News on satellite was [BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[FrankGott@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/27/2006 1:01:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
xenscott at earthlink.net writes:

<< I would love to hear an all-news format on satellite radio, but not just 
 the audio from  a cable network.  The problem with using the audio from a 
cable TV network is that some information is conveyed visually, such as in a 
graphic.  That information  never gets to the audio-only consumer.  Ideally, XM 
or Sirius would offer one or more of the  major market all-news radio stations. 
>>

If my employer KQV were to be on satellite it would be a nice potential 
source of NTR.  

Of course, the folks in Omaha and Tacoma may have no more interest than the 
folks in Boynton Beach or Mashapee in our purely local Pittsburgh news.  But 
the satellite service would surely fill in the coverage gaps of our AM signal.  

We do a more than adequate job of covering national and international news.  
Yesterday we carried the Bush-Karzai news conference.  Today we had a 2-star 
general from CENTCOM in-studio.  Local news included the granting of 
Pennsylvania's first slots licenses, a smoking ban approved by county council, the 
solving of a 24-year-old cold case murder, and installation of a hi-def projector 
at the Science Center planetarium.  

Is there out-of-market audience for that kind of coverage?  Perhaps by 
curiosity seekers.  

The satellite services have not shown interest in carrying us.  Yet, without 
permission, one of them recreated our top 40 era on an oldies channel using 
jingles we still air during nighttime programming.

Frank Gottlieb
News Director
KQV 1410AM Pittsburgh