Real Estate Talking House Radio is well known even outside of broadcast circles.
In the familiar scenario a driver is able to park near the FOR SALE sign of an attractive house and listen on the dial for a message about the features inside the house along with the number of the real estate agent.
Today, on this occasion, KDX Worldround Radio announces the establishment of "No Sale Radio Enterprises", broadcast from a NOT FOR SALE sign a pleasant message from the current residents of an attractive house. Here is a typical script:
"Hello there! Nice car. We are Ned and Patrice and have lived happily in this house since hearing about it on this same station during the for sale process several years ago. We decided to buy the radio station along with the house and although this property is not for sale at this time, we hope you find a nearby house so we can become neighbors and get to know each other. If you have house radio we'll pull up and listen. But right now, we'd like to share our favorite record, Link Wray's "Rumble."
Sure, why not? It's a creative, cheeky, and no-cost way to add some listeners!
We had several of the Talking House type stations in my area on AM 1610, must have been installed inside, with the wire antenna crumpled up, because the range was short, a few hundred feet. In another town there was one on FM, that was like a town house in a city area, and they reached the whole block, to the car radio at least.
Now there are houses for sale, but I haven't seen any with signs for transmitters for some years now. It seems some should use transmitters, to put themselves ahead of the competition, as cut-throat and nasty as that business is.
I wonder if cities could pass bills outlawing the radio signs? Maybe that's why I don't see them. Anyone else still see "Tune Radio To 1610 AM"?
Come to think of it I have never spotted a talking house sign nor any kind of public notice of a low power radio station.
Nate Crime has me thinking about whether a city would outlaw radio signs. What would be their reason? I'm just thinking that it seems to me cities would want to promote healthy real estate activity, but cities can be surprising with some of the laws they come up with.
Years ago when I applied for an occupancy permit in a city there was the question "Will you be doing anything other than living in the house?"
I checked "No," because the only thing other than "living in a house" is "not living in a house," but I got in trouble when they found out I had a home recording business. Apparantly business in a house is not living in a house, although I was alive at the time.
Still, I don't think I'll put out a "NOT FOR SALE RADIO 1670 AM" sign.
I have actually considered putting a sign out in the yard stating our station name and frequencies. How else would I get any listeners other than telling neighbors about it?
Since we live in a rural area and not within city limits, i really don't think it will cause any problems. My goal is a station for the community. I know i just ordered the SStran yesterday evening but dang it! I wish it was here already lol.
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