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From: mmb@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Michael Burger)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
Subject: Re: Those silly spanish language taped courses (humor)
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:44:53 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
Originator: wdp@gagme


In article <1993Jan24.022718.4904@gagme.chi.il.us> Elliott Mitchell
<MITCHEEC@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu> writes:
> 
>An old friend of mine is in the marketing department of the Speedy Gonzales 
>School Of the Rapid Language Learning, you've probably heard their ads on 
>network radio.
> 
>They've been wildly successful in selling foreign language tapes to people 
>with nothing better to do but there's been a problem.
> 
>Their customers are buying the Spanish tapes and then travelling to Spain 
>and Central America only to find out that they never learned Spanish at 
>all.  In fact, some of what they've learned to say is exactly the opposite 
>of what they've been told it means.
> 
Actually, KOA Radio in Denver has been doing an actual parody of the commer-
cial, which is suprising considering the fact they're paroding their own
customers:

(Sound of vacuum cleaner in background):

Male: What are you doing?

Female: Vacuuming.

Male: And what does the vacuum do?

Female: Sucks?

Male: And can you spell sucks?

Female: Sure, S-U-C-K-S.

Male: Wow, you're only one letter off from speaking Spanish!

Female: How?

Male: Wow, you can speak American Indian.  (don't flame me for the lack of PC)

Female: So.

Male: Wow, Japanese.  Hey, what's another word for us?

Female. We. 

Male: You're incredible.  How many players on a baseball team?

Female: Nine?

Male: Wow.  German.

These people get everything they deserve.


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting,rec.radio.info
From: BLICK@vm.cc.latech.edu
Subject: Old-Time Radio information
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:22:25 GMT

A question has been running around in my mind for the last week, and
I thought this might be a good arena in which to seek information.
 
First, some background. The Fibber McGee and Molly show had two spinoffs,
the Great Gildersleeve and Beulah shows. Likewise, Jack Benny's program
had two spinoffs, with Dennis Day having his own show and Phil Harris
joining with Alice Faye on their show. (One might even suggest a third
spinoff in The Mel Blanc Show, but I don't consider that a spinoff, since
his handyman's character there was a character that did not appear on the
Benny show.)
 
Now, the question. Does anyone know of any other old-time radio programs
that produced spinoffs such as these? I can't think of any more.
 
Eddie Blick
Louisiana Tech University

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: chipk@bnr.ca (Chip C.D. Kelley)
Subject: Texas Radio Stations/formats (Long)
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: _
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:13:29 GMT


Moderator Notes:

This poster sent in a great article in which he lists what has to be every
station in Texas and its format.

Unfortunately the article was 94k long and as such way too long to be posted.

If anyone wants this article, e-mail me and Ill send it to you.

William Pfeiffer
Moderator - rec.radio.broadcasting - Internet Radio Journal
To submit articles send them to rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us
To subscribe, send e-mail to journal@airwaves.chi.il.us
From: fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
Subject: Re: Station on 530kHz ??
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:39:30 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Originator: wdp@gagme

w1gsl@athena.mit.edu (Steven L. Finberg) writes:


>Recently while doing some late night "BC DXing" with a new hot car radio 
>I have been hearing a station on 530 kHz.  On alternate nights it seems
>to be in French or English.  The French version never seems to have any
>comercials or ID.  Then again my French isn't all it might be.

[...]

>What is going on here?  Have the Canidians laid claim to one more channal?
>I thought 530 and 1610 were reserved for travlers aid type limited area 
>broadcasting.  

[...]

I'm surprised this is the first time you've heard this.  The Canadians
have used 530 since 1985, when they licensed CJFT in Fort Erie ON
(just across from Buffalo NY).  CJFT ran an AC format with 250 watts...
but because there was NO other station on 530 in North America,
the 530 signal carried incredibly well.

A few years ago, CJFT was granted an FM license on 101.1, and in keeping
with CRTC policy, had to give up the AM.

The 530 frequency was taken by CIAO in Brampton ON (just outside Toronto),
which had been running 5kw on 790 for many years, earlier as CKMW
and before that as CHIC.  

The "740" you're hearing is really 790, as CIAO still runs parallel on
both frequencies, with a multi-lingual format.  Eventually I believe the
CRTC will make them give up 790.

530 is also used in Canada in High Level, Alberta, a license granted
not long after CJFT, and on the air around 1989.

And as you noted, 530 can be heard fairly well as far as eastern Mass.
after sunset.  I'd be interested in how far out 530 has been heard
in either its CJFT or CIAO incarnations (or if anyone has logged the
High Level AB 530).

