[BC] bcst radio when jfk was assasinated

[Gary Schnabl]

>
> Nope Nope Nope, Urban legend. I must disagree. There was no "order" about 
> "music jfk loved."  Where was that music supposed to come from? The fcc 
> cannot regulate programming. Stations dropped advertising and format music 
> because it was a sign of RESPECT, unlike they would do today.
>
> WRIN, Rensselaer, IN went on the air Sept 10 of '63, and had about 40 albums 
> (stolen from sister station WCGO, Chicago Heights, IL).
> We went all instrumental - Billy Vaughn and Lawrence Welk.
>
> Lots of Chicago stations just played classical music - wgn and wbbm Chicago, 
> even wls (3 stations where I listened alot) sounded like funeral music. Not 
> much talking except for a news story here and there.
>
> Lots of stations went "all classical." WGN-TV eventually used a network feed 
> (I thnk it was nbc), and played classical music (can't remember the video).
>
> Tom, not a kid anymore, now in Michigan 
>   

I do not remember what the radio broadcasts were like during that time 
because as most everybody, we watched TV during those few days until the 
funeral. The TV stations were broadcasting the assassination nearly 
full-time.

Back then as an electrical engineering student at the University of 
Wisconsin, I was walking somewhere I rarely went--in the hallway of the 
campus building that housed the journalism department as one (maybe 
more) of their old teletype machines started ringing like crazy. It 
might have been nonstop ringing, but I forgot. Something like eight 
bells was for really serious emergencies back then.

Somebody by the TT said that JFK was shot, and the quiet day became very 
hectic. TV sets everywhere were turned on, and classes were being ended 
as the news spread on campus, I was told. I know the journalism classes 
ended early.

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