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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 01 : Issue 62
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Benny Christmas Show Dates [JHaendiges@[removed] ]
conolrad (spell? ["Henry Brugsch" <henry@listentohear]
Facsimilie Old Radio ... ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
Today in radio history 2/22 [Joe Mackey <wmackey@[removed]]
Interview Records [Kubelski@[removed] ]
Wet Battery Radios, etc. ["Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@]
Victor Borge special ["Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed]]
Re: Radio Restoration -- a Wrinkle o [Bill Harris <billhar@[removed]; ]
Quiz ["Welsa" <welsa@[removed]; ]
Question about Philips' Expanium 103 ["Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
Re: Dangerous Radios! [Bill Harris <billhar@[removed]; ]
Re: Remember WENN [Bill Harris <billhar@[removed]; ]
Re: Remember WENN [RobertWGee@[removed] ]
Must Reading for everyone [Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
Today in radio history 2/23 [Joe Mackey <wmackey@[removed]]
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:26:54 -0500
From: JHaendiges@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Benny Christmas Show Dates
Joe C. asked about the Christmas related programs aired in the "Jack Benny
Show" series.
Here is a complete of all Christmas related programs in that series;
Series: THE JACK BENNY SHOW
12-22-32 :30:00 "CHRISTMAS SHOPPING"
12-25-32 :30:00 "CHRISTMAS DAY PROGRAM"
12-24-33 :30:00 "CHRISTMAS NIGHT PRESENTS"
12-23-34 :30:00 "CHRISTMAS EVE IN NEBRASKA"
12-22-35 :30:00 "I GOT THOSE BACK HOME IN INDIANA CHRISTMAS EVE BL
12-29-35 :30:00 "CHRISTMAS GIFTS"
12-20-36 :29:20 "AN OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS PARTY"
12-12-37 :29:00 "CHRISTMAS SHOPPING"
12-26-37 :30:00 "CHRISTMAS SHOW"
12-11-38 :29:00 "CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN NEW YORK"
12-25-38 :29:30 "JACK'S CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE"
12-17-39 :29:50 "CHRISTMAS SHOPPING FOR PERFUME AND A NECKTIE"
12-24-39 :29:30 "CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE AT JACK'S HOUSE"
12-22-40 :30:20 "CHRISTMAS SHOPPING"
01-05-41 :29:40 "ROSEBOWL GAME -- STANFORD VS. NEBRASKA"
12-21-41 :29:00 "THE CHRISTMAS TREE"
12-28-41 :25:00 "JACK TALKS ABOUT A CHRISTMAS PARTY HE GAVE"
12-19-43 :29:00 "JACK AND MARY GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING"
12-26-43 :29:00 "CHRISTMAS AT JACK'S HOUSE"
12-24-44 :29:30 "TRIMMING A TREE"
12-08-46 :29:30 "JACK BUYS DON SHOE LACES FOR CHRISTMAS"
12-15-46 :29:30 "JACK LEARNS DON HAS METAL TIP SHOELACES, SO HE EX
12-22-46 :20:00 "CHRISTMAS PARTY AT BIRMINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL"
12-21-47 :29:30 "LAST MOMENT CHRISTMAS SHOPPING"
12-19-48 :29:30 "JACK BUYS A WALLET FOR DON AS CHRISTMAS GIFT"
12-18-49 :29:30 "MARY BUYS JACK A PENCIL SHARPENER FOR CHRISTMAS"
12-25-49 :20:00 "ROCHESTER IS SHOCKED BY AN ELECTRIC ALARM CLOCK"
12-17-50 :29:30 "JACK BUYS DON GOLF TEES FOR CHRISTMAS"
12-24-50 :29:30 "BEAVERS COME OVER TO JACK'S FOR CHRISTMAS"
12-02-51 :29:30 "JACK BUYS DON CUFF LINKS FOR CHRISTMAS"
12-23-51 :30:00 "CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION"
12-07-52 :29:30 "HAPPY TIME"
12-14-52 :29:30 "JACK BUYS A GOPHER TRAP FOR DON"
12-21-52 :29:10 "SETTING UP CHRISTMAS TREE"
12-13-53 :28:30 "CHRISTMAS SHOW FROM PALM SPRINGS"
12-20-53 :29:30 "CACTUS CHRISTMAS TREE"
12-05-54 :29:00 "CHRISTMAS SHOPPING"
12-19-54 :29:00 "CHRISTMAS AT PALM SPRINGS"
12-26-54 :29:00 "DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS - DENNIS' COLD"
12-23-56 :29:00 "JACK BUYS DON A WALLET FOR CHRISTMAS"
12-22-57 :30:00 "FROM VETERNS HOSPITAL-LONG BEACH"
12-29-57 :29:00 "JACK GIVES THE SPONSOR A WATCH FOR CHRISTMAS"
If you wish to find out more information on the series, you may go to my
Website, The Vintage Radio Place at <[removed];. Go down to the "Main
Table of Contents" and click on "Vintage Radio Logs." Then just click on
"Jack Benny Show," or any of the other over 500 logs listed there to view,
download or print out the log(s). These programs are all available for
purchase there also on CD, Cassette and other formats.
You may also find this series listed in my on-line CD / cassette catalog
which is located at <[removed]; <A
HREF="[removed]">OTRSite On-Line Catalog</A>. To use this
catalog, your browser must be Frames compliant and you should be running at a
resolution setting of 800x600 or higher for best viewing (although lower
resolution settings may be used).
I hope this helps. If you have any other questions, please feel free to
contact me.
Merry Christmas :-),
Jerry Haendiges <jhaendiges@[removed];
[removed] <A HREF="[removed]">The Vintage Radio Place</A>
Largest source of OTR Logs, Articles and programs on the Net
Available on CD, Cassette, Reel to Reel, DAT, VHS
Over 100 programs in streaming RealAudio
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:27:04 -0500
From: "Henry Brugsch" <henry@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: conolrad (spell?
I remember the last few years of this service, including a sort of
demo of how the thing worked, complete with a sample of what it might sound
like.
It was done up as a drama called if memory serves "This is Conolrad" I even
had a copy of it once, but it like so much got lost.
I also remember a test, when I got special permission to get out of
afternoon sports at school to listen to it.
The deal was, all fixed transmitters were meant to be off the air. If you
were a licensed radio amateur, you had to ensure you weren't broadcasting
during a Conolrad broadcast, less some aircraft home in on you.
A bit like an electronic version of the blitz blackouts.
I remember, though during the last test I heard, there was a fair amount of
amateur activity on the bands.
Not all of it dx.
I wonder if anyone got the broadcast that dramatized the implementation of
this service?
Henry Brugsch
mailto:henry@[removed] [removed]
G0GKU/K1HBJ +441562820090 voice
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:28:01 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Facsimilie Old Radio ...
Anent the restoration of Old Radios, some years ago, some companies
manufactured ersatz Old Radios. These were table-model cathedral types,
but their interiors were solid-state electronics, and on the side of some
were doors for built-in cassette drives. One could pop an OTR tape into
one of these and get a sense of going back to those thrilling days of
yesterday for the express purpose of listening to an OTR program or
programs. (I was amused to visit a shop of used merchandise a couple of
years ago and spotting one of these. The shop owner, who was in his late
20s or early 30s, had thought it a genuine antique and was asking more
for it than buying one new.) These radios turn up from time to time to
this very day.
This made me think. Suppose someone wanted to make a really good ...
emulation ... of an Old Radio, but using solid state insides rather than
the tubes of a real Old Radio. How to do this? It would have to act
like an Old Radio, and would have to be engineered to simulate precisely
the characteristics of one.
There would be two characteristics: the warmup period and the cheery glow
from the tube filaments. The easiest of these would be the warmup delay.
