Bartholomew County radio lacking in weather department.

[cold_coffee]

Every thread on this board turns into a WKLU bashing hating thread. gr8oldies and radioindy
are just screen names for BQ.

 

[gr8oldies]

I'll assure you I'm not BQ. Check my posts on the Cincy board.

 

[media1170]

Bruce always uses Fly Dutchman or his own name. Anyone who has spoken with Bruce knows he writes the way he talks. You never require a decoder ring to understand Bruce.

 

[hipporadio]

I’m getting just a bit burned-out on this idealistic [and often – unrealistic] “COL diatribe” which is accusatory toward the licensee only. OK... QMix isn’t officially a Columbus station [Greensburg still? – hell, I’ve lost track- hehe]... IIRC 100.3 “KORN’s” COL is the outlet mall capital just north of the C’bus city limits; but interesting, that both appeared to provide coverage to their SERVICE AREAS [including ravaged Columbus] during this weather event... And before anyone bashes WKLU, let us remember that Hendricks County has yet another FM assignment that attempts to mostly-serve Center Township/Marion County :

In its great “wisdom”, the FCC chose to allocate these facilities initially-predicated by the “need” for “first service” – THEN, looked the other way when they were acquired by the opportunistic and transported to territory designated as a larger market. Who gets the blame here? ...The folks that bought and moved them with FCC capitulation - or the Regulators who idealistically allocated them, then surreptitiously allowed them to become a mere commodity? I tend to choose the latter!

There is some about all this that saddens me, but Pandora is out of her box... And I don’t see the FCC grabbing for a leash to lead her back in.

 

[N_D_Radioguy]

Who gets the blame here? ...The folks that bought and moved them with FCC capitulation - or the Regulators who idealistically allocated them, then surreptitiously allowed them to become a mere commodity? I tend to choose the latter!

That is, at best, an imprecise implication that the same five commissioners who allocated the frequencies also allowed their movements.

The FCC is an elastic and evolving body.

Frankly, both sides of this argument have merit. The corporatization of radio has drastically diluted both the quality and quantity of attention paid to smaller communities. However, it takes money to run a station -- to pay employees, the promotions budget, the light bill -- and these communities are no longer cocoons for their citizens and their cash.

Do Brownsburg, Greenfield, Shelbyville, et al, deserve more and better attention?

Yes.

Do the myopians clinging to the past need to accept that those formerly independent communities are now, in large part, simply subsets of the greater Indianapolis metro area?

Yes.

Will this argument ever reach a resolution?

Probably not.

 

[dwiener]

Can't make money talking to boarded up buildings, cornfields, and cows. COL is a joke. Move on or move over. There is no business or jobs to support us in these bedroom towns.

 

[hipporadio]

First of all ND, my post is NOT “imprecise” from a historical perspective – I would challenge you to be more specific in regards to that charge before making a blanket personal critique. I AGREE, the FCC is evolving and a very political body, but that does not dismiss my original premise. YES, “five Commissioners” can hand-down the “Ten Commandments” in 1885... And five different souls will be in a position to rule upon them and their precedent in 2005. Consider this simple analogy... What if the Supreme Court treated their prerequisite duties as did the FCC? Would we would have a consistent and dependable Constitution? NO! There would be inconsistent chaos, NO ORDER, and NO guide upon which to evaluate future judicial and govermental judgement.

Both sides of this “argument” DO have merit – maybe that is the “issue”.

It is NOT a matter of "myopic clinging" to past needs and era... YOU ARE RIGHT, that those requirements change over time. Shelbyville may-well have been BETTER-SERVIVED by the acquisition and upgrade of “bush-league” WSVL by Emmis in the early 80s... So might have Greenfield by Cecil Heftel – and possibly even Brownsburg by the infamous Russ... Nonetheless – ALL these facilities continue to place a 70dbu signal over their COL [they HAVEN'T MOVED OUT], and are in a position to technically-cover and compelled to serve them as part of their SERVICE AREA. Service is more than about merely airing a daily “New Book At The Library Feature” or “Local Lost Dog Report”. Unquestionably, Shelby, Green, and Brown CONTINUE to receive dependable daily local technical service from the stations officially-licensed to their communities. That is the point I made in my prior post!

