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Originally Posted by AUdubon5425
You obviously don't live where reports on traffic, weather, street flooding or crime scenes are of importance. Cabot Cove I guess.
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I live in a small town near Lake Erie, over 30 miles from Cleveland, but not so far out in the boondocks that I, or anyone else living in this area, can afford not to know what's going on in the so-called "big city" of Cleveland. What I meant was I would not miss the gabby disk jockeys and long strings of commercials on today's AM and FM radio stations. Of course the news reports on street flooding, weather, et al. are important, which is why I wish there was an all-news radio station in Cleveland (there isn't anymore, not since NBC's NNIS news service folded in the early 1980s; someone told me some time ago that Cleveland is too small a city to support an all news station, although the city did have an NNIS affiliate -- WERE 1300 AM -- in the late '70s until the service folded).
I do, however, listen to the new NBC News Radio network's one-minute newscasts on the local AM station here (WABQ 1460 AM in Painesville, five miles south of me). I would listen to all-news radio if this area had such a station, but since it doesn't, my clock radio remains tuned to 1460. The irony, however, is that Cleveland
does have an all-sports FM station -- WKRK-FM, 92.3 in suburban Cleveland Heights, since a few months ago.
I can't figure that out. Cleveland is too small to have an all-news station, yet it
is big enough to support an all-sports one. Maybe the powers-that-be at the all-sports station think that sports matters more to Cleveland people than the news does--no, I take that back. The reports of the school shootings in a city (Chardon) in Geauga County, Ohio several months ago were carried on the all-sports station the morning the shooting took place, and I'm sure the news of the theater shootings near Denver, Colorado was carried over that station and every other talk station in the city as well, so news radio is indeed important. The loudmouth DJs and seemingly-endless strings of commercials on the rock stations, however, can go to you-know-where as far as I am concerned. I realize radio and TV stations need a certain number of commercials to stay on the air, but eight or ten (or more[!]) of these things in a row is too much. There used to be an FCC rule limiting radio and TV commercial time to no more than one or, at most, two minutes in any given hour of the day; that rule was abolished almost 30 years ago when the agency deregulated broadcast radio, and one minute later, all H--- broke loose.