• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

The conservative talk radio farm team

wadio said:
I listened to one of his podcasts earlier this year. I enjoyed Bruce Williams back in his heyday (I used to listen on WMCA in NYC before he went syndicated) but sadly he's lost much of his energy and isn't really in tune with today's fast paced Internet world.
Click to expand...

So who appointed YOU to be the "Creator of the Energy Level Standard"? ::)

Is it possible some people have abandoned Talk Radio and are scouting around the Internet for some content no so "energy" driven?

Is it possible there is a group of people who are avoiding the Internet because of the energy level that YOU thin is GREAT... and they might flock around the Bruce Williams "I ain't 40 years old anymore" energy level?

Isn't that what make the Internet such a potent competitor to broadcast radio.... the Internet can be like the "Sleep Number Bed" of audio content. Find the number you like.... and then figure out how to sort through 13,000,000 Google search results and find just energy level that "floats your boat".
 
In general I don't disagree with what you say, but Bruce Williams was never a "high energy" guy. Now he sounds rather feeble. Same as with Imus. It happens with age.
 
wadio said:
In general I don't disagree with what you say, but Bruce Williams was never a "high energy" guy. Now he sounds rather feeble. Same as with Imus. It happens with age.
Click to expand...

Why has this phenomena, this revelation been kept secret from me? At what age should I anticipate this feebleness to grab me by the throat? ;)
 
I agree that it's clear Bruce had slowed down, but he still talked about great topics and provided a great perspective.

It's not a show that would cume 20 million, but could achieve a multi million audience for a once weekly show.

I don't have the means to offer it to him, but if someone did, I'd certainly listen in. He's be a great lead in or post show to pair with Bob Brinker or for a station looking to replace Brinker with similiar, but different programming.
 
umfan said:
It's not a show that would cume 20 million, but could achieve a multi million audience for a once weekly show.
Click to expand...

Not anymore. As much as I love and admire Bruce, his day is up. Unfortunately, no one could do the kind of show he did because no one had the life experiences he did.

I've said many times that if I had the kind of experiences Bruce did, I'd LOVE to do a show similar to his.
 
Just wanted to bring the discussion to the ''Little Limbaughs'' point..

Is anybody going to want to do the show prep that Rush does, and continues to do? Take a look at his Stack of Stuff...if you subscribe to the website, as I have...there is probably nobody on the Right that is as knowledgeable about what the Left thinks that Rush Limbaugh..

Too many of the ''Little Limbaughs'' will look at Drudge and Fox News and figure they have their show prep...

And they're wrong...

I'll take the point further..is anybody going to go out on weekends and promote himself like Limbaugh did for the first 10 years or so that his show was in syndication? The guy spend nearly every weekend, doing speeches, pressing the flesh..building an audience from the ground up..all over the country.

As far as podcasts, I listen to Carolla, Bill Simmons, Dan Patrick and Jason Whitlock...commercial radio? Why?

The ''next Rush'' maybe somebody we've never heard of that is going to be doing a podcast..and may not need commercial radio as we know it..

And if you're going to talk about somebody in the business right now, why has nobody mentioned Dennis Miller? Miller has 300+stations in his lineup right now..and he may be ''the guy'' when its all said and done...
 
Speaker of Truth said:
Is anybody going to want to do the show prep that Rush does, and continues to do? Take a look at his Stack of Stuff...if you subscribe to the website, as I have...there is probably nobody on the Right that is as knowledgeable about what the Left thinks that Rush Limbaugh..
Click to expand...

There is a reason why having conversations about Talk Radio in general, and conversations about Rush in particular always turn a bit cantankerous and maybe even bitter in these forums.

So Rush has a stash..... of all the secrets about what the Left thinks. Or does he have a stash of information he wants people to believe are the inner most dreams and goals of the Left?

I grew up in the South where Baptist preachers used to spend a lot of time telling us what the Catholic church "thinks". As time went on, I found out they didn't have a clue, but they didn't know that.

As a Southern Boy I was taught and told what Northern People, Yankees if you please, were like and what they think. Then I moved to the Rust Belt for about 40 years and found out my Southern friends of my youth didn't have a clue, but they didn't know that.

Starting about the time Barry Goldwater was aspiring to be president, I hung out with Republicans who spent a lot of time sharing with me what Democrats think. Then I found myself living in a part of the country where there was actually an active Democratic Party at work. And I found out that some of my Republican mentors didn't have a clue, but they didn't know they were serving sandwiches made from "bad balogna".

I don't have a subscription to the web site so I have to depend on you to tell me: Does Rush actually know what "The Left" thinks, or does he have an electronic warehouse full of fairy tales and folklore. How can I tell the difference? How can YOU tell the difference?

What we need is a new radio system that has two little lights on the front. No matter who is talking, someone from the Right, someone from the Left, someone from the "far out", when the little green light is on, that would mean "This is something you can take to the bank. You can bet your life on it." When the little red light is on, that would mean "This is something a crazy as bat-crap. Consume at your own risk."

The problem is, I haven't figured out where we find some one who has the wisdom to be in charge of the red-light/green-light switch.
 
RadioTalker101 said:
And GRC?
You have a political problem and maybe a 'tone' issue, that is not a radio issue. Enough. Every post you make is the same.
Click to expand...

Well, let's see if I am crafty enough to post a reply. I just wrote one and the system refused it.

How does that make me different than everyone else who jumps into discussion News/Talk radio and what we commonly call Talk Radio.
Do you not have a political problem and a tone problem?

Now, if I can get this new Word Grinder Mechanism to accept a post from me, maybe we can discuss "my problems" at length later.
And if we can identify MY problem, then maybe we can have an intelligent discussion about Talk Radio PROBLEMS, and then we can discuss your political proble and tone issues. Turn about would be fair play.:rolleyes:

Added during an EDIT: Look! This one made it!

To my friend RadioTalker: There is something I do when I get into a discussion like this. I sit down and go back through what the other person has posted. Sometimes that can take an hour or more. Some time tonight, if I can figure out this new software, I shall read every last thing you have posted here and try to understand what is your "tone". Then maybe we can have an on-topic chat about the future of Talk Radio and what constitues "the farm system" for talk radio in our current era. That's a much more useful conversation than trying to psycho-****yze me.

Added during SECOND EDIT:

You got to be kidding me. Our new software is going to be our Nanny?

One of my children used to work in an office where the corporate software would not let her give people her home address in an e-mail. She resorted to typing that she lived on 'thingy-son' street.
 
Last edited:
RadioTalker101 said:
Too long; didn't read.
Click to expand...

One of the really nice things about this new board software (and thus far, from a user perspective, one of the only nice things about it) is that we now have an "ignore user" option. One could, if one wished to do so, very dramatically narrow down the variety of viewpoints seen here with some judicious use of that option.
 
Too long, didn't read
Click to expand...

I'm not sure there can be meaningful discussion of good governance and good broadcasting about good governance, and keep it down to bumper sticker/tee-shirt slogan length.

I went to bed Friday night intending to get up the next day and read EVERYTHING you have ever posted on Radio Discussions so I could converse with you in your comfort zone. The move to the new software pretty much ruined that plan for now. Maybe they will bring back the feature that allows that.
 
You could just stop being a pompous fool.

Every post you make is some rand pronouncement about how things should be and how level headed you are. All empty.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom