Christopher C. Stacy wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) writes:
Sadly, I agree. But personally I think they should spend some time getting
Part 15 enforced, and dealing with the fact that most of the current radio
broadcasters are not performing much of a public service but are instead
just playing whatever comes over the bird.

If people don't think it's a public service, they will turn it off;
we call this "competition". Who else but the listeners will determine
if a "public service" is being rendered? You?

Until the mid-1980s, the FCC did, and they had some fairly stanadardized
rules on the subject.

Today, nobody does. And if you look at the current statistics, most people
ARE turning their radios off. Radio listening has dropped considerably
except in the car, where there is a fairly captive audience. And, in the
car, we have people who seldom listen to any one station for more than
two minutes. That does not sound like ANY stations, therefore, are providing
the service the listeners are looking for.

It is made worse in that there are a lot of small niche markets that were
once served by radio stations, but which are no longer served because of
the increased operating costs and license cost has made it unprofitable for
them to broadcast to a small but often vocal market.
--scott

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