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Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, December 13, 2001

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000098785dec13.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology

Web Radio Not Making Waves
By DAVID COLKER, TIMES STAFF WRITER

An unfulfilled Internet vision: thousands of low-cost stations to challenge the status quo. Jeff Burgess walks into his Bakersfield broadcast studio (his bedroom), checks the transmission equipment (his PC), sits in the studio chair (blue vinyl, purchased used for $2), searches his CD library (cardboard boxes on the floor), adjusts the microphone on the announcer's deck (built by a local carpenter for a 12-pack of beer) and speaks the words that can be heard, potentially, by millions around the world. "This is Destroy Radio!" At best, maybe 300 people actually hear Burgess....

 


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