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There are a lot of great radio people out there, both employed and unemployed, that have been a part of our business for years, even decades. With the economy in turmoil the vast majority of us that are left with a paycheck certainly wonder if it will be our last before the shoe drops. This uncertanty is clearly a distraction and it makes it difficult to remain focused on our work. It's funny (not in the Ha Ha sense) that now most of the USA's industries are in the same boat as radio people have been for years, job insecurity. Everyone is feeling the pain of an uncertain future.

This is a time when the very best that the industry has to offer should rise to the top of what is now a very competitive radio universe. It's time for owners to stop leaving people in charge that make poor business decisions that affect the success or failure of your facility. It's time to stop laying off your best people to cut costs because it's just going to turn right around and bite you in the behind. It's time for some of the larger companies like Clear Channel, Cumulus, CBS and rest to shed some of that high-priced real estate where only a few bodies stroll the halls and move the stations into smaller, more affordable facilities. It's not unusual to walk from one end of the building to the other and see empty studios and offices in just about every cluster. Think of all the employees you could retain with that extra rent money that you wouldn't be paying.

Most successful managers would agree: The most important asset you have is not your equipment. It's not your signal. IT's YOUR PEOPLE!
 
Let's see, you have 7 posts and you call yourself "Private Sector" but you say you are in the business...Here comes the NCIS again.. Doubt it..But if you are "Get used to what you see" because what you see now is what you get.. Nobody's buying anything..cars, houses, boats, certainly not radio and TV spots because nobody's going to spend any monies..They are scared! The time to stop all this nonsense that's going on now was years ago, when the Democratic Congress allowed the FCC to grant Mega-monopolies like Clear-Channel and the rest of the evil empires..I'm glad I'm through with it!...Hmmmm , But's that's debatable.

::)BIG APE!
 
Is that a "burning bush" I smell? Whip out the cart...it's time for a "sponsored fire."
 
radiorealtor said:
Is that a "burning bush" I smell? Whip out the cart...it's time for a "sponsored fire."
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:eek: ;D HMMMM...As the NCIS Continues..At first, I figured you to be Willie Edwards or Wes Jones, but neither worked at KIX, so I decided, you had to be Ricky Freeman! Did I win..Did I Did I!!!


BIGAPE SOUTHERN BROADCASTING STILL LIVES
 
What needs to happen is anyone without a 3rd radiotelephone with broadcast endorsement should be out of the biz. THAT'S when things in our chosen profession started going downhill, letting anyone with a voice come in and be "Ron Radio." When you had to work for your license, it meant people who really had radio's best interest at heart, had to earn the "right" to be on the air, therefore you were protective of what radio was all about. Responsible broadcasters know that I am speaking from the heart. You earned your license, you were forthright in what you put on the air and you were held to that standard by the law. Once it was opened up to "anyone" then the trash starting hitting the fan and hasn't stopped since. ..who do I talk to about this? ???
 
As say this as somone who works in the industry, but is not an air personality.

Fantastic idea knowsdown....In about 3 weeks, everyone will have switched to the pods because there won't be any geezers with a 3rd radiotelephone endorsement left to broadcast.

What you're really saying is, "Radio will never been good until we get all of these yungins out of the business. Then we can go back to playing Merle Haggard records and doing commericals about plenty of free parking just like the good ole days."

If you're looking for a good old boys club, try the Senate. I find it impossible to believe that you've ever met anyone with a 3rd radiotelephone liscense who didn't suck.

Your arguement lacks logic. Saying that someone whose willing to do a little learning and take a test will be good at their job is like saying everyone who study's for and passes a drivers test is an excellent driver.

Opening open radio has done just as much to create new and better radio, but like everything in life you have to take the good with the bad.
 
Contrary to your opinion about 3rd Phone's what about us that have First Phones..Do you think it was right to let any Tom, Dick and Harry run the transmitters and the directional array?? That's part of the problem with all the short spacing and other stuff that has gone on in the past 20 years.
 
Back when a 3rd Phone and a 1st Phone was required there were no iPods, video games, most TV stations signed off at 1:00am, there were no VCR's and no DVD's. Not to mention no internet! Radio has a lot of competition, so do TV stations for that matter.

Yes, radio is still around but it doesn't have as much influence as it once did. The small playlists, long commercial sets and limiting personality on most music stations hasn't helped. In my last position in a typical hour there was 90 seconds of talk TOTAL. Most of that was reading liner cards.

I don't blame the kids for what has happened in fact I'm surprised to see the same dedication and drive we old geezers once had. I wish some of them could work in the radio that I once knew where there was freedom to create something and have fun.
 
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