A hijacked thread. So sorry. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
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Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 7:59 PM
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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Changing the subject!! (was Folk Music in America a long
time ago)

Hey! Didn't anyone read Steve's note? He asked you nicely to please change
the subject - this hasn't been about Folk Music in America for a few days
now. So now I'm going to have to get rough with you.

Cary Ginell
On Jul 2, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Same in lower Putnam County NY -- one strong NPR station (and a lame one
at that), one strong Evergreen formula-rock station and of course one or two
trash-pop stations. Everything else is too static-prone to bother, even in
mono. Only solution is a massive lightening-attracting tower antenna. No
thanks!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald Clarke" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Folk Music in America
> 
> 
>> I would care, except I live in the Lehigh Valley, where the radio
reception is practically nil.
>> 
>> Donald Clarke
>> 
>> On Jul 2, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
>> 
>> My bet is, the cycle will come around and the airwaves will matter.
Perhaps not for broadcasting music, but the owners of the frequencies will
get the last laugh.
>> 
>> What I can't understand is, given that we live in the age of streaming
music, iPods, YouTube, Pandora, etc -- who CARES what's on the FM dial???
>> 
>> -- Tom Fine
>> 
>