Rush's Billboard near Shooting : "Straight Shooter" riddled with bullet holes

[MattParker]

Re: That aggregate 9-share says it all, eh?

I wish to spend the remaining years of my life working for a radio station whose owner has the decency to actually reside in the community s/he is licensed to serve.

...it was suggested that I contact a Delaware station group...

Sorry, the owners are in Lancaster, PA.

 

[TalkShowGuy1979]

Re: That aggregate 9-share says it all, eh?

Thus the wisdom Gabe Hobbs offered in yesterday's weekly from Randall Bloomquist, who interviewed Gabe and me and others:

“I know it may sound crass to suggest that opportunity springs from such tragedy, but [the radio business] should take advantage of the debate and discussion of balance and civility and offer a show, or better yet, a talk format that taps into the 90-plus percent of people who DON’T currently listen to talk radio. It is extremely clear to me that there is a segment of the public, including former P-1 talk listeners, that wants something more civil and less ‘Yea for my side!!’ They want to be engaged in a real conversation with a debate of ideas. The first station in each market to own that position will have something."

...well, I'm guessing, given the above quotation, now is as good a time as any to resurrect the following ;D ...

...Holland, you'll recall that back last April, when the anti-Democratic vandalism (including that to Rep. Giffords' office in Tucson, and some to the Yuma office of my own Representative, Raul Grijalva) started happening, I posted an open letter to you on this board. It read:

I have been a radio broadcaster in one form or another for 40 years now. I am now physically disabled, but I wish there was some way to avoid having to collect SSI-D for the rest of my days.

I wish to spend the remaining years of my life working for a radio station whose owner has the decency to actually reside in the community s/he is licensed to serve. One where I would be allowed to utilise my imagination and talents to enrich the lives of those who see fit to tune into my program. One where I would be able to respect my audience enough to actually be present at the microphone at the moment of broadcast rather than becoming a disembodied voice on a computer sound file. One where I would not be required to insult the taste, politics, spirituality or sexuality of those into whose homes, cars and lives I would be invited. One where what I say into a microphone would not be dictated by some anonymous executive thousands of miles away. One where I would be allowed to be a neighbour to my audience in every possible sense of that word.

The following questions are asked in the greatest of sincerity, and are not mere rhetoric.

Does such a radio station still exist anywhere in the United States of America? Can I possibly still work at such a station? Or would I be better advised to find a corner where I am not in anybody’s way, like an old family cat, and simply await death?

...it was suggested that I contact a Delaware station group, but as one of the aspects of my disability is arthritis, moving back to an area where winters are as severe as the one Delaware's been experiencing in recent weeks is out of the question. Is there, by any chance, a production company you or anyone else could point me in the direction of that would be able (and inclined?) to organise a syndicated program along these lines that could originate from the Southwest?...or even could you persuade Dave Gorab and Jeremy Coleman at SiriusXM to pick up their phones when I try to call them? I've been trying to get either one to respond to my phone calls and emails since June, and I haven't recieved one word of acknowledgment :-\ ...

You might just want to start applying like the rest of us do. This sad-sack routine will not help.

 

[Ultimajock]

Re: Rush's Billboard near Shooting : "Straight Shooter" riddled with bullet holes

...TSG, please take your flame bait to a different thread. You don't have nearly a big enough shovel for that load you're trying to turn...

 

[TalkShowGuy1979]

Re: Rush's Billboard near Shooting : "Straight Shooter" riddled with bullet holes

...TSG, please take your flame bait to a different thread. You don't have nearly a big enough shovel for that load you're trying to turn...

I am telling you the truth. If you contact radio stations with that story you will remain unemployed.

 

[UpstateNYBill]

Re: Public Radio GROWING

NPR is gaining like crazy almost everywhere, especially among Baby Boomers who remember commercial radio before-it-dumbed-down. Now they've had-it-up-to-here with schlock and lack-of-local-content.

Maybe people need NPR to help them to fall asleep.