I just came from the LA board. Someone posted Why Must We Be Punished By bad radio? Then they went into how other markets have much better radio than Los Angeles. Who here has been to enough cities where they can give a fair comparison of how Providence stacks up against other cities? Is Holland in the house?
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Providence Radio compared to New York and Los Angeles
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In most other markets, voices-on-the-radio can pronounce "W."
"DOUBLE-YOU." Not hard.
Here, almost everyone says "DUBBA-YEW."
That would've flunked the WPRO audition in the 70s.
Bigger-picture: It'd be tough to distill a useful answer, for a couple reasons:
1. Many here only know local radio. Descriptions-of-radio-elsewhere would only be...descriptive. But because many stations now stream, it's possible to at least "listen-in" to great stations elsewhere (if you can listen-past clumsy streaming spot cover-up insertions, etc.). Still, you're listening out-of-context. 'CBS-FM -- which DISAPPEARED for two years, during the Jack fiasco -- is, back, better-than-ever, in EVERY pizza joint in every borough in Noo Yawk. It sounds good...REAL good...online. But it's THE SOUNDTRACK of those pizza joints. "More people wake up to 1010 WINS than any other station in the nation;" but unless you're in a cab there, you don't get the full effect. In San Francisco, you'd have to have your head examined to jump in the car without hearing a KGO traffic report, which will sound meaningless here. Speaking of traffic: At WTOP/Washington, many of the voices you'll hear online are people STILL there who worked for me there in the '80s. NOBODY I've ever worked with in radio cares more about the listener than WTOP traffic reporter Bob Marbourg, who is PERSONALLY responsible for LOTS of time-spent-listening. But unless you know (and grapple with) DC-area traffic, the immense value of his content won't be apparent.
2. Great local radio often sounds odd elsewhere. Salty Brine walked on water here, but visitors REALLY didn't get it. Ditto for his longstanding Hartford counterpart, WTIC's Bob Steele, who, like Salty, probably couldn't-have-called-a-cab elsewhere. But they pulled 40 shares in their heyday.
In most other markets, voices-on-the-radio can pronounce "W."
"DOUBLE-YOU." Not hard.
Here, almost everyone says "DUBBA-YEW."
That would've flunked the WPRO audition in the 70s.
Bigger-picture: It'd be tough to distill a useful answer, for a couple reasons:
1. Many here only know local radio. Descriptions-of-radio-elsewhere would only be...descriptive. But because many stations now stream, it's possible to at least "listen-in" to great stations elsewhere (if you can listen-past clumsy streaming spot cover-up insertions, etc.). Still, you're listening out-of-context. 'CBS-FM -- which DISAPPEARED for two years, during the Jack fiasco -- is, back, better-than-ever, in EVERY pizza joint in every borough in Noo Yawk. It sounds good...REAL good...online. But it's THE SOUNDTRACK of those pizza joints. "More people wake up to 1010 WINS than any other station in the nation;" but unless you're in a cab there, you don't get the full effect. In San Francisco, you'd have to have your head examined to jump in the car without hearing a KGO traffic report, which will sound meaningless here. Speaking of traffic: At WTOP/Washington, many of the voices you'll hear online are people STILL there who worked for me there in the '80s. NOBODY I've ever worked with in radio cares more about the listener than WTOP traffic reporter Bob Marbourg, who is PERSONALLY responsible for LOTS of time-spent-listening. But unless you know (and grapple with) DC-area traffic, the immense value of his content won't be apparent.
2. Great local radio often sounds odd elsewhere. Salty Brine walked on water here, but visitors REALLY didn't get it. Ditto for his longstanding Hartford counterpart, WTIC's Bob Steele, who, like Salty, probably couldn't-have-called-a-cab elsewhere. But they pulled 40 shares in their heyday.
Name THIS tune...
"It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day..."
"It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day..."
WPRO has all day live talk hosts, all with different personalities, issues, guests. Also, Mike Savage at 9, after Matt Allen, Savage leads the way here in rhode Island and parts of Mass,Conn that can get WPRo at night. No one listens to high pitched voice of Levine on the Fall River Station about 6 ap.m
The Governor is accessible to all hosts, Oh, I cannot forget Helen Glover live from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., she may lead in that time slot over WPRO but, after, that many good callers, I live in Mass. on Rhode island border and many Massachusetts, New York and Conn, persons call, it is live talk radio, callers discuss local issues and national issues.
Perhaps if other statins got back to this or listened to what Paul Giamarco has created, they could survive. Many advertisers with WPRO and Helen Glover of WHJJ,
Unfortunately after Helen, it is downhill with the babbling idiot, Beck, God he never shuts up, then, Limbaurgh, Hannity on and on
Sandi
mass
The Governor is accessible to all hosts, Oh, I cannot forget Helen Glover live from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., she may lead in that time slot over WPRO but, after, that many good callers, I live in Mass. on Rhode island border and many Massachusetts, New York and Conn, persons call, it is live talk radio, callers discuss local issues and national issues.
Perhaps if other statins got back to this or listened to what Paul Giamarco has created, they could survive. Many advertisers with WPRO and Helen Glover of WHJJ,
Unfortunately after Helen, it is downhill with the babbling idiot, Beck, God he never shuts up, then, Limbaurgh, Hannity on and on
Sandi
mass
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