A timing circuit could be incorporated in the circuitry that would add a
delay before applying power to the audio output. Naturally, the delay
would be set to 30 seconds or so. But what about the glow?
Thare alternatives on how to do this. The simplest would be to place a
small, clear bulb in the cabinet interior with an orangish filter over
it. The filter could be tinted to match the color of filament glow.
More exotic, but probably better, would be to have a collection of
different colored LEDs, selected so that the mixture of their output
would combine to the "tube glow" color.
Naturally, the "old Radio" could have concealed cassette and/or CD drives
to play OTR recordings.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:28:03 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <wmackey@[removed];
To: otr-otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history 2/22
From Info Beat Express --
> - In 1924: Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio
broadcast from the White House.
Joe
--
Visit my home page:
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:08:46 -0500
From: Kubelski@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Interview Records
The practice of giving local stations canned interviews with celebrities to
be read by local anchors as if they were live interviews continues to this
day. It's a standard practice when sending video news release tapes to local
stations to provide versions with and without sound so the station can cut in
local narration.
Sean Dougherty
The MWW Group
(the 18th largest PR firm in the [removed])
kubelski@[removed]
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:41:46 -0500
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Wet Battery Radios, etc.
Owens Pomeroy, speaking of really vintage radios, notes,
my Granddad <snip> purchased a breadboard 3-dial radio that was powered
by - are you ready for this? WET BATTERIES! As far as I can remember the
batteries were three vats with, I believe sulfuric acid in them, in
which copper plates were placed to conduct the electricity.
Wet-battery radios exist to this very day. My wife and each have one.
They're in our cars. Unless the engine is running, listening to any
radio built into a car is to listen to a wet-battery radio.
Bill Harris, speaking of radio tubes, remarks,
Most assume that if an old radio isn't playing it probably 'needs a
tube'. I seldom find that a bad tube the reason a vintage set does not
play
This harks back to something prevalent in the mid-1950s. A lot of stores
-- drugstores, dime stores, and the like -- had "tube testers" as
standalone sales devices. There was an array of tube sockets and a
couple of multi- position rotary switches (with pointers). A consumer
would bring a bag of tubes from the home radio and/or television sets.
Each tube would be inserted in an appropriate socket, the switches would
be set per the instructions at the tester, and then the "test" button
would be pressed. A large meter would have three positions: a wide "red"
sector, signifying "bad," a small white sector, signifying "?," and a
wide green sector signifying "good." Pressing the button would cause the
needle to move into one of these sectors.
Now, two things: first, the tube tester was the simpler emission type
rather than the conductance variety, so the tests weren't as helpful as
they otherwise could have been. Most important, though, emblazoned
across the top of these testing stations was the following statement:
"When something goes wrong with your radio or television set, 90% of the
time, the trouble is a tube." So this led to such an expectation from
the nontechnical consumer. (Also, the consumer would think he or she was
saving money by not having to bring the ailing package of electronics to
a repair shop.)
the average tube type table set will draw less that 100 watts, more
like 50-75 watts.
There was a kitchen radio genus that service technicians of the time
called "the All-American Five," because radios of that sort used five of
the smaller tubes like 12AX7s, that ran in the 50-Watt range. I suspect
that a significant number of surviving tube radios are of that sort.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:09:03 -0500
From: "Ted Kneebone" <tkneebone1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Victor Borge special
Just got the latest issue of South Dakota Public Broadcasting Magazine, and
it lists a show to be aired on public television called
The legendary Victor Borge.
It is to be aired March 10 at 6:00 pm Central time. This is probably a
production of PBS and available in other states. Borge was a prominent
entertainer on radio, television, and, to many of us, on LP records -- a
musician who found comedy in "serious" music.
