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From: rclayton@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Randy Clayton)
Subject: Re: URGENT: Bush hasn't signed National Public Radio refinance bill 
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Motorola MCG, Urbana Design Center
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:51:32 GMT


>>>>> On Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:51:24 GMT, hp (Howard G Page) said:

Howard> Did you know that Bush hasn't signed the reauthorization
Howard> for National Public Radio (Corporation for Public
Howard> Broadcasting?) yet? And if he doesn't by Friday (8/28), as
Howard> I understand it, it'll die via a pocket veto.

Hmmmm, I thought that a pocket veto was where a bill becomes LAW if the
President does not sign it in ten days :-)


Randy



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From: WEOS-FM <BLACK%HWS1%HWS.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> 
Subject: Re: Address for National Public Radio
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: WEOS radio
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:52:20 GMT


The address for National Public Radio is:

NPR
2025 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

NPR AUdience Services Phone # is 202-822-2323 M-F 10AM-4PM ET

They have transcripts and tapes of Morning Edition, All Things Considered,
Weekend Edition, and cassettes of Talk of the Nation. Call that number as well,
for information on other programs.

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From: eazy@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Anderson-Zych)
Subject: Re: Changes at WLUP AM 1000 in Chicago???
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:40:44 GMT

In Rochester, NY, WLUP does not come in at all.  Too much static.  I find that
strange since I always thought WLUP was clear channel.  Is it?

Eric

[Moderator's Note:  WLUP (AM-1000)is a class 1-B, semi-clear channel.  I have
not got a recent Broadcasting Yearbook or M-Street guide (anyone want to
donate one? :->) but WLUP-AM (formerly WCFL) is a 50kw station with a
directional pattern pointing primarily east-northeast-southeast from Chicago.
Main protection is KING in Seattle.  Perhaps you are getting spurs from CFRB
(50kw Toronto - 1010khz).  You are certainly in the main lobe of their
signal.]

--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Anderson-Zych, Department of History, University of Rochester,
Rochester, NY  14627                eazy@troi.cc.rochester.edu


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From: tlc20700@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas L. Carney)
Subject: Multi-Station Ownership Rule
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:44:35 GMT


lgbiede@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Larry G Biedenweg) writes:

>In article <1992Aug18.012926.19890@gagme.chi.il.us> you write:
>Moving Target" school of management.  This way when the stock holders ask why
>the profit  margin is down management can say "We're in a transition stage."

>You might also ask around and see if good 'ol CC has a piece of Sat Music...
>They *SEEM* to have their hands into everything else.

>[Moderator's Note: As some recent posts indicate, Yes,, SMN is part of Cap
>Cities.  I don't know, but this new FCC rule permitting multiple station

If anyone wants to see how bad multi-station ownership in the same market
can get, go to Sterling IL and listen to WSDR-AM and WSSQ-FM, owned
by the same outfit and two out of three in the market area.  The same
droll shit.  Maybe it's time to get rid of the FCC and replace it with
a group that responds to the good of the public and not the 
moneymakers in broadcasting.

Tom


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From: lattanzi@coos.dartmouth.edu (Stephen C. Lattanzi)
Subject: Re: Call Letter Meanings
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Dartmouth
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:24:57 GMT

I used to work at the student radio stations here at Dartmouth.  WDCR
(1340 AM) was obviously "Dartmouth College Radio".  I was told that
WFRD (99.3 FM) was "Free Radio Dartmouth".
 
- Steve Lattanzi (lattanzi@coos.dartmouth.edu)


  
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From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
Subject: Re: Infinity buys another Boston station
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Green Hills and Cows
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:40:15 GMT

nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.EDU (Mark Shneyder 432-4219) writes:

> It might be December before the transaction is official. Personally,
> I feel Howard will be on the WZLX air around the same time. You have to
> remember that Charm and ZLX's PD John Shomby are speaking as Cook Intel
> employees as of now. When Infinity takes over they'll have speak the
> company line. They may not even be there in December. This is the ever
> changing world of radio afterall.

As someone who has worked for Infinity even before it had the name
"Infinity", I would like to shed a slightly different view. While I
cannot speak for the company and certainly cannot guarantee any policy
decision in any particular instance, I can tell you about trends.

Infinity is almost unique among large radio station holding companies.
It does indeed operate all of its stations independently with the local
people making the decisions. There is no group PD or corporate
consultant--hell, look at the diversity of formats on the stations that
the company owns. I find the officers to be very forthright people; I
have never been lied to or kept in the dark on any matter that was of
concern to me.

Infinity goes to great pains to hire extremely competent GMs, gives
them a piece of the action, and then trusts them to do their jobs. If
the bottom line is working, then it is strictly "hands off". If there
are problems, then New York will give whatever assistance the manager
needs. Programs, formats, and even procedures are not shoved down the
throats of individual stations. To assume that Stern will show up on a
station just because it is being taken over by Infinity is unwarranted.

