Re: RE: Metropolitan Opera on WMVU-AM Almost FM Quality (WMVU Very Self-effacing)

["Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>]

You seem to be suggesting that the Met broadcasts include no cueing tones.
Of course, if cueing tones are present, nothing says that a station has to
use them. But considering the minuscule likelihood of recruiting as a board
op anyone who would be willing to listen to opera (even opera as melodic as
The Marriage of Figaro) it behooves stations to use the cueing tones if they
are available.

BTW, in an earlier post, you suggested that the jingle for City of Lowell's
"There's a lot to like about Lowell" campaign spells Lowell, Loal. I
disagree; when I first heard the jingle, I thought they were spelling it
Lole. Now, if the ethnic makeup of Lowell and Lawrence were reversed, I
guess there would be a question about whether or not Lole should be
pronounced Low-lay', but thankfully, we do not need to worry about that.

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205, eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: Laurence Glavin <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 2:00 PM
Subject: Fwd: RE: Metropolitan Opera on WMVU-AM Almost FM Quality (WMVU Very
Self-effacing)


> I wouldn't be surprised if some other MetOpera affiliates miss their
> legal ID's.  I never heard WCRB-FM miss an ID when they had it, or
> WBOQ-FM now....but several affiliates are college-operated non-comms
> with minimal budgets. I can imagine some of them have students operating
> the board who perhaps spend Saturday afternoons while Wagner And Verdi
> are being performed paying more attention to a class assignment
> or Yahoo! on a PC.
> --
>
> --------- Forwarded Message ---------
>
> DATE: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:08:13
> From: "Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>
> To: <lglavin@lycos.com>,<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
>
>
> Laurence Galvin writes:
>
> >Just for fun, since the conclusion of any act of a broadcast opera
> >leads to a station ID, I stayed tuned to see if there was anyone on-duty
> >at WMVU to jump in at that point.  Nah...thirty seconds of dead air.
> >I guess WMVU is rather self-effacing, not wanting listeners to know
> >who's bringing them the opera!
>
> If I interpret the Friendly Candy Company's (FCC) Broadcast Station ID
rules
> correctly, WMVU is in violation of such if they did not legally ID at the
> first convenient break.
>
> 73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)
>
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