Ted Kneebone / 1528 S. Grant St. / Aberdeen, SD 57401 / 605-226-3344
tkneebone1@[removed] | OTR: [removed]
[removed] |
[removed]
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:11:56 -0500
From: Bill Harris <billhar@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Radio Restoration -- a Wrinkle or Two
Stephen Kallis, Jr. wondered:
Ah ... this brings up a problem I hadn't thought of: what's the level of
authenticity on a "restoration"?
The level of restoration varies depending upon the tastes of the restorer. I
would
say most collectors do as Stephen suggests, replace capacitors and resistors
with
modern
components and leave it at that. After all it is under the chassis and out of
view. Some collectors, and I often do this, will remove the insides of the
capacitors from
the cardboard sleeves and put modern units inside. Philco used Bakelite
blocks in
early sets that contained the capacitors, the unit being sealed with tar. When
restoring
one of these Philco sets, I remove the old capacitor from the Bakelite block
and
install modern units inside. This keeps the underside of the chassis looking
authentic.
It is easy to remove the insides of the filter capacitor cans and install new
units also. For any interested in seeing how such a restoration was done,
visit:
[removed]~[removed]
Most collectors do try to keep the outward appearance of the set as authentic
as
possible, such as components on top of the chassis and certainly the cabinet.
One
of the
biggest mistakes often made is stripping the cabinet and refinishing it with a
modern poly type finish instead of using lacquers as original, there were no
poly
finishes when
these sets were being manufactured . If a set is to be entered in a judging
contest, the the more authentic the better, especially the older coffin style
sets
where the lid
could be raised and the internal components viewed. Here collectors will go to
great pains for authenticity, even using the old square type buss wire,
sometimes
even trying to find
NOS (new old stock) components if possible.
An allied question concerns "fixing" old radios. Suppose someone finds
the remnants of an old radio, and fills it with modern stuff, so that
although he or she receives radio, nothing back of the front of the case
or cabinet has a bit of glass in it.
This is considered the worst thing you could do to a vintage set. Completely
destroys any value.
Bill Harris
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:11:58 -0500
From: "Welsa" <welsa@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Quiz
I recently came into possession of the September, 1938 edition of RADIO
MIRROR magazine. In the front there is a quiz about radio. Supposedly,
readers of the magazine and listeners from that time would know these
answers. Try your hand. I'll post the answers tomorrow.
1) What well-known radio commentator renounced the country of his birth to
become an American citizen?
2) What radio script writer, whose dramatic sketches are heard on the Rudy
Vallee hour and the CBS Workshop, was once a Cleveland druggist?
3) What color are Gracie Allen's eyes?
4) What CBS conductor recently married a Goldwyn Follies dancer?
5) What member of a rural comedy team recently became a father?
6) What recently married radio couple will broadcast by shortwave from
South America?
7) What radio and movie star has one of the most famous collections of
modern art in the country?
8) What is the Edmar?
9) What romance between a radio singer from Florida and a movie actor from
Tahiti, culminated in marriage?
10) What well-known book reviewer heckles what well-known newspaper
columnist on a radio program?
11) What swing band leader recently recorded the Mozart Quintet?
12) If you were horseback riding in New York's Central Park some morning,
what orchestra leader would you probably see riding his own horse?
13) What radio singer and what band leader are brothers?
14) What CBS music series is named for the conductor's secretary's blouse?
15) What radio singer and mistress of ceremonies, who recently turned
commentator, is now an authoress?
16) What member of a famous radio trio now carries on alone?
Have fun with these. I got very few right.
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:12:01 -0500
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Question about Philips' Expanium 103
Hello again --
I'm back this time to ask a technical question. I know many of you despise
the mp3 format, but I have to say that I love it at least for long car
trips, where storage space is at a premium -- one CD (for the CD-based mp3
players) can hold up to a hundred half-hour programs or more, depending on
the fidelity that one wishes.
