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Skriven 2010-12-21 07:00:36 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 14588 av Earl Croasmun (1:124/311)
Ärende: Bearskin rug
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Replying to a message of Earl Croasmun to Bob Ackley:

 EC> ~>  EC> Sadly, I don't see it getting any better any time soon.  When
 EC> radio ~>  EC> talk shows took off, we got people who spent three
 EC> hours every ~>  EC> weekday attacking one political party or the
 EC> other.  After the ~>  EC> factual content of issues (if any) got
 EC> covered, they filled in with ~>  EC> cheap shots, sarcasm, personal
 EC> attacks, and comedy skits.

 EC> ~> The level of hunor ain't all that great, either.  Limbaugh failed
 EC> to meet my ~> admittedly low standards in that regard over a decade
 EC> ago.

 EC> I don't listen to the radio much, and that is usually sports or music. 
 EC> But I figured Limbaugh would be mildly entertaining, if only because
 EC> he has a background in radio (playing rock music!).  I've heard
 EC> Boortz, and he could be funny at times.  The rest just seem grim,
 EC> dull, shrill, and in many cases dumb.

The local radio station here (KMA, AM 960) has mostly local, live programming
from 0600 to 1500.  From 1500-1700 it runs the syndicated (and probably
pre-recorded)
Dave Ramsey show (topic is financial advice, primarily getting out of debt). 
After
1700 of late it's been local area high school sports until late evening.  After
that it's
pre-recorded/syndicated programming until 0600.  I think they just started
carrying
Jim Bohannon in the late evening/early morning hours.  It was just a couple of
years
ago they started broadcasting 24x7, prior to that they shut down around
midnight and 
came back on at 0600; going back farther they were only on the air from sunup
to
sundown.  The station has a very nice display of its history at its offices in
Shenandoah.

FWIW, KMA is one of the oldest radio stations in the country - and it IS the
one station
in the country that's been under the same ownership since it went on the air in
1925.
The station is owned and operated by the Earl May Seed Company, which is
headquartered
in Shenandoah, IA.  The midwest's Earl May Garden Centers are a division of the
company.
The Earl May operation is run by Earl's grandson, Ed, who is really a pretty
nice guy (even if
he s 20 years younger than I am), I've met him.  The station just threw a
humongous 85th
birthday party for itself last August (got the T-shirt <g>).

--- FleetStreet 1.19+
 * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)