My grandfather is 93 and loves streaming shows, and he's been teaching his friends how it all works. He has even more streaming services than I do.
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Cumulus has sold several of its former ABC stations: WPLJ, KLOS, WABC. All three still have their heritage call letters.
The only ones that should be at issue are WABC and KABC, the only ones with the ABC brand in them. (Similar to the CBS situation with WCBS.)
There was no objection when Red Apple bought WABC.
Donate it to the Bay Area Radio Museum to air the Classic KABL Radio stream. Change it to a non comm status, start taking donations, with the occasional beg-a-thon. There you have it!
"In the air, Everywhere! From San Francisco!" Followed by the ding ding of a cable car...
"In the air, Everywhere! From San Francisco!" Followed by the ding ding of a cable car...
None taken!
I was in a bit of a bad mood when I wrote that post, so I must apologize if I came across as a bit "old man yelling at clouds".
I don't mind technology. Some of my other hobbies, in fact, include repairing, refurbishing and customizing older computers and phones, which includes older iPhones.
What I mind is technology that creates more problems than it solves, for the sole purpose of milking consumers of money to the greatest possible extent.
Take Saas (Software as a Service), for example. Why do I need to buy a subscription to a Word processor or image editor that doesn't add any genuine improvements to the user experience over older versions of the same that one paid for once and could use "forever"?
Then there's AI.
I'm sure there are some genuinely good uses for it, but why, oh why does it need to be included in every bloody thing?
And I have noticed that it doesn't necessarily make anything easier or better, especially if it strays too much from its "script."
And AI has created numerous big problems that society has never had before, such as hallucinating false facts and creating fake photos and audio that are so realistic it's difficult to tell if they're real or not.
I could go on, but this is going way off topic.
I understand iPhones pretty well (I'm typing out this post on one, for example), I know how to listen to streams, and I even know how to listen to services such as Spotify, Pandora and the like (it is pretty easy), but I don't listen to the services because I don't want to pay them a monthly subscription fee just to listem to music (my one exception is Amazon Music, but only because it happened to come free with our Prime membership (yes, I do that, too!)).
I will listen to free streams, such as what many radio stations offer (plus some online-only ones), and I'll listen to YouTube or Amazon Music if I want to hear a particular song.
However, any music I care about I find physical media for (be it vinyl, CD, cassette or even open reel tape and 8 Track) to avoid DRM (I've actually seen it happen, where I'll find some songs I like, save them to, for example, an Amazon Music playlist, and come back to that playlist in a few weeks to give them a listen, only to find them inexplicably greyed out and unavailable, and search results for those songs actually get scrubbed too, so I can't even find different versions; the greyed out playlist entries thus become the only proof that those songs ever existed).
If AM AND FM radio consistently played music I like (I may be an outlier, but I'm flexible; even if it's not my favorite, KOSF 103.7 is better than nothing, but I can only listen once in awhile if I'm in the mood for it), I'd probably listen to radio more, like I used to.
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This one is pretty simple. Businesses and many individuals would rather pay $12.99 a month forever than pay $1000 once. It's good for both the buyer and the seller. The buyer gets a regular cost and regular updates, instead of a huge hit when Word 95 was updated to Word 97 -- and the seller gets recurring, predictable revenue.
I know you're a young buck -- Microsoft Office ranged was sold in several editions from $400 to $800 in 1997. Throw that into your favorite inflation calculator and you're looking $1000 to $1500 per seat if the old pricing model was still in effect. And you wouldn't get bug fixes for 2 years.
Similarly, services like Spotify are good for everyone. I get access to every album ever recorded for less than the price of of one CD every month. If I put all the money I've ever spent on Spotify into new CDs, I'd have around 30 CDs, which which would amount to 4 or 5 hours of good music and 20 hours of filler songs.
As long as you have connectivity. A sensitive point with me right now after my ISP wiped out my PPPoE configuration today, requiring some time to fix. Thank goodness for writing things down.
