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More awards for indie 1031 from rolling stone magazine

hotpatrick2004

hotpatrick2004

Best rock radio station. Entravision must love that there station is the darling of rolling stone magazine. It is the second time that i know(they got written up in summer of 2006 in rollingstone along with wavg in the carolinas and they are now adult hits.the article back then in summer of 2006 was about the few and far between good rock radio stations left) they have been written up in rollingstone. All the good press entravision gets with indie must have something to do why indie stays put.

What do you think of that david? Indie getting another award. Thank you radio gods ;D
 
hotpatrick2004 said:
Best rock radio station. Entravision must love that there station is the darling of rolling stone magazine. It is the second time that i know(they got written up in summer of 2006 in rollingstone along with wavg in the carolinas and they are now adult hits.the article back then in summer of 2006 was about the few and far between good rock radio stations left) they have been written up in rollingstone. All the good press entravision gets with indie must have something to do why indie stays put.

What do you think of that david? Indie getting another award. Thank you radio gods ;D
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I've gotten boxes of awards... with the first one I discovered you can not take them to the bank. They don¿t help grow the audience, and they don't help revenue. Self-serving is the category I file them under.
 
DavidEduardo said:
hotpatrick2004 said:
Best rock radio station. Entravision must love that there station is the darling of rolling stone magazine. It is the second time that i know(they got written up in summer of 2006 in rollingstone along with wavg in the carolinas and they are now adult hits.the article back then in summer of 2006 was about the few and far between good rock radio stations left) they have been written up in rollingstone. All the good press entravision gets with indie must have something to do why indie stays put.

What do you think of that david? Indie getting another award. Thank you radio gods ;D
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I've gotten boxes of awards... with the first one I discovered you can not take them to the bank. They don¿t help grow the audience, and they don't help revenue. Self-serving is the category I file them under.
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I heard most of the newspapers don't care about Pulitzers either. And who would EVER want a Nobel Peace Prize? What could you get for it on ebay?

Let me guess, your favorite movie is Greed.

Your favorite song is "Have A Cigar," or maybe "Money." ("Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.")

Your least favorite song is "Can't Buy Me Love."

Your favorite restaurant is McDonald's. The biggest restaurant chain in the world! Such great marketing.

Your least favorite restaurant is that five star one with the well-prepared, carefully crafted food, care for the customer, passion for cooking....and only modest profits. (What idiots!)

Your favorite book is..... Forget books. Not a growth market.
 
scooty430 said:
I heard most of the newspapers don't care about Pulitzers either. And who would EVER want a Nobel Peace Prize? What could you get for it on ebay?
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My favorite has always been the motto posted at a large ad agency's offices several decades ago. It simply said, "It's not creative unless it sells." At the same time, the agency discouraged its staff from entering material in ad association competitions, as they felt trying to win peer group recognition was counterproductive to the agency goal, which was selling products and services of its clients to consumers.

Prizes are often quite meaningless, unless, like the Nobel, they endow the winner with money which helps further the very activity that is being honored.

As to newspapers, you may have noted that the New York Times reported a signficant loss for the first time. The whole industry has more to worry about than Pulitzers (named after a<famous yellow journalist, no less) as it is fighting for survival.

P.S. Those haute cuisine restaurants have huge profit margins if they are successful; McDonalds has a very low margin, but a large volume.
 
DavidEduardo said:
P.S. Those haute cuisine restaurants have huge profit margins if they are successful; McDonalds has a very low margin, but a large volume.
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Haha especially when you consider their markup on just a bottle of wine!!

BTW thanks for mentioning Yellow journalism and Pulitzer who was born in Hungary, birthplace of my paternal grandmother and grandfather. I had to Google him to find that out and I learn something every day! (as we all should)
 
It's certainly nice to see a station like Indie 103.1 getting honored, but their appeal really is very, very selective, even for such a big pond like L.A., and while Rolling Stone's journalism end has come back in full-force to the level which made the magazine great, much of the sheen on the rest of the magazine has long come off. They're just not relevant, and therefore, to appropriate some of David's argument, the award doesn't mean that much.

If Rolling Stone really wanted to re-assert their relevance and acknowledge some good stations, they would recognize long-independent CD101 in Columbus, Ohio, a truly great radio station which has stuck with their format and defiantly indie approach through thick and thin for nearly 20 years. Granted, Columbus is a huge college town and youth market, but they've been pumping out a lot of great alternative music and exposing kids in Columbus 'burbs to a lot of great music they may never have heard otherwise.

Same with FM949 in San Diego. While they haven't been around for as long as CD101, FM949 is pretty much the station that begat Indie 103.1 because of the success they were enjoying in San Diego competing against a heritage station working the same format.
 
There is a station though that use to be like indie in new jersey it isn't now for it is fm 106.3 grock radio it use to be modern rock at the jersey shore before press communications bought them and took over in november of 2000.
 
100 mentions in Rolling Stone won't increase Indie listenership in LA.

Do you know anyone who still reads RS? And if they do, are they the Indie demo?

Indie needs to get people in LA excited about them, not in other cities. Their internet listenership won't pay any bills.
 
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