[BC] Are Radios and TVs Made w/poor Tuners?

[Bob Groome]

Boy I know this to be true. While CE at WERE in
Clevaland, John Webster was the PD. He said' keep
it on the air and I'll delivery the listners to
get us good numbers" or something very similar to
that. We were #1 or #2 in most every book with
'entertaining' (read=almost dirty) talk radio
with 5 kW against two 50 kW's and a 10 kW. WMMS
(FM) was the #1 or #2 we jocked with, not the
other higher powered AM's. 

It was all about CONTENT. Still is ...

Bob G
--- Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com> wrote:

> At 10:13 AM 3/30/2007,
> RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote
> 
> >There has been an increasing trend to put the
> junk in the hands of 
> >the consumers. In the days of the NTSC (never
> twice the same color) 
> >television committee, it was determined that
> it was essential to 
> >keep television receivers "affordable" (read
> cheap).
> 
>          This is part and parcel of the "free
> enterprise" system.
>          And .. it also highlights another
> topic that is often
>          mentioned: consumer desire.
> 
>          I can't remember the study, but it was
> stated rather
>          strongly that if the SOUND on a TV was
> clear, the
>          average consumer would put up with all
> manner of poor video.


Bob Groome 
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.                                         Winston Churchill

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