Crawford Broadcasting makes a$$ of self

[BrainDeadPrez]

Edward Dulaney, the chief engineer of Crawford Broadcasting (KAAM, amongst others) wrote a little lovefest article about Clear Channel in Radio World last week. The worst of it was, and doesn't this just sum up the WHOLE problem with corporate radio:

"People can complain about the loss of localism and the lack of unique formats, but don't blame Clear Channel for those problems. If there were a real need for those formats, someone would step up to the plate and do it."

Either Crawford is asking to be bought out by CC, or this moron actually believes his own propaganda. "Someone would step up to the plate"??? HA!! Many formats go unserved. I can think of many here just in DFW, like all-news. The corporate suits are the last ones to ask what formats THEY think should be provided. Their interests strictly deal with profitability, and that has nothing to do with what truly serves the public.

 

[Blart]

> Edward Dulaney, the chief engineer of Crawford Broadcasting
> (KAAM, amongst others) wrote a little lovefest article about
> Clear Channel in Radio World last week. The worst of it
> was, and doesn't this just sum up the WHOLE problem with
> corporate radio:
>
> "People can complain about the loss of localism and the lack
> of unique formats, but don't blame Clear Channel for those
> problems. If there were a real need for those formats,
> someone would step up to the plate and do it."
>
> Either Crawford is asking to be bought out by CC, or this
> moron actually believes his own propaganda. "Someone would
> step up to the plate"??? HA!! Many formats go unserved. I
> can think of many here just in DFW, like all-news. The
> corporate suits are the last ones to ask what formats THEY
> think should be provided. Their interests strictly deal
> with profitability, and that has nothing to do with what
> truly serves the public.


Perhaps Mr. Dulaney should just go back to soldering.
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[Phantom]

> Edward Dulaney, the chief engineer of Crawford Broadcasting
> (KAAM, amongst others) wrote a little lovefest article about
> Clear Channel in Radio World last week. The worst of it
> was, and doesn't this just sum up the WHOLE problem with
> corporate radio:
>
> "People can complain about the loss of localism and the lack
> of unique formats, but don't blame Clear Channel for those
> problems. If there were a real need for those formats,
> someone would step up to the plate and do it."
>
> Either Crawford is asking to be bought out by CC, or this
> moron actually believes his own propaganda. "Someone would
> step up to the plate"??? HA!! Many formats go unserved. I
> can think of many here just in DFW, like all-news. The
> corporate suits are the last ones to ask what formats THEY
> think should be provided. Their interests strictly deal
> with profitability, and that has nothing to do with what
> truly serves the public.


It's been years since radio was REQUIRED to serve the public.

Now it's inane chatter, foul mouths and jukeboxes.

 

[nuzguy]

> > Edward Dulaney, the chief engineer of Crawford
> Broadcasting
> > (KAAM, amongst others) wrote a little lovefest article
> about
> > Clear Channel in Radio World last week. The worst of it
> > was, and doesn't this just sum up the WHOLE problem with
> > corporate radio:
> >
> > "People can complain about the loss of localism and the
> lack
> > of unique formats, but don't blame Clear Channel for those
>
> > problems. If there were a real need for those formats,
> > someone would step up to the plate and do it."
> >
> > Either Crawford is asking to be bought out by CC, or this
> > moron actually believes his own propaganda. "Someone
> would
> > step up to the plate"??? HA!! Many formats go unserved.
> I
> > can think of many here just in DFW, like all-news. The
> > corporate suits are the last ones to ask what formats THEY
>
> > think should be provided. Their interests strictly deal
> > with profitability, and that has nothing to do with what
> > truly serves the public.
>
>
> Perhaps Mr. Dulaney should just go back to soldering.

A waste of perfectly good solder.
>

 

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

Perhaps Mr. Dulaney should just go back to soldering.
>
> A waste of perfectly good solder.
Sound like he is auditioning for clear channel,with Mays junior's recent statement and Dulaney's it's a small wonder people are turning off the radio.

 

[DougRoberts]

> Perhaps Mr. Dulaney should just go back to soldering.
> >
> > A waste of perfectly good solder.
> Sound like he is auditioning for clear channel,with Mays
> junior's recent statement and Dulaney's it's a small wonder
> people are turning off the radio.
>

Is Mr. Dulaney the wing nut who chopped the upper half of the audio off at KAAM? No reason to listen to them any more - sounds like a clear channel AM now. He should get to work unsoldering that 5Khz low pass filter!

 

[rbrucecarter]

> Is Mr. Dulaney the wing nut who chopped the upper half of
> the audio off at KAAM? No reason to listen to them any more
> - sounds like a clear channel AM now. He should get to work
> unsoldering that 5Khz low pass filter!

Amen to that!

That letter in RW was really strange --- all Clear Channel engineering is doing is destroying the AM band by shoving this AM IBOC stuff down our throats. I can hear digital sidebands 300 plus miles away on AM IBOC stations daytime - I don't even want to think about the havoc it will cause when it goes nighttime, too. And Mr. Dulaney is praising Clear Channel Engineers who came up with this debacle? C'mon! Where is the credibility? First, CC encourages all AM broadcasters to be "good neighbors" and reduce bandwidth. But - that is exactly what is needed for a station to go IBOC! Talk about a self-serving suggestion ----

 

[edwardrmurrow]

> > Is Mr. Dulaney the wing nut who chopped the upper half of
> > the audio off at KAAM? No reason to listen to them any
> more
> > - sounds like a clear channel AM now. He should get to
> work
> > unsoldering that 5Khz low pass filter!
>
> Amen to that!
>
> That letter in RW was really strange --- all Clear Channel
> engineering is doing is destroying the AM band by shoving
> this AM IBOC stuff down our throats. I can hear digital
> sidebands 300 plus miles away on AM IBOC stations daytime -
> I don't even want to think about the havoc it will cause
> when it goes nighttime, too. And Mr. Dulaney is praising
> Clear Channel Engineers who came up with this debacle?
> C'mon! Where is the credibility? First, CC encourages all
> AM broadcasters to be "good neighbors" and reduce bandwidth.
> But - that is exactly what is needed for a station to go
> IBOC! Talk about a self-serving suggestion ----
>
Bruce, You and I actually agree on something. The IBOC is pure crap. Cc brought out "cashbox" and instigated voice tracking ,now this piece of on the air sewage. KAAM USED to sound great on AM, now in spite of the music,it sounds like its in a paper towel roll.