On 4/24/2016 12:12 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote:

On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


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

When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on
WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna
locked it in like it was local at night.

We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local
during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that
travel/money guy.

I was a regular listener of Dr. Dean, I think he's out there making
the best out of his retirement time.
Looks like he sold his art collection in 2007.
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the rest are sports talk.

I might watch an occasional football game or an MMA fight, but for me
sports talk is a waste of KWHs of electricity.
A 50KWH station can be $150 a day for electricity.

BTW, don't tell Keysor, but I'm a regular NPR listener.
Some of the 'This American Life' stories are great,
'A Prairie Home Companion' is good for Guy Noir and
a few other parts. I like the weekend stuff also, Wait,
Wait don't tell me, A Way with Words, Ted hour, Oh and Car Talk
even though it's all reruns. Click and Clack are hilarious and
thoroughly enjoy themselves.

I also listen to Bob Brinker on Sunday afternoon on a local station,
for investment information.
He got me out of the stock market on Feb 11 2000 before a 45% plunge.
Funny it looks like a tiny dip in the chart now, but not back then.
http://tinyurl.com/jh8vyd4
He missed calling the 2007 drop, but recently, Feb 10th sent a special
alert saying time to put new money in the market. Good call, at least
for the last 2-1/2 months.
Mikek



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