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Blizzard Warnings for CT lets play the voicetracking Game
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SoNo said:
Does anybody remember when radio (and television) stations where licensed "... in the public interest?" Voicetracked stations don't provide music service to the public. Think if there was a real emergency like a blizzard - how the hell is a voice tracked jock gonna tell you the sky is falling?
Thanks to the geniuses in the government for deregulating radio!
Bill DeFelice said:
Oh come on. Radio didn't change because of deregulation. It changed because it had to.
What does a live DJ say during a blizzard, especially one on a Sunday? "Stay indoors." Duh!
The public has nothing to gain from live local DJs during a snowstorm. Especially when the weather report comes from the same place, regardless of the airstaff.
SoNo said:
Ha! I've worked in it long enough to know.
One of my first jobs was at an automated AM-FM combo. No live on air staff. Long before deregulation. Automated, for those of you who don't know, was what radio was before voice-tracking. You had cart racks and reel decks with programming that was mailed in from a program supplier. And our AM-FM combo wasn't a loser. It was one of the top rated stations in the market, highly profitable, in the snow belt, with no live announcers. Ever. We got our weather forecasts from a syndicator in State College PA. Like lots of other stations.
If it was OK before deregulation, then it's OK now.
Believe it or not BigA, radio has changed since your last radio job running automation with carts and reel to reel. Just because your station didn't do it and listeners didn't protest outside the studio doesn't mean they didn't want live local content from you in a storm. They probably just found it elsewhere.
But you're right, it's certainly easier to just not bother with it and assume listeners will get the info elsewhere. That attitude has really helped our industry thus far, that's why we're in such great shape!
But you're right, it's certainly easier to just not bother with it and assume listeners will get the info elsewhere. That attitude has really helped our industry thus far, that's why we're in such great shape!
I can recall when the radio was the best or only place to run in things like bad storms..loss of electricity, etc. ya know...what's going on ??
I tried a 'listen around' during the storm.
I'm in SW Connecticut.
I get WCBS 880 with a potent signal. WINS 1010 a weaker signal. OK--that's New York.
Old WICC used to be the place to tune. I gave up on them for News/Info. I think they have something in 'morning drive time' but otherwise 'nothing' (?) All I heard was something that sounded like some satellite comedy show.
Who else ? I noticed Danbury WLAD 800 had some 'live stuff'.
WELI 960 New Haven was live !!!!! but only 2 people who made it to work and talked about their nightmare for a short time. No weather. No News. --just back to National Programming...
New 980 Old Saybrook at least had a 'live' weather report and traffic.
1320 WATR Waterbury seemed live.
WTIC 1080. I don't know. Had a weather/traffic report on the hour.
WNLK/WSTC 1350/1400 Stamford/Norwalk sounded 'live' with information.
The winner was WPRO 630 with at least 2 live people and taking phone calls LOCAL and all kinds of local information.
I don't get WPRO 630 here except with a good car radio or a 'sensitive radio'. (a good radio)
So everybody likes the new 'corporate satellite radio'. Oddly they say nobody listens to radio anymore. Younger people..radio ? uuughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I tried a 'listen around' during the storm.
I'm in SW Connecticut.
I get WCBS 880 with a potent signal. WINS 1010 a weaker signal. OK--that's New York.
Old WICC used to be the place to tune. I gave up on them for News/Info. I think they have something in 'morning drive time' but otherwise 'nothing' (?) All I heard was something that sounded like some satellite comedy show.
Who else ? I noticed Danbury WLAD 800 had some 'live stuff'.
WELI 960 New Haven was live !!!!! but only 2 people who made it to work and talked about their nightmare for a short time. No weather. No News. --just back to National Programming...
New 980 Old Saybrook at least had a 'live' weather report and traffic.
1320 WATR Waterbury seemed live.
WTIC 1080. I don't know. Had a weather/traffic report on the hour.
WNLK/WSTC 1350/1400 Stamford/Norwalk sounded 'live' with information.
The winner was WPRO 630 with at least 2 live people and taking phone calls LOCAL and all kinds of local information.
I don't get WPRO 630 here except with a good car radio or a 'sensitive radio'. (a good radio)
So everybody likes the new 'corporate satellite radio'. Oddly they say nobody listens to radio anymore. Younger people..radio ? uuughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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'CTY had "live" updates during syndicated countdown show Sunday night...then "live" overnight.... 'NLC had "live" updates within "tracking" night and overnight.. 'ICH had updated inserts within satellite MOR feed. 'KNL pre-empted night & overnight tracking and went "live". Info was obviously weather and traffic related with updates on power outages (numbers from CL & P website on numbers of customers without power and where....) Although it was obvious that you could tell people in the dark exactly WHEN their power would return, folks were keeping track of the hourly numbers to track where progress was being made. (A few people called in when their lights came back on....) As for music, the format went from "oldies" to AOR (All Over the Road)by 11 PM. We playing pretty much anything that the plow truck operators wanted to hear by then. Even though it was Sunday night, word spread... We were getting calls from crews working the roads in Ashford and one plowing at the UCONN Storrs campus... Thats farther than where we normally get calls. Other than that, we must raided the vending machine and drank coffee 'til the morning folks came in...
I had WCBS News 880 tuned in throughout the storm,They did a great job.Did not even bother to fire up the ole tube.Oh yea the deregulation thing .Thats when the ownership quota rules went out the window.along with everything else.
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