Scott Fybush -- fybush@world.std.com
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From: spt@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott P. Toenniessen)
Subject:  Re: Howard Stern and WWKB's fall, a connection?
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: _
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:12:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan15.080514.4741@gagme.chi.il.us> SOBCZAK@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
(Robert A. Sobczak) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan11.081358.2176@gagme.chi.il.us>, lhpalter@nexus.yorku.ca
>(Laurence Palter) says:
>>
>>Howard Stern's national morning radio program, broadcast live from New York
>>City will debut on Buffalo's WWKB-AM (1520) on Monday January 11th, 1993.
>
>So much for the days of Joey "Try and fill these shoes" Reynolds to Danny
>"Move your Fanny" Neaverth.  Those were the days when radio was good.
>

Unfortunately, in order to hire Stern, KB had to fire their entire news
department (which was only 3 or 4 people), including long time newsman
Jim Faggin who worked at KB since the '60's.  The situation at KB is a good
case study in how to screw up a station (a 50kW no less).  

Price Communications overpaid to buy KB and sister station WKSE-FM during
the mid '80's.  Kiss 98.5 is Buffalo's top 40 outlet with consistently
high ratings among the teeny-bopper crowd.  KB, a full service adult
contemporary with slightly lower ratings a few years back (10th or 11th in
the market) could not generate the revenue to pay the mortgage.  Being
strapped for cash after an acquisition binge, the Price solution
was to fire everyone and carry syndicated programming at KB.  They tried
everything under the sun from music to business and until Stern, CNN most
of the day.  Now that the station has a totally muddied image and virtually
no audience, Price is going to try something new.  Hopefully they will try
to emulate WLUP's format. If they give it some time to catch on, maybe 1520
on the dial in Buffalo will stop being a waste of bandwidth for the
first time in a few years.

[Moderator's Note:  KB could do a lot worse than to emulate WLUP-AM, still one
of the few stations in the nation that maintains its own self-created format
of 'morning personalities all day long' and maked mucho bucks.  Bill]


                            Scott


Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: rbook@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert Aaron Book)
Subject: Re: Those silly spanish language taped courses (humor)
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:58:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.022718.4904@gagme.chi.il.us>, Elliott Mitchell
<MITCHEEC@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu> writes:
|>  
[...]
|>  
|> Their customers are buying the Spanish tapes and then travelling to Spain 
|> and Central America only to find out that they never learned Spanish at 
|> all.  In fact, some of what they've learned to say is exactly the opposite

|> of what they've been told it means.
|>  
[...]

This isn't really surprising, considering that their first (?) *AD* had
a blatant mistake in it.  They actually fixed this one, rerecording
the ad exactly the same except for one subtle change:

"Eso si, que es"  from "That's what I want"
		  to "That's what it is."

--Robert Book
  rbook@rice.edu

"Eso no si, que quiero!"


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From: John Hendry <HENDRY@ETSUADMN.ETSU.EDU>
Subject: 1610 khz mystery statio
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: _
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:07:47 GMT

I heard something very interesting on Thursday.  I was dx'ing on the AM
band, when I heard a station on 1610 kHz.  This station was broadcasting
a religious program, and when it was over, an announcer with a low voice
said something unintelligible.
The station then went to CNN radio news.
I could not hear any call letters, but it was on 1610.  I was
listening on a Pioneer KS-330AM am stereo radio.

There is a power house station in the West Indies on 1610 that broadcasts
religious programming at nights.  I have heard it in Chicago when I am away
from the TIS transmitters.  Bill]

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From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
Subject: Re: How to Prepare For the Startup of an AM Radio Tower Nearby
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:44:45 GMT
Organization: Green Hills and Cows
Originator: wdp@gagme

kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:

> There is plenty of good evidence linking various ill-effects to living
> near high tension lines.  There is, however, no evidence whatsoever linking
> those effects to electromagnetic radiation.

This is, of course, what I had in mind. There is plenty of statistical
data linking bad things with living adjacent to power line routes. But
in the usual manner of public idiocy, the populace, activists, and the
media immediately upon hearing hoofbeats think zebras instead of horses
(as Dr. Dean Edell would say). The instrument of doom just HAS to be
those mysterious, invisible, magnetic waves that emanate from those
wires. (The big insulators really add to the effect, no? Real Dr.
Zarkoff stuff.)

Some years ago, there was a gigantic scare that involved mercury in
fish. The national media went into a frenzy and people abandoned the
consumption of seafood en masse. What actually happened was that a new
technique was developed for detecting mercury at ultra-low levels.
After everyone was scared to death, it was determined that the mercury
had always been there; we just did not know it. I remember that fracus
everytime a new scare comes along.

The fact of the matter is that people suffer from whatever
toxics, fumes, and other things that infect power line rights-of-way.
But to take one of the things present at those locations (EMR) and
insist that it must be the cause of all ills is faulty reasoning. And
besides, I have sat in front of video monitors day after day for years
and have yet to have a single miscarriage!

