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He may be an idiot, but...

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SirRoxalot

...Mr. Ocean does raise an interesting point.

Will satellite, and eventually high-speed wireless Internet access, affect smaller markets more than larger markets? Does the appeal of a radio show by David Bowie, Snoop Dog, Stern, or some other famous person negate the advantage of live and local talent relating to a local audience?

Will on-line broadcasting create more opportunities for young talent to learn their craft, or just create another outlet for syndicated crap? Will local broadcasters be able to expand their offerings be adding on-line streams, or will they be crushed by the Big Guys?

In other words, is this the beginning of the end (as BO predicts), or just the end of the beginning?
 
"advantage of live and local talent relating to a local audience"

Since when did the Syracuse market have TALENT on-air??? please, worst market for on-air talent in a 3 state radius. Please tell me ANYONE on the air who is doing something interesting, innovative, exciting, thought provoking, funny, or just plain good. There isn't. Thats station to station, company to company, without prejudice across the board. Once you hear satellite and fun, interesting radio again theres no reason to come back to what Syracuse radio has become.
 
Perfection=computers. Too many computers.

Too much spell check going on dude. People would be refreshed to hear someone mess up on purpose on the air. Like stern did.

> Moving on and thanks for the good post. The first thing that comes to mind is ESPN getting monday night football. We all saw what happened to CBS when they lost football a few years ago but yes, it dragged a lot of people over to cable TV. These sales strategies, coupled with local talent being limited to a few people at all of the stations, and names more like Stern. Including his staff, (not Snoop Dogg or David bowie!) Talented Radio Programmers (the few that are left and stil familliar) should pull in some nice numbers for what we could call "Cable Radio" at 12/month. Personally i think the listenership will span mostly in all demos. A bit from all. The rich guy definately more than the poor guy but the poor guy too, spending the rent. The guys first, the porn lovers and the average people. Its gonna be everyone.
>> On line radio will never make any impact, just satellite. Its fun and you get some satisfaction from people listening but its more like IPOD and cdburning which already made a detremental impact on free Radio. My kids listen tro 93q (much to my dismay) in the car and their ipods.
Adding on-line streams is too much work, and it shouldnt be done. Snip-its would be cool. If the programmers here can produce anything interesting. The local stations will be crushed by quite a bit, not completely but get ready for a big batch of pink slips.


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i am an idiot, but...

> "advantage of live and local talent relating to a local
> audience"
>
> Since when did the Syracuse market have TALENT on-air???
> please, worst market for on-air talent in a 3 state radius.
> Please tell me ANYONE on the air who is doing something
> interesting, innovative, exciting, thought provoking, funny,
> or just plain good. There isn't. Thats station to station,
> company to company, without prejudice across the board.
> Once you hear satellite and fun, interesting radio again
> theres no reason to come back to what Syracuse radio has
> become.
>

I tend to agree with this opinion. Radio around here is full of has beens but there is some talent. Jim Reith and Joe Galuski are quite impressive and talented radio people. And i dont know either of them. Ted Long is a fine, well trained broadcater. Gary, Rick, Coombs, Ron, you can name a handful. Unfortunately no one good wants to work here. We comb through a few but like any other industry, the talent pool is dry. Id say keep the good ones and tell everyone else, from the afternoon drivers and the programmers to hit the road. Nothing all that great has happened around here this year, why pay them? We could use a good shakeup too. It will be a trade, the owners and GM's finally get to swing the axe for some relief. Then the next day they have a guy like me in their office telling them to stop messing up. That just gave me a chubby. No im not gay.
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