a friend wrote:

"Pete C." wrote:

Don't get too used to your "free" broadcast tv/radio, broadcast is dying
since they have not found a new business model that will work in this
age of competition. You can readily see the death-twitching in the flood
of scam advertising (colon cleanser scam, work from home scam, payday
loans, etc.) that broadcasters would never have accepted in the past.
Now they are desperate for ad revenue and will accept anything, which
only drives away move viewers/listeners. The consolidation of broadcast
to a few big companies cut overhead and bought them some time, but soon
even that will not help ad revenues meet operating expenses and stations
will be going dark.



perhaps you have heard of a thing called "public radio", in which
willing participants pay their radio station? No advertisers required,
and the ones in my local area at least receive virtually no government
support. I guess that's not conservative enough for you guys though,
what with people voluntarily paying for content, yet allowing some
others to have the content as well, without paying. Maybe when the
republicans own the country they can confiscate the airwaves and
eliminate our right to listen to radio that we choose to pay for - that
would be good for business, I imagine - steal from the public and give
to your friends in exchange for money contributed to your election campaign.


Perhaps you'll learn to use proper quote annotation? I have about
20,000 radio stations available, from around the world.

I've never found anything on public radio worth listening to.
Interchannel static had more information, and was more entertaining.
Public Radio could replace waterboarding as torture.


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