Is This What Radio Has Come To?

[walker690]

Is this what radio has degraded into?? My God almighty.

Stations offering listeners Jack, Jill, Frank, Steve, Max, Charlie, Mike, wolf, eagle, bayou, whatever? WTF is all that BS and nonsense??

Sad, sad, sad. Nonsense fathered by hypnotic corporate Svengali's (Wiki that one) who are force-feeding gullible Generation Y's with their stiff and boring programming of crap corporate alleged radio, with the attitude "If you don't like it, what are you gonna do about it?" What arrogance, while they deprive an entire generation of radio at its finest.

It's sad, people, that you were not given the opportunity to know what real local radio sounded like in the pre-1990's because of the crap CC and Ent and Cit and all the other corporate bullies of the business are forcing you to listen to now.

I know nothing stays the same and time marches on. But don't stand for today's manipulation of you listeners! Don't let these corporate mindbenders manipulate your strings like a puppet in order to fatten their wallets, like the oil companies.

Give it up. And while you're doing it, send them a subtle message that their type of radio sucks.

Do yourselves a favor, get an Ipod ... and don't report the corporate stations to Arbitron or other ratings services. Lie and report locally-owned stations still in existance. Or just refuse to participate in audience rating surveys that just, without you realizing it, make corporations richer off of you while you are forced to listen to the crap they serve you in return.

Wake up, people!!

Hit the business-killing bast*rds where it hurts...in their wallets. They killed a beautiful business...and they deserve to suffer for it. If they go belly-up, like their stocks are showing, boo-hoo !!

This is my only post on this, and just a heads up on how they're using you...take it for what it's worth and do what you want...I saw the best days of radio and made a long career out of offering the audience the best that radio had to offer. You, the listeners, are the future of radio. Remember that.

Take it back from them by way of ratings!

Bob Walker

 

[nedryerson]

Where are Vince Aletto and Maury McGill when we need them most?

 

[Beernuts711]

Who ?

 

[frequentmodulator]

So damn true. Love watching their stocks plummet and the snakes slithering and scrambling to go public to keep from slitting their own throats and beheading themselves after they have destroyed the industry.

And now Randy Michaels is doing it to television, including our local 26 from what I understand. Pathetic, and sad.

And why do the snakes think the industry's standard is to whore out talent at rock bottom salary rates? A manager at a Mickey D or Bugger King can make double the salary of a drive time DJ in New Orleans.

 

[gerryv]

Yikes ! I don't feel so good anymore. Going to bleed myself dry in the tub after I post this.
Talk Radio is dead in New Orleans ? Why didn't you folks let me know sooner ???
I fell so cheap .I feel like I betrayed all of you. Thats it ! NO more !!!!!

ooooh ! its getting dark.... i feel so .sleeeeepy.........ooooh ! ...

Don't send flowers.Just have a stiff drink and toss it in the fire or off the wall !

RSVP
Gerry V
New Orleans Brand New Baby Boy

 

[bjdj]

Bob, it's already happening. My son is 21 and hasn't listened to radio in at least 2-3 years.
He says he and everyone his age never listen to radio. It's either Ipods or cd's or on-line.
I just don't see it turning around. As a kid of the 60's & 70's, it was a great and memorable time
with radio. The evolution of FM was also great even though it eventually hurt the original TIX.
I actually listened to B-97 recently while driving with my neice and heard the same song within a half hour of each play . . . and it wasn't even a dj shift change.
It must be miserable to be a DJ nowadays.

 

[quitnow]

It must be miserable to be a DJ nowadays.

Actually, it's not that bad when you work for people who let you create good radio. The problem is finding them. Most have the corporate agenda and will follow whatever some guy in Cleveland will tell them works. I've been fortunate enough to work for the ones who haven't and enjoy a good amount of success and get paid well for it.

 

[stevenNOLA]

I was in San Antonio last weekend and listened to KISS-99.5 (active rock), owned by Cox and it had that "real radio" feel. The jocks were not reading index cards, they knew something about the song/artist they were about to play, and the production was a hit. They do stream at www.kissrocks.com. I could not believe how good they sounded. I was pulled away from my Sirius radio because of this station. From San Antonio to as far east as I could catch the station, I never heard the same song twice and maybe not even another song from any artist I had heard before. It was like the old days of 100.7 The Tiger(my favorite station ever), and 106.1 The Zephyr. How I do miss the good 'ole days. Also, I miss David Tyree--he was one of the good guys. Always compelling.


