[BC] Best or worst of NAB

[Scott Fybush]

Mike McCarthy wrote:

> Silly... KBET-AM 790.  A CD changer playing on random the same 4 disks 
> of maybe 30 songs.  1/4 were ABBA's greatest hits. Seems someone from 
> Mama Mia may have been involved there....  And Beasley owns that one.  
> Though it was a recent sale close.

Hey now...790 was my #1 preset in the rental car as I drove around! :-)

The CD changer is a leftover from the previous ownership, I'm 
told...Beasley will be programming something more substantial on 790 by 
the time we all reconvene there next April.

> Just Plan Awful....McCarren.  When will the airport authority realize 
> they need a bigger terminal building as well as seperate 
> arrival/departure or personal/commercial levels for traffic to go along 
> with the recently built D terminal...which is expanding further.  And 
> lets not forget the "remote" car rental facility 15 minutes south of the 
> terminal across I-215.

Do NOT get me started on this one!!

There was a car crash in the airport tunnel around 2:30 PM Wednesday, 
and they closed Paradise Road heading into McCarran from the south as a 
result.

I returned my car at the rental car center about 3:05, not knowing yet 
about the accident. There was a line for the buses to the terminal 
already, and I had to wait for two full buses before getting on one. 
That turned out to be the easy part - they had the buses go up to 
Sunset, west to Las Vegas Boulevard (involving two left turns with only 
stop signs), north to Tropicana and east to Paradise to get into the 
airport. There were some folks on my bus who had 4 PM flights. It was 
4:15 or so by the time we got to the terminal.

And then, while there was no wait for security at the A/B gates, there 
were lines back to the escalators for C (my gate) and D. It took another 
33 minutes to get through security and down to C24 for my flight. (Last 
year, it was 47 minutes, but this year all the security stations were 
open, at least - there's just more traffic than the area was designed for.)

I made it - but only because I'd had enough nightmare experiences at 
McCarran in past years to know that I should leave 2 1/2 hours for my 
flight. So arriving at the rental car center at 3:05 for a 5:40 flight 
ended up being just enough time. Ridiculous.

> Un-nerving....seeing Las Vegas metro continue to expand at an 
> unsustainable rate with an already unsustainable existing population.
> Un-nerving #2...seeing Lake Mead down almost 100 ft. from normal.

Have you seen some of the plans for all that newly-vacant space on the 
Strip where the old Stardust and Boardwalk and other recently-demolished 
low-end properties sat? MGM-Mirage has a huge condo development starting 
to go up north of the Monte Carlo, there's the enormous Trump 
development behind the New Frontier, the giant Venetian expansion now 
underway, etc. etc. etc.

It just keeps going.

s