Re: [IRCA] It's more than IBOC..

["W. Curt Deegan" <WWWR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig,

An excellent piece, thank you.

I would add one more recent chilling event, threats by a US 
Congressman to put his staff to work monitoring AM talk radio for 
"improprieties", clearly a politically motivated attack.  The FCC has 
been called in to discuss the reinstitution of the failed "fairness 
doctrine", which is guaranteed would eliminate the primary revenue 
stream of AM radio.

Regardless of who proposes it, Congressman or dictator, whenever the 
government gets into the business of monitoring and overseeing what 
is said on radio, not much more is going to be said.

Clearly a bigger issue, but still one that could drag AM back to 
where it was after FM grabbed up music and before talk radio took 
off.  If you can't carry talk, and you can't play music, and sports 
broadcasting becomes increasingly restricted by the league 
monopolies, there's nothing much left.  Nothing that is until the 
next EDS warning when hurricane, tornado or non-natural disaster 
strikes.  But by then there will be no stations that can be heard 
more than a few miles, left to carry them.

Curt
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W. Curt Deegan
Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida, USA


At 11:37 AM 10/9/2007, you wrote:
>I really don't want to start an overpowering thread, especially in the hot
>part of the season, but I do want to make a quick comment on the state of
>things.
>
>[snip]
>
>Craig Healy
>Providence, RI


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