[BC] WPRB

[Bernie Courtney]

as was my reply loaded with just as much sarcasm as your original comment
:)  I just had to laugh to myself that I happened to tune in at just the
right time to hear this guy go into a panic on the air lol.

And I dont know I'd go quite as far as saying that satellite radio is much
better then 'McRadio' as you call it, maybe its just me but it seems the
playlists on the satellite stations keep getting tighter as well.

bern

On 1/23/06, Robert Orban <rorban at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> At 02:06 PM 1/23/2006, you wrote:
> >From: Bernie Courtney <jerseyspikes at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [BC] WPRB
> >To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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> >
> >And after about a half hour of listening I now must say I'm even more
> >appalled at Bob Orban's take that KTU should just sign off to give them
> >better coverage.  To the contrary PRB should just sign off for the sake
> of
> >being a waste of natural resources in all the energy they are using to
> >broadcast their crappy programming.  Maybe it was just this one daypart,
> but
> >the 200w @ 2m HAAT station that's shared between Rutgers and Piscataway
> HS
> >has better programming on it, and that's sad because for years i thought
> >that station was a waste of spectrum.
>
> It sounds like you picked a particularly bad time to listen (or were
> looking for a particularly bad example). An automation crash and a student
> jock frantically trying to fill in for it hardly represents the typical
> programming on any radio station.
>
> I was being facetious when I referred to WKTU's being turned off --  after
> all, Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" maintained that the English
> should start eating Irish babies for supper, but he didn't mean it either.
> Lots of people prefer McRadio and there is a bounteous quantity of it now
> on the air -- all you can eat, in fact. I would never seriously propose
> that McRadio be taken off the air -- the mass audience that likes it
> deserves to have plenty of safe, thoroughly researched, non-threatening,
> repetitive formats whose hipness is carefully marketed, like the mall
> tee-shirt that says "Rebel." But McRadio shouldn't be the only thing
> receivable. After all, almost 10 million people have already voted with
> their wallets against McRadio by going to XM and Sirius. It's unnecessary
> for _every_ radio station to have a mass-appeal format. One man's "crappy
> programming" is another man's gateway to hearing worthy, non-mainstream
> music.
>
> Bob Orban
>
>
>
>
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