Re: NorthEast Radio Watch 7/24: Walker, Williams Split at WBZ (fwd)

[fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush)]

Just in case some of you don't read rec.radio.broadcasting, I thought
you might enjoy this fine piece of e-mail that came my way this
weekend!

Any of the lawyers on the group (Doug? Joe?) want to address his
legal "justification"?

And, y'know, he claims "five years on the air" in Rutland...but I've
never heard any sign of a 96.5 in any of my visits up there (except
for a few brief moments of Hartford trop once).  Has anyone heard
this joker?

- -s

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> From rfv@sover.net  Sat Jul 25 20:14:20 1998
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> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 20:14:44 -0400
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> To: Scott D Fybush <fybush@world.std.com>
> Subject: Re: NorthEast Radio Watch 7/24: Walker, Williams Split at WBZ
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> RADIO FREE VERMONT REPLIES TO SCOTT D FYBUSH'S SMEAR CAMPAIGN
> 
> As the webmaster of the Radio Free Vermont site, let me first begin this
> reply by stating that I have listened to "Spectrum" radio show that Mr.
> Fybush
> is a part of for several years and consider myself a casual fan of it. I had
> e-mailed Mr. Fybush directly when I found his post on this newsgroup in
> hopes of not missing any of his NERW posts, and to announce to him, our new
> website. Look where it got me:
> (my reply follows this text)(and I thought he was a nice guy, oh well.)
> 
> Scott D Fybush wrote:
> 
> > *There's a new unlicensed station in VERMONT, and this "Radio Free
> > Vermont" on 96.5 is trotting out the hoary (and repeatedly
> > discredited) claim that it's purely an "intrastate" broadcaster and
> > thus not covered by FCC jurisdiction.  Their website at
> > http://www.sover.net/~rfv is an unusual combination of big-band music
> > and hardcore right-wing "patriot" links.  NERW wonders: if what RFV is
> > doing is so very legal, why doesn't the website include any actual
> > information about the station's location, phone number, personnel,
> > etc.?
> >
> >
> 
> Here's the line by line break-down of my reply:"There's a new (new? naah.
> We've been on the air for over 5 years. Where have you been?) unlicensed
> (Vermont law doesn't require one, and feds have no jurisdiction, so, yeah,
> that's correct, unlicensed. yup.) station in VERMONT (thanks for using CAPS
> as VERMONT deserves all the fanfare she can get) and this "Radio Free
> Vermont" (spiffy name, huh? though it up all by myself) is trotting out the
> hoary (my what colorful and fanciful language, think of that all by
> yourself?) "and often discredited" ( by whom? where? when? last time I saw
> Title 47 USC Sec. 151-153, it was still the law) "claim" (no it's a fact)"
> that it's purely an 'intrastate' broadcaster" (we are. our signal does not
> cross state lines, navigable waterways or national borders) "and thus not
> covered by FCC jurisdiction (at least you got that part right). Their
> website at http://www.sover.net/~rfv (thanks for the free publicity Scott)
> is an unusual combination" (what's so unusual about it? VOA did it during
> World War 2 ) "of big band music (the best music ever recorded, and growing
> in popularity again, thank you very much) and hardcore" (?) right-wing (I
> wouldn't call Bill Cooper hardcore, would you?) "patriot" links (and proud
> of it, better than being a left-wing liberal socialist, wouldn't you agree?)
> "NERW wonders: (No, you wonder Scott, and you could've replied to my e-mail
> and I would've told you) if what RFV is doing is so very legal" (which it
> is), "why doesn't the website include any actual information about the
> station's location" (Rutland, Vermont as most Vermonters already know),
> phone number (none installed yet except for the computer's phone line and
> that is busy almost 24 hours), personnel (Head DJ: Otto Mattik, we're
> automated), etc. (because I didn't feel it was that important, due to the
> fact that we are a Vermont station for Vermonters, not people from outside
> our state. If you should happen to visit our website, and should happen to
> be from out-of-state, well, thanks, we appreciate you visiting us, but
> you're not our primary audience, Vermonters are).
> 
> Title 47 USC Sec 151-153 state that the Federal Communications Commission
> was created to regulate interstate and foreign commerce by radio, and that
> nothing in 47USC should be construed to give the FCC jurisdiction over
> INTRASTATE broadcasts.
> 
> Go to the FCC's homepage and see for yourself.
> 
> To all the Vermonters, please continue to enjoy the best of the big bands
> and World Wide Freedom Radio Network programming. And to all the Vermont
> radio stations, watch out, we're gaining on ya.
> 
> >From the Green Mountains of Vermont, this is Vermont's Hometown Radio
> Station, over and out.
> 

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