Re: [IRCA] IBOC battle begins

["John Cereghin" <jcereghin@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a DXer since 1976 (trolling on all the bands, from MW to VHF over
those years), I can say that I do, when I can find a program worth
listening to.

I'm old enough to remember the latter years of the glory days of AM
radio in the late 70s, like listening to some AC/Top 40 stuff on the
old WFIL on 560 out of Philadelphia before Salem gobbled them up.
Them's was interesting listening in those days.  Today, I still have a
hankering for classic country music and whenever I find in on the AM
bounds (even when down in the mush), I stop and listen for as long as
I can.  And when I find polka on a Saturday afternoon, it's time to
unplug the phone!

Unfortunately, there is very little to listen to, either on AM or FM
today. Today, we're fully justified to "log it and move on" since what
that station is playing is exactly what my local 5 kw station is
playing.  AM is mainly syndicated talk, FM is made up of cookie-cutter
music formats.  I fully understand the reasons behind this lack of
interesting programming- $$$.  On-air talent is expensive and thin.
It's much cheaper to hook up a satellite feed and just run Rush
Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for 6 hours a day instead of to pay an
actual human being and then worry about filling out your on-air
schedule for the day.

I'd still listen to CBC-1, if I could hear them any more (excluding
the Windsor and Moncton stations).

---John Cereghin

On 11/5/07, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do any of us, as DXers, spend any significant time actually LISTENING to
> distant programming these days for entertainment? I'm quite curious to
> hear answers to this question. I know that I can summarize my
> entertainment-based skywave listening pretty succinctly lately: WTIC for
> Red Sox games, WCBS, WBBM and KYW for news, WGN and WBT on occasion for
> talk (when I can pick them out of the sea o' hash), and sometimes WSM
> and CHWO (which is actually groundwave for me, anyway) for music.
>

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