For Wheeler......
Overheard on radio-station WXXI:
“There will never be a better time to support your non-commercial radio-station.......” (My underlining.)
A plea for advertisers. “Exposure, great and growing audience, etc.” All the advantages trumpeted to potential advertisers on the commercial stations.
Well okay, but WXXI was supposed to be a public radio-station.
It is, but as government funding dried up: “This segment brought to you by Velmex of East Bloomfield, makers of rotary positioning systems for science and industry.”
Not too bad; when am I gonna patronize Velmex?
Then it was GoodBelly.com, “a fruit-juice based supplement to improve digestion.”
Overheard on WHAM Channel 13 TV-news:
A motorcyclist was killed.
“He was weaving in and out of traffic to escape the police.
He was killed instantly, and then hit a parked car.”
Okay, “killed instantly” usually means decapitated. I suppose it’s possible to continue riding motorbike without a head.
But something tells me there wasn’t a Wheeler around to catch stuff like this.
• “WXXI”-FM, 91.5, is the classical-music radio-station in Rochester we listen to, publicly supported.
• “WHAM Channel 13” is the local ABC affiliate in the Rochester area.
• “Wheeler” is Dave Wheeler, an editor at the Daily Messenger newspaper in Canandaigua, from where I retired almost four years ago. —Best job I ever had.
“There will never be a better time to support your non-commercial radio-station.......” (My underlining.)
A plea for advertisers. “Exposure, great and growing audience, etc.” All the advantages trumpeted to potential advertisers on the commercial stations.
Well okay, but WXXI was supposed to be a public radio-station.
It is, but as government funding dried up: “This segment brought to you by Velmex of East Bloomfield, makers of rotary positioning systems for science and industry.”
Not too bad; when am I gonna patronize Velmex?
Then it was GoodBelly.com, “a fruit-juice based supplement to improve digestion.”
Overheard on WHAM Channel 13 TV-news:
A motorcyclist was killed.
“He was weaving in and out of traffic to escape the police.
He was killed instantly, and then hit a parked car.”
Okay, “killed instantly” usually means decapitated. I suppose it’s possible to continue riding motorbike without a head.
But something tells me there wasn’t a Wheeler around to catch stuff like this.
• “WXXI”-FM, 91.5, is the classical-music radio-station in Rochester we listen to, publicly supported.
• “WHAM Channel 13” is the local ABC affiliate in the Rochester area.
• “Wheeler” is Dave Wheeler, an editor at the Daily Messenger newspaper in Canandaigua, from where I retired almost four years ago. —Best job I ever had.
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