Last Motel —

During the day yesterday I heard a couple of promos for Last Motel saying that Trombone Shorty would be on the show. It sounded like a pretty big deal and having seen him perform overseas, I was interested in what he might have to say. So I tuned in at 6 PM. The first words out of the announcer's mouth were something like - "we'll get to Trombone Shorty" a little later, but first....". That lasted at least 30 minutes, when I turned it off in order to watch the network news on television. Commercial television is very good at this trick - telling people about something "coming up" and then making them wait through commercials and much wasted time in order to see whatever it was. There is no place for this in public radio. Either tell people that this is going to be in the second half of the show, spend some extra time and create a transcript, or stop the commercial promotion trick!

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North Carolina Public Radio WUNC — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC

Sometimes there is no point in commenting. Look at the link above that will take you to search results on the WUNC site for the word "edwards".

An Energy Efficient Eyesore — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC

Why no transcripts?

From WUNC & NPR — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC

You might think that WUNC would post a little report on the results of the recent set of travel raffles that they ran earlier this month. On air, I caught something about 3,500 people but was not clear on what that number was.

North Carolina Public Radio WUNC — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC

I heard a story this morning about a new dye that NC State has developed to make capturing solar energy more efficient, or something along those lines. So I came here to the WUNC website in pursuit of learning more. There is zero on the home page and a search of "solar" reveals nothing. Either WUNC "news" people are asleep at the switch or WUNC listeners are just profoundly not curious for more.

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I'll look forward to WUNC's extensive coverage of this story.