LETTERS TO L.A. LIFE : TAKING ACTION AGAINST SMUT RADIO.Re: ``It's on the Air, It's Everywhere - Smut'' (Feb. 15, L.A. Life): Your article about the unfortunate quality of radio programming is right on. Perhaps you were even too kind and gentle about a serious situation that should be attacked with vigor and tenacity. Many people share your concern, but just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how or to whom they should direct their complaints. Indeed, radio programming should change with the times, maintaining its mission to inform and entertain the public but, at all times, must adhere to strict ethical and moral standards that represent a level of decency - not continually challenging the cutting edge of smut smut, name for an order of parasitic fungi (Ustilaginales) and the various diseases of plants caused by them. Smuts produce sootlike masses of spores on the host. . Not all cities suffer the same reputation for ``shock talk,'' nor has it always been that way in Los Angeles. For openers, Howard Stern should be banned from the airwaves, and the copycat local radio personalities would soon get the message and change their ways. Just one example - I feel that KFI KFI Key from Image KFI Key Facts Illustration (UK financial services) KFI Kraft Foods International KFI Korea Fire Equipment Inspection Corporation KFI Key Frame Interval KFI Kernel Function Instrumentation Radio, especially their evening programs, is an insult to the presumed intelligence of the audience they seek to attract. Many old-time radio listeners suggest that talk radio started in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s with Joe Pyne on KFI, who was controversial but always above the belt. Joe Pyne was an ex-Marine who had lost a leg in the war, he was a champion of certain causes and often unpopular principles, yet he would rebel from his grave to know that talk radio has moved to the gutters in recent years. Your mailbox is surely full this week of responses to your recent article. It is a vital subject. Our community needs a strong program of action to make listening to the radio an enjoyable and decent experience once again. - Charles Comstock Woodland Hills Newscasts spoiled Games for many Olympics viewers Re: Olympics television ratings: It seems CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. is scratching its head wondering why the ratings for the Winter Olympics are so low? Why are people not watching? It's because the other networks and radio stations inform us during our morning and evening commutes who won or lost before the events are aired in prime time. I wish to personally thank ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , FOX and CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. for ruining the Olympics by telling us who won before the event is aired. - Ken Carll Northridge |
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