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Honoring The Past; Looking To The Future

I've visited and occasionally posted for years and never knew, until today, there was a dark theme! My eyes thank you and congrats to the team for continuing the Radio Discussions tradition.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I thought id be up there a bit... I was tossed twice under Zeo/Scott. .and ive been tossed twice from the current form. Think i was tossed once under mamma flemming.

HEy, i was young dumb and stupid back then. im only slightly older now.
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I was thrown out in 2012 after someone tried to dox another active poster who wanted to have their profession hidden from public view and I passionately objected to it. (That thread, or at least the posts in question, were mercifully nuked.) From there I was active on Lance's RadioInsight boards to the point the Cleveland board had the most activity, by far. Also wound up in TVNewsTalk (now LocalNewsTalk) but the radio spirit never left me, especially when mass consolidation in television began to rear its ugly head.

@Sammi Brie, who I befriended at TVNT (and became her 🦝 partner-in-crime on multiple Wikipedia article rehabilitation projects) wanted me to come back. I did, too, asked Frank and David, and they said yes.
 
Nathan Obral said:
I was thrown out in 2012 after someone tried to dox another active poster who wanted to have their profession hidden from public view and I passionately objected to it. (That thread, or at least the posts in question, were mercifully nuked.) From there I was active on Lance's RadioInsight boards to the point the Cleveland board had the most activity, by far. Also wound up in TVNewsTalk (now LocalNewsTalk) but the radio spirit never left me, especially when mass consolidation in television began to rear its ugly head.

@Sammi Brie, who I befriended at TVNT (and became her 🦝 partner-in-crime on multiple Wikipedia article rehabilitation projects) wanted me to come back. I did, too, asked Frank and David, and they said yes. (I'm thinking we might be talking about the same person?
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I spent a few sentences in radio message board jail, but I wasn't totally innocent. I remember having it out with a guy who worked at the Ohio BMV and part time at Columbus's 1580 who would even call me out in threads I wasn't participating in.
 
gr8oldies said:
I spent a few sentences in radio message board jail, but I wasn't totally innocent. I remember having it out with a guy who worked at the Ohio BMV and part time at Columbus's 1580 who would even call me out in threads I wasn't participating in.
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After hearing all of these tales of drama, I count myself thankful that I didn’t join this board until relatively recently (last year). I wouldn’t have put up with all that nonsense. Besides, cybersecurity provided plenty of its own drama, and paid a lot better.
 
Mark Roberts said:
After hearing all of these tales of drama, I count myself thankful that I didn’t join this board until relatively recently (last year). I wouldn’t have put up with all that nonsense. Besides, cybersecurity provided plenty of its own drama, and paid a lot better.
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I've actually found Radio-Info and RadioDiscussions (Aside from the Diana Fleming era which was drama from day 1) to be a generally friendly atmosphere at least when I was here. It can get heated at times with some subjects obviously but overall here we are over 25+ years since Lance and the crew revamped the Mid-Atlantic Radio Board and we're still having good conversations about radio. I'm genuinely happy to be here.
 
On a non-radio but still kind of connected note, I would like to point out that, on the Off The Air board, the Fantastic Word Game (TFWG as pretty much everyone in existence knows I prefer) has been here through all the changes since Dec 3, 2006, 17+ years. From Radio-Info back then to RadioDiscussions now and anything and everything in between. Except for that brief dark period when these boards were shut down during the transition and we tried to start TFWG2 over at RadioInsight but it didn't work out. That I'm aware of, we never had any interactions with Doug's mother or that hierarchy (and I've been playing this silly game since Day 1) so I guess it pays to fly under the radar and not make waves. We're happy to still be here and we hope to remain here for a very long time. <Hint Hint!!!>
 
lanceventa said:
Welcome to what might as well be RadioDiscussions version 10.0.