Steven

 

[RFLA]

..and is probably why I search out well done local outfits for... Some people thing I'm for the clear channels in this world, but I love a big city sounding local radio station as the real music fan comes out and you have the Oh my gods for.. the Oh my god I hadn't heard that in 5 years.

I ranted on some local stations as real music fans and the listening public are two different things and I've met some people who have run their own shows and station to where you have enough of the fan favorites with a lot of forgotten stuff.

But I agree, I listen to radio, but I can't tell you last when I've listened for a very long time to a station in a market bigger than Baton Rouge for.

 

[smashedcd]

This is how I listen to the radio..scan..listen for 3 seconds..scan..listen for 3 seconds...I do this until I reach the end of the dial. Unless someone has flipped I just switch over to XM or my cd player.

 

[axedriver]

Is this what radio has degraded into?? My God almighty.

Stations offering listeners Jack, Jill, Frank, Steve, Max, Charlie, Mike, wolf, eagle, bayou, whatever? WTF is all that BS and nonsense??

Sad, sad, sad. Nonsense fathered by hypnotic corporate Svengali's (Wiki that one) who are force-feeding gullible Generation Y's with their stiff and boring programming of crap corporate alleged radio, with the attitude "If you don't like it, what are you gonna do about it?" What arrogance, while they deprive an entire generation of radio at its finest.

It's sad, people, that you were not given the opportunity to know what real local radio sounded like in the pre-1990's because of the crap CC and Ent and Cit and all the other corporate bullies of the business are forcing you to listen to now.

I know nothing stays the same and time marches on. But don't stand for today's manipulation of you listeners! Don't let these corporate mindbenders manipulate your strings like a puppet in order to fatten their wallets, like the oil companies.

Give it up. And while you're doing it, send them a subtle message that their type of radio sucks.

Do yourselves a favor, get an Ipod ... and don't report the corporate stations to Arbitron or other ratings services. Lie and report locally-owned stations still in existance. Or just refuse to participate in audience rating surveys that just, without you realizing it, make corporations richer off of you while you are forced to listen to the crap they serve you in return.

Wake up, people!!

Hit the business-killing bast*rds where it hurts...in their wallets. They killed a beautiful business...and they deserve to suffer for it. If they go belly-up, like their stocks are showing, boo-hoo !!

This is my only post on this, and just a heads up on how they're using you...take it for what it's worth and do what you want...I saw the best days of radio and made a long career out of offering the audience the best that radio had to offer. You, the listeners, are the future of radio. Remember that.

Take it back from them by way of ratings!

Bob Walker

King Bob, I TOTALLY agree with you. Radio today SUCKS CORPORATE BONERS.
New Orleans radio needs the Costello family to STEP IT UP and buy a rock station to pair it with TIX FM.
Maybe Mike can team up with Sid Levet Jr and KICK THE CORPORATE SNAKES OUT OF LOUISIANA
because those guys, if they put their heads together, can come up with a GREAT FORMULA for radio.

 

[Blair]

Maybe Mike can team up with Sid Levet Jr and KICK THE CORPORATE SNAKES OUT OF LOUISIANA
because those guys, if they put their heads together, can come up with a GREAT FORMULA for radio.

Linking Costello to anything is the kiss of death. I don't know Levet but why would he put himself through anything like that. I had my doubts about working for "Mikie Dare" but figured, WTF. It was nice to be on with people I had worked with in the past. But if I had to listen to another story about WABC and how TIX-AM was shaped in it's image, I'da been spending time in the "Harry Hilton". The man's ratings are creeping up but he can't sell it. He couldn't sell a fist up of pardons at Angola.

I enjoy Gerry V on Saturday morning and dat's about it.

PS... South Central does JACK-FM in Nashville and is doing rather well. There are billboards everywhere you look. Craig Jacobus heads that family-owned company...a one-time GM down here before things went south quickly.

 

[Johnny Marchese]

King, you must be talking about the days where music radio was the rule and all the jocks, oh and I knew quite a few growing up, had huge followings of fans who would flock to every remote you guys would put on. Man, you aren't kidding about how things are now. I wonder if new local ownership groups could bring back some flame to N.O. radio.

