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A question to all the experts out there...

Which of the following do you believe has negatively affected terrestrial radio the most? It's safe to assume all have had an effect, obviously, but which has been the most important, if any?

A. Ipods/Itunes/p2p file "sharing".
B. Satellite radio.
C. Bad decisions by terrestrial radio corporations.
D. Something else

Just wanted to hear your views.
 
D. Deregulation

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JRA said:
A question to all the experts out there...

Which of the following do you believe has negatively affected terrestrial radio the most? It's safe to assume all have had an effect, obviously, but which has been the most important, if any?

A. Ipods/Itunes/p2p file "sharing".
B. Satellite radio.
C. Bad decisions by terrestrial radio corporations.
D. Something else

Just wanted to hear your views.
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Cell Phones. More people are talking on a cell phone on there way to work than Ipods, Satellite put together.
 
I'll go with Deregulation as well ... which produced the likes of Clear Channel and Spittle.
 
Ditto DE regulation/consolidation. Speaking of DE" he will be here in a few seconds to tell us how wrong we all are once more.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
Ditto DE regulation/consolidation. Speaking of DE" he will be here in a few seconds to tell us how wrong we all are once more.
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Nah, it's fun to watch a bunch of Luddites pissing into the wind.
 
DavidEduardo said:
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
Ditto DE regulation/consolidation. Speaking of DE" he will be here in a few seconds to tell us how wrong we all are once more.
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Nah, it's fun to watch a bunch of Luddites pissing into the wind.
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Takes one to know one Dave ;)
 
I vote for the owners. They bought a bill of goods from the consultants and the investment bankers. They subscribed to the conventional wisdom...
it reminds me of the legendary Texas Hoop Snake. They would take their tail in their mouth, and roll across the prairie. Then one learned that it could go faster by tucking its little head up into its little ****. Another learned it could go faster if it put its head further up...soon all the hoop snakes were going faster and faster, and pushing their heads further and further up their little tookuses, until they all disppeared up their own butts. And that's why you never see the hoop snake anymore....
 
And that's why you never see the hoop snake anymore..
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Thanks for the smile, Grant. I heard the term "hoop snake" muttered with disgust by an old guy I used to work with, but he'd never explain to me what it meant.
 
That explains CC,and the DE's insistance that we are all wrong,and they are above reproach. The shroud grows darker.
 
Two word answer..... Clear and Channel.

The Mays boys wanted to own radio in this country. Now they do.

The Mays boys should have been careful what they wished for...now they have it, and they're all headed down the drainpipe. ;D
 
JRA said:
A question to all the experts out there...

Which of the following do you believe has negatively affected terrestrial radio the most? It's safe to assume all have had an effect, obviously, but which has been the most important, if any?

A. Ipods/Itunes/p2p file "sharing".
B. Satellite radio.
C. Bad decisions by terrestrial radio corporations.
D. Something else

Just wanted to hear your views.
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D. regulation
 
Although you can make strong arguments for "C" all day long, their continued bad decision are seen mainly in UBER-corp's "Flight of the Valkyries" deregulation. Please, how much more can they homogenize the market so their pocketbooks get fat and the prices of iPod's continue to lower?

We all know CC and CBS are broadcast leviathans, but there are many more kicking. And they will continue to kick most of us off a tuner as long people stop caring about their audiences and keep listening to DE...ER...UH... consultants. :))
 
E) Voice Tracking and importing. While a nice "tool", it's too widely used on a consistent basis (especially in non-top 20 markets).
 
I think voice tracking and importing in smaller markets is a product of deregulation ... did that happen much before dereg?
 
jacojunkie said:
I think voice tracking and importing in smaller markets is a product of deregulation ... did that happen much before dereg?
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Yes, especially in the decade of the 70's where a huge percentage of FMs used voice tracked, taped syndicated formats. Companies like SRP, Bonneville, Drake Chennault, Peters, IGM. RPM, Churchille, Kala, FM 100, TM, etc. had literally thousands of stations running these automated formats all over the nation, from the very top markets to the smallest.

As a percentage, there were far more voice tracked and automated stations in that decade than today.
 
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