recommendation. I suggested re-doing all the station's promos, to adopt the slogan "Turn to Ten-Ten."
If you saw the movie "Bowling for Columbine," you might have felt as uncomfortable as I did by the way Michael Moore treated Charlton Heston. OK, OK, I buy Moore's underlying point...but Heston seemed so old and infirm that Moore's technique seemed unfair.
That aside, you might also have been as-intrigued-as-I-was by Moore's premise that USA media treatment of violent crime has been racially polarizing. And when Moore takes the viewer through-the-tunnel from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, we see a very different black/white vibe.
THAT is just one of the ways being in Toronto feels "foreign." You think "Canada," and you think "Doug & Bob McKenzie," right? White guys guzzling Labatt's at a hockey game? Thnk again. This is a VERY diverse city. Walk down the street, and there seem to be as many asians as blacks as whites. There are Indian/Pakistani-accented voices on major stations here.
The vibe here is THE OPPOSITE OF insular snipes posted on this site which sought to make Dave Barber feel so unwelcome as a new Rhode Islander. At the airport here, advertising for Cuba tourism (!) uses the slogan "Friendly and diverse."
And there's a sophistication here that you don't feel in New York, let alone Nort' Providence. A hipness.
Want to hear some GREAT -- and very-different-sounding -- radio?
Stream-into Bill Carroll's morning show on 1010CFRB (www.cfrb.com).
ALL LOCAL VOICES, ALL LOCAL PROGRAMMING.
"Local, local, local," eh?
I was here in August, doing a project for that particular station, and found myself saying-something-most-consultant-haters-on-this-board wouldn't-ever-expect-to-hear-from-a-consultant: "DON'T CHANGE A THING!"
Actuallly, I did make one fundamental imaging recommendation. I suggested re-doing all the station's promos, to adopt the slogan "Turn to Ten-Ten."
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