Over the past 27 years (nearly 2/3 of my life) these boards have been a constant. I was a young, naive teenager when I launched the Mid-Atlantic Radio Board from my college dorm room in the fall of 1997. Through that board, I would meet Doug Fleming and Tanim Hussain and we would launch Radio-Info.com in 1999 to host a growing network of regional radio boards that would pop-up. The site would continue to grow and evolve (and be barred from many station studios) over the next six years. During that time, both Doug and Tanim would move on to other pursuits and I continued to run the site

In 2005, Doug Fleming died tragically while biking in the desert outside of his home in Reno at the age of 27 and the following year his parents would stage a hostile takeover of the site, while attempting to rewrite its history in his behalf. I would launch RadioInsight within hours as a competing discussion site, but without the board history and the early motivation due to having to deal with the loss of one of my closest friends (I was told I was the last person to speak to Doug as we had one of our four hour phone calls the night before) and now the loss of what had become my life's work with no explanation ever given as to why they basically stole the site out from under me (Doug's father was a high powered attorney, and I was working in a restaurant so I had no ability to fight). While the boards would be run by their anonymous "Managing Board Editor", I would eventually pivot RadioInsight into what is now the most widely read radio industry news publication.

The Flemings would eventually break up Radio-Info, selling the domain name to Talkers Magazine and relaunching the boards under the RadioDiscussions name in 2012. Ownership of the site would pass to Streamline Publishing, who own Radio Ink and RBR, but they would soon shut the site down. That would lead to Frank Berry acquiring the site and running it for the past decade. Following Frank's passing, @DavidEduardo would help facilitate the transfer of the site back to me.

When the history of Radio-Info/RadioDiscussions is written, there should now be five "founders" considered. Doug, Tanim, and I are the original founders of Radio-Info, but Frank and David resurrected the site from the dead and erased the scars brought on in the middle by operators using the boards to advance their business and personal agendas rather than for the passion for the medium. We're all here because we love radio and want to see it thrive for a long time. And with David, @fybush, @Huff, @Michi, and others assisting, I believe the team we have here will be able to do so.

Now for what's next...

You see a new logo at the top. The typeface is the same one as the original Radio-Info logo. The color scheme now matches Tanim's "Valley of the Sun Media" Phoenix area board, which is what was merged with my "Mid-Atlantic Radio Board" to form Radio-Info some 25 years ago. The previous logo here was a holdover from the Streamline days. This is my way of honoring the origination of the site, while the RadioDiscussions brand will remain to honor Frank.

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Over the past few weeks, we have begun a consolidation of the board structure, much of which dates back to the early 2000s and just was added onto creating multiple boards serving the same purpose and others that have dwindles in usage as the industry consolidates. There will soon be a little more pruning of boards that serve little purpose existing as a stand-alone topic, but we will also begin adding some new ones.

I also will be looking at ways to modernize the site to bring in some social features. We're not a community without all of you contributing and while I know many do not like change, I do believe with collaboration we will ensure these changes are best for growing the site and hopefully radio as a whole...

If you have any questions or ideas, feel free to private message me anytime.

-Lance Venta
Chief Operator
RadioDiscussions
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How am I just seeing this now? Having been around since the Mid-Atlantic Radio Board days, I knew a lot of the history, but I didn't know anything at all about these recent changes. Congrats, Lance!

This was a really fun thread to read. I particularly enjoyed the discussion about how many times some of us have been banned and let back in. We were dumb kids saying dumb stuff. There have been a lot of frustrating participants over the years, but I have many more memories of the great interactions I've had.

Before hitting Post Reply: Special shout-out to the always informative David Eduardo. Great job!
 
Miguelito said:
How am I just seeing this now? Having been around since the Mid-Atlantic Radio Board days, I knew a lot of the history, but I didn't know anything at all about these recent changes. Congrats, Lance!

This was a really fun thread to read. I particularly enjoyed the discussion about how many times some of us have been banned and let back in. We were dumb kids saying dumb stuff. There have been a lot of frustrating participants over the years, but I have many more memories of the great interactions I've had.

Before hitting Post Reply: Special shout-out to the always informative David Eduardo. Great job!
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David has taken great pains and expense to preserve the history of radio, and is owed a deep debt of gratitude.
 
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