Honest, I Should Have Known Better…
…but no, I see Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar’s episode, “The Flight Six Matter” is on XM Satellite Radio’s AudioClassics channel (programmed by people at MediaBay who have no respect whatsoever for Old-Time Radio), and yep, you guessed it; they hacked up the episodes, alright. So now I need to go back to the reel copies I have instead of screaming at my XM radio…I mean, it isn’t their fault they contracted with oafs with no love for anything but selling Esquire…
But I really need to lock that station out of my new Tao XM2Go (which I will be reviewing in this space soon)…every time I hear their ham-handed editing of excellent programming, I want to scream. Let’s all hope someone with a love for old-time radio begins licensing programming; after all, at the rate the company is going, MediaBay will be folding any time now, and hopefully any company that follows it will have some respect for the programming instead of distain.
August 24th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
When I bought my satellite radio, I went with XM because it was cheaper, and I’m not sure if Sirius had an OTR station at the time. I liked listening to the OTR channel, but I liked it less after it played a program that I already had on CD, and I found that they edited it. Some of the ones I can remember off hand were the episode of “Fibber McGee & Molly” when Jim Jordan had pneumonia, and the show was filled in by the visiting Gildersleeve, and several Jack Benny episodes were Dennis Day’s song is cut out.
OTR on XM is better than nothing, but how much better is a matter of opinion.
On the bright side of MediaBay, I haven’t had spam advertising their audio book club for a while.
– Tom