At take-over time, if local people are found to be cutting the mustard,
they are retained. The Infinity people are not stupid. And Infinity
would not have purchased the station if it was not already a winner. I
have provided engineering services to KOME (Infinity's flagship
station) for twenty-three years. I was there when the company took
over. And I have never even had a "corporate engineer" breathing down
my neck. I am left completely alone to do my job as I see fit.

There are worse fates than having a station being purchased by
Infinity.

-- 
        John Higdon         |   P. O. Box 7648   |   +1 408 264 4115
    john@zygot.ati.com      | San Jose, CA 95150 |       M o o !

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From: kramerbr@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (Brian Robert Kramer)
Subject: Re: Call Letter Meanings
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:26:43 GMT

>kramerbr@ucunix.san.uc.EDU (Brian Robert Kramer) writes:

>>Summit Broadcasting has WONE AM and WTUE FM in Dayton.  When they first went
>>on with those call letters, it was supposed to represent One and Two. (wONE
&
>>wTUE) They just couldn't get WTWO I guess.  WVUD was the Voice (of the)
>>University (of) Dayton at one point, but I know that is no longer the case.

>
>Right, I believe they were just sold. Summit Broadcasting also has
>WONE-FM in the Akron/Canton market ("The One For...."). Wonder why they
>didn't put WONE-AM and FM in the same place? Was it planned as WONE and
>WTUE from the start in Dayton?

Having worked for WTUE radio, I can tell you that Summit no longer owns the
WONE in Akron.  And yes, the WONE/WTUE combination (sp?) was planned
from the start.

>There is a WKRQ-FM in Cincinnati. Did it come after or before the "WKRP"
>show? There is also an AM and a TV station with the call letters WKRC...
>are they owned by the same company as WKRQ? (not real familiar with the
>market down there...)

Well, this I know that WKRQ was in existance before WKRP in Cincinnati. 
However, I don't believe that they were WKRQ.  WKRQ (Q-102) is tied in
with Great American Broadcasting's WKRC AM and WKRC TV here in Cincinnati,
and I am willing to guess that WKRQ was once WKRC (FM) as well.  However,
if this was the case, it was long before I knew about it.  Being only 20,
(and having grown up in Dayton), I really don't have much knowledge of 
Cincinnati radio before 1989.  What I know, I picked up from being in
school here in Cinci.


-- 
Some of it's magic, and some of it's tragic,
But I've had a good life all the way. 

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From: ssmithap@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Hands free Radio
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:45:42 GMT


 Hi,

 Although this is not related to broadcasting directly, I am after 
 information on hands free radio sets, the type used in 
 television/radio studios.  A friend of mine does some audio work in his
 spare time and finds it a real hassel in setting up microphones and
 instruments to be mixed.  A lot of shouting and signalling has to be 
 done between the mixer and person setting up, over quite a distance.
 This is not a real big hassel during setting up, however when 
 microphones need to be moved etc. during the actual concert (or whatever)
 it becomes a problem.

 I would like to know: - what brands are available
                       - price
                       - transmit/receive distances
                       - operating frequency 
                      etc


[Moderator's Note:  Radio Shack, in the states, and some other companies,
sell nice little 49 mhz units that consist of a headset, with a single
earpiece and a slender flexible boom microphone connected by a thin cable to 
a 'walkman-like' tranceiver which clips to the belt.  These units offer
voice-actuated talk/listen OR push to talk (for noisy locations), and operate
on narrow-band FM.  They work quite well up to about 500 - 1000 feet (given a
clear channel and open area). Three units are available, one with a single
channel (not recommended because the channel these units use is shared by
every baby-monitor in the world) and another unit which is 5 channels.  There
is also a strange model with NO microphone.  This thing actually picks up
voice from your ear canal!  I have tried these and it is very hard to
understand the speakers voice.  Yhe single channel units are about $25.00
each, and the 5 channel ones run about $39.00 each, I believe.]

You can e-mail me or post your replies to this newsgroup.     
 Thanks
        
 Andrew
 ssmithap@cc.curtin.edu.aus


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From: rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us (Several Posters)
Subject: Re: WLS changes formats... Again
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: airwaves
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:55:47 GMT

Here are three short articles pertaining top recent rumors
of WLS AM/FM radio switching to 2 seperate country formats.

As of now, there are no immediate plans to change formats at the 'Big 89'.

====

>From: borowski@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Don T. Borowski)
>Subject: Re: WLS AM/FM switching to Country format
>Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.


Talk about a return to the roots.  So, WLS (AM) will be the "Voice of the
Prairie" once again.  I didn't know them then, but I grew up listening
to WLS in its rock format just about every night (lived ~200 miles north
of Chicago).  So long, old friend, for me.  But welcome back, old buddy,
for those older than myself.


