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From: newsq@ampex.com (Stan Busby)
Subject: Re: KQED apparently *HAS ALREADY* taken one of KTEH's programs
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
Distribution: ca
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 05:00:31 GMT

The following is copied verbatim from the Society of Broadcast
Engineers Chapter 40 Newsletter received here 24 July 1992:
 
SBE MEMBER NEEDS YOUR HELP...
 
Charles Stutsman needs your help.  He is the immediate past
Chairman of SBE Chapter 54, Tidewater, VA.  He's 39 years old
and an engineer at WAVY-TV.  <NOTE:  though WAVY normally signs
itself as Norfolk, VA, the transmitter is in Portsmouth, VA, my
home town.>
 
Charles is in need of a liver transplant.  His employer's
insurance carrier tried to bow out of the responsibility for the
cost of the operation.  The total cost was (to be?) $300,000.
 
After several meetings with station officials, the insurance
company decided that it would cover most of the costs EXCEPT the
donor costs.  Those are the expenses involved with the removal and
transportation of the liver when a donor is found.  <SBE editor's
note:  Chances are pretty high that the donor will ride a 
motorcycle.  Bikers feature rather large in the donor biz.>
 
These costs will come to $30,000.  The SBE chapter Liaison 
Committee has put out an appeal to all chapters to contribute 
money to the American Liver Transplant Fund in Charles
Stutsman's name.  All contributions are tax deductible and will
be used to offset the donor costs.
 
Chapters in NY, CA, VA, and WI have joined in this appeal with others
ready to help out as the word spreads.  Checks should be made
payable to: American Liver Foundation, 1425 Pompton Ave., 
Cedar Grove, NJ 07009-9990.
 
<I, Stan Busby, ex-WTAR-TV, a competitor of WAVY am going to send
a check.  For 29 years I worked for AMPEX.  The guy in the office
next to me had a kidney transplant that saved his life.  Think
about it....there but for the grace of god go you.>
 
Stan Busby, aka newsq@ampex.com
 
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From: cyclone@netcom.com (Bill Sheppard)
Subject: Double 99 changed
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:29:15 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: New format

For those of you who may care, 98.9/99.1 has changed from "Classic Rock" to
"Album Oriented Rock", with distinctive DJ's, including a new morning team and
M. Dung (yuch) midday.


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From: karl@csi.com (Karl Mosgofian)
Subject: Talk of the Nation
Organization: Comdisco Systems Inc.
Distribution: ba
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:44:04 GMT

I just heard today the John Hockenberry (sp? I just listen to him) is
leaving Talk of the Nation... anyone else out there as disappointed
as I am?  He's moving to ABC TV.  Oh well, at least maybe I can see
what he looks like...

-karl
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From: cyclone@netcom.com (Bill Sheppard)
Subject: Where can I hear Bob Larson?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:32:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Is Bob Larson, the amusing evangelist, on the air in the Bay Area?  I think he
may be on 770 in Sacramento, but I haven't heard him here.  Is he on, and
when? Quite an amusing show, especially if you tend not to be a fundy.


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From: zio@garg.Campbell.CA.US (Zio zZz)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: KEX 1190 - Portland OR - in Bay Area
Keywords: radio skip bay area kex 1190
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 11:37:41 PDT
Distribution: ba
Organization: The Land of Garg

  For quite some time, I have been able to get KEX 1190 (in Portland, 
Oregon) late at night due to what must be a very nice skip.  Well, it WAS a 
very nice skip...I can't seem to get it now, save for an occasional 2 
minute period.  Can anyone else seem to get it?  Maybe the skip angle has 
changed for some strange reason?  I dunno...
 
Note: 1170 KLOK's 50K watt system is NOT to blame, altho it always causes 
problems, being as 1170 is right here in San Jose, but it was ALWAYS here, 
and I just had to get as far away from 1170 as possible.  But that doesn't 
seem to help.
 

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From: bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Victor)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: news move from 11 to 10
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:31:08 GMT
Reply-To: bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Victor)
Distribution: ba
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <1992Jul22.200833.23069@ads.com> henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
>mcclell@convex.com (Alan McClellan) wrote: 
>->Now that the major network affiliates have switched
>->from 11:00 to 10:00 news, who is the winner?
>
>who watches the evening news?  "big events happening overseas, but
>first ... is your pet psychic?  we'll find out ... "

One thing that I can't stand on KRON is that they have this major talent in
Gary Radnich, yet they squeeze him on the very last few seconds of the news.
He's always racing through things, without much time for his commentary, which
I usually find interesting.  At least on KPIX, they give their sports guy a
good portion of time to get a little more in-depth.

