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WALTER BRENNAN THE PRESIDENTS LB SPORTS/COA SIGNED LP RECORD $2,000.00 |
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WALTER DAMROSCH – AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 09/26/1898 $1,500.00 |
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WALTER GROSS – INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED $899.00 |
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GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No9 Bruno Walter 10x 12″ 78 HMV SET $631.90 |
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WALTER GIESEKING debussy ravel grieg 10 LP mint- Italy $640.00 |
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45 RPM RECORD ULTRA RARE NOLA WALTER WASHINGTON VIC-DES 1000 MICKEY MOUSE $600.00 |
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Friz Freleng and Walter Lantz combo signed/drawn FDC “World of Music” $475.00 |
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WALTER PISTON – AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 07/17/1961 $399.00 |
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The Rhythm Aces Jabbo Smith /Walter Barnes Jazz Battle E Hot Jazz $350.00 |
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WALTER GIESEKING i concerti 7 LP mint- Italy Wood Cover $320.00 |
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BRUNO WALTER- BRAHMS SYMPHONIES -COLUMBIA BLUE LABEL SL 200- Deluxe Box, 4LP $300.00 |
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For Progressive-Minded Radio Fans Who Love Variety In The Music And Local Characters On The Dial, Downstate Illinois Can Be Annoying.
For progressive-minded radio fans who love variety in the music and local characters on the dial, downstate Illinois can be maddening.
So increasingly, listeners looking for voices and tunes they cannot find in west-central Illinois find them online made easier with smartphone technology. Folks who are uninterested in Limbaugh or who miss high-powered stations of years past (Little Rock’s KAAY-AM 1090 and its late-nite “Beaker Street” or WHAM-AM 1180 and Harry Abraham’s even-later “Best of All Possible Worlds” were classics in the ’70s) can find music or opinion they enjoy.
Alas, they then give up local stories and characters.
Commercial radio today has too few local people and small news. Most stations depend on syndicated shows, and even on news-talk stations, 86 p.c of stories and public-affairs programming isn’t local, according to Steven Waldman’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report, “The Info Requirements of Communities.”
At its best, radio had been a local medium, mixing immediacy with neighborliness, local colour and public significance. News was a staple of radio since 1930, when the NBC-Blue network first started displaying Lowell Thomas’ 15-minute weekday newscasts. Radio stories grew in audience and influence through World War II, after which local reports increased, filling the void where war stories had been, and the FCC encouraged it.
In 1981 nonetheless , the FCC deregulated its obligation that 8 percent of AM station programming and six p.c of FM programming be stories and public-affairs programming (debates, documentaries and talks of public interest). The FCC concluded, “We are sure that absent these tenets, significant amounts of non-entertainment programming of a variety of types will continue on radio.”
It did not.
Public-interest radio content declined.
Instead , stations cut shows, trimmed staff and lost such ties to listeners and still made cash off the public’s airwaves. Radio companies now make higher profits than the average SP 5 hundred firm, the FCC says, and even in the last few years and the Great Recession, radio station profits have stayed above twenty percent, according to Waldman.
Recently, the news / talk format grew significantly, whether right-wing blowhards, sports or all-talk. Except for radio journalism, non-commercial public radio is the industry’s news core, with 1,400 journalists, editors and producers in 21 domestic and seventeen foreign firms more than any broadcast Television network, Waldman says.
Former president of CBS Radio’s Station Group, Mel Karmazin now Chairman of Sirius XM said, “A lot of these larger companies abandoned what had made these list of radio stations very successful, which was local, local, local.”
Deregulation let commercial radio ignore past requirements to serve the towns they were approved to, plus cut reports staffs or eliminate local news and voices altogether.
In the meantime, satellite radio started in 1997 when American Mobile Radio Concern (the predecessor of XM Radio) and Satellite CD Radio (the predecessor of Sirius Radio) won bids to operate a digital audio radio service on the condition they not use them for locally originated programming or to find local ad cash (reaffirmed in 2008 when Sirius and XM combined).
Arbiton asserts more than 35 million folks now listen to Sirius XM in autos.
Today, besides using PCs, listeners can use smartphones’ online browsers to listen live to any station they need, too including in their cars.
Seventeen percent of North Americans report listening to online radio in 2010, a serious shift in listening habits. 40 p.c listened to AM or FM stations streaming online, and fifty five p.c listened to online-only radio (like Pandora or Slacker Radio). And the app for Pandora a kind of D-I-Y format is one of the top five for all smartphone platforms.
Radio critic Alan Hoffman described online radio’s appeal : “Internet radio explodes the boundaries of radio broadcasting, opening up a universe of stations offering far more variety. When you start listening to Net radio, the limits of AM and FM a restricted number of stations, within a limited geographic area seem like a throwback.”
Local radio could protect its franchises, continue to profit, and serve its communities with local reports and local characters. But they’ll lose listeners if the music is too leaden or safe, or if the voices are all toxic, Sean Hannity types. Audiences will desert local radio unless stations offer added worth and fresh content : local personalities and local programming listeners cannot get somewhere else as reported tagza.com.
Punk Music : Walter Mitty & His Makeshift Orchestra : live in Pomona,CA
