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Steve Balmer: Within 10 years zero of you radio people will have a job --

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kyliebastel

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Recently I told the denizens of this board that they would all be unemployed in 10 years and radio waves would be repurposed to a new, non-communicative technology.

This was the reply from people shocked and aghast I made a helpful suggestion they should start learning a skilled trade like carpentry or auto repair:

"Kylie, radio is doing bad but - like all confident ostrichs - we know it will be here for a thousand years! We survived TV after all! It might decline but it's here to stay!"

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=119488.30

MORE DETAILS about what I was talking about can now start to be explored as they've hit news in the last day and can, finally be officially sourced by me (I previously caught flak because I didn't disclose full details in a radio-info.com message board post - oh my! Last time: "Kylie, you're making stuff up! No one is privately saying radio is dead in 10 years! No one is working on technology that would replace fun-fun radio!"): There's more juicy details to come in early August - I'll preview them without sources in July here (like I did last time) and then provide the links that demonstrate what I was talking about in August when it's public. </b>

(1) Steve Balmer: "Traditional media will not bounce back - dead in 10 YEARS"
speaking to the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, Steve Balmer said traditional media is toast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/24/microsoft-steve-ballmer-cannes

(2) Nokia Introduces Cell Phone that Charges Through Radio Waves
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10267006-1.html

Predicting the reply: "Steve Balmer and Nokia don't know what they're doing! Until Jesus himself says it, signed in triplicate and attested to by a Notary Public I will not believe it. Besides, I dissected - in excrutiating detail - each of the articles you linked to and found one questionable statement or absence of detail that throws your whole argument out of the water! On message boards we require definitive, academic proof, we don't make inferences based on the obvious evolution of trends! Yay! Radio is here to stay! Rock 'n roll!"

With fond, nostalgic memories of five decades of fun I bid Goodnight you princes of Maine, you Kings of New England.   :'(

- Kylie Bastel and the Morning Sunshine Crew
Reality-FM
 
10 years ago as the internet took off, someone told me the same thing. His IT company is long gone. I just bought my first radio station a year ago and billing is increasing in the face of 20% declines nationally. And it's an AM. In 10 years, another self-proclaimed expert will tell me why what I do for a living simply isn't possible. Wonder what this guy'll be doing then?
 
kyliebastel: It's not that I agree or disagree with what you said but I take exception to the mocking, arrogant tone you are using to disseminate your information. And that, you see, makes me question your motives AND information. Suppose you are right and traditional radio is dead in 10 years. What is to be gained by arrogance?
 
Kind of parallels the doom & gloom stories about the demise of the post office. I recently retired after delivering mail for almost 35 years. The last 15 or so years of my career were full of dire warnings about how the internet was going to kill the post office. I never witnessed anything that indicated those predictions would materialize, in fact towards the end I would say volumes on mail that matters (ie-first class) were way up. My former co-workers tell me volumes are down a bit these days, but that can likely be attributed to the state of the economy as opposed to “death by internet”.
 
Television killed radio in the early 1950's & 60's.
Cassettes/recording your own music killed radio in the 1970's.
MTV killed radio in the 1980's.
Car stereos, CD's & Walkmen killed radio in the 1980's and 90's.
The Internet and Telcom '96 killed radio in the 1990's->the present.
Ipods and Sirius/XM killed radio in the 21st Century.

Clearly, all the predictions came true, and radio has been dead for 50+ years. ::)
 
Tell Steve Balmer your radio will never give you the blue screen of death.
 
Why does Kylie mock? Because she was treated so rudely when she tried kindness ... :'(
Also, it's fun to rub it in when you knew you were right, but confidence precluded you from proving it and everyone rudely refused to take words on faith ... then you were able to come back with the "gotcha! here's your proof, sucka!" 8)

Kylie predicted the inevitable replies but they came anyway:

"Kind of parallels the doom & gloom stories about the demise of the post office."

No ... parallels the doom & gloom stories about the demise of the typewriter.

But, like I said, what on earth does the CEO of Microsoft and the CEO of Nokia know versus the owner of an AM country station in market 14? The audacity of those two buffoons! :D

What could Kylie expect, though? Too much testosterone here! Ten years after you're all voicing answering systems between shifts at Radio Shack you'll still be swearing radio is just going through a "phase" and it will be king again soon!

Oh Kylie, so often with prophetic info ... if only menz would get over their hurt feelings long enough to make it useful for themselves ... horses, I've led you to water, now you have to drink! :p
 
Oh BTW --- the info I'm promising will come down the pipeliners in August will really have the ostriches here working overtime. Expect the volume of the protests about "radio is the eternal king! don't say mean things about my radio!" to get more frantic and even more loud. :eek:
 
Oops! You forgot to provide the complete quote!

"Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, said today that the global advertising economy has been permanently "reset" at a lower level, warning that media companies should not plan for revenues to bounce back to pre-recession levels."

Is there any industry where revenues are expected to bounce back to pre-recession levels?
 
C'mon folks, stop feeding the troll - move along, nothing of value to see here.
 
Radio-info can help by not front-paging stuff like this. People are already tense, and I'm not sure that Ballmer really said that.
 
AQH and SRP are right on the money.

This is just an example of someone stroking their own ego. Notice how they write in the third person? Clearly they aren't in the radio industry, nor are even interested from a hobby angle.

Just ignore the troll and it will go annoy another discussion board.
 
My first question to Mr. Balmer would be: If you believe this is true, why do you have an FM receiver in the Zune? More of that well documented Microsoft planned obsolescence?
 
AnimatronicAbeLincoln said:
Oops! You forgot to provide the complete quote!

"Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, said today that the global advertising economy has been permanently "reset" at a lower level, warning that media companies should not plan for revenues to bounce back to pre-recession levels."

Is there any industry where revenues are expected to bounce back to pre-recession levels?
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Hey guy! When I said, in my original post, someone will say this:

Besides, I dissected - in excrutiating detail - each of the articles you linked to and found one questionable statement or absence of detail that throws your whole argument out of the water!

You, apparently, were the person to whom I was speaking! LMAO! :D

(BTW gang, love all the ostriches here whose feathers are so ruffled they're demanding everyone ignore Kylie, loudly jumping on the tables, denouncing her as a troll! LMAO! "Kylie is irrelevant! She's so irrelevant we must spend large amounts of our energy and posting bandwidth ensuring as many people as possible know she's irrelevant!" LMAAAAAAOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! ;D :D ;) :) ;) :D ;D Sounds like the truth is hitting close to home ... uh oh, spaghetti-o!)
 
Oh, BTW, for all the trolls upstanding posters, who, in Kylie's previous thread - said she didn't know what she was talking about and had no "inside info" and was a big dummy-dummy dumb-dumb ... my unshoed foot is now outstretched for your sweet kisses ... as it will be, again, this August when the "bigger anvil" drops ... but you'll have to wait until July to get my "sneak preview" of that one!

What couldz it be?! ??? 8)
 
BTW - Kylie was thinking this afternoon, what would she rather have ...

(a) listening to Kent and Allen spin the ol' silver discs

or

(b) spinnin my own silver discs while being able to tune to 101.5 and receive an inaudible ambient signal that would recharge my cell phone

Kylie chose "B"!!!!!!!!!  :eek:
 
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