This is significant media news. CBS is selling off all of its radio
assets.
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>CBS to Sell Radio Assets to Entercom
> Shareholders of Entercom will have to agree; the deal, which the companies
>called a merger, will result in a broadcaster with 244 stations but require
>some major-market station divestitures. Here’s what Entercom told financial
>analysts and reporters in their just-ended conference call.
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http://www.entercom.com/cbs-corporation-and-entercom-announce-merger-of-cbs-radio-with-entercom-to-create-preeminent-radio-platform
This is the end of an era in American culture.
In addition to this, the Australian Broadcasting Commission has shut down
its shortwave facilities that serve the outback. Seems they have been in a
political war with parliament over the expense and are replacing it with an FM
network with satellite downfeeds.
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2017/01/18/4605906.htm?site=alicesprings
When I was in high school I would get up early so that I could listen to
the morning shortwave broadcast to North America, which began with the call of
a Kookaburra. Sometimes I could pick up the regional shortwave broadcast from
Perth, which often carried the broadcast of horse races. Recently I would
listen to Radio Australia in the late evenings when the propagation was
favourable. That's all gone now. Damn!
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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