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Mr. Luddite

On 4/23/2016 5:05 PM, amdx wrote:
On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/23/2016 1:55 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/23/16 1:15 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:45:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 4/23/16 12:31 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:44 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

Four calls so far this week from Sirius XM asking why I haven't
initialized my three month trial. "Because I'm not interested,
that's why."

This is a big time FM radio market, with lots of commercial free
stations, including some that play the music I prefer, and if I hit
the
road for a trip out of this market, I, like everyone else, have a
portable device that holds many gigs of the music I like.

I haven't listened to the radio in about 16-17 years.
I do get XM/S bundled in with my satellite TV package and we turn it
on occasionally.

BTW what stations in DC are commercial free? NPR?

WAMU, WETA, and a station out of Bal'mer are the ones I listen to...

WETA must have upped their power if you are getting it in Calvert
County. When I was there they were one of the stations you only got
well at night.

WETA took over WGMS and another station and uses three broadcast towers
now, and, of course, it is "internet-able."

I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut
down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first
commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to
listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick
Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down
but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology.

I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan
at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry
Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some
hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I
also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or
11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews.
After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received
WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again.
I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their
programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some
CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying
their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the
emails asking about internet programming.
Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories.
Mikek

Larry Glick was really funny. He used to make a lot of those calls to
payphones all over the country. Dick Summer also had a great show with
"Irving" the Venus Flytrap.