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WALB-TV Slams Radio
- Thread starter smedge2006
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smedge2006 said:
Wow, now there is a slam what out of line. It even had a typo in it. Maybe the truth is that with the caliber of the actual news stories other stations found that they could get a better quality and consistancy of news from another source. I have tried to listen to and watch the local news channels down here, and between the stammering and thick drawls I find most stations unwatchable at times. Maybe other stations are just looking for a sound that more people can understand with clearer tonal quality like a Midwest Standard. Or, maybe the overall quality of your news product just sucks!!! Either way, I can't believe an NBC affiliate would be allowed to post such a story, but then again our choices this year are Obama and McCain and Ralph Nader...
Our slogan should not be God Bless America it should be Lord Help Us All , this ship is crashing and burning!!!
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kyscott
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Huh, sounds like someone at channel 10 is just telling it like it is. I wouldn't call it a slam, I'd call it the truth.
This was written on April 1. Has Channel 10 found another station to simulcast the news yet?
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kyscott
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90% of radio people don't understand the importance of news.........until it's too late.
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kyscott
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Dude, have you even SEEN channel 10's news? All news has a touch of "tabloid quality" about it now. Channel 10 has a very reliable news department.
I remember when WALG radio once had a news department. 
druidhillsradio said:I remember when WALG radio once had a news department.
Ah the good ole days. I am proud to have been a small part of that radio news legacy.
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kyscott
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druidhillsradio said:I remember when WALG radio once had a news department.
WALG used to be WALB radio until mayor Gray decided he wanted a TV station. I don't understand why radio stations don't want to do news anymore. People always want to know what's going on around him.
Rick, did you used to work in Americus?
My only time on the air in Americus was when WKAK/WALG had a short lived duopoly with Butch and Victoria Guest to run their stations and I went up there broadcast high school football one year during the early 90's.
Whatever happened to Sam Pruitt?
The last I heard of Sam (and this was several years ago) he was living in FL running a newspaper and had gotten elected to the county commission or some office.
Thanks. I always thought he was pretty damn good as the news guy for the "only" radio station in the 2nd Congressional District with a local news department.
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kyscott
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ricksegers said:
Maybe that's why I'm thinking I have heard your name outside of Albany. I'm from Vienna. During the late 80's I was going to South Ga Tech and early 90's working at WALB.
I drifted through the WALB/WWCW era when Whit Woodall held the keys to the store.
I wouldn't necessarily call this WALB-TV story a slam against radio, but rather I would say they are recognizing the current day state of corporate radio that has slashed virtually everything local from the radio airwaves. News and information is a vital part of a radio programming initiative in serving the local community. Not only is it good business sense to air local news, but it is also a requirment that any broadcast station, including radio, provide public service information to its listeners. This includes news. Radio has deteriorated to the point that it has become nothing more than an mp3 player broadcasting over a broadcast frequency.
When I started in radio back in the 70s, news was the number one reason listeners tuned in. Music was only secondary except among the kids who could not have cared less about news content. When you discontinue news, local personalities and everything that made a local station - local, the station losses its own unique identity which is very sad.
Perhaps one day the "suits" in the ivory towers at Corporate Radio Central will finally realize and understand that the number one reason they are lossing market share and radio advertising revenue is because every radio station in America sounds the same with "cookie-cutter" imaging, which really isn't imaging at all.
Once localism has returned to the radio airwaves, including revamping current non-existent news departments, radio will once again rise and become the star it once was and can become once again.
Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
[email protected]
When I started in radio back in the 70s, news was the number one reason listeners tuned in. Music was only secondary except among the kids who could not have cared less about news content. When you discontinue news, local personalities and everything that made a local station - local, the station losses its own unique identity which is very sad.
Perhaps one day the "suits" in the ivory towers at Corporate Radio Central will finally realize and understand that the number one reason they are lossing market share and radio advertising revenue is because every radio station in America sounds the same with "cookie-cutter" imaging, which really isn't imaging at all.
Once localism has returned to the radio airwaves, including revamping current non-existent news departments, radio will once again rise and become the star it once was and can become once again.
Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
[email protected]
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