Did Santa Bring What South Florida Radio Stations Want? See http://www.univox.com/radio.

Now in its ninth year, the South Florida Radio Pages website (http://www.univox.com/radio) has posted its first annual letter to Santa, making polite requests for what south Florida AM and FM radio stations, talk hosts, and disk jockeys want or need. Tune in this week to see how many of the requests were fulfilled!

(PRWEB) December 25, 2003 -- Now in its ninth year, the South Florida Radio Pages website (http://www.univox.com/radio) has issued its first annual letter to Santa, making dozens of very polite requests for what south Florida AM and FM radio stations, talk hosts, and disk jockeys want or need. Tune in this week to see if any of the requests were fulfilled! And please continue to read the South Florida Radio Pages in 2004.

Some excerpts from the long Santa Claus letter follow:

Dear Santa... Following is our wish list for some of our favorite south Florida radio stations and personalities.

Lots of chocolate for Rush Limbaugh (heard on WIOD and WJNO), please. It may be slightly addictive, but it reduces stress. And it smells better than those stinky cigars. (Make it white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate, for diversity's sake.)

The folks at James Crystal desperately need websites that work and that have some worthwhile information about their programming. (And, if it wouldn't br too much trouble, put a note in the WJNA announcer's stocking saying he always sounds like he's talking down to an audience of morons. Here's the drill...)

For everyone who likes talk, how about a station with all local news and talk and no infomercials or syndicated shows? After all, there must be 100 news stories every day more significant to Floridians than Laci Peterson or Michael Jackson!

For WKIS and WIRK, a little perspective. They don't seem to know that there was country music before John Travolta re-popularized it.

For all those brokered pill-peddlers, we need a requirement for live shows only, so knowledgeable listeners can call in and correct their misrepresentation of scientific facts!

Please give Clear Channel (which owns most of the stations in the Miami area) a clue that Miamians are sophisticated enough for a real jazz station, and wouldn't listen to that pap pablum called smooth jazz if they knew there was a choice.

Get Congress and the FCC a really good radio -- maybe a GE Superadio III (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000J061/08aa-20) -- so they can analyze the lousy choices for listeners when so few companies control so many of the radio stations in a market like this one. Get them a bunch of clues, too. They need it!

Please bring Joyce Kaufman a new radio program on which she won't be competing with herself. (She's on WJNA with music and WFLL with talk at the same time.)

Also on WJNA, Chuck Zink needs a book of segues that are less corny and trite than what he's using now.

And please get WQAM's Neil Rogers some humility, or else he'll start whining about being at the bottom of this list.

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Tech writer/copywriter David Citron has authored the South Florida Radio Pages for more than eight years. He posted the first edition of on December 14, 1995. In addition to web sites, Citron has written articles for newspapers, magazines, and trade journals and has created numerous software manuals. Most of his 100+ web pages are decorated with subtle "will write for food" banners.

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