[BC] Small station program quality

[Rob Atkinson]

yeah, i hate that low budget sound profaining my ears.  enough with the 
daily local hospital report, the news about where the fish are biting, and 
the kid announcer trying to pronounce "furin" names.  I'm so sophisticated 
now I only want "the music of your life" played to me by some machine 
somewhere in L.A.   And broadcast band dxing was way too easy back then too, 
when you could ID a station in a few minutes.  Much more challenging now 
when they all have the same programming and you have to hope the path holds 
up until the legal ID at the top of the hour.   (Must pay someone to stay at 
the tx site and dip the power by 10 or 15 db right when the ID takes place 
because that darn fade always happens right then, ya know?)

Rob Atkinson

Robert Meuser wrote...

 > Many mom and pop stations have represented the worst in this business.
 > They were
 > under financed, unprofessional and technical disasters. Larger companies
 > have
 > brought them up to decent standards. There are fewer death trap
 > transmitter sites.
 >

Not to mention bad programming.  I can count on the fingers of one hand
the number of mom & pop stations around that have anything on worth
listening to.  While the idea of local progamming is good, and with most
of us being of a certain age nostalgia sets in, but most of these tend to
be pretty low-budget sounding.

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