One thing I've heard in the past is that the producers of local news don't 
want to give too much away to sports, since ESPN and CNN do a pretty 
thorough job of covering everything...I just hate sitting through highlights
of the Milwaukee Brewers and Charlotte Hornets to see what happened to the
Bay Area teams!

-David Victor
From: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: Double 99 changed
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:08:40 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley  CA

In article <z0mm66#.cyclone@netcom.com> cyclone@netcom.com
						(Bill Sheppard) writes:

>For those of you who may care, 98.9/99.1...

I'm not familiar with this station, and must ask: Is it on 98.9 MHz,
99.1 MHz, or both?  What is the call sign?

>                                      ...has changed from "Classic Rock" to
>"Album Oriented Rock", with distinctive DJ's, including a new morning team and
>M. Dung (yuch) midday.

I'd turn that "yuch" into a hooray, proving that such opinions are
highly subjective (but thank-you very much for providing yours and
for my opportunity to express mine).   We receive KFOG surprisingly
well way up here in Nevada County and I will attempt to tune in this
station in an attempt to once again hear M. Dung.

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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: news move from 11 to 10
Date: 24 Jul 92 00:19:18 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Jul20.234616.24072@convex.com> mcclell@convex.com (Alan McClellan) writes:
}Now that the major network affiliates have switched
}from 11:00 to 10:00 news, who is the winner?
}If you used to watch KTVU at 10:00, do you still? 

	It was an ad on KTVU, to be sure, but they said that their
10pm news is still the highest rated prime time news in the COUNTRY.
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From: fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu (Aaron Priven)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: news move from 11 to 10
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:50:19 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (College Eight)
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Jul20.234616.24072@convex.com> mcclell@convex.com (Alan McClellan) writes:
>
>Now that the major network affiliates have switched
>from 11:00 to 10:00 news, who is the winner?
>
>If you used to watch KTVU at 10:00, do you still? 

Actually, for me the results are amusing.  Whereas before I would have
watched some program in the last hour of prime time (say, Northern Exposure) 
from 10 to 11 and then stay for the news, I will now watch the same
program from 9 to 10 and then *switch* to KTVU for their news.  I find
their coverage of Bay Area issues much better than the other stations
(partially because they depend less on their affiliates).

I suspect I'm atypical, though.  I don't watch TV news very often -- I
listen to NPR a lot.  I do tend to watch KTVU more than other stations
when I watch news.  I rarely (almost never) watch morning news shows,
but when I do I almost always watch "Mornings on 2" because it's local
and that's usually what I want to know, the weather forecast.

I should say that until recently I lived on the UCSC campus, where
access to San Francisco news stations was pretty poor -- our
alternatives were KNTV (ABC - San Jose), which isn't too bad, and KSBW (NBC
- Salinas) and KMST (CBS - Salinas), which were only good for Santa
Cruz news (and I suppose Salinas news, but I never was much interested
in that).

 =Aaron=
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From: owl@well.sf.ca.us (Eric L. Dauster)
Subject: Re: KQED apparently *HAS ALREADY* taken one of KTEH's programs
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: ca
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 15:53:37 GMT

In article <14ni8mINNjvq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu) writes:
>
>        I guess KQED really is using their "power" to get the shows that
>KTEH has cool-ly shown for years..
>
>        KQED starts Red Dwarf in the middle of August sometime.  I'm glad
>because of the better reception of KQED (I may actually succeed in getting
>a whole tape of them full before I forget an episode), but they're still
>being big bullies.



KQED has promised not to block any programs that KTEH currently airs. Red
Dwarf will stay on KTEH as long as KTEH wants to have it.

KQED is being made out as the bullie here. KTEH would exercise the same
right of first refusal if the tables were turned, I assure you. I've worked
at both stations (and currently work at KQED).
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From: newsq@ampex.com (Stan Busby)
Subject: Re: KQED apparently *HAS ALREADY* taken one of KTEH's programs
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
Distribution: ca
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 05:01:10 GMT

The following is copied from the Society of Broadcast
Engineers Chapter 40 Newsletter:
 
PASSING OF CHARLES GINSBURG NOTED BY INDUSTRY.
 
