Big D & Bubba leaving WSIX Afternoon Drive

[olebud]

Thanks..I'll put it next to my DJ of the year award..if I could remember where I put it..

And where was that......I know...that's it on the mantle in you "Man Room" : ??? :'( ;D

 

[deltas69]

up in the attic...CMA small market 1983..WQSI...To be honest I was one of the top five finalists...got some sort of plaque to aknowledge the foolishness of the CMA in selecting me...Haven't seen it in years...now about that gold record I shared with Jim Vantrease........

 

[jharmon]

IMHO, AT was not the entire problem with the demise of OTA radio. Technology was the culprit. Why did so many people initially buy the IPOD? It wasn't baby boomers, but young demos who thought the technology was cool and was not like "grandpa's old radio"
What could radio do about it? Nada
What did radio do about it? Dismissed it. Too late to fix that now.
Then comes satellite radio. People in cars had a choice and they took it.
Pandora, smart phones, internet were more nails in the coffin for OTA radio.
AT become less and less of a factor when corporate radio started losing lots of money because they overpaid for the properties in the first place.
And they began losing revenue to the internet and other places.
Why couldn't somebody, say from NYC, play music and VT for Nashville.
If people clearly want to hear their favorite songs and not very interested in local AT, then it became another way to cut expenses and drive more cash to the fast evaporating bottom line.
Pandora is coming.
Be afraid.
Smartphones dont need AT spouting weather forecasts, traffic, etc.
They get that download as quick as radio gets the info.
The 8 track is gone
The cassette is gone
The Model T is gone
Radio is now added to the list.
There will always be a former somebody talking about the good old days.
They probably were.
Time to move forward.

 

[firepoint525]

I wouldn't think of going on a long trip without some music to take with me. Partly because I may be unfamiliar with stations in the area where I'm going, but partly because all radio has become anymore is a chatterbox. The wife wants me to get (for Christmas) an adaptor so that we can play her iPad through the car's cigarette lighter because it is virtually impossible to find MUSIC on the radio in the mornings anymore! Everyone's either gone Chri$tma$, or Bubba 1 and Bubba 2, or they go on ad nauseum about what goes on in Hollyweird, or play WAY too many commercials, etc. And this is supposedly "music" city! Well, it was!

 

[secondchoice]

Time to move forward.

I just what to know how should we move forward?

Radio was suppose to "die" when TV came a long over 50 years ago. Somebody forgot to tell us!

 

[TheBigA]

AT become less and less of a factor when corporate radio started losing lots of money because they overpaid for the properties in the first place.

Once again, mythology.

AT became less of a factor when radio no longer had the monopoly on music delivery. Once people had personal music devices like Walkmen, radio became less of a factor. They wanted their music, and didn't want a DJ telling them what to like. It happened more than 25 years ago. Had nothing to do with corporate radio losing money. Had to do with several things: Self indulgent AT, thinking they were more important than the music, drinking at the troth of the labels with lots of free stuff, playing songs because of the perks the ATs got rather than because the music was good, and ultimately losing the confidence of the listeners. This is why, when people think of great ATs, they need to go back more than 25 years. Larry Lujack, Cousin Bruce Morrow, Robert W. Morgan, even Coyote McCloud were all from the innocent days before money invaded the music. They had credibility and heritage. Anyone who came afterwards didn't. Then of course you had MTV. Another place people could go for music that wasn't local radio. You often heard music there that radio wasn't playing. That hurt radio's credibility. By the time corporate radio came around 15 years later, the damage had already been done. They needed to solve the problem, which was get rid of all the clutter and interruptions in radio. But quit blaming "corporate radio" for death of AT, because there are loads of radio stations not owned by radio corporations.

 

[jetfli]

You are confusing the content with the medium. Radio is about more than music. Radio is about programming. Once, radio was about hours of variety shows, comedys, westerns, detective shows, soap operas, science fiction, theater presentations and more. When those shows started to drift to TV, radio only then found itself as a 24/7 delivery system for recorded music. When rock 'n' roll was born, radio skyrocketed into what we've mostly known in our lifetimes. Today, too many still think of radio as the mass marketing arm of the music business, that's why it has taken longer to evolve like it did when it moved from "Old Time Radio" to "records". Because of this, new formats have been slow to get out the gate, but to great success when it has, e.g. conservative talk and more lately, sports radio. Radio must continue to seek new formats and programming in order to survive. And we must all stop thinking of radio as merely a music delivery system.

 

[jharmon]

What does a 18 old high school senior think radio is?
A music delivery system?
Her Iphone is that.
Radio is not even on the radar of most young adults.
Just us old ex-radio guys who dream that it will be the way it used to be.

 

[Don78]

Just us old ex-radio guys who dream that it will be the way it used to be.

Man, JHarmon that was not only deep but so true. And yet so simple. It is so hard to let go of a dream.

 

[spew]

ANTHONY ALLEN will be joining The BIG 98 as Asst. Program Director/Music Director/afternoon drive personality. Anthony comes from KZSN in Wichita, where he's been Program Director and morning drive personality for the past few years.