[BC] Programmers who understand the audience

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

XM is another fraud! They first advertised it to be commercial-free.
That was why we had to pay over $130 per year for the privilege
of listening to repeating automation systems that were blanked out
if we drove near large trees or buildings. Now, we even have to
listen to commercials if the signal gets through.

They "automatically renew" your account, meaning that they
just steal more money from the credit-card you first used to
"enable" the service. Once you convince them to REALLY
TERMINATE the account, by terminating the charge number,
the XM automobile radios periodically  interrupt AM, FM, and
CD audio, declaring that your account has expired.There is
no way to turn the "&*!@%$R_&_" off, except by paying the
"account" charge, or drilling a hole in the radio in some
special spot, so the down-link chip gets disabled..

Letters to various agencies go unanswered, which is why
they get away with this stuff. All the XM Radio stuff is spewed
from a single converted warehouse in Washington, D.C.
It truly is a license to steal.


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Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
> I will agree with most of your roster except for Lee Abrahms who is 
> single handedly responsible for the XM formatic disaster. I can not 
> wait for the merger when Mel will fire him and his cronies. Maybe 
> after that I can actually listen to XM.
> 
> 
> R
> 
> Steve Newman wrote:
> >Does the name Bill Gavin ring a bell? He could pick a hit while 
> >still in his 60's (so can Bill Drake and Lee Abrahms) and concert 
> >pianists don't forget the Czerny exercises or how to play Rach's 
> >3rd. I don't buy into it.
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Smith W4KNX" <paul at amtower.com>
> >Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:28 PM
> >Subject: Re: [BC] Arrested for just telling people where tofind 
> >Copywritedmaterial.
> >
> >>When I first got into radio in the mid sixties, the program director and
> >>music director were both under 30 years old, and I was told that by the time
> >>you are 30, you no longer can pick new hit music.  The station I worked for
> >>was programmed as a top 40, which I guess would be known as a CHR today.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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