> I don't think PCBs are half as harmful
> as some of the claims, but I don't want to plant my vegetable garden in
> the stuff.

I agree. I would not consume PCB-laden oil for a beverage, but as any
broadcast engineer knows, the government has gone ape-excrement over
the stuff. The tiniest amount must be removed by a certified toxics
waste disposal company. If you chose to keep any PCB-filled capacitor
in service, there must be stickers aplenty to warn people of their
presence. If a fireman sees one of these stickers, he will roll up the
hose and let your place burn down rather than expose himself to the
fumes of this demon.

Extremes such as this make me very skeptical about ANY supposed hazard.
Think about it: if you place your body across the 15KV plate supply,
you will be fried. No one makes any stink about this or even discusses
it much. But it sure is a fact that no one disputes. REAL dangers are
immediately and obviously apparent. The stuff we debate endlessly (EMR,
PCBs, the ozone 'hole', global warming, and all the other trendy modern
voodoo) mainly disrupts our lives only because of the kneejerk rules
laid down by brain-dead politicians.

-- 
 John Higdon  |   P. O. Box 7648   |   +1 408 264 4115     |       FAX:
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Subject: Make your own 'Select-Tenna'
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Omen Technology Inc
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:23:10 GMT


By request, here's how you can build your own Miracle Loop for
Fun and Profit (or something like that).

For my experiment I used 20-30 feet of insulated wire.  I wound
the wire around a large sheet of cardboard, resulting in a
rectangular loop of 8 turns, 15 inches on a side.  I wasn't
trying for anything exact; I just used the "inside antenna" hank
of wire that came with my 2010, and didn't want to ruin anything.

I had a three-gang variable condenser from who knows where.  I
used all gangs in parallel to obtain a maximum capacity of 1000
pf or so.

I connected these together with some test leads and viola, a loop
that tunes a fair portion of the AM broadcast band.

To use this contraption, place the radio next to the coil and
tune the condenser for strongest signal.  With a bit of
searching, tuning and reorienting I was able to receive fine
reception on some stations that were hardly there without the
loop.

When building a loop from your own junkbox, the first trick is
to find out what frequencies you can tune to.  Find a quite spot
on the dial.  Tune the condenser back and forth listening for a
rise or drop in the noise.

Try different spacings between the radio and loop for best
results.  The size of the loop can be changed, and you can
experiment with different winding styles.

-- 
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
  Omen Technology Inc    "The High Reliability Software"
17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD   Portland OR 97231   503-621-3406

Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us (rrb moderator)
Subject: Chicago AC starts split-format AC/heavy-metal operation.
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Internet Radio Journal
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:01:50 GMT


Chicago's "New Rock/Heavy Metal" fans will be in for a pleasant surprize as
west Suburban WYSY (Y-108) begins the Chicago market's first
single-owner-dual-format. operation.

The "Hot AC" station was tied for 31st in the fall book and hopes to bolster
those numbers as it begins airing hard rock from 7pm to 5:30 am to coincide
with the recent demise of the brokered heavy-rock format on WVVX a north
suburban class-A.  WYSY  will continue to air it's current format during the
remaining hours. 

Two promoters from Jam Productions, Jerry Mickelson and Arny Granat, who had
been instrumental in the WVVX show, will be heavily ivnvolved in the new
venture, along with Scott Loftus, PD.  

The format will feature what WYSY GM calls "guitar-heavy" music (Extreme,
Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc), from 7 to 11PM, after which the mix will get
heavier.  What is meant by 'heavier' is still unclear.

WYSY will be competing directly with WWBZ (The Blaze) and is hoping to lure
listeners away from album rockers such as WLUP-FM and new-music/alternative
stations WXRT and WKQX.  Managememt assures the market that they remain
commited to the AC format through AM and PM drive, but feel that the core
audience for that music does not listen to much radio in the nighttime.

WYSY GM, Frank DiMatteo said that they do not plan to become the "B-96" of
rock (refering to WBBM-FM, Chicago's only CHR outlet).  DiMatteoo says
(paraphrased) We plan to dig deeper into albums and to feature local talent. 
WYSY hopes to become the "lifestyle station" for what is called
"Generation-X" listeners, between 18 and 29.

WYSY, which is licenced to Aurora Il (about 35 miles west of Chicago)
recently moved it's transmitter from Aurora to Bloomingdale Il (about half
that far west, atop WMAQ-AM's tower) which has brought about a much needed
increase in signal strength throughout the metropolitan area.  WYSY is a
class-B at 107.9. 

All information in this article was re-written from that found in the Robert
Feder column in the Chicago Sun-Times for Tuesday Jan 26, 1993.  Chicago area
media fans are strongly encouraged to read Mr Feder's column for the best in
Chicagoland radio and TV comings and goings.  He is in Monday through
thursday's paper.

