wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (10/11/84)
After reading the StarDates for a while (thanks for posting them; even if they arrive outdated, they are still interesting, and I've never heard one on-the-air anywhere!), I am intrigued by a couple points: 1) "right after this" -- are these spots carried by commercial stations that stick in an ad at this point? Is this usually sponsored by some advertiser in a consistent manner (e.g., "StarDates are brought to you each day by Gummies, the cereal that gets gooey even without milk")? I ask this because the kind of information StarDates provide is what I expect to hear on a non-commercial public-radio station, not on a commercial broadcaster. When you finally do publish the list of stations carrying StarDates, please indicate which is commercial and which is non-commercial. 2) "Copyright 1983,1984" -- I can't figure this out; there must be some legal arcane reasoning for this, I suppose. Why give two years in the copyright notice? Why not just "Copyright 1984"? Just curious... Anyway, keep up the good work! Will Martin seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA