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Is anyone still in radio?

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Judging from many of the regular posters here, I'm wondering if any of you still work in radio. A couple of years ago, there were more rumors (the kind that just might be true) and more breaking news on this site. Here lately, with the exception of a couple of first time posters, there's just been a lot of same-old same-old stuff. There's been little of substance and interest. Even good old X-Talker hasn't been around much. The conversations have been pretty inane, or just downright dopey. Sorry, but it's true. There should be plenty of topics that we could hash out. Real debate can be fun! Everybody expressing an opinion instead of just sniping at the other posters. I promise that I'm going to try harder and hopefully introduce a decent topic now and then. I hope some of you guys will do the same. God knows we're in extraordinary times!
 
I totally agree with Attica! This board has been on fiyah like Mariah! :eek: ;D ;D ;D ;D Big shout out to Ape, The eye, Xtalkie, and all the rest who make the world a more interesting place but not too much.

Other than timing out the hour for Mutual News, this site is the one of the most important part of my broadcast day, just like meter readings!!!!1! :D :D :D ;) ;)

I'm sorry, but the kettle and the pot are both posting on another board right now and I need to make some "off color" comments!!! BOOO-YA!
 
Atticus said:
Judging from many of the regular posters here, I'm wondering if any of you still work in radio.
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Shoot, is that a requirement?
I don't think "still work in radio" should be a requirement for anything, else you'll knock the potential number of posters down to like 40 in the area.
Then you are going to require them to post stuff that's not inane or downright dopey, and have time outside their five jobs at the station to post, and that only leaves probably five people in radio who would meet that criteria.
It's a self-defeating principle you're proposing, or something like that.

A couple of years ago, there were more rumors (the kind that just might be true) and more breaking news on this site.
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A couple of years ago, there were more rumors and breaking news in radio.
And more people "in radio."
Lately, it's just been "cuts" "cuts" "cuts" and I'm not talking about songs, and bland repetition cookie-cutter, inside the box "efforts" at radioing, for different reasons.

Here lately, with the exception of a couple of first time posters, there's just been a lot of same-old same-old stuff. There's been little of substance and interest. Even good old X-Talker hasn't been around much. The conversations have been pretty inane, or just downright dopey. Sorry, but it's true.
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Then why would you think we don't "still work in radio?"
Sounds like we all still work in radio by that estimation, because "same-old, same-old, little of substance and interest, pretty inane, or just downright dopey" are what radio sounds like the last couple years.
Sorry, but it's true.

There should be plenty of topics that we could hash out. Real debate can be fun! Everybody expressing an opinion instead of just sniping at the other posters.
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It's all in good fun, man. Don't feel harmed by the harmless.
I'm not sniping at you, I'm sniping with you.

I promise that I'm going to try harder and hopefully introduce a decent topic now and then.
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Good luck finding one.

I hope some of you guys will do the same. God knows we're in extraordinary times!
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But not necessarily in a good way..... ;)
 
OK, at least you made me laugh! Yes, the extraordinary times we're in are not necessarily good, but I have hope that radio is about to cycle back around to being locally owned again. Viva Regulation! The sooner the better, assuming any of us survive until then. I'm beginning to feel like everything is spiraling down and out of control, never to return. :-\
 
Atticus said:
I'm wondering if any of you still work in radio.
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I think so. The key still gets me in the building.
 
I still work in Radio...... for about two weeks every 4 years when the National Boy Scout Jamboree rolls aorund. Otherwise I am just a listener with knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes.

But I still love to discuss it here, and I have been disappointed in the lack of posting in the forums lately, especially in the Charlotte forum, some days there are no new posts at all.
 
jtudor said:
I still work in Radio...... for about two weeks every 4 years when the National Boy Scout Jamboree rolls aorund. Otherwise I am just a listener with knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes.

But I still love to discuss it here, and I have been disappointed in the lack of posting in the forums lately, especially in the Charlotte forum, some days there are no new posts at all.
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"That's Pretty much sums it up for radio and it's sad.."
 
