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CLEAR CHENNEL COULD CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF RADIO

TheBigA said:
Sam Lit said:
It will change the landscape of radio, by pushing the listening public to the internet and portable internet protocol. 'Cause if you're stile stuck listening and languishing over terrestrial radio, then you're as stuck as listening to an eight track tape, with a learning disability.
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You wouldn't be a little biased there, would you?

The fact is that when most people turn to the internet for streaming audio, their first choice is internet streams of terrestrial radio stations.
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Yep. It's like a gateway drug. As time goes on, people discover they can pretty much program any playlist they want from Myspace to Pandora.com, and from there, the sky's the limit.
 
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aunti-terrestrial said:
Yep. It's like a gateway drug. As time goes on, people discover they can pretty much program any playlist they want from Myspace to Pandora.com, and from there, the sky's the limit.
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MySpace? You must be joking.

Meanwhile where are all the on-air personalities on the internet? All the local news? All the public affairs programming you want re-regulated? People seem to be wanting to get away from all the useless talk, all the unnecessary information, and all the material stations must provide by law.

Sure, some people want to make their own playlists. That's another reason to get rid of all the local gatekeepers who stand in the way of the public programming their own radio stations.
 
They have already changed th landscape of radio. By pushing the HD cr@p they have made the AM band virtually unlistenable, and will soon destroy FM in the same image by upping the power of its sidebands. If I were suspicious, I would think they have stock in XM / Sirius and are looking to take out the competition - terrestrial radio.
 
Wow, you're behind the curve...Clear Channel was one of the original major investors in XM!! That's why there are some music-with-commercials channels, as that was how the courts decided that XM should pay back CC for their investment and their "intellectual property" for developing formats for XM (The Heart, for one) and for sharing their own national formats (Mix, for one.)

Yeah, this indeed could be a way to damage terrestrial radio beyond saving, just to help their satellite investment. I can almost believe that!! (but I'm not surprised.)
 
Aunti-Terrestial has summed it up very well. The ones we called suits and have some pittance of stock in the companies are still waging the ever bleeding line of denial.
If any station ever went back to the very basic formula and followed what their license said to a "t", then the redness would fade more quickly and the profitability would reemerge. Live,local with quality not quantity. Remove the business degree from the 80's staff, and actually have someone who has opened a mic in a studio more than 4 times.
 
In the new Facist America to come.... I guess all we really need is our own version of the BBC Radio, just 5-10 Channels Nationwide. We need the reat of that spectrum "for other stuff"... Homeland security stuff.... that's the ticket !!

The Manadatory Sopohomoric Bathroom humor for the workers morning commute, after all, can be delivered Nationally, and does not need to be home grown. The same silly songs, all across America. With any "real" protest songs, that are counter to the current Govt. ideals.... throroughly drowned out.

Big Brother really really needs consolidation. 1st the Banks.... The Food Chain....
and Radio & TV.

Feel Better ???
 
TheRover said:
In the new Facist America to come.... I guess all we really need is our own version of the BBC Radio, just 5-10 Channels Nationwide. We need the reat of that spectrum "for other stuff"... Homeland security stuff.... that's the ticket !!

The Manadatory Sopohomoric Bathroom humor for the workers morning commute, after all, can be delivered Nationally, and does not need to be home grown. The same silly songs, all across America. With any "real" protest songs, that are counter to the current Govt. ideals.... throroughly drowned out.

Big Brother really really needs consolidation. 1st the Banks.... The Food Chain....
and Radio & TV.

Feel Better ???
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Hey, BBC Radio is better than anything thats OTA here in the US, I wouldnt even compare CC to a world class operation like theirs.
 
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TheBigA said:
Sure, some people want to make their own playlists. That's another reason to get rid of all the local gatekeepers who stand in the way of the public programming their own radio stations.
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Are you somehow suggesting that the local staff at any given station in the chain get a hand in making the decisions about what songs come out of Prophet for their formats? Seriously?
 
WOW LOCAL CONTROL OVER MUSIC SELECTION?????

WHAT A CONCEPT!!

As for the "facist nation" to come. Turn off the talk shows, you have have been fully mind washed, now its time to dry. the election's over. .the good guys won. ;D
 
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aunti-terrestrial said:
Are you somehow suggesting that the local staff at any given station in the chain get a hand in making the decisions about what songs come out of Prophet for their formats? Seriously?
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If the station reports to the trades, they MUST create a local chart of adds and currents that is not simply in lockstep with corporate mandate. Otherwise, they get dropped as a reporter. And the trade organizations (BDS and Mediabase) check those things.
 
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TheBigA said:
they MUST create
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I think those are your keywords, pal. Take a good long look at the playlist of any Mix or Buzz station in the chain and tell me what variables you notice from market to market. Here's a hint: none. Paperwork is easy to create. It's been a long, long time since I've seen any MDs walking around with a stack of new CDs to listen to, determining which ones go on the air. Nobody plays anything that hasn't already been ripped into Prophet. Why don't you know this?
 
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aunti-terrestrial said:
TheBigA said:
they MUST create
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I think those are your keywords, pal. Take a good long look at the playlist of any Mix or Buzz station in the chain and tell me what variables you notice from market to market. Here's a hint: none. Paperwork is easy to create. It's been a long, long time since I've seen any MDs walking around with a stack of new CDs to listen to, determining which ones go on the air. Nobody plays anything that hasn't already been ripped into Prophet. Why don't you know this?
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Because that would void the need to conduct music tests? The reason why you don't see MD's carrying around stacks of CD's, is because there's no need to. They just get dropped off at the MD's office and the MD does all the work at his desk. This ain't the era of records that have to be dubbed to tape carts or reels, you know.
 
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aunti-terrestrial said:
Why don't you know this?
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Maybe you don't know this, but radio station playlists aren't submitted to trades by paper. Their air signal is monitored. These lists are not on paper, and they're not made up.
 
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scrtr84 said:
This ain't the era of records that have to be dubbed to tape carts or reels, you know.
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New releases are available on the web via PlayMPE and other online sources. Labels have been getting out of the CD-Pro single distribution business for five years. These get dumped straight onto the hard drive.
 
Re: CLEAR CHANNEL COULD CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF RADIO

TheBigA said:
scrtr84 said:
This ain't the era of records that have to be dubbed to tape carts or reels, you know.
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New releases are available on the web via PlayMPE and other online sources. Labels have been getting out of the CD-Pro single distribution business for five years. These get dumped straight onto the hard drive.
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Yep, that's also true. :)
 
These songs that are fed directly into stations hard drive(from CCADS) or whatever are wav files I believe...so when record companies mass burn c.ds, are those also wav. files or something better?
 
NOPE! The GOOD GUYS Fascists can be found at 820 and 620 for those interested.
 
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