I'm writing, though, to ask if anyone else has purchased the Philips'
Expanium as I did last week. Its web site brags that it can play any
CD-based mp3s from 32 kbps to 320 kbps, but my experience is that if I try
to play a half-hour OTR program recorded at the 32 kbps rate, the machine
will either stop completely, or jump to the next track, before half the
program is over. What is more aggravating is that the skip or freeze occurs
at different times in the same program: maybe three minutes, ten minutes,
even fifteen minutes into the show! One would think that if the Expanium
could play that bitrate at all it could play the whole thing! And another
puzzling thing is that I have some thirteen-minute programs recorded at only
24 kbps, and the Expanium plays those just fine.
Has anyone else had this problem? No one at Philips' American tech support
was able to figure it [removed] they simply suggested that one "work around"
would be to convert all my 32 bitrate files to 44 or higher! Yeah, like I
have that kind of time and/or patience. I have a suggestion of my own for
the Philips company: that they withdraw the claim from their advertising
that the Expanium 103 can play 32 kbps files if it can't!
Speaking of time, I have a month to decide whether I want to keep this gizmo
or not, and no one at the company can tell me (or would admit) if I have
simply got a faulty machine or not. I'll appreciate any advice you can give,
particularly if you have the 103 unit as I do. And if you are embarrassed to
discuss mp3s in front of the many open-reel-or-nothing fanatics that read
the OTR digest (just kidding), please write me directly at my e-mail
address.
Many thanks if you have completed reading this atypically long note.
Jan Bach
janbach@[removed]
website: [removed]
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:12:02 -0500
From: Bill Harris <billhar@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Dangerous Radios!
Owens Pomeroy commented about radio and the days before electricity.
Wet batteries were the bane of the housewife, many a carpet was ruined
because of
battery acid. The wet cells provided the 'A' voltage, for the filaments of the
tubes. The 'B" battery, which supplied the high voltages, (45 and 90 volts)
were
of the dry type. Some sets also required a 'C' battery as well. The current
draw
on the A battery was much heavier than the current requirements of the B
battery
so a B battery would last quite some time, while the A battery would require
frequent recharging. The dry B battery was not rechargeable and would simply be
replaced when exhausted.
It wasn't long until various manufacturers began selling A and B battery
eliminators that would operate from the AC house current, if you were lucky to
live where electricity was [removed] wasn't until 1927 that tubes were
developed that could operate with AC on the filaments and then radios were
developed to operate directly from AC house current. Philco, (The Philadelphia
Storage Battery Co.) produced such A and B battery eliminators, and when the
radio
became AC operated the demand for such eliminators all but dried up and
Philco was
forced to enter the radio manufacturing business, eventually becoming the
largest
producer of radio sets.
The 3-dial breadboard radio Owens Grandfather had was probably an Atwater Kent,
and such sets can easily command well over $1000 in price today.
For an insight into radio in rural America before electrification you may
like to
visit: [removed]~[removed]
Bill Harris
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:12:04 -0500
From: Bill Harris <billhar@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Remember WENN
LDunham509 had this to say:
I'm not certain ''Remember WENN'' -was- intended to convey an accurate
impression of a radio station, any more than TV's ''WKRP In Cincinnati'' was,
in its era.
Certainly that is true, but the original posting on the subject commented about
the series "What a well written and acurate portrayal of the era that one was!"
It was far from an accurate portrayal of how a radio station of that era was
run.
Bill Harris
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:27:49 -0500
From: RobertWGee@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Remember WENN
I agree with Larry Dunham about "Remember WENN." If presenting a technically
and historically accurate depiction of a radio station were the series
creator's goal, he would have written a documentary, not a dramatic series.
Any dramatic portrayal of an event will offend purists. "Gone With the Wind"
was hardly an accurate depiction of the Civil War era, and Civil War
enthusiasts quibble endlessly about whether the belt buckle worn by so-and-so
in the movie "Gettysburg" would actually have been authentic. I recall a
colleague criticizing the TV mini-series "North and South" for (among other
things) showing drinking utensils made by a cut-glass process not then
invented, and I myself laughed at the perma-bound edition of "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" shown in one scene. As an historian I find myself cringing
occasionally when I listen to old radio historical dramas, but I enjoy them
if they engender a "feel" for the particular era or event they depict.
