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Is live & local radio dead?

GrouchyGuy said:
in the end all we will have are national stations
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Keep in mind that iHeart only owns 850 stations out of 16,000. Lots of options out there, especially among non-coms.

GrouchyGuy said:
At least the current FCC doesn't care about the stations operating in the public interest
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The current FCC is using public interest to challenge the TV networks. Carr has said very directly that they will enforce the public interest. But it's hard to say requiring local DJs is something they would regulate.
 
I had a reminder (and compliment) that local radio is not dead this morning.

We've had some rough weather in SE Wyoming this week.. and in some cases, rougher than was even forecast for. Wednesday, going by pure statistics/numbers presented to the media by the NWS was supposed to less intense than Tuesday... Mother Nature had other ideas.

I was recording updates between 2 and 4pm on some current watches/warnings.. things quieted down but the radar was right on the cusp of looking alot worse or causing worse to happen. We had a stable air over Laramie and a cap keeping it stable but that radar was looking like it could pop of some intense thunderstorms and that's all it would take to poke through the cap and case tornadic activity. The NWS told me there was no CURRENT tornadic threat despite a Tornado watch but breaking that cap of stable air could change that in minutes.

So between 4 and 9pm, I was recording updates to air on all 4 stations talking about WHAT I SAW on radar so people were aware what was possible.

I had the city manager in studio today for our daily, live 8am morning interview (City manager here has more power than our mayor). and h said "I really appreciate the weather updates on 98.7 Wednesday night, it was nice to know what was going on even though there was nothing was happening at the moment"

It feels GOOD when the city staff is starting to recognize and notice your efforts. It's part of the drive to keep going and do even more/better next time. And this came at the perfect time, on a great weather Friday and when, during the storms, I was wondering "Does anyone care? Is anyone listening?"
 


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