Pete Sheppard QUITS on the air - says he is fed up with WEEI

[raccoonradio]

WUFC does have several local shows plus
Sox in Spanish. Yeah they are no real challenge
to the two biggies but someone is bankrolling
them, maybe NBC-Dial Global, Yahoo, Sheppard, etc. Hey they
could be the #1 -AM- sports station in town if
they beat 850!

They're #3 or 4 but they try harder

 

[CTListener]

As long as the Internet exists, as long as there are podcasts, he, and every other person who wants one, will have a career in broadcasting or sports media.

And exactly how much do bloggers, podcasters and Internet streaming personalities get paid?

So long as Daddy and/or Mommy are working and can keep the basement nice and warm for their wannabe media star son, they don't have to get paid at all.

 

[TSBench]

Sheppard, etc. Hey they
could be the #1 -AM- sports station in town if
they beat 850!

They're #3 or 4 but they try harder

How is the Iditarod like Boston AM sports radio?
If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes.

Pete Sheppard...coming soon to a milk carton near you.

Regards,
TSB

 

[raccoonradio]

Ha, well I actually did hear Sheppard say they were probably the #1 sports station on AM
and had to laugh. My reference was more to the old Avis slogan, "We're #2 but we try harder". ;D

 

[raccoonradio]

Kev was saying on b-r-i that Ent. was thinking of ditching the sneaker bldg in favor of studios
in a town now world famous...for the events of last Thu and Fri night...to save $ on rent.

http://lists.bostonradio.org/pipermail/boston-radio-interest/2013-April/030036.html

 

[StoJa]

As long as the Internet exists, as long as there are podcasts, he, and every other person who wants one, will have a career in broadcasting or sports media.

And exactly how much do bloggers, podcasters and Internet streaming personalities get paid? Is he going to be making anywhere near what he was making at WEEI? As my grandmother would have said: "You call that a career?"

Some you proclaimed no station would ever touch Pete again, and a week later he's on another station. Regardless of it broadcasts to seagulls or people living only in Quincy...he got another job. On air.

...by calling his buddies at 1510 who were also WEEI ex-pats. It's almost laughable to see a station filled with disgruntled ex-employees on a crippled signal trying to make a go of it. That's like entering the batter's box with a count of 0-2 before one pitch is thrown.

If Pete Sheppard broadcasts and no one can hear him, did he still broadcast?

The fact your quoting your grandmother shows you don't get it. I'm 33. Most people my age and younger don't listen to the radio AT ALL. They podcast everything. It could be Rich Eisen or Adam Carolla or Felger & Mazz or Danny Picard...whomever. So if money is your barometer for success, then I guess Ordway was the beacon for success. And he got fired. So, what does that tell you? I think most podcasters and bloggers get paid better you think they do. It's the fastest growing segments of the broadcasting medium. Podcasts are killing mainstream radio in a lot of markets.

 

[StoJa]

As long as the Internet exists, as long as there are podcasts, he, and every other person who wants one, will have a career in broadcasting or sports media.

And exactly how much do bloggers, podcasters and Internet streaming personalities get paid?

So long as Daddy and/or Mommy are working and can keep the basement nice and warm for their wannabe media star son, they don't have to get paid at all.

Wow. Again, try living in 2013 and not 1970. You sound like you're 90 years old and telling people nobody wants to see those talking movie pictures or color tvs.

 

[StoJa]

I've never been in the radio business but I'm aware enough to know dismissing podcasts as some "beneath you" medium is ****ing asinine on some of your parts. You really sound old and out of touch. Like when my parents were sure nobody would but these stupid "DVD" things that were coming out. Or how people said "mp3 are just a fad. People will always buy cds." People read blogs more then they read the newspaper or watch the news. People listen to podcasts more then they listen to terrestrial radio. To deny otherwise is naive and out of touch with reality.

 

[KarsonWithaK]

People listen to podcasts more then they listen to terrestrial radio. To deny otherwise is naive and out of touch with reality.

Source please? Arbitrons says about 250 million people listen to terrestrial radio each week.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

I've never been in the radio business but I'm aware enough to know dismissing podcasts as some "beneath you" medium is ------- asinine on some of your parts. You really sound old and out of touch. Like when my parents were sure nobody would but these stupid "DVD" things that were coming out. Or how people said "mp3 are just a fad. People will always buy cds." People read blogs more then they read the newspaper or watch the news. People listen to podcasts more then they listen to terrestrial radio. To deny otherwise is naive and out of touch with reality.

Winner of the Ignorant Post of the Week award. Those of us who actually work in radio know better. As the late US Senator Daniel Moynihan said, you are entitled to your opinions, but you are not entitled to your own "facts."

According to multiple sources (the Radio Advertising Bureau, Arbitron and Pew Research are some of them), 93% of all American adults age 12+ use radio consistently, and that figure has remained remarkably constant over the past decade, even as all the other media choices have proliferated. For a medium that so many of you dismiss, that's a pretty large number. In the Pew survey a mere 25% listen to podcasts.

And no one said podcasts were "beneath" anyone. All I said was that you can't make a living doing them. The statistics on blogging posted at jeffbullas.com tell the story: Only 19% of bloggers make at least enough money to support a family, and 81% of them don't even make a hundred bucks from it. Part of the reason why stems from another stat: There are about 31 million bloggers in the US.

I'm 33. Most people my age and younger don't listen to the radio AT ALL.

Ah yes, the ever popular "me and all my friends" statistic. Here's a clue: The world is a lot larger than you and your friends. When you put on a few more years, you might actually realize it.

 

[frnkp2000]

I've never been in the radio business ......

The defense rests, your honor.