RE: "No School" software??

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mediaone.net>]

At 04:46 PM 1/19/99 -0500, Roger Kirk wrote:

Jim wrote:

>why stations don't <snip>adopt some 
>sort of quicker means of getting out 
>no-school announcements.  I happen to
>teach at a school near the end of the 
>alphabet.....and I get tired <snip>waiting 
>for my school
 
Don't you get it -- the stations want to keep you listening for as long as
possible.  Going to such a method as proposed gets you tuning away sooner.
The stations don't air school closings out of some sence of benovelance,
but rather because it keeps large numbers of people listening intensly.

Sorry to sound so cynical, but it is a business and most stations will
exploit it (and you!) for all it's worth.

Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH

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