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Matt Allen? Dave Barber?? Dan Yorke???

And...after all...

...THIS ENTIRE THREAD is off-topic, as you'll see by looking at the very first post.

I used "Matt Allen," "Dave Barber," and "Dan Yorke" as KEYWORDS.
All three get big clicks here, right?
Especially "Dave Barber."

So I'm hitch-hiking. I don't deny it!
Various radio-related YouTube videos I've posted got a boost from me including "Sean Hannity" among keywords there.

But, if whatdidusay feels suckered, I am not ENTIRELY without remorse.
Please let me make it up to you with a FREE copy of the meaty April HC newsletter: http://hollandcooke.com/aprilfool.pdf

And this is for radio-info.com denizens ONLY.
(NOT available @ www.HollandCooke.com OR www.McVayMedia.com.)

As the weasely guy in "Fargo" said -- just before he ended up in the wood chipper -- "ARE WE SQUARE???"

Aloha from rainy Block Island,
HC
www.ListenToAmerica.com
www.MyRI.TV
 
Holland Cooke said:
As I promised Dan, Matt, and Dave, my notes from NAB2008 begin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBRylPkoOmU
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I enjoyed that. Especially the part where there are 20 clocks nearby and you asked the guy what time it is. Hahahaha. Good stuff. The wave of the future is happening right now~! Personal listening devices such as the ipod. People want there entertainment on their terms! Your friends on the plane displayed that fact.
 
And how about that Foneshow demo?

Ya have to reminisce about Salty when you see that Foneshow.com demo, eh?

Full disclosure: I do NOT work for Foneshow.
But I HAD to include that demo in the video, because what-they-offer -- FREE -- is SO cool.

And it really underlines how online technology has streamlined what-happens-on-air.

Way-back-when, reciting "Foster-Glocester" type data, in real-time, was quite the franchise.
Now, with people living-life-at-70MPH, and enabled by alternative technology, it'd be "clutter."

And not only do apps like Foneshow's enable RADIO STATIONS...
YOU...YOUR IDEA...can come-to-life there.
Now, ideas take wings...and kids-who-think-'em-up sell 'em to Google for mucho dinero...
 
Quent? Is that some consulting code? What does Quent mean?
 
"Is that some consulting code?"

"What does Quent mean?"

OOPS.
It was a typo.

What I MEANT to write was http://rirhof.org/

Could THIS be the long-awaited let's-all-do-a-get-together-event that's been discussed here?

It's for a good cause...

Now what does JointChinese mean???
 
Remembering Bo Diddley...

When Cleveland DJ Alan Freed coined the term "rock and roll," he was talking about Bo Diddley.

The Beatles ADORED Bo. You hear his influence in Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive,” Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride,” The Who’s “Magic Bus,” Bruce Springsteen’s “She’s the One,” and U2’s “Desire.”

Bo died today, at 79.
So do the math.
30 years ago, when I introduced him to a PACKED Lupo's, he was only 49?
And already music royalty.

Bo never got rich from rock-and-roll.
But rock is richer for him.

RIP
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
 
CANNY surmise!

That Washington Post column:

a.) is NOT just about radio-in-Washington; and

b.) is REALLY making the rounds. One group head I sent it to forwarded it to all his station managers, calling it "the best written, most on-target piece about where we are in this industry I've seen written recently. This is a must-read!"

Columnist Marc Fisher has-been-to-Washington-readers-what-Andy Smith-is-to-ProJo-readers; and, like Andy, Marc's a canny guy. In the half-dozen-or-so times he interviewed me since he took over the Post's now-defunct radio column in '95, I always felt like I TOO came-away-from the conversation better-informed.

What he's written crystallizes lots of the sentiments posted in various threads here.
And -- though he paints a sad picture of radio's status quo -- he also echoes lots of what's-been-posted-here about how to fix it.

HC
www.HollandCooke.com
 
For the record Andy Smith no longer has the media beat. It's been cancelled due to costs cuts.
 
ProJo media beat "cancelled due to costs cuts"

Think RADIO is hunkered-down lately?
PRINT is worse.
The-older-the-media, the-deeper-the-doo-doo.

Glass-half-full: YOU are the media, online, where low-cost/no-cost publishing opportunities abound.

