An article on the new cost of performance fee$$ on the local broadcaster:
http://www.theitem.com/business/article_2c75cade-ca57-50df-acb7-74fc139cf6bc.html
http://www.theitem.com/business/article_2c75cade-ca57-50df-acb7-74fc139cf6bc.html
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New Performance Rights Bill (FYI) and local stations
- Thread starter SCMidlands
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I can't exactly feel sorry for today's radio companies. They have ravaged and plundered their air talent while
corporate CEO's earn HUGE bonuses....Its not like this is going to cost the jobs of many air talents. The greedy consolidators already took care of that! This will hurt them though...since all they care about is their bottom line. The radio corporations and record companies are bottom feeders turning on each other at this point....
corporate CEO's earn HUGE bonuses....Its not like this is going to cost the jobs of many air talents. The greedy consolidators already took care of that! This will hurt them though...since all they care about is their bottom line. The radio corporations and record companies are bottom feeders turning on each other at this point....
If you want to see the end of music radio as we know it, this could be the thing that causes many stations to either go silent,
or switch to talk, how sad this is, and another reason why voters need to turn out many incumbants this November, too bad
our current occupier of "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" is not one of them.
or switch to talk, how sad this is, and another reason why voters need to turn out many incumbants this November, too bad
our current occupier of "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" is not one of them.
tothedj said:If you want to see the end of music radio as we know it, this could be the thing that causes many stations to either go silent,
or switch to talk, how sad this is, and another reason why voters need to turn out many incumbants this November, too bad
our current occupier of "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" is not one of them.
The mess that the country is currently in has a great deal more to do with the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from 2001-2009, that was appointed by the Supreme Court...You know...guys that had received their jobs from his father and his father's boss???? It still amazes me that in this day and age, you can seize the presidency with a minority of the votes....but I digress...As far as the mess the radio industry is in goes back to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and of course Wall Street greed....
Reaper,
As a conservative, I kind of agree with you about Bush II, but I don't want to turn a radio board into a discussion about politics.
The board ops consider this a flame and will move us to Take It Outside in a heartbeat.
You are totally correct about the Communications Act of 1996. Congress and Clinton should have let broadcasters go bankrupt and then let new blood take a whack at radio before they considered the stupidity of overconsolidation.
And John McCain's rule to auction the airwaves cost us WZLS in Asheville and many other thousands of mom'n'pop local voices that can't compete financially with CC, EMF, etc.
D.C. alone is what killled the broadcast radio service. BOTH parties did it, dude.
As a conservative, I kind of agree with you about Bush II, but I don't want to turn a radio board into a discussion about politics.
The board ops consider this a flame and will move us to Take It Outside in a heartbeat.
You are totally correct about the Communications Act of 1996. Congress and Clinton should have let broadcasters go bankrupt and then let new blood take a whack at radio before they considered the stupidity of overconsolidation.
And John McCain's rule to auction the airwaves cost us WZLS in Asheville and many other thousands of mom'n'pop local voices that can't compete financially with CC, EMF, etc.
D.C. alone is what killled the broadcast radio service. BOTH parties did it, dude.
Twas the Communications Act of 1996 that started the slide for radio (consolidation of ownership) and technology that has virtually killed it.
Satellites and voice tracking computers - tools that put to good use can make for a great radio station - have allowed the large companies to cut costs, eliminate jobs, and virtually destroy localism. It would be interesting to see the number of "radio people" who work in different careers today because of the technology and consolidation.
Radio was always best when it was local. Some of the talent on the air was not as slick as today, but they did relate locally in a way voice tracking can never do!
Satellites and voice tracking computers - tools that put to good use can make for a great radio station - have allowed the large companies to cut costs, eliminate jobs, and virtually destroy localism. It would be interesting to see the number of "radio people" who work in different careers today because of the technology and consolidation.
Radio was always best when it was local. Some of the talent on the air was not as slick as today, but they did relate locally in a way voice tracking can never do!
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