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Stephanie Miller on Talk Decline

Small Market Guy said:
Even if people do call and worry when I take a day off. I had to go to the dentist for an emergency a few months back and people thought I got fired. I can't imagine what they're going to do when I take a week and a half off in June.
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There is a factor that seldom get discussed when we bat around ideas of local talk versus national talk syndication. It's probably not smart to go on the air in advance and say: "Folks, I won't be here tomorrow.. I've got some doctor's appointments to deal with." or "I won't be here next week... I've been looking forward to back packing along the Applachian Trail and I'm going to spend a week on the trail next week." [Hello thieves... are you listening? nu-occupied house available to you all week long! ]

I think we have long assumed that part of building an audience for a show built around personality (whether it is Talk Radio or old style morning show radio host) is to invite the audience to "own" part of the person. Share an opinion on your favorite food now and then. Tell the folks what you do to relax on your day off. But sometimes we run into what is called TMI.... Too Much Information!

So if we have become a place where we all have to be very, very private, we all have to become introverts... what ingredients remain for building a radio show that is uniquely YOU?
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
There is a factor that seldom get discussed when we bat around ideas of local talk versus national talk syndication. It's probably not smart to go on the air in advance and say: "Folks, I won't be here tomorrow.. I've got some doctor's appointments to deal with." or "I won't be here next week... I've been looking forward to back packing along the Applachian Trail and I'm going to spend a week on the trail next week." [Hello thieves... are you listening? nu-occupied house available to you all week long! ]

I think we have long assumed that part of building an audience for a show built around personality (whether it is Talk Radio or old style morning show radio host) is to invite the audience to "own" part of the person. Share an opinion on your favorite food now and then. Tell the folks what you do to relax on your day off. But sometimes we run into what is called TMI.... Too Much Information!

So if we have become a place where we all have to be very, very private, we all have to become introverts... what ingredients remain for building a radio show that is uniquely YOU?[/SIZE][/FONT]
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That's an interesting thought, but I am enough of a hermit off the air that no one has any idea where I live. I think I'm safe.
 
Small Market Guy said:
That's an interesting thought, but I am enough of a hermit off the air that no one has any idea where I live. I think I'm safe.
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Which brushes up against a related topic that could a thread all by itself. I think the public assumes that media people, radio announcers/personalities are all extroverts, people who want to be "the life of the party", people who want to be seen and admired.

And yet, many of the best talents I ever worked with were introverts and sometimes shy & bashful. If there were curtains available on the window of a recording studio, they would 'pull the drapes' when they went in to record. Once in awhile I guess you come across a successful radio person who wants to do "the Hollywood thing" and have a showplace of a house, and maybe a very identifiable vehicle which becomes part of their persona. But there is possibly a major portion of the on-air folks who in something like you are describing yourself, just want to disappear into the landscape and not be noticed.

I can remember the day that when changing jobs and moving to a new community, you ordered your phone and paid the extra monthly fee to be UNLISTED.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:


I can remember the day that when changing jobs and moving to a new community, you ordered your phone and paid the extra monthly fee to be UNLISTED.
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A lot of radio folks I've known (including my cousin) simply listed their phone under their real name and used an alias on the air (Sky Walker or whatever...) The most usual exception to that rule are news personnel.
 
Monsieur le modérateur, s'il vous plaît, verrouiller celui-ci vers le bas, aussi.
 
FredLeonard said:
Monsieur le modérateur, s'il vous plaît, verrouiller celui-ci vers le bas, aussi.
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Всеми средствами, заблокировать его. Не дай Бог там быть интересным, активное обсуждение. Держите все света, простой и предназначенную для наименее умный среди нас.
 
In the meantime, as you two fiddle, talk radio burns. The king of news-talk remains in decline, taking the format with him.
 
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