When the DJ who puts on ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ sounds like he’s from Bangalore and not Birmingham, something will change, but until then it will be a central computer program that selects what’s on your local radio.

During hurricanes all the local stations link to the feed from the University of West Florida public radio station which uses the audio from a Pensacola TV station for coverage. The counties to the East of me probably do the same thing with a TV station out of Panama City and the Florida State University public radio stations.

Oops, sorry, I was just channeling a right-wing kool-aide drinker there. My bad.

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin

The last I knew, Frederick, the Chenago Valley Telephone Company still runs its lines on fence posts. People don’t know a lot about New York State other than what they think they know about the City.

Sounds like the cable company is using leased lines for its ‘Net connection, and coax Ethernet for the ‘last mile’. They started that way down here, and every time someone new was added, the signal degraded.

Rural counties in New York have minimal cell service, and the public safety radio net isn’t actually available.

People need to get Weather band radios, but there is no guarantee they will be able to get a signal in the mountains.

Yeah, Steve, down here you get NPR, Clear Channel, or a Mississippi-based corporation, no matter what your radio tuner says. The formats change quarterly.