Donald Borowski    WA6OMI    Hewlett-Packard, Spokane Division
"Angels are able to fly because they take themselves so lightly."
                                       -G.K. Chesterton

========


>From: schmata@buhub.bradley.edu (Peter Stein)
>Subject: Re: Call Letter Meanings
>Organization: Bradley University


If I'm not mistaken, then WLS (Chicago)'s letters go back to when it was owned
by Sears-Roebuck...hence the letters standing for World's Largest Store.

Pete Stein, rspw's number-one free agent
 "You're only given a little madness. You mustn't lose it."-Robin Williams

=========
>From: rck@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (ron.kukuk)
>Subject: Re: WLS-AM/FM (Chicago) switches format... Again?
>Organization: AT&T


So WLS is coming full circle.  Wasn't it in 1960 when the station switched
from country/farm/rural programming to top 40s?

Ron Kukuk

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: <Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Canadian Call-Letters
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: ???
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:24:18 GMT


CJAD, Montreal, comes from J. Arthur Dupont, the station's founder.
CFCF, Montreal: the first radio station in Canada, so it could call itself
whatever it wanted. (It was originally XWA, for eXperimental Wireless A.
It abandoned the CFCF call-sign relatively recently, at the same time that
it switched format from oldies to sports. It is under separate ownership from
CFCF Inc., which operates CFCF Television, CF Cable and the Quatre Saison
French-language TV network.)
 
CFRB, Toronto: Rogers Batteryless [an early radio]

VOCM, St. John's, Newfoundland: Voice of the Common Man (Prior to 1949,
Newfoundland was a colony of Britain, and was assigned the VO prefix, which
is also used by amateur radio operators in Newfoundland. Commercial
stations with VO prefixes were given the option of retaining their old
call-signs or adopting ones in the normal Canadian sequence.)
 
 Other St. John's call-signs include VOAR, Voice of Anglican Radio, and
VOWR, Voice of Wesleyan(?) radio.

In Nova Scotia, CHNS stood for Halifax, Nova Scotia.

I'm not sure whether CJCH Radio refers to the Chronicle-Herald, the morning
newspaper in Halifax. 

A community station in Chibougamau, Quebec, where my father was a
volunteer from 1963 to 1965 while working as a school principal, was lucky
enough to have the call-sign CHIB, the first four letters of the town's name.



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From: lisac@pegasus.att.com
Subject: Re: 98.9 FM San Francisco
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: ???
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:41:57 GMT

Re: the  current  morning team on KDBK/KDBQ:

Blake Lawrence has worked a lot of places: Colorado (mid 70s),
Pittsburgh (78), Houston (early 80's)  Boston - WCDJ-96.9 (late 80s)

BJ is from WCMF Rochester, THE Album rock station in town.
I'm dying to hear them together! Can anyone make a cassette tape recording
of them and send it to me?

Please e-mail to work out details.

THANKS *LISA*

*****************************************************************************
My name's not so bad.  I could have been a male born to the Hertz family, and
they named me Richard. Apparently true fact: The engineer at WYSP is Richard
Bagg.

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: ckp@cup.portal.com
Subject: Re: Low Power Broadcaster vs. FCC
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Thr Radio Colletion
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:50:56 GMT

In response to a recent posting:

>I don't currently have all the specifics on this (OK, shoot me), but
>apparently there is a low power broadcaster in Arizona that is being looked
>at very sternly by the FCC.  The LP broadcaster is unlicensed (he hates the
>word "pirate") but had the forethought of doing the engineering work
>beforehand to make sure he wouldn't interfere with any other station - and
>then sent his information to the FCC, just to let them know.  

You're probably thinking about KAPW - a pirate operation that has been in
the news of late, including a profile in Radioworld about 2 months, or so,
ago.

>His thought is that he is not under the jurisdiction of the FCC because he
>isn't engaging in commerce, he isn't crossing state lines, and he isn't
>broadcasting into another country. Anyone have any additional information on
>this?  I'd love to hear how it all comes out; if he's left to do his thing
>(after a large legal battle, no doubt), I think the face of broadcasting may
>radically changed. 

This defense has been tried before.  It focuses on the 'unenumerated
rights' protected by the 9th amendment.  The most recent attempt to use
the 'not crossing state lines' approach was in the case of Radio Free
Venice.  The likelihood of anyone successfully challenging the law
in this area is slim to none.

If you're interested, this week's (re-run) of *SIGNALS* carries an
interview with the operator - makes interesting listening.  Tune in on
shortwave - 7435 kHz at 11:35 pm Eastern on Saturday night.  Other times
and days via satellite on the Let's Talk Radio Network.