I have been lucky(?) enough to survive in the biz for over 40 years now. Before the internet, fax machines, CD players, consolidation, deregulation, voicetracking, and downsizing. I've had friends who were tops in the biz, segue to real estate, selling cars, raising families, even suicide. I remember having to take meter readings every 30 minutes, (although we didn't always write 'em down until hours later), changing speeds on turntables and reel to reel machines by slipping sleeves over the capstans, taking cash payments for Sunday morning religious broadcasts BEFORE you'd let the preacher even ENTER the studio, sponsored fires, and groupies who would "deliver" to the station. I've done Country, Oldies, AC, AOR, Chainsaw Rock, and Talk formats and met countless celebrities who were either egomaniacs, or truly REAL people who were as easy to know as your next door neighbor. I've been on air, off air, full time and part time and yet I still come to work every day. What in the hell makes me do that? Oh yeah, it's better than working for a living. Besides, you just cannot make this stuff UP! Makes for interesting dinner conversation too. 8)
 
You forgot to mention clearing the teletype machine in the morning, doing EBS tests (the old carrier-break and 1000 hz tone type), BMI logs, live tags on the end of commercials, the "hold-out sheet" and re-packing carts.

Later . . . .
 
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... sponsored fires...
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OK, I'll bite. I remember all that stuff (especially the danger of starting a record at the wrong speed!).

But "Sponsored Fires"? As in revenue, and toasting marshmallows??
 
Oh yeah, sponsored fires. The small town I lived and worked in had a volunteer fire department. The volunteers were notified by a large klaxon that you could all over the county (almost) and when there was a fire it would ring out a code. Thing is the code was published in the back of the local phone book and it was a standing order among station staffers that if you heard the alarm, you'd call the station to tell where the fire was. At this point you'd pull a cart to play, all it had on the label was flames drawn on it with the word FIRE in big red letters. The announcer would come on saying, "Did you hear the fire alarm? Could that be YOUR home or business burning? If you had so and so insurance you wouldn't have to worry because blah blah blah." The he'd say, "Here is where the fire is..." at which point you'd open the mic and read the address of the fire. Then you'd fire the cart again (pun intended) and there'd be another :30 spot for the insurance company. So there ya go, sponsored fires! An act of pure marketing brilliance. I've now blown my cover as anyone who knows me has heard this story because it is so incredible, yet very true! Ah radio, you've made me who I am today....BROKE! :D
 
knowsdown said:
Oh yeah, sponsored fires. The small town I lived and worked in had a volunteer fire department. The volunteers were notified by a large klaxon that you could all over the county (almost) and when there was a fire it would ring out a code. Thing is the code was published in the back of the local phone book and it was a standing order among station staffers that if you heard the alarm, you'd call the station to tell where the fire was. At this point you'd pull a cart to play, all it had on the label was flames drawn on it with the word FIRE in big red letters. The announcer would come on saying, "Did you hear the fire alarm? Could that be YOUR home or business burning? If you had so and so insurance you wouldn't have to worry because blah blah blah." The he'd say, "Here is where the fire is..." at which point you'd open the mic and read the address of the fire. Then you'd fire the cart again (pun intended) and there'd be another :30 spot for the insurance company. So there ya go, sponsored fires! An act of pure marketing brilliance. I've now blown my cover as anyone who knows me has heard this story because it is so incredible, yet very true! Ah radio, you've made me who I am today....BROKE! :D


AH! :D :D ;D It's you Goober, Reporting live from Mayberry..Tell Otis Hey for me!!!BIG APE
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Sponsored FIRES! ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! What a great story! No, Clear Channel wouldn't do this because they already killed the stations that would sponsor the fires. Anything very local just isn't their thang.

Sponsoring the EAS test is also amazing. Do you remember the category of company that sponsored it? Just curious.
 
Sponsoring the EAS test is also amazing. Do you remember the category of company that sponsored it? Just curious.
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No, I only heard about that it happened, didn't hear it personally. It was a fellow classmate that got his first job in sales at a local station and convinced the station to sell those. A very local station in Southern Illinois. Around 1975. Probably a first.
 
I once heard a daytime AM station sign off with a silent prayer for our servicemen...(carrier off) at sign on the first thing they said was...Amen!
 
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