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"Tom Hendricks" <112374.474@compuserve.com> wrote in message
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>
> Steve Henderson wrote:
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> > "Tom Hendricks" <112374.474@compuserve.com> wrote in message
> > news:3BB2183A.E39175D2@compuserve.com...
> > LPFM gutted -itself- because there wasn't a large enough listener area
for
> > the money spent to place ads on it.
>
> All LPFM had to be non commercial.

All right, I'll give you that one.

> > Also, have you the slightest notion just WTF "pirate" radio even is?
And,
> > more to the point, why it is a -good- idea that they get raided?
> >
> > > It is an illegal monopoly. And that monopoly loves it when critics
leave
> > it alone
> >
> > You also have not the slightest idea WTF an "illegal monopoly" is or you
> > wouldn't keep misusing the term.
>
> Call it whatever you want. But they are so interbreeded that you can
barely
> separate them.

No, Tom, you are calling it whatever -you- want.

> > > Don't you think that it is strange that no local band anywhere in the
US
> > is played
> > > on mainstream radio?
> > > None zero, zip. Does that mean that every local musician in the US is
less
> > talented
> > > than N Sync, or does it tell you there is more than popularity at
stake.
> >
> > Bullshit.  -EVERY- band that is -from- America is local to -someone-,
> > somewhere.
>
> You're side stepping the point

I didn't sidestep a damn thing.  I used your exact words against you.

"It depends on what the definition of 'is' is", eh?

> > > As to popularity I've offered cash on my website if you can find a hit
> > from 1981 -
> > > now. That fits some simple 'good song' requirements. There hasn't been
one
> > by any
> > > star  - period.
> >
> > Define "good song" requirements.
>
> 3 requirements. It be a big hit for the person that did it. It be good
enough
> that 5 people covered it (a good song0 and it had enough scope and range
to
> cover 3 formats. There is a prize for finding any song between 1981`- Now.
I
> began with 70-now and there have been only 2 winners. For details
>
> http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com

BFD.  If you opened up the range an additional eleven years and only came up
with two "hits" in thirty-one years, your requirements are too stiff.

Try moving the start date back another decade then start looking at
the -average- length of time between covers.