I am really into podcasts. Some are really fresh and fun. And some are kind of ... well dorky.
But I also listen to old radio such as audio from NBC recorded Dec. 8, 1941; the morning after Pearl Harbor.
The network was picking up live reports from London with Charles Collingwood. The breaks were sloppy, there was a lot of dead air. It. too, sounded dorky in places. But it was fascinating because of the content.
Today, the networks are nearly flawless in their presentation and usually the content is boring.
Podcasts can put you on to really creative stuff that would never make it on network radio or TV. For example, I learned about Potter's Puppet Pals channel on YouTube from "The Leaky Cauldron" podcast. FUNNY Stuff, especially if you are familiar with the Potter books.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
No cash for clunkers?
I just watched a report on Bloomberg Television about the Cash for Clunkers program.
People are concerned the surge in car sales won't last after the program ends.
What the national media is not reporting (as far as I know) is what I learned when I did a local news story on the program two weeks ago.
At that time, virtually none of the new car dealers in Montgomery County, Ind., had received a dime from the program. They were making buyers sign forms that stated the buyers would pay the $4,500 promised by the government if the money didn't come through for whatever reason.
All the dealers had problems sending in the required forms over the Internet. The Chrysler dealer said his people were going in all times of the day and night one weekend to send the forms for the cars they had sold up to that time.
Another dealer was concerned about cash flow because it would be difficult for his dealership to carry tens of thousands of dollars on their books while waiting for the Feds to pay up.
People are concerned the surge in car sales won't last after the program ends.
What the national media is not reporting (as far as I know) is what I learned when I did a local news story on the program two weeks ago.
At that time, virtually none of the new car dealers in Montgomery County, Ind., had received a dime from the program. They were making buyers sign forms that stated the buyers would pay the $4,500 promised by the government if the money didn't come through for whatever reason.
All the dealers had problems sending in the required forms over the Internet. The Chrysler dealer said his people were going in all times of the day and night one weekend to send the forms for the cars they had sold up to that time.
Another dealer was concerned about cash flow because it would be difficult for his dealership to carry tens of thousands of dollars on their books while waiting for the Feds to pay up.
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