Whatch out The FCC is at it again Don't Speak loudly Someone might hear you Part 2

 

Again, a Grand Morning to ya'll. Don't ya'll wish that Big Tech would quit fighting you and being so dern greedy that it has to be constantly spying on you? No, they are not in a hall closet, {at least that you know of} but, from blogs to facebook chatter, it's the same, they are watching you. They eavesdrop on you, through your Smartphone, All those hot speaker aps, everything. Think Spotify, isn't monitoring everything you do? Every song, every game, every dern media anything. They got you by the testies and they is a twisting. Now your Cable/Satellite/ TV services are bytching about, the FCC clamping down on excess fee charges. About time. For example, here in Evanston Wyoming, people pay a $12.00 surcharge, for a T translator, that nobody uses. But we pay for it. We pay it's electric bill, about $200.00 a month, we pay for upkeep, that no one ever does, who is pocketing that cash? Then there is the cable access channel. Of the many of those I have seen, while I was there, and that might be, why it went dark, I wasn't there to bottle feed it, but Pocatello, had the best Cable Access Channel, ever. yet, in Evanston Wyoming, cable subscribers, pay for one, that no one ever uses. Why? Nobody to manage it? Nobody to maintain it? what. But we pay for it. The new sitch crunch of the FCC will force big and tiny cable systems, to no longer charge those tight fees. Of course, many of those are not crying, that they will have to raise rates just to cover basic expenses. Okay, fine. I say; time to break out the rabbit ears. Face it the conversion from, Analog, to digital TV was not for your own good. Or good for the video industry. What it did do, was put a bunch of tiny, re-run style TV stations out of business, requiring those that stayed in the game, to buy newer equipment, and having to, for the first time, both TV and Digitized radio, to move frequencies and no real recourse. While many went dark, many went to removing nightly newscasts. KUTV did that, and so did CH 12 out of Nampa. 

HazzardAyre Radio, stayed active, only because we were already digitized, But teat was not easy. We had to reduce our ERP, to a lower prime output, and engage 3 other stations, to triangulate a strong enough signal between the 3 to get out a decent, true stereo-generated signal. 

Even we had to whittle down a few spots in our staffing, two of which I wished we could have kept. Increased my workload 4 fold, to engineer, all 3 of our stations and contract 4 more area stations, just to feed myself and our network. 

Look, you might be a great lover of Trump and all, and while I'm glad Haly is out of the running, as her attitude towards the confederacy, is not warming. That said, under President then, Trump, his FCC Chair, was pro cell phone, not broadcast, nor that promised nationwide wide bandwidth internet that was to be free, ever was created. It was a pre-packaged deal, to get the go-ahead, yet produced no crop, no harvest. Kind of like the Free Obama Phone. 

Church at noon, and I will be on air at 00:00 hours Monday Morning.

Keep it tween the ditches.