Regional Mexican on 810

[Ke4kls]

It's possible the regional Mexican station you heard was WMGC from Murfreesboro TN. Has 5kw, could have stayed on. Even their day signal has good coverage in central TN and N. Alabama, at my location in north AL even over WCKA in Jacksonville AL (although they are directional away from WMGC).

 

[kf4rca]

810 here is WCKA country format in Alabama. My correspondence to Arnie Corro has gone un-answered. He's been on RHC a long time. Perhaps he's passed and those are old shows. Their jingles sound like something from the 50's.
I don't think SW broadcasting can ever be profitable. The best you can hope for is to break even. It doesn't meet the broadcasting business model.
Ideally you want to hit the largest number of people with the least amount of power. AM/FM broadcasting does this. Especially in large markets.
BUT, SW broadcasting hits only a handful of people with LARGE amounts of power. Not cost effective.

 

[cyberdad]

My correspondence to Arnie Corro has gone un-answered. He's been on RHC a long time. Perhaps he's passed and those are old shows.

My comment about Arnie was intended as a joke. Albeit a lame one.

Last I heard Arnie had been in the hospital earlier this year, but had recovered and been released. He's on record as saying he has no intention of ever retiring because he enjoys his work to the fullest. Could be that RHC is still re-running old shows, however.

Whatever, I like him. His shows are very entertaining and he wisely stays away from politics. And I'm sure that being a founder of today's version of RHC, politics has to be a big part of his life....at least his professional life.

 

[gr8oldies]

David, that Marx-reading RHC listener who wanted a revolution to confiscate your stations remained your employee why?

For a time in the 70s, I listened to RHC frequently, probably just to get angry (like a non-Limbaugh fan listening just to get worked up). I remember hearing Angela Davis' (the 70s professor/revolutionary) speech, once live with a translator, and with the translator chopped out for the English service. Everything was tightly scripted---even "ad libs" were scripted.

There was an article on some website (something like Daily Kos but I don't think that was it) extolling the virtues of a Communist government in the future in the US. Specifically the subject was what the media would be like. There wouldn't be economic news because there would be no Wall Street, but there would be news of production quotas (the beet harvest!). I could have told them....the author's future Utopian media would have a man and woman across the table from each other, alternating paragraphs and reading a script in a monotone.

 

[davideduardo]

David, that Marx-reading RHC listener who wanted a revolution to confiscate your stations remained your employee why?

He was the Secretary of the union, in a country where letting go of an employee required an approval from the national work board. Firing that employee was essentially impossible.

For a time in the 70s, I listened to RHC frequently, probably just to get angry (like a non-Limbaugh fan listening just to get worked up). I remember hearing Angela Davis' (the 70s professor/revolutionary) speech, once live with a translator, and with the translator chopped out for the English service. Everything was tightly scripted---even "ad libs" were scripted.

I too the revolutionary movement very seriously, particularly since in my first six months of operation (mid-1965) during the lunch break (where there was nobody but the jock at the station), a group of armed rebels took over the station, beat the jock and issued a proclamation just before escaping through the trash chute!

There was an article on some website (something like Daily Kos but I don't think that was it) extolling the virtues of a Communist government in the future in the US. Specifically the subject was what the media would be like. There wouldn't be economic news because there would be no Wall Street, but there would be news of production quotas (the beet harvest!). I could have told them....the author's future Utopian media would have a man and woman across the table from each other, alternating paragraphs and reading a script in a monotone.

I've lived under totalitarian governments, and worked in countries with socialist governments. Without polarizing the discussion, I'd make the comment that many of those espousing extreme changes in the U.S. government have not experienced the reality of life in nations that have tried or have implemented such radical changes.