Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihu1m!gadfly From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.wobegon Subject: Re: PHC's during NPR fundraising Message-ID: <137@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 01:37:52 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.137 Posted: Sat Dec 1 01:37:52 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:25:10 EST References: masscomp.151, <5960@brl-tgr.ARPA> <61@uwvax.UUCP>, <1632@browngr.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 32 -- >> So New Jersey has 'real' non-commercial radio, in which a few >> people (those operating the station, doing the broadcasts, etc., >> while getting no salary) donate their time (presumably worth a >> good deal of money, since in other places people are paid a great >> deal for these services) while the listeners get off easy. >> That's non-commercial radio all right. >> Something about this reminds me of an expression I heard while >> at Princeton: A 'New Jersey virgin' is someone who's only had >> sex once. Perhaps we can say that "New Jersey Listener Supported >> Radio" is radio supported by a few listeners and some dedicated >> operators... Madison, Wisconsin's "Back Porch Radio", WORT, does it both ways. It is listener supported, with pledge marathons twice a year (or more if there's a budget crisis), but salaries go to office, financial, and engineering staff only. All the programmers do it gratis, for the love of the show they put on. Thus, the classical and jazz DJs are often performing musicians with intimate knowledge of the pieces and large record collections. And the guy who does the golden oldies has more one-of-a-kind, never released demo pressings than humanly possible. Some of these folks have the radio personality of a dead fish, but damn, they do know their stuff, and they certainly put to shame some of the commercial and even NPR-affiliate announcers who got the job simply because they talk pretty. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 30 Nov 84 [10 Frimaire An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***