Sorry to hear that, Mark. But someone's still using PPPoE? Really?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I wondered the same thing. I've used DHCP for I don't even remember how long ...
Why would anyone still be using PPPoE?
Authentication to the ISP's network. Beats the heck out of MAC-address authentication that Comcast uses.
It's my understanding, which could be wrong, that AT&T's fiber network uses it. The ISP I use is owned by the local telco. I even discovered that our fiber line has an honest-to-Betsy phone number associated with it.
As someone who started streaming music in 2012 and hasn't stopped, that was a frequent problem years ago and is now less and less common.
On the rare occasions that something will vanish from Apple Music (I switched in 2022 from Spotify when Joe Rogan earned a permanent spot on my FTG list), it's usually temporary as the rights are being renewed for another cycle. As little as a day in some cases.
I get it. I'm down to a handful of OTA stations that I'll listen to with any regularity. A solid playlist of classic unscoped airchecks is a wonderful thing.
I agree.
I never would've been able to know and appreciate the sounds of some of the most popular stations of the past, nor hear some of my long gone favorites, if airchecks weren't a thing.
As I've probably mentioned before, I used to record off the radio a lot back around 2000-2005, and I believe I still have at least some of those tapes in storage somewhere (I know at least one of them got ruined by a magnet, unfortunately).
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
My first direct connection (as opposed to dial-up) was a DSL line from what was then Pacific Bell in 1999 with a static IP. I am pretty sure it used PPPoE for authentication.
By 2011 the modems for a static IP were no longer available via the retail channel and mine was becoming intermittent. After several tries on AT&T's part to get a modem for me from the business channel, they finally switched me to a dynamic IP. That modem used DHCP, as does the one I now have from Spectrum (sadly, the DSL line went downhill and their fiber optic service simply would not work consistently at my address, so the change was necessary, about three years ago).
I do not remember what authentication protocol was used when AT&T tried to install fiber. It was so bad that the technician abandoned it and had them put my DSL back into service ... so it was literally only a matter of a couple of hours.
Yes, AT&T still uses phone numbers for those lines. The DSL line was identified by my home number. I also tried wireless home internet from T-Mobile (didn't work worth sh*t ... kept dropping back to 4G LTE and sometimes would just lose the connection entirely) and it had a phone number attached to it as well.
as a slight side note.....and i know NOTHING about telephony........ we have a local number (524-3001) and a toll free # (800 605 KSKO, only dialable in the 907)here at KSKO, local number is provided by United utilities, Inc (a subsidiary of GCI.. UUI used to be a small indepndent company) Long distance on both lines and a toll free # is provided by AT&T here.. thats the only service they provide.
Our toll free # line is an entirely seperate line, rings in on a different part of our phones.. and one day when i got a look at the bill, the toll free line has a local exchange number attached (524-0XXX) but you can't dial that local number and get the phone to ring since ATT doesnt provide local service.... it functions by UUI propviding the copper but passing the data off to ATT right before it leaves the the village
Of note for the nerds.... all landlines here at 524-3XXX and all cell phones are 574-0XXX
Our toll free # line is an entirely seperate line, rings in on a different part of our phones.. and one day when i got a look at the bill, the toll free line has a local exchange number attached (524-0XXX) but you can't dial that local number and get the phone to ring since ATT doesnt provide local service.... it functions by UUI propviding the copper but passing the data off to ATT right before it leaves the the village
Of note for the nerds.... all landlines here at 524-3XXX and all cell phones are 574-0XXX
not that it matters, but i must correct myself... the toll free line is attached to a number thats 524-4XXX. the only numberts in town that have that 4 digits are ATT's toll free lines.. and there areny many at all....
Or you could use OpenOffice, which is free
No one should use OpenOffice. It has been essentially abandoned since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems (who was the principal sponsor of OpenOffice) more than 10 years ago. It now has only a couple of volunteers who maintain it in spare time.
The replacement is LibreOffice which is well maintained.
There’s a whole website for this sort of thing: localcallingguide.com.
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