lbv@sdchema.UUCP (Gordon Schlesinger) (05/01/85)
["Step up and speak directly into the microphone"] During the last year various proposals have been made to expand the topics base of net.wobegon (net.Keilor ?), in an effort to convince site administrators that this group has not disappeared in a burst of terminal anxiety. None seems to have created much response. (Battling overwhelming shyness, nevertheless, he continued): May I be so bold as to propose yet another area for possible discussion: the quality (or lack thereof), performance, character, etc, of the individual public radio stations which bring us APHC? I specifically do not include the networks: National Public Radio and American Public Radio, although others may want to discuss them. Out here in Lotus Land we have a pretty fair example of a public radio station operating in a (monopoly) market whose level of performance seems to be roughly inversely proportional to the level of resources available to it. Could this sort of behavior be more general than commonly assumed? Anyone else care to characterize his local public radio outlet? Would there be any benefit in bringing in some of the (displaced) CBS brass to whip the local outlets into shape? Perhaps Jack (of Jack's Auto Repair)? Gordon Schlesinger Norwegian Bachelor Chemist U. C San Diego Chemistry Dept. ........[!world] >> !ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!lbv "Our analyses of Powdermilk Biscuits show them to be pure.....mostly"
brent@itm.UUCP (Brent) (05/13/85)
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We listen to APHC here on WABE 90.1 FM. They had a big fund-raising
drive a couple of years ago to go to 100,000 watts. They made it.
They now have 100kW of the worst signal in town. One turntable has
a ground loop in it, and their stylii always need replacing. Believe
me, I know, I'm a card-carrying member of the Audio Engineering Society.
I know bad sound when I hear it. WABE appears to have "compression
phoebia". They have no audio compression on anything. This means
that on some of Garrison's monologues, when he gets real quiet, that
gentle hushed voice; he's down close to the noise floor on the FM
signal. I know he's shy, but he doesn't have to be inaudible!
Anyway, enough for now.
"Just 'cause we're fictious doens't mean we don't have feelings"
Brent Laminack (akgua!itm!brent)