[BC] Shared STL frequencies can be humorous...

[Dana Puopolo]

Richard,

I cannot argue with anything you have said., as there is no way to refute the
absolute truth.

America has long been the glutton of the world. We comprise about 7% of the
world population, yet use over 25% of its energy. We pollute the most. We are
a country where quantity matters over quality. It's no different with radio.
When things were deregulated in 1996, companies couldn't wait to buy up every
available radio station. Look at the result-mass layoffs in the radio industry
and virtually NO local programming-while the audience leaves in droves and
they wind up making even LESS money! Why do you think that awful IBOC with its
'fuzz ball' proprietary perceptual coding is being so pushed by McBroadcaster,
the NAB and the FCC? Because it sounds better? NOPE! Because it gives them
MORE. Now they have THREE (or more) audio channels to poorly program-all
carved out of a single 96 kbps bit stream!

Again, look at the debate about health care. Right now, 35% of every dollar
spent on health care goes to overhead and profit. Why do you think the health
care lobby has spent half a billion dollars trying to defeat the public
option? Because it would have the affect of lowering health care premoums due
to REAL competition (as opposed to the 'fake' competition the health care
cartel has now).

Greed, gluttony and qualtity are the american way! Have you ever heard the
statement: "200 channels and nothing's on"? In Europe, they have a dozen
channel and there's ALWAYS something interesting to watch!

Until the basic american paradigm changes (which is quite unlikely) nothing
will change, Richard.

-D

From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net

Let us back off a second and observe what broadcasting was developed for. From
my perspective, it was developed as an entertainment and communications media.
Early on, if I wanted to bring music to the listeners as a broadcaster I had
several choices. I could play records, I could play tapes or transcriptions, I
could connect to a network feed, or I could open up some microphones for live
performances.