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From: dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc)
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Subject: Re: Alternative radio
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 09:43:04 EDT
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     Just finished a whirlwind tour of the Eastern US, from roughly Naples, FL
to Hamilton, Ontario. . .all spent in a car. Yes, as far as I can tell, radio
is still just as bad as it was last year.  Two years ago, Buffalo-Rochester NY
used to have plenty of alternative music (read, 1 cut/hr); now, these markets
have developed brain rot.

     There is WDVE Pittsburgh (102.5), which makes the time from Zelienople, PA
to Morgantown, WV ok (also, W.V.U. has a good college station, but they don't
have enough power to cook a hot dog).

     and (snif) THAT WAS ABOUT IT. Oh, if you stick your tuning knob on 87.9,
you get all kinds of really creative and neat stuff, but only in places where
there is no 65 dBu channel 6 contour (or greater); these also flup-flup in
the car unless you're in the station parking lot.

     Greensboro, NC has alternative music, 10 watts, on 106.1 mHz. Other than
that (and the area connected between Greensboro - Raleigh- Charlotte -
Greenville/Ashville/Spartanburg is the most signal rich but content poor
area outside the northeast corridor).

     WOOJ (Naples-Ft. Myers/Cape Coral, FL) 107.1 occasionally suprises me
at nite.

     SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. CHR audience dilution proves once again that no
matter how many stations you can cram into the dial, they will all seek 
uniform mediocrity and divide the mindless masses among them...leaving real
music lovers high and dry.  Canadian FM's are quite refreshing, btw, even
if they play typical CHR records quite a bit.

          *******  BUT THERE    IS    HOPE ********

      IF there is interest, I'll post the cities where the FCC has allocated
NEW CHANNELS in a proceeding called 80-90.  There are 690 of these channels
(the majority being the 3 kw/339 feet AAT kind) available and the potential
for some drop-ins to the creative and sneaky.  The lottery was just held last
month to determine in which order the applications would be accepted. 

      IF no one applies for an 80-90 channel in your area after the 'cutoff'
period (which they say, OK, channel 221 (92.1 mc), we'll accept applications
from X to Y) THE FIRST GUY WHO APPLIES FOR IT GETS IT NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

      So stop bitching about radio, get a new printer ribbon, and for once,
DO SOMETHING TO FIGHT CHR AUDIENCE DILUTION AND MINDLESS TRIPE.  You can put
a 3 kw FM on the air for under $50,000!  Send those applications to the FCC,
and do something GOOD for America TODAY!

People don't miss the records you don't play...

David Anthony
Chief Development Engineer
DataSpan, Inc