Bill
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: jeffb@audiolab.UWaterloo.ca (jeff bamford)
Subject: Re: Why no Canadian religous broadcasters?
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Audio Research Group, University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:23:01 GMT


In article <1993Jan20.071331.18310@gagme.chi.il.us> genef@netcom.com (Gene
Fornario) writes:
>
>I have noticed that Canada doesn't have any stations with a
>Christian/gospel/religous format, such is allowed in the US. I originally
>submitted this question in rec.radio.shortwave, and someone told me this
>question was addressed before in this newsgroup.  Can someone give me a
>definite answer?  Just curious.
>
>Gene--

	Actually, that is not all true, change it to say that Canada has not
licensed any *new* Christain stations.  To my knowledge there are two, and 
they are in St. John's, Newfoundland.  They have existed since before 
NFLD joined confederation (1949).  They also have call letters that begin 
with V (VOAR, is one and the other is similar but I don't remember the sign.
VOAR - Voice of Anglican Radio).  Canadian stations need to be very balanced
in their opinions and a Christian station would not offer a balanced station,
at least this is what I am lead to believe.  Since the NFLD stations existed
before they were in Canada they have been allowed to remain.  There does 
exist a multi-faith religous cable channel, but they are funded through 
various denominations and therefore are balanced.  Perhaps no other group
of Churches has tried to do this.  This is quite strange considering how 
libreal some of the radio and tv stations are in this country.  

Jeff 
 


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: Elliott Mitchell <MITCHEEC@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu>
Subject: Those silly spanish language taped courses (humor)
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: _
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:27:18 GMT

 
An old friend of mine is in the marketing department of the Speedy Gonzales 
School Of the Rapid Language Learning, you've probably heard their ads on 
network radio.
 
They've been wildly successful in selling foreign language tapes to people 
with nothing better to do but there's been a problem.
 
Their customers are buying the Spanish tapes and then travelling to Spain 
and Central America only to find out that they never learned Spanish at 
all.  In fact, some of what they've learned to say is exactly the opposite 
of what they've been told it means.
 
In order to settle with the FTC, the Speedy Gonzales School Of the Rapid 
Language Learning had to drop all claims that their products actually teach 
a foreign language.  But the business is so profitable that they can't just 
quit selling tapes.  So they've decided to change their ads slightly so 
that they make no actual claims but still hold your attention.  Sort of 
like the Taster's Choice ads with that guy and his twin sister, pretending 
they just met each other.
 
Here's a script my buddy smuggled out for me, see what you think, it's got 
the same two voices, the man and the female customerI
 
[customer] Whoa!  It's sure dark in there!  Is this where they're 	
teaching Spanish?
 
[announcer] Sure is.  Do you want to learn Spanish, French, German or 	
any other language?
 
[customer]  Whoa!  That's what I want!
 
[announcer] Then come on in here and I'll give you a patented lesson 	
you won't soon forget.
 
[customer]  But I can hardly see, what's wrong?
 
[announcer] Somebody unscrewed the light.
 
[customer] Somebody unscrewed the light?
 
[announcer] Si*.  But you can screw it in.
 
[customer] I can screw it in?
 
[announcer] Si.  Come over here... stand on this chair... that's right.**
 
[customer] Over here... This chair... That right?
 
[announcer] Si!  See?  A loose light.  Now just raise your arms up and 
screw it in.
 
[customer]  Whoa!  I never knew learning Spanish could be so much 
fun!  Now it's so bright in here I can hardly see!
 
[announcer] That's much better.  I'll help you down now and teach you 
a little French.
 
[customer]  Whoa!  Whoa!  Whoa!  What's that?
 
[announcer] You mean this?
 
[customer]  Eso si, que es?
 
[announcer] I call it my 'poquito.'
 
[customer]  Whoa! That's what it is!
 
* A little spanish lingo for you.
** Randy Newman : "You can leave your hat on."


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Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
From: John Hendry <HENDRY@ETSUADMN.ETSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: What ya Know
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: _
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:17:29 GMT


To the person in Dallas who wanted info on "Whadya Know" from American
Public Radio.  The show used to air on KETR, Commerce, but was dropped
two years ago due to lack of support.

   John
From: borrel@dhhalden.no (B|rre Ludvigsen)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.broadcasting
Subject: BBC WS TV program
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:40:23 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Ostfold College
Originator: wdp@gagme


[Moderator Notes;  This is off-topic, but if someone can assist this poster,
please e-mail directly.  Bill]

Does anyone in the UK using this newsgroup have any idea of where I can
obtain a correct program schedule for BBC World Wervice Television?
(Preferably on the net.)The program in the norwegian is _never_ correct.

- Barre Ludvigsen <borrel@dhhalden.no>

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