"Remember WENN," in general, created that sensation for me, and although I
found some storylines lame, I enjoyed others immensely. As far as
heartwarming incidents, I agree with Mr. Dunham about the Xmas episode, and I
also thought the one in which Mr. Eldridge won the lottery was quite
endearing.
The main problem with "Remember WENN" was not the show itself, but the stupid
way AMC aired it, particularly the final time when frequently there were
month-long gaps between episodes, and time changes which made viewing next to
impossible. I never bothered to watch the "Lot" series for this very reason.
(Of course, with the way AMC has gone steadily downhill over the past
several years, there's very little reason to view the channel [removed])
So, I think too much nit-picking is self-defeating. In programs like
"Remember WENN" a viewer should mostly be experiencing a feel rather than a
fact.
Robert Gee
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:32:03 -0500
From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Must Reading for everyone
From: StevenL751@[removed]
For those of you interested in the latest news of Radio Spirits
and their rights battles, take a look at this recent article from
the [removed] Times:
[removed]
Great story! At first I thought it was going to be just another sob
story about how everybody is ripping off copyright owners, but then the
writer got to the nitty gritty that includes that fact that the
individual discussed in the news story won't tell anyone which
properties he claims to own--and consequently which ones he DOESN'T--so
effectively he is pretending to own everything to keep everyone else
from selling anything. Boston Pete, Jay Hickerson, Gordon Payton, and
Elizabeth McLeod are quoted.
We are also advised that if materials from the OTR era were copyrighted
and not renewed, then they are [removed], but if they were never copyrighted
they are effectively protected until 2050. A Catch 22 that was never
intended by the founding fathers who originally invisioned Patents and
Copyrights as protections of a LIMITED nature which would then be
released to the general public for the benefit of the whole of society.
The story ends with some sage advice from our sage advisor, Elizabeth.
After telling us that the subject of the story is "gearing up for a
larger scale legal campaign later this year" the author, Erik Smith
says:
... the Internet has brought everything to a head: Every downloaded
radio program cuts into a potential Radio Spirits sale. The trading
is already so widespread and anonymous that it may be hard to stop,
she says, and if the company pushes further, MP3 enthusiasts may
simply be driven underground, making radio programs available on
private servers.
Amari, McLeod says, has ticked "a lot of people off. And when
people are [mad], they work twice as hard. I don't know if he can
stuff that genie back into the bottle."
By the way, the story was published on Friday Feb 16 and might not be
available on the net for free for long--check it out NOW. You see,
ironically right after the above quote comes their copyright notice and
this message:
Search the archives of the Los Angeles Times for similar stories
about: Radio Stations, Radio Programs, Internet (Computer Network),
Web Sites. You will not be charged to look for stories, only to retrieve
one.
Yes, Virginia, there is no Sanity Clause. Note that although the
article tells the tale of 87 year old Irving Brecher who is now
receiving royalties for his creation "The Life Of Riley", most
copyrights are corporate held--often successor corporations--and rarely
pay royalties to the PEOPLE who were the original creators. For
example, the copyright to the news story we are discussing is not held
by the author, Erik Smith, but the Los Angeles Times. NBC held the
copyrights for the TV version of "The Life Of Riley." I wonder who got
paid when that was syndicated. Will Smith get a royalty if we download
his story in a few weeks and have to pay for it?
Michael Biel, mbiel@[removed] , an educator and reviewer who is claiming
his Fair Use rights to quote a brief excerpt for review and educational
purposes.
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:31:43 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <wmackey@[removed];
To: otr-otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Today in radio history 2/23
From Info Express and the AP:
- In 1927: President Coolidge signed a bill that created the Federal
Radio Commission, which was a forerunner to the Federal Communications
Commission.
Joe
--
Visit my home page:
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