Re: Low power FM discussion

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Exact Reason why I put EB101/EBRadio on years back!


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At 08:12 AM 1/28/99 -0500, Gavin B. Burt wrote:
>I just read the article someone mentioned on Boston-Radio-Interest about
>LPFM stations on the nandotimes website, and I would like to give my insight
>to commercial broadcasters being fearful of these new LPFM stations (if they
>go through) giving added interference and competition.
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>I live just outside of Albany, N.Y., and I am so disgusted with local radio
>in my market that I now only listen to a weak to fair signal of a classic
>rock station in Poughkeepsie while I am in the house, or a weak oldies AM in
>Bennington, Vt.  If some of these local stations are angry about having
>added competition, then maybe they should try to be a little more exciting
>with their programming.  I'm sick of hearing "Brown-Eyed Girl" on five
>stations in this market.  Sick of hearing automation on all but five
>stations in our market at 3 AM.  I'm sick of calling into a request show on
>a local station (which I think some can figure out) and can't get a song
>played from 1971 because "we don't play any '70's on the request show"
>(funny, I remember hearing three other songs on their request show that
>Billboard says all charted in the early '70's).  They just wouldn't play
>"Put Your Hand In The Hand" because it didn't research well.  And I'm sick
>of hearing twenty stations all talking at the same time about some inane
>topic on the radio in the morning.
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>To get to my topic, I hope LPFM goes through.  If it could add more local
>programming on our dial, I would be happy.  Radio is no longer a public
>medium.  It is a medium for some folks to fill their pockets.  If it's going
>to be that way, then I don't know why I'm even still interested in radio,
>and I don't know why anyone has a license for a radio station (that doesn't
>include WJIB, WJTO, WQQQ, and WMEX, if Bob Bittner or Dennis Jackson are
>reading this).
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>Gavin Burt
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