[BC] Regulations For AM Station DX Te sts

[Steve]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DANA PUOPOLO" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: [BC] Regulations For AM Station DX Te sts



The FCC, working with Congress has done more to ruin radio as a profession
then anyone. Under the FCC, radio has become homogenized pablum mostly owned
by a few big companies. NOW the FCC, unhappy with (just) trashing Radio/TV,
turns to (ruining) telecom and cable TV, where under their tutelage the United
States is blessed with some of the highest rates in any first world country
for telephone, cable/satellite TV and broadband Internet.  

Does anyone know where the U.S. rates in  broadband penetration per 100,000
homes? I do. We slipped from twelfth to 17th this year! South Korea is first,
Canada fifth. 

Oh and let's not forget that we have about the worst cell service of any major
country as well.

The FCC is friends of big business. They are no friend of any of us citizens.
They are one of the most politically run Govt. Divisions.


All I can say Dana is BRAVO! I don't know if you saw my post about the Communications Act of 1996. Well let's continue to allow big business supporters to continue running this country and we'll continue to go down this wonderful road. (As Steve bows towards San Antonio, Texas). Ok, so I'm a Democrat who happens to care about PEOPLE unlike the Fat Chance Commission. I no longer own a cell phone (first I don't find the need for one) because it would seem communicating via those hip appendages has become worse. Seems when they were analog we could at least carry on a conversation with some semblence of continuity. More often than not when I receive cell calls to the radio station I'm fighting to hear the person on the other end. I simply hang up until that person is sitting under a cell tower where we might be able to converse without it sounding like the call is coming via the Aurora Borealis. Call me old fashioned, call me a fuddy-duddy but let's face it, new is not necessarily best so doing something for the sake of its "newness" is ludicrous. It would seem we've broken more things that weren't than not. Don't get me wrong, there are many new things that have improved our lives but on the other hand there are many that have just added chaos. I could go on but it's New Year's Eve so I'll be kind. :)

Steve
Steve Walker Productions