Guess Radio is really dead.

[zzzz1973]

Heard it was coming, with all the new media popping up. Must be true. All there is to talk about on the RADIO-info board is television junk, apparently. <P ID="signature">______________
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[Pat2]

> Heard it was coming, with all the new media popping up. Must
> be true. All there is to talk about on the RADIO-info board
> is television junk, apparently.
>
I don't know if its dead but to me it reminds me of what AM radio sounded like around 1980-81. Disco had become uncool, there were "disco sucks" bumper stickers all over town, some of the crappy automated FM stations were beginning to add disk jockeys and must have had a "no disco" policy, yet 62JDX was still spinning "ring my bell" and "We are a Family" 10 or 15 times a day. The same thing happened when Nirvana came out. Rock stations were still playing tired old hair band cheese for years. Look at the top 100 downloads on Itune or other mp3 site. You see people downloading stuff you hardly ever hear on the radio. Maybe it just takes the stations a while to pick up on new ideas. I keep reading that kids aren't buying as many CDs anymore but yet Barry Manilow was the top seller on billboard a while back with music from the 50's. Rod Stewart did the same with his albums of adult standards. go figure.

 

[dtyler947]

Thank you Clear Channel - your automation solution to high overhead has finally sealed the coffin

> > Heard it was coming, with all the new media popping up.
> Must
> > be true. All there is to talk about on the RADIO-info
> board
> > is television junk, apparently.
> >
> I don't know if its dead but to me it reminds me of what AM
> radio sounded like around 1980-81. Disco had become uncool,
> there were "disco sucks" bumper stickers all over town, some
> of the crappy automated FM stations were beginning to add
> disk jockeys and must have had a "no disco" policy, yet
> 62JDX was still spinning "ring my bell" and "We are a
> Family" 10 or 15 times a day. The same thing happened when
> Nirvana came out. Rock stations were still playing tired
> old hair band cheese for years. Look at the top 100
> downloads on Itune or other mp3 site. You see people
> downloading stuff you hardly ever hear on the radio. Maybe
> it just takes the stations a while to pick up on new ideas.
> I keep reading that kids aren't buying as many CDs anymore
> but yet Barry Manilow was the top seller on billboard a
> while back with music from the 50's. Rod Stewart did the
> same with his albums of adult standards. go figure.
>

 

[zzzz1973]

> Thank you Clear Channel - your automation solution to high
> overhead has finally sealed the coffin
>
> > >
> > I don't know if its dead but to me it reminds me of what
> AM
> > radio sounded like around 1980-81.

Guess I better jump back in here before this goes further. The negative nellies are gonna come out of the woodwork, missing my attempt at sarcasm. What's the use of being a smartass if nobody gets it? I don't think radio is really dead. The purpose of my original comment: "guess radio is really dead" was an attempt to ask why all the attention on a radio board to programming/engineering issues at bottom-tier televison properties? There are bottom-tier radio properties we can discuss. Just ask Mr. Fuss.(you go get 'em, Larry!) Good grief people. Is there nothing else to talk about on here other than what UHF channel Fox is gonna be on? There are several thousand radio properties on the air as we speak. I know you're out there. I can hear ya breathin'!!!!






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