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Are there any major stations that DON'T do voice-tracking and are 100% live?
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channelâ„¢
As I have said, the first station I programmed (around that same time) was automated with local voicetracking on cart (live assist in morning drive). Whenever I gave a station tour, I would always end it at the Schafer 903, and time it so one of my voicetracks was about to play.
My listeners thought it was amazing, too.
Country 94.9 WQMX in the Akron Ohio area is "live and local" they even have "live" on air talent on the weekends!
I think they also have local ownership
100% live and local, including overnights with David Wolfson from 1-5 am, is full service AC/Oldies/ Classic Hits WATD 95.9 Marshfield, MA.
The extra large paycheck without worrying about ratings always puts people in a good mood.
hes not on every night and as i understand it, the people outside am, middays and pm drive are volunteers on WATD
Still live and local, whether paid or not.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channelâ„¢
The point is that stations with volunteer air talent are by far a minority in the overall count.
And it certainly doesn't include major market stations owned by the big station groups.
The OP was asking if there are any examples per the title of the thread. I was simply giving an example as asked.. Nothing less, nothing more. The area served is the south shore area south of Boston.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channelâ„¢
Go back to post #25, where the OP backpedals a bit, and still doesn't make a strong case.
The title of the thread contains the word "major." WATD is in no way a major station.
The hand wringing over this is absolutely laughable. 😂 So much for at least trying to offer some example, even if it's not MAJOR.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channelâ„¢
With all due respect, Kat, you were the one who insisted on being true to the thread title.
then you could say the same thing about any number of volunteer led non comms in dozens of big cities around the country.
Right, and that's explicitly because we never allocated a second sub-band for locally-owned, locally-managed, locally-originated, locally-hosted, locally-programmed, 100% live for-profits who could've broadcast everything your typical college station's management and listener demographics turn their noses up at. I'm talking mainstream formats. But with the above ownership and operational limits imposed by regulation, these stations would have been reserved to an ownership class that prioritized profit and art more equally -- who preferred things like the sound of radio the way it always was, with its always-live vibe, the hosts bringing in parts of their own collections, the specialty shows, the live performance venues, and so on.
My comments were about what should have happened long ago. In today's brave new world of streaming, these for-profit independents would've been struggling and searching for new platforms even more than the corporates. But had we been more foresightful, we could have at least enjoyed them until the modern era began.
I buy from Amazon only what I can't find elsewhere. Same way I historically shunned big box stores in favor of locally owned businesses (or at least locally owned franchises like Ace).
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A lot of those owners were already gone by 1996. They started leaving in the late 70s and 80s. That was when radio was really changing. There were no "sub-bands" back then. People talk about 1996 as a turning point, but it began a lot earlier.
The other question I have for you is who would have allocated that band? You say "we never allocated,,," Who is the "we?" The FCC? All they care about is telecom.