Police at GMHS with guns drawn?
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I never really gave it much thought until then.
I haven't listened to any local radio in months.
Goldenhawk
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My brother worked for some radio stations in the mid-90s, and I got a tour and good description of the setup. The new automated stations get their music via satellite, and the computer system lets a guy sit down and record the hourly news and weather bits to the hard drive, all at one time. The system then automatically inserts them into the satellite feed at the appropriate time; the feed has built-in markers that tell local systems "okay, now it's time to run a local ad" or "now it's time to play the news and weather" or "stand by; we're running a national ad now."
Basically, someone sits there for 30-60 minutes each morning, and then the station building can be totally vacant the entire rest of the day, as long as the system stays online.
That's why when it DOES occasionally fail, the "dead air" lasts so long - someone has to drive out to the site and reboot everything.
That's also why so many local stations have disappeared - it's hugely more expensive to pay 3 shifts for someone to sit there 24-7 and spin records, than to pay once for a fancy computer system that does EVERYTHING for you, along with some satellite feed subscription service. Why bother when you can rake in the cash for nearly nothing?
That's also why all the music sounds the same no matter where you go - because you're hearing the exact same satellite feed from hundreds of stations that subscribe to it. "Yeah, I'd like the Pop 1990's channel please."
The morning, in some cases it's from the last edition of the Enterprise and since they are all owned by the same group you can hear the loop on each station if you happen to tune them in at the right time. (they must share a tape).
glhs837
Power with Control
No kidding, word for word most times.
And he was charged as an adult:
https://smnewsnet.com/archives/4449...urder-after-shooting-victim-in-face-and-back/
I saw that a few minutes ago. GOOD! Pissant needs to go to big boy lockup.
If they can make a few of those charges stick, looks like he could be in the pokey for a while.
Comments indicate that this isn't his first rodeo when it come to getting into trouble. Hopefully, that'll help.
unfortunately he's 17, so the judge may not know if he has a juvenile record as well.
My guess is that both the shooter and the victim knew each other and it was over a drug deal.
Dealers, not addicts.
Also why Hickory Hills is the Hood that doesn't want to be known as a hood.
Not as bad as Westbury, but not that good either.
The house that had the shooting in Wildewood a year or so back, was over a drug deal gone bad.
Kids living there were azzholes and apparently ripped off the shooter(s).
But that's the way we've taught our little thugs to solve their problems - then blame the gun. Amazing, it's not pop culture glorifying the behavior, or video games the give them points for shooting a guy in the face when committing a crime, not our sports idols who shoot their balls off because they have a gun shoved in their pants. We blame the freaking innanimate object for making shootings popular.
Right up there with being an internet bully.
And when a major disaster happens, there is nobody home at the station who could broadcast a warning, evacuation instructions, shelter in place etc. If it can't be pushed out through the emergency alert system, there is no way of getting it on the air.
A big reason for the bland radio landscape is that a few companies bought up most of the local stations about 30 years ago. Clear Channel Communications was one of them. It has been reshuffled since, but there is a high degree of centralization. No big difference whether it is a locally owned station that plays a subscription feed or whether it is a nationally owned chain station. Very little production happens on the local level, the only time you hear local reports is if the station is tied in with local TV or a newspaper.
This is Maryland. He'll get 20 years with 19 years and 11 months 'suspended'. When he does his next violent crime he gets 30 days of 'backup time', not the 19 years a suspended sentence would call for.