Legislation history (esp. Telecom Act of 1996) questions?

that carousel cart is so fancy! we just had the single cart players, we had 3 of them, but it was rare that all 3 worked at any given time. occasionally we'd have a song that had to be played on a cart -- the occasional radio edit we did ourselves that the labels didn't send us -- I think one was a NIN song -- and if it was scheduled right before a commercial break then it was a nailbiter to see if the song cart would recue and stop before the commercial in the other working cart machine ended.

We had a station ID cart that was old enough the woman's voice had bled through and created a tape delay effect. It was awesome. We didn't replace any of that crap until 1999.

My first shift was 2-4am. The DJ on 1-2 am immediately quit about 2 weeks into the semester, thank god.

In college, we had all the local bands on cart. We didn't play cassette tapes. And the band giving us a CD copy of their music would've been just too darn expensive.

Going back to the country station, we used a single cart player for IDs, news we taped from the Arkansas Radio Network and weather.

We should've used a single cart for the commercials, since after six it was all spots for Golf Digest anyway.

Anyway I keep reading this as being about the Elvis Telecom act of 1996.

haha me too!

"Drone rock mandated when driving through the desert at 2 am."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34789-democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act

https://www.wired.com/2004/10/xmradio/

Abrams has another advantage: a surfeit of available DJ talent. When he arrived at XM three years before launch, many of the country's best DJs were disillusioned, disenfranchised, or out of the industry. Conglomerates, newly empowered by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to own multiple radio stations, were consolidating and shedding overhead – particularly the salaries of creative, engaged DJs

this is p amazing if you want a picture of what Bay Area radio pre-Telecom Act sounded like

https://archive.org/details/schweizerairchecks?&sort=-downloads&page=2

Anyway I keep reading this as being about the Elvis Telecom act of 1996.

I was going through a lot back then.

I did a few shows at BRU (AM though, haha). Starting in about.. 1994 I guess? Just dumb sound collage weirdness, I thought I was Negativland or something :/