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Is it just me?!?!

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ShadowB

Saw this today out of Detroit..."Over on country WDTW, midday talent Erica Lynn and night jock Rob Graham have both been supplanted by voicetracking."
Think I recall the top brass at C.C saying something like..." Oh we would NEVER voice track anything but weekends or overnights"
This just got me thinking...how many stations are NOW voicetracking weekday hours?

I know I know things change BUT.....
 
a lot. from what I heard, probably every station I know voice tracks.

listening to radio today sucks compared to the 70s and 80s (and early 90s)
Isn't this one of the stations from the infamous movie "private parts"? (when Howard worked in Detroit?)

one station here, WNCV SOUNDS like they have a jock in the studio but from what someone told me all voice tracking damn, I was fooled.

-Rob
 
Rob-

Not true about Coast 93.3. They do have live bodies in there except for the obvious John Tesh.
 
Jocks! Bah humbug! Don't need em. Save a billion bucks a year. Let the ol Dell handle it all. Makes ya wanna jump out of the basement window.
 
If a jock has talent, is creative and entertains, they'll always find work. Many jocks don't do show prep, show up at the station 5 minutes before their shift, and talk down to the audience. I travel along I-10 from Houston to Jax and 75 from Tampa to Chattaooga and hear jocks who can't do the basics and shouldn't be in radio.

Entertain. Inform. Get paid.
 
Carmentor:

I respectfully disagree with you on this. Some of the best, most seasoned and pre-planner-types have been
axed by budget cuts, regardless of quality, ratings or years of service. Sadly, radio is an industry of immediate
gratification for unseasoned pencil pushers and out of control management. They substitute in what you listen
to from Tampa to Chattanooga for $8.00 an hour at the expense of you the listener. If you were correct, you
would be hearing a lot of great talent that has been put out to pasture or can't afford to stay in the business.
 
There is truth in Carmentor's words. In 26+ years I have seen more than my share of jocks who couldn't prepare a show correctly if the box had directions on it, and if they are 5 minutes early for a shift they either nap, drop a duece, or call their wife/girlfriend to boast about how "early" they are.
But Stewy & Tibbs are right about out of control management, too. Big corporations like Cox and CC bought stations at way over their value years ago just to get a few blue chips ... and now, as revenues decline and overhead is harder to meet, even frontline talent is feeling the pinch.
And so, a few brave, foolhardy souls march on, finding their niche away from the corporate leviathans, doing good radio on a local level, and knowing one day the Death Stars WILL explode, and this small band of rebels can tell tales of a time before corporate radio ... when you could meet the real owner of a radio station, whether you were picking up prizes or a paycheck.
Stay faithful, radio brothers and sisters ... these Giants can't sonsume each other AND themselves much longer.
 
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