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[removed] Digest				Volume 96 : Issue 501

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	 Variety in radio
	 Re: Radio drama on SW?
	 Radio variety

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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 21:27:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Kinsler <kinsler@[removed]>
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Subject: Variety in radio
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> Here's one to ponder. Did radio have more variety than television? Or is it
> just looking back at it from now makes it seem so.
> 
> I think radio had far more variety than tv. And I am not sure why.

I don't agree.  Radio didn't really last long enough to gain the 
sophistication of television.  Radio lasted roughly from 1920 to 1955, 
which is 35 years.  The 35th year of television was about 1980.  

A few things that television had that old-time radio didn't, at least from 
what I've learned on this group:

1) Investigative news reporting
2) Wildlife shows
3) Cooking shows 
4) Home repair shows and other how-to-do-it stuff
5) Science shows (includes wildlife, of course, but Walt Disney got to 
   the moon ten years before NASA did).
6) Health-related shows
7) Ballet (I'm [removed] couldn't resist :-))
8) Business-related shows
9) Wrestling (An early winner on old time television, incl. mud and females)
10) Roller derby (same thing).

 Some of these are on radio now, but they're pretty much the property of
public radio, which isn't commercially supported like OTR was.  The point
is that, except in a few cases, radio never had time to do much
experimenting because all the talent migrated to television. 
  Television's huge bandwidth ate up the whole VHF and UHF spectrum,
allowing radio no room for expansion.  Had this not happened, we'd
probably have had four or five different entertainment radio bands by now. 
  One television station takes up 6 MHz of spectrum space.  The entire AM
band takes up 1 MHz, and the FM band only 20 MHz.  When the FCC took away
just ten of the 83 TV station frequency allocations, it opened up enough
room for entire new industries, including cellular telephones and several
new classes of wireless digital services. 

                                        Mark Kinsler
            

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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 21:01:45 -0800
From: banzai-1@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio drama on SW?
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A while back someone wrote about drama/sci-fi (I'm not sure) on SW.  IF 
someone could repost that information or any other information about possible 
good radio drama (esp. BBC stuff) on SW I'd sure appreciate it.

I'm kind of new to SW so if the answers could be less technical and more 
practical, ex. tune in EST to this frequency that would be great!

Thanks in advance for any leads!

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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:40:26 -0700 (MST)
From: William Miles <bmiles@[removed]>
To: Oldtime Radio Net <otr@[removed]>
Subject: Radio variety
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I agree with Joseph M. concerning radio versus television.  To me, radio 
did not insult the intelligence of the listener as television does the 
viewer.  Radio shows were either clearly comedy, drama, or documentary.  As 
I see it, television makes no distinction between "dysfunctional" 
(I abhor the word) families and everyone else.  In the eyes of the TV 
writers, we are all a bunch of idiots.  That goes for the writers and 
producers of many TV commercials.  Have you ever watched an ad for 
perfumes, beer, [removed]  If you can even figure out the message behind the 
whole thing you're doing good!  Yes, radio definitely had a lot more going 
for it than present-day TV.  For one thing, the writers took the time to 
be creative.  I'm not saying all TV is bad, but I daresay 75% of it could 
be dropped with nothing being missed!

Sorry gang, but that's my "soapbox" for 1996!  Stay tuned.

"All heaven and earth resound with that subtle and delicately balanced 
truth that the old paths are the best paths after all." -([removed] Ryle - 
from the book "Dittoheads Little Instruction Book") 



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