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The bigger picture is not Citadel, it's RADIO

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caller10

Radio is a distribution method. Add some scarcity because of a limited spectrum (AM/FM), a potential mass audience because of that scarcity of the RF spectrum (further enforced by law and regulation), throw in employees who will work in that environment because their elasticity to supply that labor is bizarro off the scale regardless of pay or working conditions, and add in some colorful local owners we had from a bygone era, boy was it an interesting phenomenon. It's over. We have a love affair with low-tech analog signals (streams) received by these devices called radios. It's over. It's hard to get worked up about streaming over the internet because it lacks the attributes that I just mentioned. But internet streaming shares something in common with radio, it's a distribution method. Same impact is happening to TV and newspapers. We are evolving rapidly from an analog to a digital world. If you deny that, I hope you take plenty of film with you on your next vacation. Maybe take along to the beach one of those radios that pick up the audio of TV channels 2-13, they'll be really useful after February 17, 2009.

"Radio" is dying. Long live "radio". -- http://www.ccrane.com/radios/wifi-radios/tangent-quattro-wifi-internet-radio.aspx

ps .... I'm in denial too, so I'll still be posting right along with you.
 
RoddyFreeman said:
Of course, every cloud has a silver lining. With less people listening to the radio, it should be a lot easier to be caller 10.
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Yeah, but what would I win? Bubblegum wrappers?
 
If we want radio to survive, there has to be a revolution. Believe it or not, it isn't too late. The corporate suits need to get out of the way and let the real radio folk have their stations back. Ownership caps need to be put back in place. Stations should be manned 24/7 and have actual local interest programming (and not the so-called public affairs programs that run at 6 AM on Sunday morning). Stop with all the studies and other so-called research. Radio is radio, it's not a science! Radio is intended to be entertainin, fun and informative. Let the jocks have more freedom, stop dumbing things down. Let the listeners decide what they like, don't spoon feed them Britney Spears if they don't want it.

Radio as it is today is a joke and will soon go the way of the telegraph if something isn't done. Since I've been out of the business, I understand why people are turning to streaming, iPods and other media rather than radio. Every stations everywhere sounds exactly the same. The jocks get their show prep from the same places. The madness has to stop if radio is to survive.

If I could, I'd step up and buy a station or two but I'm not in a position to do that (yet). However, I'm sure people that are in a position to do so feel the same way and I hope they step up to the plate. Let's get radio back in the hands of the people and out of the pocket books of stock traders.

Jonathan
 
I agree with Jonathan regarding ownership caps. Let's get the Feds back in here and break up the big companies - make it 7 AM/FM stations again.....and maybe that's too many.
The argument that there was "too much competition" is idiotic....just like Mel "The Butcher" Karmazin arguing that there is too much competition in Sat radio. The radio folks were making money galore before deregulation.....nothing good has come of this for anyone, with the exception of a few radio executives.
I usually do not see regulatory action as a positive but this is one mistake of historical proportions which can only be righted by governmental intervention.
The sooner they bust up Clear Channel, Cox, Cumulus, et al.....the better!
 
People, this IS radio. What we used to have is gone. Get used to it...accept it...live with it. OR, come up with something better. Getting the Fed's to return to ANYTHING is impossible, no matter how many people scream and vote for somebody new. Radio is and has always been, money driven. Satellite shows and no local content is what it's coming to. They operate cheaply and owners and operators embrace the almighty dollar more than listener content or programmer's choices. You want music, there are new and better ways to get it. You want news...same thing. You want radio...listen to an aircheck from 20 years ago. Either embrace the dish or, go internet and be creative.

Sad to say, but very true. Radio has died. Long live the vaccuum tube transmitter!
 
compelling radio = almighty dollars

radio on the cheap = lost listeners, lost potential revenue.

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keep 'em coming back for more is not a phrase known to
any of the mindless CEO's that are out of touch (and wealthy
for it.) all they care about is their ROTOI (return on their OWN
investment.)
 
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