 

[FreeJulieandSteve]

There is one place & one person you can bank on being there on the radio dial in times of stormy trouble......and now even Columbus can tune in at night.........The Stever on the Big 93.......WIBC.

 

[ChiefEngineer]

I know radio is selfless promotion but no one tuned in to WIBC for information during the flood because WIBC didn't have it.

Were you live in Columbus? Live in Pendleton? Live in Knightstown?

It's great that I can get WIBC in my basement now...but...WIBC is only as good as the information it has and it doesn't cater to outside the loop any better now than it did before.

might work on that.

 

[radiowannab]

Every thread on this board turns into a WKLU bashing hating thread. gr8oldies and radioindy
are just screen names for BQ.

Since Mr. Quinn owns his own radio station I am pretty sure he has more to do with his time than get on here and post under more than one name. I talked to him several times when he owned your old station. He would always pick up the phone and take a request. You should stop waisting your time on here and start advising the staff to act more like Mr. Quinn. He knew how to treat listeners.

 

[radioindy]

Every thread on this board turns into a WKLU bashing hating thread. gr8oldies and radioindy
are just screen names for BQ.

Since Mr. Quinn owns his own radio station I am pretty sure he has more to do with his time than get on here and post under more than one name. I talked to him several times when he owned your old station. He would always pick up the phone and take a request. You should stop waisting your time on here and start advising the staff to act more like Mr. Quinn. He knew how to treat listeners.

For someone who says he's not in the business, has never been in the business, and is ony a listener, you sure know a lot of people. How did you come up with Bruce Quinn based on BQ without knowing all those in the local industry? hmmmmmm....

We all know most of these screen names are RO praising himself and bashing former employees. CLASSY (in a trailer park sense)!

 

[radiowannab]

I can assure you I am not RO though I have talked to him a couple of times on the phone and on here. Sometimes the most fun part of my day is seeing what screen name he or one of his employees will come up with next. While his behavior on here is very funny at times I must give him credit for being very passionate about his station.

 

[Earth]

Well maybe my little tirade woke some people up. GREAT JOB Q-MIX!!! I've been listening and you have been there for me! Keep doing what you did this week, now that's Radio!!!

EARTH!

 

[Radio Truth Guy]

We need to give an award for broadcasters that report in an emergency? Why? It's called doing their job.

I remember that Al Michaels won an Emmy for reporting from the San Franciso earthquake. Hey gang- He was the only guy on-site with a network microphone who had worked extensivly in San Francisco previously. What did they expect him to do?...throw up on himself when Ted Kopple came to him to say something?

I tell the truth about radio. What you say is up to you.

 

[radioindy]

We need to give an award for broadcasters that report in an emergency? Why? It's called doing their job.

I remember that Al Michaels won an Emmy for reporting from the San Franciso earthquake. Hey gang- He was the only guy on-site with a network microphone who had worked extensivly in San Francisco previously. What did they expect him to do?...throw up on himself when Ted Kopple came to him to say something?

I tell the truth about radio. What you say is up to you.

I realize this post is so moronic that no one will justify it with a response - so I will...

athletes win awards for performance, even though they are paid and IT'S THEIR JOB.
musicians win awards for performance, even though they are paid and IT'S THEIR JOB.
salesmen win awards for performance, even though they are paid and IT'S THEIR JOB.
broadcasters win awards for performance, even though they are paid and IT'S THEIR JOB.

I'm guessing you weren't too competitive as a child? Not very many trophies on the old mantle?

 

[realinsider]

Good Lord, somebody needs to step up to the mirror and take a good long look at himself.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

athletes win awards for performance, even though they are paid and IT'S THEIR JOB.
musicians win awards for performance, even though they are paid and IT'S THEIR JOB.
salesmen win awards for performance, even though they are paid and IT'S THEIR JOB.
broadcasters win awards for performance, even though they are paid and IT'S THEIR JOB.

Maybe, just maybe, this is the moronic thing. If the multi-million dollar paychecks of the first three groups don't give these people a big ego, maybe the awards will do it.