        /Christine

   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Christine K. Paustian                    ckp@cup.portal.com
    The Radio Collection                 ...!apple!portal!cup.portal.com.ckp
    Box 149, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
    914/923-1862
                 *SIGNALS* is a Signal You Don't Want to Miss!
                    11:35pm EDT, Saturday via WWCR 7435 kHz
                                0335 UTC Sunday

 
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: electro@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Eric L Patterson)
Subject: Transmitter for sale
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Kansas State University 
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:29:34 GMT

I have a small radio station set up that due to weakining financial
conditions, I can no longer support...

The transmitter is contained in a small 5.5x2.25x1 inch black box
It has a volume controll, an audio input jack, a 50 ohm bnc antenna connector

and (of course, an on/off switch).  It runs off of 2 AAA batteries and is    
capable of transmitting around 100 feet.  It is tunable throughout the FM band
and has an excellent dynamic range.  Best of all, It's stereo!
Along witht he transmitter is a small 5 channel mixer that runs off of 
4 AA batteries.  It has stereo VU meters, 2 mike plugs, and a headphone
plug.         

And, last, but not least, the microphone.  It's a new realistic mike that
has excellent dynamic range and tone quality.  
btw.. a modified set of rabbit ear antennas is included with the deal.

Asking $140 obo

NEED the money for college... this is a great little setup for a dorm station,
or remote dj's.
Thanks
-- 
				 Eric L. Patterson
Mr. Postman,          /\         Electro@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Send me a letter.    /\/\        1517 Oxford RD.  Appt. 17
                     \/\/        Manhattan KS  66506 

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From: hohm@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Brian Hohm)
Subject: Tapes of 'alternative' speakers wanted
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:46:25 GMT

I'm a programmer looking for recordings of alternative/dissident speakers
like Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott.  I'll go as far as listening
to JFK assassination conspiracy theorists.

My station already has contacts to:
David Barsamian Alternative Radio, in Boulder Colorado   &
Archives on Audio (Dave Emory), in San Fransisco California
plus yesterday in rn I found an address for"
Radio Free Maine, in Augusta Maine

If you can think of any other organization that can offer us cassette
recordings of non-main stream speakers on progressive topics can you
send me their name/address?

JB Hohm  (hohm@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)

or c/o CJSW, U of Calgary, Canada, T2N 1N7
(403) 220-3903 

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: bellcore!gizmo.bellcore.com!mo@uunet.UU.NET (Michael O'Dell)
Subject: WBAP....
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Center for Chaotic Repeatabilty
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:46:56 GMT

For many eons while i was growing up, WBAP was the archtype
Trucker Radio country station.  Bill Mack's all night "keep 'em
coming because no one can fall asleep listening to country" show
was legendary across the South and Southwest.  A couple of times
I used it for exactly that purpose.

There was a period "back then" when WBAP frequency-traded with WFAA-AM
in Dallas. it was really weird.  most of the time, WFAA-AM was on 820
with WBAP down on 560 or so, but like after midnight to 6 or 7 am,
they switched.  They don't seem to do that any more.    I may not
have this completely right (memory dropouts), but it's close.

I grew up in southern Oklahoma listening to WFAA-AM and watching
WFAA-TV (my home town had cable in 1955 - maybe earlier).  Now it's really
funny to read the Molly Ivins book and I recognize most of the
characters out of the book because I grew up listening to their
careers unfold in the excellent new converage on WFAA. WFAA-TV is
still my benchmark for the best run local station i've ever seen
(at least it was back then).  Ted Cassidy, the fellow who did Lurch
on the original Addams Family TV show, was a booth announcer
at WFAA when he was picked in a nationwide "find a Lurch" contest.

Enough nostalga, but the note about WBAP fired a few neurons.
I remember mornings visiting my grandparents and they always had
WBAP on the ol' Emerson Flying V on the kitchen cabinet.
(a real one - all metal. damn I wish I had it)

	-Mike

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From:  unkaphaed!phaedrus@uunet.UU.NET (James Hartman, Sysop)
Subject: Low Power Broadcaster vs. FCC
Originator: @gagme
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy 
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 22:41:18 GMT


I don't currently have all the specifics on this (OK, shoot me), but
apparently there is a low power broadcaster in Arizona that is being looked
at very sternly by the FCC.  The LP broadcaster is unlicensed (he hates the
word "pirate") but had the forethought of doing the engineering work
beforehand to make sure he wouldn't interfere with any other station - and
then sent his information to the FCC, just to let them know.  

His thought is that he is not under the jurisdiction of the FCC because he
isn't engaging in commerce, he isn't crossing state lines, and he isn't
broadcasting into another country. Anyone have any additional information on
this?  I'd love to hear how it all comes out; if he's left to do his thing
(after a large legal battle, no doubt), I think the face of broadcasting may
radically changed. 

--
phaedrus@unkaphaed.UUCP (James Hartman, Sysop)
Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, (713) 943-2728
1200/2400/9600/14400 v.32bis/v.42bis

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