RE: Today's LTAR

["Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

I don't listen to the station consistently enough to accurately gauge
the rotation.  I do know when I first got the radio almost 2 years ago,
I drove with a coworker to the Carolinas listening to the station
without a repeat for about a week.  When I listen now, I occasionally
catch a piece that I've heard previously but not that often.

I am impressed with the depth of their library, though not necessarily
the content.  It has been relatively rare that I've had to explain
history to someone to understand a piece but, every now and then,
someone will reference Carter, Reagan, Bush I or even Nixon in one of
the bits.  What I'm more surprised at is the "rawness" of some of the
routines.  I couldn't ever imaging Redd Foxx doing n***er jokes on the
radio.  Some of the bits are only funny because of their limited shock
value.

Brian T. Vita, President
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From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
[mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org] On Behalf Of Aaron
Read
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:36 AM
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
Subject: RE: Today's LTAR


At 11:28 AM 8/18/2003, Brian Vita wrote:
>XM radio has 2 all comedy channels.  One is PG the other is R/X rated 
>stuff (we've dubbed it the penis joke channel).  They were interesting 
>to listen to for about a day.  While they seem to have a good 
>repertoire of material, you can only joke about genitalia so long...
>
>Brian T. Vita, President

How long is each channel's "rotation"?  Meaning how long before they
start 
repeating the same comedy bits?   I remember being on a long flight as a

kid (Chicago to Sea/Tac I think...against the jet stream the whole way)
and 
the comedy (audio) channel  in-flight only had about 45 minutes of
material 
and that wasn't nearly enough.


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Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
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