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The station is certainly conservative, but shouldn't that mean [Michael] should be big enough to stand up and take his case to the other side?

(PS - Just curious, when did Moore cancel, and do you know why? I just haven't heard anything about it, and couldn't find anything online about it)

i can't believe that killjoe (766577) is getting modded up! i hate this kind of "anti-american" mindless bullshit. the fact is that all americans aren't inherently evil. if you ever took your head out of your ass you'd realise that people are people, no matter where they come from, their leader doesn't speak for them, either does their countries' media. any american i have met in my travels has been really, well, normal. i think the leader of my country (Ireland) is an asshole, tony blair is clearly an asshole and jack chirac is most definitely an asshole (remember the nuclear arms testing? or the fact that they dragged american into the vietnam war?).

i disagree with america's foreign policy, and i hate the terrorist tactics that are used by israel but that doesn't mean that i hate everything american, i like to watch american films, i like american fashion and i listen to american music.

don't be such a moron. just because people like billy o' reilly are moronic reactionaries, it doesn't mean that people that disagree with people like him should act just like him.

and with a bit more luck, the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) [cbc.ca] will also ditch RealPlayer as well.

Yea. That was supposed to happen in the US by 2002. But I guess we missed that deadline. Haha!

Digital doesn't impress me. The stations that come in clearly over traditional analog broadcast are entirely in spanish. I don't speak spanish. In the US only poor people and hippies use "free" broadcast signals. And the programming on those channels reflects their target audience.

PBS (public television) is supported by donations, so their signal is really terrible (people don't donate the hundreds of thousands of dollars a week it takes to run a TV station). Upgrading to digital wouldn't help, because then they'd have to pay for that too.

I think we can draw similar lines along free Digital Radio. Who is going to listen to it? People who can afford CD, superCD or dvd-audio decks and music? People who can afford commecial free subsubscription service like XM, Sirius or others? No. People who can't afford a HD-Radio receiver in the first place are the main target. It simply does not make sense.

Me? I mostly listen to AM radio, so apparently digital doesn't mean much me to if I haven't even "upgraded" to FM. But AM is of suffienct quality to listen to talk radio (News, Weather, Limbaugh, Savage, NPR, Art Bell, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc).

What's the advantage for a business to run AM over FM? It's less costly to run an AM station(equipment and licesing). You can actually have a wider coverage area for less power. (FM has more consistent quality, but the signal drops off quickly. AM the quality degrades over the distance).

Didn't most of the population of Australia end up there becuase of doing more than 3 months jail time?

No. No more than the population of America. (And yes, prisoners were transported to America).

...which explains why Georgia is so fscked up.