[BC] WPRB vs. WWV
Neal Newman
groucho
Tue Jan 24 16:51:11 CST 2006
Kevin it may seem that way however WPRB is indeed a full Commercially
licensed Station
and Can Play Commercials if they wish.
Neal
Kevin Tekel wrote:
>MStreetTom wrote:
>
>
>>Just a sidenote on Princeton University-owned commercial operation WPRB
>>(103.3), which does a quite eclectic mixture of music (classical in
>>mornings) - it often doesn't qualify for the Trenton, NJ book, in its
>>home county of Mercer.
>>
>>
>
>But isn't WPRB a non-commercial station? At least that's the way it seems
>from their programming. I could hardly imagine them making any kind of
>profit from it! Sometimes WPRB gets so "eclectic" that they could replace
>an hour's worth of their programming with an audio feed of WWV --
>including Latin American CBers jamming it with "hola hoolla
>hooooooollllaaaaa!!"* -- and nobody would know the difference.
>
>*Here's an example of what I call "the party on WWV", including hola's
>galore -- it's by far the weirdest thing I've ever heard on shortwave!
>
>http://mysite.verizon.net/tekel/wwvparty.mp3
>
>This has been happening for years... I first heard it around 1997, but I'm
>sure it was going on for a long time before then.
>
>
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