Re: NPR New Years Special

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com>]

At 3:21 AM -0500 1/1/03, Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:
>On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Larry Weil wrote:
>>  were going into the countdown to midnight, WGBH cut in with a local
>>  station break.
>
>Was it an automated taped break?  I thought the beauty of non-commercial
>radio is that you can float the breaks if you want to...since you
>supposedly don't have sponsors to worry about.
>
>What to bet that the local announcement was "this part of WGBH programming
>is brought to you by Schmoe's House of Widgets!"

Yea, something of that nature.  Don't know if it was automated, but 
if so, someone should have used their brains in setting up the 
automation.

Happy New Year everyone!

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH