[BC] End of an Era...

[Blake Bowers]

While it is true that most stations don't have a dedicated
news staff anymore, I have always found it humorous
to hear the newspaper rattling as the news was being read
on a local outlet.....

The advent of trunking communications, or even digital should
have very little impact on tracking their communications -
trunking scanners have been out for 6-7 years now, and digital
scanners for a few years now.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Smith W4KNX" <paul at amtower.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: [BC] End of an Era...


> What you have today is almost every little govt. agency has a Public
> Information Officer.  They either post to internet sites what is news or 
> fax
> it to you.  Most stations dont have news departments anylonger either.  So
> government has gotten bloated, radio has gotten leaner.  (Would you expect
> anything less?)  I can log on here and look at all the traffic cameras in
> the Tampa area, and look at all the police reports from the various 
> agencies
> in the area.  Also, many agencies use either trunked communication 
> systems,
> or digital, so it's almost impossible to track them via scanner.
>
> Paul Smith
> Sarasota, FL
>