Misappointment
I hoped to get into the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) today here on Kauai, because (unlike the last time I was here), they now allow visitors to pay $25 admission after a background check (which I was willing to risk). Alas, the guy next to the guy with the AR-15 said they are open Monday to Friday, but the background check people are off on Friday, so it was a no-go. But, with a couple brothers-in-law we had a fun day trip anyway.
I did get to see and shoot the PMRF from a boat back in 2021.
Bad News
LA Times: CBS News shuts down radio unit amid division-wide cuts, leaving 700 stations without their CBS news feed. Axios has a mostly budgetary angle. Neither says that radio is largely dependent on “barter,” which is free programming paid for on the providers’ side by advertising, with holes in the schedule for local ads that are the stations’ actual source of income. I know that most or all syndicated talk programming is bartered. I don’t know if the CBS News audio (radio) feed is bartered as well. If not, I suspect the paying market for CBS radio news has been going away. I’ll dig into it when I get a chance. (Still on vacation in Hawaii here.)
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