Since today is the first day of the new Regional hub base Era of Metro. How did it affect the stations who uses Metro in Both Cincinnati and Dayton.
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Metro Trafffic for Cincinnati and Dayton
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tcsnrayp
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MikeStandardsFromIndiana said:Since today is the first day of the new Regional hub base Era of Metro. How did it affect the stations who uses Metro in Both Cincinnati and Dayton.
Who feeds who? Assume the hub is Cincinnati? Who else do they feed?
I would say at Least Dayton, Cincy, Columbus, Indy and Louisville and Lexington if they had Metro in Lexington
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MikeStandardsFromIndiana said:I would say at Least Dayton, Cincy, Columbus, Indy and Louisville and Lexington if they had Metro in Lexington
Oh great. Traffic reports in Louisville are bad enough as it is. Now they are gonna be doing them from an office 80 miles away?!
gr8oldies said:This may even originate from Chicago. There are only going to be 13 centers
Prediction: if the Metro office is a union shop, don't expect it to become a hub.
I've been listening to the "improved" Metro on WDJO.
There's no local news at all.
Not that hearing about multiple murders in one day is all that uplifting - it'd just be helpful to know where the bullets are flying so I can try to avoid them.
There's no local news at all.
Not that hearing about multiple murders in one day is all that uplifting - it'd just be helpful to know where the bullets are flying so I can try to avoid them.
All of you raise a good point.
It is simply not possible to provide anything resembling "local" news coverage, unless you're doing custom reports, which apparently Metro has figured out they can't do profitably for every 0.5 station in the area. (or even the ones that have ratings...)
OK, I know I'm kind of a fossil here. But, there was a day when Dayton had 4...count 'em...4 local news operations on radio. (Who were they? WHIO (8-12 staffers), WING (8-10 staffers), WONE (7-9 staffers) and WAVI/WDAO (5-7 staffers). And Cincinnati was no different. (Hell, when I was News Director at WCIN in the late 1970's, we had 3 full time and 1 part time newspersons.) Who's left? Not to toot our own horn here, but in Dayton, it's only WHIO.
During the recent windstorm, it would have been nice to have heard some other stations breaking from "music" programming to provide local news and information...particularly from some of the smaller town stations. Sadly, very few...extremely very few...did. Some even made a joke out of the coverage. (So, I heard one "DJ" say at the height out the power outage, "I've been getting calls about the power being out, but I've got power at my house...") At WHIO, we had frustrated listeners calling us saying, "we've been trying to find out information about our local area, but our "local" radio station is telling us nothing."
You may call me an old fuddy-duddy (I want to say something else, but you figure it out). But, some of these stations have no clue about what it takes to serve the public "interest, convenience and necessity".
FCC: are you listening?
It is simply not possible to provide anything resembling "local" news coverage, unless you're doing custom reports, which apparently Metro has figured out they can't do profitably for every 0.5 station in the area. (or even the ones that have ratings...)
OK, I know I'm kind of a fossil here. But, there was a day when Dayton had 4...count 'em...4 local news operations on radio. (Who were they? WHIO (8-12 staffers), WING (8-10 staffers), WONE (7-9 staffers) and WAVI/WDAO (5-7 staffers). And Cincinnati was no different. (Hell, when I was News Director at WCIN in the late 1970's, we had 3 full time and 1 part time newspersons.) Who's left? Not to toot our own horn here, but in Dayton, it's only WHIO.
During the recent windstorm, it would have been nice to have heard some other stations breaking from "music" programming to provide local news and information...particularly from some of the smaller town stations. Sadly, very few...extremely very few...did. Some even made a joke out of the coverage. (So, I heard one "DJ" say at the height out the power outage, "I've been getting calls about the power being out, but I've got power at my house...") At WHIO, we had frustrated listeners calling us saying, "we've been trying to find out information about our local area, but our "local" radio station is telling us nothing."
You may call me an old fuddy-duddy (I want to say something else, but you figure it out). But, some of these stations have no clue about what it takes to serve the public "interest, convenience and necessity".
FCC: are you listening?
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Jason Roberts said:You may call me an old fuddy-duddy (I want to say something else, but you figure it out). But, some of these stations have no clue about what it takes to serve the public "interest, convenience and necessity".
FCC: are you listening?
yeah...the FCC is listening all right...listening to the rich and powerful and letting them have their way...public interest,convenience and neccessity have long been since shoved down the toilet in the name of numbers and profits.
kirkiefan said:Jason Roberts said:You may call me an old fuddy-duddy (I want to say something else, but you figure it out). But, some of these stations have no clue about what it takes to serve the public "interest, convenience and necessity".
FCC: are you listening?
yeah...the FCC is listening all right...listening to the rich and powerful and letting them have their way...public interest,convenience and neccessity have long been since shoved down the toilet in the name of numbers and profits.
Kirkie-Fan:
I agree with you. However, remember - it's not just the "rich and powerful" who are abusing their radio stations...it's also the "not so rich, but without a clue about how to run a station and attract listeners" who make the problem worse as well. There are a number of owners whom I respectfully submit, aren't qualified to hold a radio license, because they only want to run bona-fide radio stations basically as translators...
Many of our local stations missed an opportunity to create a "shared experience" as is written about in one of the articles referenced on this site. WHIO did a great job and once they got their act together, so did WLW. I don't think everyone on the dial needed to do wall to wall coverage (which gets repetituious when there's no new info) but at least if a DJ was there giving information and dare I say, some entertainment to go with it while we were all in the dark, so much the better. As far as surrounding stations, WBZI did a good job once they got back on the air. I didn't listen a lot to Kiss Country but they seemed oblivious. Of course the K-Love translators ((whether they were supposedly radio stations or not) did absolutely nothing. Fly was a juke box, WTUE was in the Bengals game and I'm not sure if there was even one live voice in the CC building on that Sunday. The X was just non-stop music after Xfest got blown away.
Having said that....I don't know how you would craft legislation that would make all of these stations do coverage for their local areas. The "localism" bill is complete overkill.
Having said that....I don't know how you would craft legislation that would make all of these stations do coverage for their local areas. The "localism" bill is complete overkill.
I think a lot of the Dayton area stations just assume everyone is going to tune to WHIO for information and therefore don't bother to do anything on their own. I guess WBZI lost power for at least a day or so, I know they were off the day after the windstorm. Did they stay on late at all (It looks like the emergency authority in 73.1250 includes "widespread power failures"). Looks like sign-off time for September under DST was 7:45 PM so they may have decided that made for long enough broadcast hours.
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