If you'll be attending Talkers magazine's New Media Seminar this weekend, try NOT to take a bathroom break just-before-lunch.
Fidget if you have to. It'll be worth it.

I’m presenting "Making Money with Online Content," Saturday at 1145, fifteen riveting minutes which WILL deliver more than what-ifs.
I will outline how money is now being made online, by people with-and-without transmitters.
Some are hobbyists who got it SO right that they ditched their day jobs.

My handouts include an entire list of FREE apps/software/tools for online audio/video publishing. And in your NMS registration bag, my June newsletter, including my notes from the Streaming Media East conference in NYNY week-before-last...latest techniques and success stories.

Note: NO registration at the door. If you'd like to join everybody-who's-anybody in talk radio and new media, hit www.Talkers.com pronto dente.

HC
www.HollandCooke.com
 
Re: Ever feel like radio is on-the-wane?

Holland Cooke said:
HERE'S a sad milestone.

The Washington Post is DISCONTINUING its radio column!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903285_pf.html
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Marc Fisher is spot-on. There seems to be more passion in online radio stations than there is terrestrial these days. I even invoke some of that passion in my own Internet radio station. It's how I fulfill a "need" knowing today's radio business is risky business...

P.S. - Holland, I'll see you at the seminar this weekend. ;)
 
Re: Ever feel like radio is on-the-wane?

DToTheJ said:
There seems to be more passion in online radio stations than there is terrestrial these days.
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You betcha!
And not-just-on-the-part-of those-DOING-online content.
USERS are leading this trend.

Admittedly anecdotal: a friend in France -- an ex-New Englander -- wrote this week, raving about listening to Dale Dorman on Oldies 103, on her WiFi radio. She says it looks-and-works-like a sophisticated clock radio, and sounds great.
 
BEST New Media Seminar YET

DToTheJ said:
Holland, I'll see you at the seminar this weekend.
Click to expand...

APPLAUSE to Talkers magazine for the best New Media Seminar to-date.
Bigger crowd this past weekend in Neuva Jork than for both other talk radio conventions COMBINED.
And it sure WASN'T just-about-radio.
Lots of bloggers/podcasters cross-pollinating the conversation too.
Good to meet some of the folks who post here.

For "virtual handouts" from my session, send Email to [email protected]

HC
 
I did find it interesting that Talkers held their event at a hotel that had radios in the guest rooms which only had the FM band. But take heart, they did include an Ipod docking station. The overwhelming talk programming is on AM, yet talkers picks a hotel which discounts AM radio.

Granted Michael Harrison has grown his New Media Seminar, but this was a serious oversight.

Almost NO talk of HD radio.
 
RE "radios in the guest rooms which only had the FM band"

First-things-first, for you conspiracy theorists who think Joint-Chinese is Dave Barber.
You'd have to have attended to know what J-C has written above.
And Dave did not attend.

As for those FM radios...
As usual, CBS-FM sounded GREAT.
Not good...GREAT.

And here's something intriguing, from recently-retired WOR/NY GM Bob Bruno:
"The Best of Everything" format, which you can hear streaming @ http://thebestofeverything.net
It's like "a good Jack," broader, more-eclectic in scope.
Locals may remember this format from a brief stint on WOR sister station WDRC-AM/Hartford.
It started getting a number...then 9/11 came long, and that was that.
Bob just got a write-up on RAIN (http://kurthanson.com)

Mike McVay and I spent a couple hours guzzling ice coffee with Bob at Starbucks on 3rd, between 60th and 61st.
(A non-stop Noo Yawk babe-o-rama.)

Bob, who's been cooking-up The Best of Everything for years, says that when he retired, "I just did it."
THIS was what this convention was about.
DON'T wait for suits from The Home Office to tell you whether-or-not your idea is an idea.
Just do it...online.

JointChinese said:
Almost NO talk of HD radio.
Click to expand...
The new door stop, in case you have more doors than AM Stereo receivers...

Oh, and just so we can't be accused of wandering-off-topic to the thread title: Dan Yorke DID attend.
In his 3 minute speech, he talked about his show in Providence, and how doesn't think much of what's on New York radio.
 
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