Subj : Re: newspaper was: moving or To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Feb 28 2020 17:21:16 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 23-Feb-2020 08:37 <=- BM>> past several years radio in general is coming in a distant second with BM>> stations becoming automated and syndicated. Pretty much no one in the BM>> studio much less to send out to check things out. NB>> Depends on the station.... The NPR/PBS stations still have live NB>> reporters in and out of the station.... and the local stations feed NB>> into the national news... I regularly hear reports from North Country NB>> Public Radio (WSLU and their affiliate stations) on the national news, NB>> and every so often even some from WXXI-AM here.... If I wished, I NB>> could be getting all sorts of breaking local, regional and national NB>> news around the clock by listening to the AM news station instead NB>> of the FM classical music station.... :) BM> We have a local talk radio AM station also, probably does the same BM> with the local, regional, etc., news. The FM stations we usually BM> listen to don't have their own news staff but do the news and weather BM> via feeds from the local TV stations: one FM station always uses the BM> announcements from a specific TV station, another FM station from a BM> different TV station. Producing their own local and regional news seems to be still a hallmark of the public radio stations... as I've said before, WXXI is a group of interconnected stations, AM, FM and TV (in multiples now, even)... so what the news reporters are getting is primarily being broadcast on AM and TV on their respective news programs... and being part of the National Public Radio and TV broadcasting networks, they both supply and receive news for the national segments.... The FM station mainly broadcasts the national headlines from NPR, with sometimes giving a little local news after, if it's particularly important... more often it might be something in the local news about something in the arts scene.. but, as I said, if I really wanted to be up on the local news, the AM station reports all of the news.... For weather, I think that the FM is getting it from one of the commercial stations weathermen.... I had thought it was directly from NWS, but one of the substitute announcers has been giving credit to one of the commercial stations... WXXI is, though, the station to turn to when there's the weather warnings from the Emergency Broadcast Network. BM> ...The news staff at Channel 4 (CBS, Rock BM> Island, IL) does the news for Ch. 18 (FOX, Davenport, IA). ...Wonder BM> if the FOX news is a practice run for the CBS news or the CBS newscast BM> is an encore of the FOX one?! Guess you'd have to tune in to them both to find out... ;) BM>>> I'd hate to have to print out e-mail!! NB>>> Yes that would be way too much, for sure....!! But email doesn't NB>>> take the place of a nice newsy written letter from a friend.... ;) BM>> Probably - I don't know. No one I know to do a written BM>> correspondence, it's all e-mail and/or phone. NB>> Admittedly, it's a lot rarer now.... I do have one friend that sends NB>> a real letter now and then... even she sometimes does it in email NB>> now, though... ;) BM> There was an "interesting story" insert in the local news this morning BM> of a small business in I think Pennsylvania teaching typewriting to BM> classes of mostly teenagers, using real typewriters -- most appeared to BM> be electric (didn't see a manual upright like I learned on!). Said it BM> taught accuracy: no rubout key!. Also planning: can't cut and paste. They clearly aren't using that hybrid electric that let you type out (and fix on the run) a whole line at a time before actually printing it onto the paper... Typewriting is a useful skill, though... ;) If nothing else, it'll make them more proficient on their computers.... and appreciate cut-and-paste and easy corrections on the fly more... ;) ttyl neb .... A smile is a window on your face that shows your heart is home. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .