Except I'm still living mine...
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
COAST-TO-COAST AM Sounding Arthritic
- Thread starter sdwulfdawg
- Start date
Retirement is quite enjoyable if you can afford it. I was able to comfortably retire at 62. Are we back in high school? Wtf? But it’s all good.Except I'm still living mine...
Last edited:
I only wish I was 40 years younger so that I could try for 100 years in the business... part of the fun is the constant change.
I honestly don't ever plan on retiring. It's not like I can't afford to, it's that I really enjoy working. Just one of the many reasons I've stayed in the media business for so long. The variety of challenges facing the industry and the ability to, even in a small way, help solve those challenges. I've been very fortunate over the years that my employers have allowed me the breadth to work with new tech and ideas to create more efficient operations, allowing for additional forms of revenue or savings that keep the business going. That's why I'm constantly looking at the present and into the future, because the past is great and all, but it's still the past.
No worries, InstallSC, Kelly and I go back and forth about a lot of stuff. We probably agree on more than we disagree. Peace.
Last night Coast played the old clip of the guy supposedly flying into Area 51 with Art Bell hosting the show.
George Noory does a good job. The show has gone through some changes but I think they are mirroring what their audience has morphed into. At least, they have scaled back the political rhetoric heard on the show with their guests on their news segment during the Trump years.
George Noory does a good job. The show has gone through some changes but I think they are mirroring what their audience has morphed into. At least, they have scaled back the political rhetoric heard on the show with their guests on their news segment during the Trump years.
Last edited:
I'd mentioned that in another thread, that I'd program a station with fart sounds if I thought there would be a market for it. With that in mind; what about taking an Art Bell/Noory tact conspiracy-talk radio turned up to eleven, and call the new network 'QAnon Live'. Have all the self-titled patriots spew lots of crazy Pizza Gate and killing liberal's garbage. Have a good host, but make it a Crazytown free for all.
The nice thing about the idea; is it might drive new (albeit mentally deranged) listeners to AM, because crazy people run the gamut from a demographic perspective.
While you might be able to find the one case somewhere in this vast expanse of a planet…um, no. Teens may be curious about a great many things, some of which are eternal and perhaps to the consternation of many parents, AM radio isn’t one of them.
Our teens bemusement quickly pivoted to boredom as we were cleaning out some “ancient” technology relics that had gotten shoved to the back of cabinets and such. Floppy disks. CDs. A flip phone. An iPod (click wheel). Something tells me that’s not an isolated reaction.
AM radio? Yeah, no. I think that might make me question their mental health more than some booze and porn tucked away under the mattress. (Because no one ever looks there 🤣)
Like Rush Limbo...
He spouted off lots of opinions.... came across as a know-it-all....
Yet here he was a college drop-out...
As a reporter uncovered, when he was hosting that radio show in Sacramento, hadn't ever bothered to register to vote...
Angry white man (mostly) talk radio.... dittos.
Spot-on.
18 hours a day of one-sided, angry white man radio, a comparatively small demographic (like shortwave listeners) is not particularly appealing to most people.
Art Bell was right in the 1990s: programming ALL talk radio with political shows is wrong-headed.
I don't know what was intended here, but a man traveling by bike through communities along the Mississippi River wrote this for his local newspaper about one of the towns: "Home of Rush Limbaugh and a Roswell type alien crash".
It's true that Noory interviews serious guests, but is he widely considered to be a serious interviewer?
Were I to be asked what qualities I look for in a chat show host, my answer would be, "Someone who is bright, witty, and engaged with the topic at hand." From where I am standing, Noory, alas, is not imbued with any of these qualities.
Having said that, I think I understand why George is where is he is: because Art Bell couldn't seem to make up his mind about what he wanted in his last few years with Coast. Did Art want to stay? Did he want to leave? Eventually, the corporate sorts got tired of wondering whether they had a host or not and sought someone who would consistently turn up, sit down, and do the show.
So...they went out and got George. And he has been there ever since. There is no denying that George is consistent.
While I cannot say I am a fan, George has earned the money he makes, no doubt about it. If I had to put up with some of the inane guests and topics he is faced with, night after night, I would pay the iHeartMedia people anything they asked to let me stay home.
It isn't George himself that bothers me as much as the implication that George was the best the Premiere people could do when it came to finding a host. When they went looking for a host, where exactly did they look?
When I reflect on the names of some of the bright, engaging late-night radio show hosts who have graced the airwaves through the decades (Barry Gray, Herb Jepko, Long John Nebel, Jean Shepherd, etc.) and realise, "George is carrying the late-night mantle now," a feeling of intense frustration begins to overtake me.
I start to feel as though I am a mosquito in a mannequin factory.
Admittedly, there are not many chat show hosts who were on the air in 2003 who still continue to draw a fair audience in 2022. In just a few months, George will have been hosting the programme for two decades. Who can gainsay this?
There are times I find myself wishing George would accidentally lock himself in the bathroom during a break, just so the callers and guests would have to carry on without him.
(Could they do any better? Perhaps not, but that is a risk I would be willing to take.)
Having said that, I am glad George is there, if not for my own sake. I expect that, for some people, George is a comforting voice in the dark (and he does have a great radio voice).
I do try to tune in from time to time to see what is on offer. I cannot say I find much in it that catches my attention, but then, I could say that about most present-day programme offerings. However, if Coast gives other people a reason to keep their radios on, I do not begrudge them their enjoyment.
Just as many who go to college should not be there, there are some who drop out because it is intensely boring and tedious.
Lots of people, particularly in states that are overwhelmingly either Red or Blue, either don't register or don't vote because they feel so far in the minority that it does not good. World-wide, the US has among the lowest percentages of eligible voters who actually cast a vote.
Look how the US ranks:
Last night on "The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett," Syrett said that he was ending the program which has aired for 13 years on Toronto's CFZM. Since the 59-year-old Syrett has mentioned guest hosting C2C, I was wondering if he was being groomed as a replacement for the 72-year-old Noory. For those who've heard Syrett on C2C, how does he stack up against Noory or even Bell?
BTW, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, just a long-time DXer who found "The Conspiracy Show" about 11 years ago while scanning the AM dial one night. I have continued to listen to it online from time to time.
BTW, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, just a long-time DXer who found "The Conspiracy Show" about 11 years ago while scanning the AM dial one night. I have continued to listen to it online from time to time.
Could very well be that the station or syndicator isn't making enough revenue to justify keeping a live all night talk show going.
Whether it's true or not, Syrett emphasized that leaving was his call. He went on to say that station ownership and management were surprised when he told them of his decision.
BTW, "The Conspiracy Show" is just two hours long and only airs Sunday nights from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., Eastern. Although it has a few affiliates, I think most people discovered it through DXing, just as I did. The online listeners have formed a community and there is a running chat that goes on throughout the broadcast.
Maybe because he wasn't getting paid?
There's some serious numbers. Not really.
Yes, that's called a 'chat window' or a 'chat room'. A lot of YouTuber's and other social media platforms use it via this thing called 'The Internet'.
- Status