On June 17 a memorial program was held <I was there> to honor
the man who developed the first practical video tape recorder.
In the beginning, Charlie was the entire team.  Later he was
the one who took the heat so the others could make progress on
the project.  Of the original team, Ray Dolby, Charlie Anderson,
and Fred Pfost were present to tell stories of how it happened.
 
Ray Dolby became acquainted with Alexander Poniatoff, the
president of AMPEX, in 1950 while a student at Sequoia High
in Redwood City.  He ran a film projector for a talk ;that Poniatoff
gave and managed to secure some work after school as a result.  So
Ray was at AMPEX before Charlie and the first one to hang out and
express an interest in the project in May of 1952.  Charlie was
impressed with the young man and managed to get his salary up to
$350/month.
 
In an interview recorded in 1984 by Pete Hammar, Charlie gave some
details and insights into the project and talked about his
background. He had started out as a pre-med student at UC Davis
who later switched to agriculture only to run out of money.  For
awhile he worked installing PBX systems before going into math,
physics, and engineering at San Jose State.  He was quite interested
in directional AM antennas and worked for KQW (later KCBS) in
Alviso before moving to the new plant in Novato.  He spent about
ten years in radio.
 
He claimed he wanted to go back down the peninsula because the 
golf courses were terrible in Marin <SBE editor says this is true>
He met with Walt Selsted of AMPEX and was hired part time in
October of 1951 to see if he liked the work.  He became full time
in Jan 1952.  One of the early crude demonstrations consisted of
an attempt to record a Western off the air.  Poniatoff's
reaction was to ask which was the cowboy.  But by March of 1955
things were considerably improved and it was decided to shoot for
the 1956 NAB show to introduce the product.  When asked about
the wisdom of that commitment Charlie said in retrospect:
"We didn't know how much we didn't know."
 
Charlie was one of the longest surviving juvenile diabetics.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Juvenile Diabetes
Foundation, 1806 Union St., San Francisco, CA 94123.
 
End of quotation from SBE.  
 
<From one of his associates came the following anecdote:  at one>
<point Charlie became almost hopelessly frustrated with 
<management, and, on a workday, stomped off to his car and
<drove to the nearest golf course to vent his spleen on the
<little sphere.  He made a hole-in-one, BUT COULDN'T TELL
<ANYBODY!. How's that for frustration?
From: paul@alantec.com (G. Paul Ziemba)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: Double 99 changed
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:40:47 GMT

On a related topic, what's happening to KRQR? I noticed that the
Lobster seems to have moved to KUFX (yes, it's old news), but
I was also surprised to hear Mimi Chen on 99-99 the other evening.
What gives?

 ~!paul
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From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: One way to Stop KQED
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:45:29 GMT
Organization: UESPA

I can't help but notice that many partisans of KTEH in their feud
with KQED obviously aren't members of KTEH.  I won't regurgitate the
usual PledgeBreak rap (it makes me nauseous).  I just want to point
out that the best way you can keep KQED from running KTEH out of
business is by putting your money where you mouth is.

This isn't just a matter of money.  When distributors decide who's the
"major public station" in an area, they look at how much community
support each station has.  KQED doesn't *have* to have the edge here:
KTEH reaches almost as many TVs and has far more original programming.
It's just that KQED has always had more money, a situation that tends
to perpetuate itself -- assuming the viewers remain apathethic.
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From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: KQED apparently *HAS ALREADY* taken one of KTEH's programs
Date: 26 Jul 92 23:03:42 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: QueerNet

In article <Bs06tD.IsM@well.sf.ca.us> owl@well.sf.ca.us (Eric L. Dauster) writes:
>KQED is being made out as the bullie here. KTEH would exercise the same
>right of first refusal if the tables were turned, I assure you. I've worked
>at both stations (and currently work at KQED).

From their current programming (like the total lack of original serious
broadcasting), it's hard to see that *anyone* works at KQED-TV.  Many seem
to be employed, but it's hard to detect any work going on...
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From: dcs@netcom.com (Lady Diane)
Subject: Changes
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 09:48:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba
Keywords: KCBS-AM, no-talk, all-news 

Is there another radio station in the SF/SJ area that has a 
format (talk/info.) similar to the old KCBS'? 

KCBS-AM '74 used to have folks like Narsy(sp?) David and such giving
food recipes, consumer info and more.  I used to listen to that 
station avidly when I visited 3 years ago and listened to KABC-AM '1070 
in L.A..  It was a nice break from news. 

