Posted on 01/12/2017 8:29:58 AM PST by raccoonradio
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“But but but but WHY? EVERYBODY IN AMERICA IS A PROGRESSIVE!! Don’t these realize that?!!” Ha ha ha ha!!
I wager the oldies playlist will include a selection of Madonna’s hits.
Radio shows have to stand on their own. With cable, the networks have a guaranteed floor income. CNN gets 60 cents per subscriber whether you watch them or not.
Excellent point. A for profit liberal talk radio station has to compete with subsidized NPR
Yeah; but just remember the WOOF(wolf)MAN JACK radio show.
THE GREATEST.
Yup. And here in the States eventually, too.
Analog TV is gone. How many years, now — 7 years?
It was helped along by the fact that people plugged their TVs into satellite or cable so the transition was easier for most. Gosh, I haven’t seen a CRT TV in as many years. We retired our last one before the digital switch over. Flat panels are it, now.
Interesting story: my son asked for a PS2 for his birthday so that he could play some old games. It had the old composite output and I was looking for a converter to component or HDMI. Modern flat panel TVs are DVI or HDMI and if you are lucky component video.
Anyway...
Wonder if AM radio will outlast FM... because of the demand for conservative talk radio. :)
I still have two CRT TV’s. They work fine. Seems wasteful to toss them out. TV’s definition keeps getting higher, but my eyesight’s does not.
Old-school gamers are about the last remaining people who want CRT sets though.
I don’t think we’ll follow Finland into all-digital audio. As it is now they can barely move those HD radios. And the size of the audience will plummet if the entry price for a receiver jumps from ten to 142 bucks.
Plus, unlike Finland, we are constantly staging little Trump rebellions against our bureaucrat overlords.
Canada started down the road to DAB about a decade ago, but pulled the plug due to virtually zero demand.
Interesting. Canada is probably a good model conversion — success or failure.
I noticed that most of the local FM radio stations now broadcast in HD digital. My car radio can receive them and audio fidelity is incredible.
I didn't notice the cost of the radio when I bought the car but it was a higher end audio system. I do get annoyed with all of the advertisements. Seems like they advertise more these days. I also have satellite radio and an mp3 music player so I rarely tune into FM digital or analog anymore.
At home we usually listen to the cable music stations or Internet radio or an mp3 player. There is a lot of competition for FM radio these days... in our household.
In 2008 a list of companies came out, ones that donated to public broadcasting (tax writeoff?).Mentions are made on air. Movie studios, car companies, G.E., Kellogg’s and even “Fox Broadcasting”
Colmes show has been on for awhile and is actually syndicated by Fox Talk Radio
Commercial prog. talk has bombed more than once in Boston even when someone paid to have it on
“And then there’s a little thing called ... talent.” — Rush Limbaugh
Their conservative talk sister station is doing fine and will continue according to Ithaca Times
Talk radio REQUIRES a sense of humor. The left has none.
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