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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Death of a Radio Pioneer Lorenzo Milam, 1933-2020
https://reason.com/2020/07/23/the-death-of-a-radio-pioneer/He published a bunch of other books too, some under his own name and some pseudonymously. He wrote for literary journals, disability magazines, radio program guides, and the Whole Earth Catalog; he even did a couple of articles for Reason. For a while in the '60s he had a column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. His best-known piece of writing was a petition to the Federal Communication Commission, but hardly anyone actually read that onethey just passed along word of what was allegedly in it, and it became an urban legend.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Milam
tirebiter
(2,538 posts)KUSP, Santa Cruz, Pataphysical Radio. He got sort of depressed as time passed. We got NPR. and it was downhill from there. Station went belly up.
Kali
(55,016 posts)but have that distant connection to what it could have been
tirebiter
(2,538 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 27, 2020, 01:52 AM - Edit history (1)
Most my brethren went on to start another station KSQD, Ksquid also here in Da Cruz. Good luck, it can be done.
Kali
(55,016 posts)tirebiter
(2,538 posts)I have no patience after 40+ years. But I do have some healthy collections of Firesign Theatre, NatLamp Radio Hour and such to get me through the door..
hunter
(38,322 posts)Current radio bands could be converted to digital as television was, which would allow anyone willing to pay the power bill to open a radio station, much as anyone can create their own web site. All ground stations could be required to have local ownership and 60% locally produced content.
Opening a radio station would be as easy a buying a transmitter and signing some FCC paperwork agreeing to abide by a few simple regulations. The transmitter would be programmed to do the rest.
I support our local public radio station partly because I don't want the channel to be taken over by "Christian" radio.
Christian radio is intolerable to me. In college I shared an apartment with a guy who had it on constantly whenever he was there. I'd rather sleep in the library or under a bush than suffer that.
It's possible traditional radio and television are dead and don't know it yet. My adult children and their cousins don't pay any attention at all to it. Everything they listen to comes from their cell phones. They 'cast podcasts and music to their car and house speakers.
Kali
(55,016 posts)but do still listen to radio in the car, and I stream the community station from Tucson through a Goldberg set of connections to the stereo - so both computer and old style in one!