Yes, but not the the poverty local public stations. And more likely  
because I hardly ever hear music on the radio that is worth hearing.

I grew up on KDFCm KKHI, some good local rock stations in the 60s  
(KEWB, KYA, etc), and then KMPX and KSAN and MOR KFOG, not to mention  
KJAZ which was truly the world's greatest jazz station until the  
idiot owner killed it (I have over 100 hours of their last two weeks  
on air!). I think there may be one bay area commercial station worth  
a listen this century, KFOG, and they are too much rock for me now.

The Cedar box sounds interesting, but I doubt MP3s need it and the  
real radio stations could afford it...

Thanks for the info though!


On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Shai Drori wrote:

You might not have heard a record scratch because many  stations  
installed the Cedar "black box". I don't know the official name for  
it but I saw a preproduction demo of the gizmo. it hooks between your  
station and the transmitter and learns and remove noises, clicks etc,  
real time. Because it is constantly monitoring the audio it changes  
the algorithm as it goes. It has no controls or operator input  
capability, quite amazing.

Lou Judson wrote:
> There's a group on the Bay Area who did that recently too.
>
> It would be really interesting to have a survey of how many and  
> which radio stations actually do have turntables in line these  
> days. I'd bet most public and lcoal alternative stations do - but  
> maybe not... KPFA does, so does KALW. not sure about others... I  
> haven't heard a record scratch on air in years so maybe you are right!
>
> <L>
> On Oct 5, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
>
>> I just saw a 10"78rpm  from a retro folk group out of Oregon.
>> It was pressed on vinyl but  LP groove to get the length of the  
>> tune on the disc.
>> They wanted to be totally  retro i guess  and sent these out to  
>> djs and radio stations.... dont they know  radio stations dont  
>> have turntables any more  much less a 78 one.
>> dnw
>