Had to laugh this morning, listening to WGR's morning squawk, a commercial break featured a spot for Bet USA, one of the dozens of on-line betting clients that pepper the WGR airwaves. "Tired of losing... Bet USA will turn your losing streak into a winning streak... blah, blah, blah..."
Immediately following the Bet USA spot came another asking "Tired of getting calls from bill collectors... Want to get out of credit card debt?"
Here's a hot tip: Gamblers' Annonymous! Think WGR would run PSA's for GA?
Then there's these morsels from Inside Radio:
HD Radio hits a milestone - 1,000 stations are now broadcasting in digital.
In fact iBiquity counts 1,001 HD stations on the air as of today. There's still plenty of room to grow, because four states - Hawaii, Mississippi and both Dakotas - have no HD signals at all. Even so - more than 500 stations are also broadcasting an HD-2 signal.
Hmmmm... Maybe those stations in Hawaii, Mississippi and the Dakotas KNOW something the rest of the broadcasting world doesn't. Last time I heard, there were 22 HD receivers in Buffalo... 18 of them were sitting on shelves at Rosa's, Wal-Mart and The Speaker Shop.
XM's got 800 terrestrial repeaters - and it says 221 of them are operating over-power.
It also tells the FCC that 19 antennas are at sites not yet authorized by the Commission. The Washington Post reports the filing and quotes Wireless Communications Association International attorney Paul Sinderbrand - "XM certainly seems to have a corporate inability to comply with the FCC's rules." XM's Chance Patterson says "this is not an interference issue" and says they're cleaning everything up.
Satellite Pirates! "Uhhhh, yeah, we have 800 sticks on the ground and more that 25% of them are out of compliance... We're working on that..." When are the fines going to be issued?
Oh, and after one week of Regent's LMA... still no changes. I say it's not going to happen. The book is on through mid December and only the most dimwitted (and callus) management would terminate talent during a critical book and before the holidays...
'Course, it is radio and it has been known to happen.[/Mike]
Immediately following the Bet USA spot came another asking "Tired of getting calls from bill collectors... Want to get out of credit card debt?"
Here's a hot tip: Gamblers' Annonymous! Think WGR would run PSA's for GA?
Then there's these morsels from Inside Radio:
HD Radio hits a milestone - 1,000 stations are now broadcasting in digital.
In fact iBiquity counts 1,001 HD stations on the air as of today. There's still plenty of room to grow, because four states - Hawaii, Mississippi and both Dakotas - have no HD signals at all. Even so - more than 500 stations are also broadcasting an HD-2 signal.
Hmmmm... Maybe those stations in Hawaii, Mississippi and the Dakotas KNOW something the rest of the broadcasting world doesn't. Last time I heard, there were 22 HD receivers in Buffalo... 18 of them were sitting on shelves at Rosa's, Wal-Mart and The Speaker Shop.
XM's got 800 terrestrial repeaters - and it says 221 of them are operating over-power.
It also tells the FCC that 19 antennas are at sites not yet authorized by the Commission. The Washington Post reports the filing and quotes Wireless Communications Association International attorney Paul Sinderbrand - "XM certainly seems to have a corporate inability to comply with the FCC's rules." XM's Chance Patterson says "this is not an interference issue" and says they're cleaning everything up.
Satellite Pirates! "Uhhhh, yeah, we have 800 sticks on the ground and more that 25% of them are out of compliance... We're working on that..." When are the fines going to be issued?
Oh, and after one week of Regent's LMA... still no changes. I say it's not going to happen. The book is on through mid December and only the most dimwitted (and callus) management would terminate talent during a critical book and before the holidays...
'Course, it is radio and it has been known to happen.[/Mike]