Thanx,
 --Diane 
 
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From: james@cats.ucsc.edu (James C. Bohem)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: radio to listen to in bay area
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:05:20 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
>>(about his favorite radio shows, mostly talking head/spoken word
>If you like that stuff, check out KALW, 91.7 FM.  That's *all* they
>do, and they have a mind-boggling variety.  *And* their announcers are
>much less irritating than Brand Q's (albeit somewhat clumsy at times).

There's also KCSM (91.1, San Mateo); equally difficult to get
in the south bay.  KUSP (88.9, Santa Cruz) has a translator 
somewhere in the Los Gatos area, but I forget its frequency.
Both of these stations also carry NPR programming, but with
more emphasis on music shows than KQED/KALW.

What really irritates me about KQED is their seemingly endless packets
of junk mail that arrive every 1-2 months begging you to join. 
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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: Double 99 changed
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:01:41 GMT
Organization: I is a writur

j4jbail@srv.PacBell.COM (Jack Bailey) writes:

>Perhaps the fact that the station is dead last in the ratings
>has something to do with the change.

Just a bit. Laurie was listening over the weekend, after the old crew was
canned and before the new crew officially existed (but were in the studio,
playing "what does this button do?" on the air.

"Last" isn't exactly true. They beat out the serbo-croat religious 500ow
watt daylight station. Barely.

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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: KQED apparently *HAS ALREADY* taken one of KTEH's programs
Date: 26 Jul 1992 23:49:38 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <Bs06tD.IsM@well.sf.ca.us> owl@well.sf.ca.us (Eric L. Dauster) writes:
}KQED has promised not to block any programs that KTEH currently airs. Red
}Dwarf will stay on KTEH as long as KTEH wants to have it.
}
}KQED is being made out as the bullie here. KTEH would exercise the same
}right of first refusal if the tables were turned, I assure you. I've worked
}at both stations (and currently work at KQED).

	It just seems kind of strange KQED is now showing British Sci Fi
shows that KTEH has shown a big Bay Area audience for..

	Is KQED going to get Blake's 7 too?? [again, since I want to get all
of them on tape, I'd prefer KQED's better reception, but the way KQED is 
trying to get first refusal isn't fair at all]
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From: duncan@ravel.ati.com (Jim Duncan)
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: Re: Double 99 changed
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:40:50 GMT
Reply-To: duncan@ravel.ati.com (Jim Duncan)
Organization: KUFX 94.5 FM Stereo, San Jose, CA 'The Fox'

In article <z0mm66#.cyclone@netcom.com> cyclone@netcom.com (Bill Sheppard) writes:
>For those of you who may care, 98.9/99.1 has changed from "Classic Rock" to
>"Album Oriented Rock", with distinctive DJ's, including a new morning team and
>M. Dung (yuch) midday.
>
The "Double" had a self-described "Mellow Rock" slant actually, and
due to consistently nonexistent ratings they tended to change the music
mix formulation every few months. 

The new format is a "talk-rock" formula apparently derived from the
KQLZ, LA "Pirate Radio" model.  I am told that this new formulation at
"98.9" is more tightly controlled.  The severe downside of this
arrangement is that it calls for recognized morning show grade talent
all through the day, and this is extremely expensive.

It is speculated that the parent corporation is throwing huge sums of
money at this facility in a last ditch effort to achieve success before
potentially unloading the place as a loser. 

I haven't talked to a single professional broadcaster who is impressed
with the new "98.9" format.  Do the ba.broadcast folks here feel that
it will draw a large audience following and interest??   Will this
format last and perhaps fire off a new trend??   

"98.9" is primarily going after such SF stations as KRQR and KFOG and
will potentially have a secondary effect on KOME and KSJO in San Jose.

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From: mikey@sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: Re: WARNING: India Cookhouse Cock Roach Alert!!!
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:29:38 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <2387@cronos.metaphor.com> jlautman@mettech1.metaphor.com (John Lautmann) writes:
>Tonight a friend and I had dinner at the India Cookhouse in Mountain View
>During dinner we had several insect visitors who were quite curious
>about our meal.  There were two cockroaches (BIG) crawling along the
>wall.  First they visited the table behind us, then came to visit us also.

Maybe it's just the MV/Castro cockroach expansion.  A friend and I
were at Double Rainbow a couple months ago and there was one there.
Rather disgusting.

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