We’ve seen this story again and again.  City officials or store owners want to keep teens from hanging out so they play classical music to chase them off.   If the kids had music education in school they’d probably like the music and it wouldn’t deter them.  This latest idiotic example is in the western Washington town of Sequim (pronounced SQUIM), where city officials want to clear young people out of the city transit center. Three points jumped out at me from the article on Peninsula Daily News.com.  One is that the kids have been hanging … Continue Reading

Not sure what this means yet.  Anyone have a clue? Financing: To pay for the non-payroll provisions, lawmakers agreed to sell radio spectrum licenses, as well as forcing new federal workers to pay more into their government pensions. Dems gave up on the millionaire/billionaire surtax fairly early in the process. The clip is from Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog, explaining how Congress is planning to pay for extending unemployment benefits and the Doc Fix.   UPDATE:  Ok, I get it now.  This is not just radio spectrum.  It’s spectrum held by the TV broadcasters but no … Continue Reading

The Canadian Broadcasting Company has finalized a new licensing deal that will allow them to stream some 40 radio stations online, as well as concerts and a lot of music on-demand and even for download.  I don’t really grasp what they have in mind yet.  I was able to listen to CBC 2 online, but when I clicked on their 10 different classical genre streams I wasn’t able to get them to play.  All the metadata were there, but no audio. You can read more about the deal here.  I’ve read various comments … Continue Reading