 

[quitnow]

King, you must be talking about the days where music radio was the rule and all the jocks, oh and I knew quite a few growing up, had huge followings of fans who would flock to every remote you guys would put on. Man, you aren't kidding about how things are now. I wonder if new local ownership groups could bring back some flame to N.O. radio.

I wonder how many of you actually work in radio? To the droves showing up at remotes "back in the day", yes they did. I remember those days well. The difference between then and now is people's lives have changed. They live minute-to-minute, not hour-to-hour. Listening patterns have changed. Most people listen to radio in the car now and they are already heading somewhere and they want to get to that place ASAP. No unscheduled stops. The way remotes are done has changed too. They were events back then...there was usually something other than the jock and a sale going on. Anymore, that's all there is and it's usually at a car lot...so what's the point? I don't like going to a lot when I want to buy a car, let alone just to say hi to someone and have every sales person ask me if I need something.

Now local talent...Ask any programmer in the area how hard it is to find good, local talent here. They will all tell you if it's here they don't want a job because they never call and ask if there are openings. Or, when there are, they don't send anything in. That is a CONSTANT complaint at every station in town. You wonder why "outsiders" come in to work, it's because they apply for the jobs. The companies that bring talent in from out of town for live shifts pay thousands for them to move. They could save that money if there was talent in this town that would step forward and apply for a job. You can call for local ownership all you want, that doesn't change the problem. Local owners would have to select from those who apply for the jobs too. If no one local applies and fits what they're looking for, they won't be on-air there either.

If you think you've got what it takes, step up, and send something to a station. It may even land in my hands. If you're good and you're what the station is looking for (energy, pacing, content), you seem to have potential and could be coached (that means you may hear some things that will bruise your ego but it comes with the job, especially the high paying ones) and/or you seem egar to work (follow-up call or email), you more than likely will get a call or reply.

 

[ksw2844]

quitnow!
Your post above may be the best post I've seen here in years.
You hit it dead on, right down the middle on pretty much every point you touched on.

 

[sawtooth_mcmull]

It may even land in my hands.

sounds good!......................but who are you??

 

[LateNiteSkip]

Yes, quitnow, who are you, so we know how to contact you?

 

[BaronBean]

Quitnow...

You do make some excellent points. You should add the frustration that exists when a PD (who may have three, four, five stations under his "authority") doesn't return any of your phone calls. In that case, it's difficult to determine whether a station has an opening.

At smaller operations, a PD may feel more inclined to politely return a call. But in the world of Clear Channel, Citadel, etc., courtesy doesn't seem to exist (with very few exceptions). If the PD calls back and says "Sorry, no openings at this time," that's much better than getting no reply whatsoever.

 

[Johnny Marchese]

quitnow, please do so now!! How much do you know about the history of N.O. radio? What King Bob is talking about when 'TIX AM and WNOE AM were in their heyday, then WRNO and WNOE FM was rockin N.O. and local ownership ruled the roost. Yes, I do work in local talk radio on both sides of the board, and can you go back to the 60's in knowing this market? I can! I can remember my dad listening to Poppa Stoppa, Duke-a-Paduka on WNNR 990AM, King Bob and all his cohorts on WTIX, and in the 70's when my dad ran Acy's Pool Hall feeding countless DJ's from WNOE AM&FM including Captain Humble, Bobby Reno, Soxless, and many more. Know who you try to put down next time!!

 

[LateNiteSkip]

C'mon, quitnow, you made such an insulting condescending offer "it might get into my hands" that you now need to tell us who you are so we can see if you're really oh so concerned and have it all figured out in your mind, or if you're just another management liar full of smoke and mirrors. Many of us would love to call you Tuesday and see how long it takes to get you on the phone or for you to call back in a timely manner. Who knows? You might get calls that answer your question and show you that the reason there's a shortage of good local "name" talent is that you arrogant management slugs fired them all.

You also ask again arrogantly and condescendingly on a radio BB, "how many on here were really ever in radio"? I'll tell you. All the ones who did the best they could and got fired by self righteous slugs like you!

So, quitnow, who are you and how can we get in touch with you? Don't hide, be a man. And be waiting by the phone Tuesday.

And please no more "The Art Of War" BS or your philosophies. Just put your money where your mouth is and tell us how we can contact *you* !