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alamo33
Guest
Dear Mega-Corporate PD,
I know times are tough right now, but maybe you can do the listeners a favor this new year, and take a few of these suggestions to your superiors, and maybe create a better experience for us all.
1.) The iPod/MP3 player is NOT your rival. It's a tool, an asset many of your listeners have. Provide something for it for your listeners... something beyond the morning show podcasts, please. PM me for more ideas.
2.) Here's a thought. Instead of hyping HD radio for your listeners to purchase, demo one while you are at a remote. If the car you're selling me has it, demo it. Don't just tell me, show me. And tell Microsoft to put an HD receiver in their Zune. It's already got your FM station receiver in it.
3.) Fix and update your websites. Please. I know of 7th graders that have better websites on Myspace than you. And consider adding an interactive social element like those pages that are the devil to so many of you.
4.) For the love of God, please don't play "the best of" segments on the morning. If the main players are on vacation whilst I schlepp away to work over the holidays, please give me Music, news and traffic. I don't want to hear a repeat of a show that possibly wasn't funny to even begin with.
5.) And finally, as tempting as it all is, please lose as much syndication as possible. Give some part-timers a chance. Even at market 69-70, whatever we are anymore, we are still an area full of small town local pride. Let's keep it that way. Bring local back. Tell me it's 13 degrees in Nazareth, 12 in Bangor and 14 in Allentown.
Happy new year to you, and God willing, I won't have to keep flipping back and forth between a my iPod and traffic reports that aren't so good anyway on my daily commute.
Signed,
alamo33
I know times are tough right now, but maybe you can do the listeners a favor this new year, and take a few of these suggestions to your superiors, and maybe create a better experience for us all.
1.) The iPod/MP3 player is NOT your rival. It's a tool, an asset many of your listeners have. Provide something for it for your listeners... something beyond the morning show podcasts, please. PM me for more ideas.
2.) Here's a thought. Instead of hyping HD radio for your listeners to purchase, demo one while you are at a remote. If the car you're selling me has it, demo it. Don't just tell me, show me. And tell Microsoft to put an HD receiver in their Zune. It's already got your FM station receiver in it.
3.) Fix and update your websites. Please. I know of 7th graders that have better websites on Myspace than you. And consider adding an interactive social element like those pages that are the devil to so many of you.
4.) For the love of God, please don't play "the best of" segments on the morning. If the main players are on vacation whilst I schlepp away to work over the holidays, please give me Music, news and traffic. I don't want to hear a repeat of a show that possibly wasn't funny to even begin with.
5.) And finally, as tempting as it all is, please lose as much syndication as possible. Give some part-timers a chance. Even at market 69-70, whatever we are anymore, we are still an area full of small town local pride. Let's keep it that way. Bring local back. Tell me it's 13 degrees in Nazareth, 12 in Bangor and 14 in Allentown.
Happy new year to you, and God willing, I won't have to keep flipping back and forth between a my iPod and traffic reports that aren't so good anyway on my daily commute.
Signed,
alamo33