[NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

Fri Jan 16 21:31:27 CST 2009

Joe Thiegs deserves a lot of credit for having thought through the concept of satellite transmission. There were a lot of guys in the telecomunications business who didn't think of it.
John DeGroat
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From: "Beamsley, Jeff" <Jeff.Beamsley at covisint.com>
> I enjoy listening to the Sox on WSCR during the summer, though my
> tolerance for sketchy reception irritates my wife.  I also agree that
> satellite radio has made it much easier to be a Chicago ex-pat.
> 
> Also fun to hear that WXRT is still going strong.  I was fortunate
> enough to be around when they got started as a late night broadcaster on
> a day-time ethnic station.  Those shows inspired me to try my hand at it
> on WNUR.  I suspect most of the management that grew it is probably long
> gone, but it was fun to see that Terri Hammert is still on the air.  I
> think I've still got a jersey somewhere from playing on their flag
> football team.  We were really bad but I think one year we beat WFMT.
> 
> Jeff 
> 
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> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
> On Behalf Of Joe Thiegs
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:30 PM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread
> 
> I would guess you might be able to pick up WBBM at night from
> Indianapolis.
> I know late at night (particularly on a clear night with a straight shot
> to the ionosphere) I can pick up WBBM, WGN, WSCR, and WLS on the car
> radio in varying degrees of clarity, depending on where I am around the
> Twin Cities, ~400 miles away.  I do get nostalgic listening to things
> like the traffic reported in minutes from the Post Office.  :)
> Similarly, when I was in college, I could pick up WCCO (830-AM)
> and--less frequently or clearly--KSTP
> (1500-AM) late at night too.  I remember listening to a few Gopher games
> on 'CCO from a boombox in my room at Sig Ep.  Gotta love those
> clear-channel (not "Clear Channel Communications") stations.
> 
> I like to claim credit for the satellite radio idea, but don't think
> that I will get any.  My freshman year at NU ('92-'93), I started
> missing the morning show from a Twin Cities station (KQRS-92.5 FM, a/k/a
> KQ92), since there was nothing quite like it in Chicago--and, I have
> since found, nothing quite like it anywhere.  I started thinking about
> ways that favorite local radio shows could be broadcast to people
> wherever they were and came up with satellite signals and mobile
> receivers as the solution (mind you, this was a couple of years before
> graphical web browsing--e.g., using NCSA Mosaic--and well before any
> kind of streaming online media).  As an electrical engineering major at
> the time, I really should have pursued the idea but didn't.  I think the
> patent rights for Sirius and XM go back to 1995 or so, as I believe I
> recall from having checked a couple of years ago . . . .
> C'est la vie, I guess.
> 
> -Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
> On Behalf Of Michael Vance
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:31 PM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread
> 
> One of the things that I grew up with in Detroit (WWJ-950) and still
> spent a lot of time with in Chicago (WBBM-780) is the CBS Newsradio
> stations.  You could -- and still can for the most part -- get traffic
> and weather on the 8s, sports at 15 and 45, business news at 25 and 55,
> national network news at the top of the hour, and mix of local and
> national highlights at the bottom.  It was almost like comfort food when
> driving back to Chicago from Michigan, and was especially frustrating
> when they have carried various sports teams over the years and that
> disrupts the traffic report schedule.  But I think that even those have
> changed some just in the six years that I've been in Indianapolis.  I
> don't get a chance to listen to WBBM enough when I'm back up in Chicago
> (my wife missed WXRT too much) to really put my finger on it though.
> 
> -Michael
> 
> Mike Nolan wrote:
> >> Conservative Talk Radio only survives as a viable format because it 
> >> draws listeners.
> >>     
> >
> > Isn't that true about ANY media?  If nobody is reading, listening or
> watching
> > it dies.  I'm not sure if the Internet quite follows that rule yet.
> >
> > I pretty much stopped listening to AM radio a good 10 years ago, 
> > because there wasn't anything I wanted to hear, certainly no music.  
> > Even the
> local
> > morning drive-time block isn't worth listening to any more, except 
> > maybe for traffic reports.  (Just TRY to get a weather report on an AM
> 
> > radio at 6:30 AM!)
> >
> > These days when I'm in my car (not as much as before 1999, since I now
> 
> > work from home) I listen to Sirius satellite radio, usually Broadway
> > show tunes.   Memory, all alone in the moonlight....
> > --
> > Mike Nolan
> >
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