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Anybody seen this?

That raises an interesting question with all of the competition, can a station really be important to people anymore? Do tweens and teens still follow sheep like behind top 40 stations like krbe anymore?
 
Can a station ever be "that" popular again? Can an individual radio show like the old Stevens and Pruitt show in its hey day garner and keep that many listeners ever again?

Probably not. Sad, too

I don't know this woman. I like her. She's funny and I think she's good at what she does, but I also think she has to be smart enough to know that reforming Stevens and Pruitt can't ever happen again. Not that it still wouldn't be a great show (in some respects, that is) Trust me, I'm a fan and I always have been, but times have changed so much.

I agree with her about radio needing to return to private ownership. But in this day and age and considering the cost factor involved, what single person has that kind of coin? Taking that further, what small group of people with money, would even want to risk a couple of million on terrestrial radio in 2007?

I'd like to believe that someone out there is willing...I just doubt they're able.
 
Thank you for sharing this. I have had the wonderful pleasure of working with Laurie over the years. That is why I feel the need to say that she is truly one of the most talented people in radio. She really loves what she does (did, rather). She takes fact finding news as seriously as entertaining the listener. Not to sound pathetic but again, it's the corporate decision making that wastes such rarely heard talent.
 
You're right, TL. I've not had the pleasure of working with her directly. I've dealt with with AE's who've worked at the same station. I've loved Laurie Kendrick and her work for years. I personally like funny women and she's one of the funniest I've ever heard in and out of radio. Period.

I've said it here on this site and I've said in private conversations. Radio is dying and I work in it's periphery. Corporate types have no idea what makes good radio and they sure as hell don't know the talent pool out there. You radio people have a term you use when someone is out of work: "on the beach". I know there has to be a slew of talented types right here in Houston with alot of sand in their butt cracks as a result. And will stations step up to the plate and hire these people? No, because it would be cost effective or so says the friggin' bean counters!!

This infuriates me because my job deals directly with radio stations. They do well, I do well and when see what's happening and hear that good, talented people who've really done nothing OTHER than work in radio get treated so shabbily, it makes me sick.

Yes, for me personally, I'd love to see Stevens and Pruitt back.
Not gonna happen.

I'd love to a great heritage rock station to come to Houston and dazzle me to total eargasm hourly and unless Cox brings a KISS (San Antonio version) like station to replace that megawatt dinosaur known as "The Point", that's ain't gonna happen either.

The problem is no one else knows what gonna happen. As listeners, radio fans, advertisers and those in the business, that's scary as shi*t.

OK, I'm done. Rant over. Valium absorbing in blood stream.
 
WilmingtonRadio said:
You're right, TL. I've not had the pleasure of working with her directly. I've dealt with with AE's who've worked at the same station. I've loved Laurie Kendrick and her work for years. I personally like funny women and she's one of the funniest I've ever heard in and out of radio. Period.

I've said it here on this site and I've said in private conversations. Radio is dying and I work in it's periphery. Corporate types have no idea what makes good radio and they sure as hell don't know the talent pool out there. You radio people have a term you use when someone is out of work: "on the beach". I know there has to be a slew of talented types right here in Houston with alot of sand in their butt cracks as a result. And will stations step up to the plate and hire these people? No, because it would be cost effective or so says the friggin' bean counters!!

This infuriates me because my job deals directly with radio stations. They do well, I do well and when see what's happening and hear that good, talented people who've really done nothing OTHER than work in radio get treated so shabbily, it makes me sick.

Yes, for me personally, I'd love to see Stevens and Pruitt back.
Not gonna happen.

I'd love to a great heritage rock station to come to Houston and dazzle me to total eargasm hourly and unless Cox brings a KISS (San Antonio version) like station to replace that megawatt dinosaur known as "The Point", that's ain't gonna happen either.

The problem is no one else knows what gonna happen. As listeners, radio fans, advertisers and those in the business, that's scary as shi*t.

OK, I'm done. Rant over. Valium absorbing in blood stream.
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ditto!
the last time I really listened to Houston radio was when FM News Channel was on. I Pruett and Shannon and Laurie made me laugh. I would laugh on the way home from project meetings. I even met Laurie at the BIG anniversary party right before 97.5 imploded. great concept, bad signal.

all the stations are boring now. its left me to only become a lurker on this board to keep up with what is going on.
 
Well maybe with CC selling stuff off, some local people will step up. It's not a cc station, but KILE is an example of that in Houston.
 
Well maybe with CC selling stuff off, some local people will step up.

Not gonna happen either. So far the only people buying from huge conglomerate CC are smaller conglomerates like Gap Broadcasting, which has bought about 50 of CC's Texas and Louisiana stations. Individual investors and small investment groups don't seem to be interested, and for good reason.

They know the answer to the question "Know how to make a small fortune in radio? You start with a big fortune."

It takes so much money to buy a station that individuals and small groups are steering clear.
 
I've already heard of a station in the north east that is being bought by a group of local investors. That's where my post idea came from.

I agree that this will not be common and other companies will absorb most of the CC stations. Hopefully there are some rare exceptions.
 
I couldn't agree more. I believe the glory days of radio were when radio and TV stations were owned and managed by people who live in the same town. They had to be in touch with the pulse and spirit of their town or they didn't survive.

I fantasize a lot about winning a big lottery and buying a radio station in a small market. I would go there and run it myself. I know it's a fantasy in today's world, but that's my idea of heaven.
 
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