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Local Radio Stations remain loyal to LI Listeners

Re: oh the hypocrisy...

>>Ultimately, I think that TMO cares very deeply about local radio and does their best to put it on the air.<<

Why don't you type in the url for one of their remaining stations - http://www.985thebone.com/ - Then I'm sure you will see exactly what kind of outfit you're trying to defend here...


PS - yeah, had to correct the spelling in the subject line too...
 
Re: oh the hypocrisy...

> >>Ultimately, I think that TMO cares very deeply about local
> radio and does their best to put it on the air.
>
So when I typed in the address you provided, I got a notice that the domain name was expired. I don't know what that has to do with anything. I have been on the WLIR web site and while it seems to be busy, it reflects what they do.

Forgive me, but I am missing your point. Perhaps you can explain it. Thanks in advance.
 
Re: oh the hypocrisy...

>>Forgive me, but I am missing your point. Perhaps you can explain it. Thanks in advance.<<

My point is this - How can anyone possibly take TMO seriously and say that they care about local radio and do a good job at it when a) their 3 stations are mostly voicetracked, far more so then any other cluster on LI; b) they can never make up their minds on anything and constantly flip-flop ideas back and forth with little direction and stability whatsoever (is Party dance or hip-hop? let's stick Amy Fisher on the Bone! LIR is now the Box, LIR is now LIR, LIR is now Neobreeze, LIR is now LIR, again...huh?) -and- c) they don't put any money into their product (little promotion, no marketing...hell, they can't even pay the bill to keep one of their websites operational!).

Listen, as Michael D said, I'm not against them selling 92.7 for $62 million. They would have been idiotic not to jump at that kind of a deal. But as we've seen, it looks like out of that entire $62 mil...exactly $0 has been put back into TMO's radio division. Business is business, but y'know what THAT says to me? It says...we don't give two craps about our product.
 
This wasn't meant to be a bash everything about TMO post

This post (understandably) has gone off topic, as TMO has made many moves that many dislike. It was supposed to be about a local radio article written in the Long Island Press. My comments were about how TMO could possibly say its supports local radio given its business decisions. This DOES NOT mean that its business decisions have been bad, that the product sucks, that the formats sucks, that they don't care about the product etc. Quite the contrary they have been innovative, (as Bruce said) and have tried to be successful by trying any number of different things. They have always been like that throughout their history, whether or not the moves work not withstanding.

>>Forgive me, but I am missing your point. Perhaps you can explain it. Thanks in advance.<<

>>My point is this - How can anyone possibly take TMO seriously and say that they care about local radio and do a good job at it when a) their 3 stations are mostly voicetracked, far more so then any other cluster on LI; b) they can never make up their minds on anything and constantly flip-flop ideas back and forth with little direction and stability whatsoever (is Party dance or hip-hop? let's stick Amy Fisher on the Bone! LIR is now the Box, LIR is now LIR, LIR is now Neobreeze, LIR is now LIR, again...huh?) -and- c) they don't put any money into their product (little promotion, no marketing...hell, they can't even pay the bill to keep one of their websites operational!).

Listen, as Michael D said, I'm not against them selling 92.7 for $62 million. They would have been idiotic not to jump at that kind of a deal. But as we've seen, it looks like out of that entire $62 mil...exactly $0 has been put back into TMO's radio division. Business is business, but y'know what THAT says to me? It says...we don't give two craps about our product.<<
 
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