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[radioatlantis]

You guys can defend mediocrity all you want to with clap trap like "financially viable" and all that but mega corporate radio is only about control - not product quality. Syndication stifles the opportunity for other radio talent to develop and eliminates the value of locality in programming. It is not contributing to the healthy growth of the broadcasting business to can everything like pork n beans and prop it up all over the country.

The audience gets cheated of pressing the flesh with celebrities they may, otherwise enjoy and there is little or no connection with the local ad community.

On the contrary, I am about PERSONALITY RADIO and PEOPLE and if HD stands for a place that is barren of entertainment except for music, it isn't an alternative. I CAN PROGRAM WHAT I WANT TO HEAR PERFECTLY ON MY OWN WITHOUT RADIO -- good or bad.

I can not understand anyone who appreciates what radio was and what it could be, accepting
the condition of this business as it is or not recognizing that it could be much better.

I'll give these clone shows credit for being talented, but no more than many others who aren't syndicated and will never get the opportunity. My point is, NOTHING takes the place of LOCAL PEOPLE on the air who know the community they serve.

I am not much for being fed through a tube until I have no choice.

Do we still have a choice??

 

[youreallcrazy]

i did try not to get caught up in the latest string of posts in this topic, but i felt i had to...

You guys can defend mediocrity all you want to with clap trap like "financially viable" and all that but mega corporate radio is only about control - not product quality. Syndication stifles the opportunity for other radio talent to develop and eliminates the value of locality in programming. It is not contributing to the healthy growth of the broadcasting business to can everything like pork n beans and prop it up all over the country.

are you insinuating that the Orlando market wants to hear more "local" flavor? I suppose youd like to have a daily "parking lot availability" at the theme parks? Maybe Orlando would like more of an update on the new buildings going up around town? Perhaps more local sports coverage...like more Magic coverage...

You could very well want these things, but I, along with many of MY peers...(and me and my peers KNOW we dont account for everyone in the Orlando listening audience)...many of us could care less about the theme parks, the growth and construction, OR the magic...(oh, btw, id say Clear Channel showed you what they though about more local sports coverage, by BLOWING UP THEIR SPORTS STATION!

You know what you get with Syndicated programing? You get good NATIONAL talent and good NATIONAL product...if im listening to music radio, i want to hear about the artists...maybe even hear FROM the artists themselves...please tell me when the last time XL or JRR has a high profile interview with say...Justin Timberlake or Metallica? MAYBE when an artist comes through town, XL or JRR will grab an interview...but not so much anymore! My theory...if im an artist, why would i do ONE local radio interview, as opposed to one NATIONWIDE interview?...

im sure many will read this and say how much of a kook i am...but i am a believer in syndication radio...(NOT VOICETRACKING...2 COMPLETELY different things)...and i enjoy it very much!...i enjoy listening to it...and i enjoy programming it...(which probably reveals my identity to some)...and i KNOW that the product that i program is by far more superb than some of the local yokels on stations around the country...keep your morning and afternoon drive local...but for the rest...content, content, content...

and btw...the show i program/produce is as local for our affiliates as a live jock would be...

radio is dog eat dog now...its 2007...no more "boss jocks" talking about high school football games...no more stunt boys running around in lame costumes and passing out t-shirts in intersections...its evolved...and it will NEVER be the way it was...

then again...what now-a-days IS the way it was?

 

[hopeland36]

It's about time for the little people to stop talking and buy some of the stations that are for sale and bring radio back.

 

[radioatlantis]

You got that right hopeland....but most of us OLD SCHOOLERS did it for love and not much money. Besides, I think it's (radio) a lost cause and is so self-indulgent that it wouldn't know a smart new paradigm if it were forced to listen to it days upon end.

Youreallcrazy - you got a point. I think the whole planet should run on Artificial Intelligence and a virtual environment. To hell with imagination and innovation. Status Quo is the way to go.

Give me a handful of right wing talk show hosts, a box of sports talk monkeys, and a dozen or so silly-boy morning shows.... I'll be happy no matter where I am, listening to crackerjacks radio.

It is difficult to believe that anyone in this business thinks that centralization of everything is
the great hope!

The industry needs to be looking for bright, creative people with new ideas - not people who only know how to kiss ass and plug in new names for tired formats.

The industry should have learned when it starting dumping on people, lowering wages, and loosing revenue and listeners, that it wasn't going to attract brilliance to come flocking. But, if they want to save themselves from turning to dust, they'd better start building farm teams and offering mentorship, in the same way they offer seminars and CE for their sales people.

But some things aren't worth saving. They'll just die of natural causes...........................remember AM radio? Broadband is the new frontier. Let's just hope that the same aces who are taking down terrestrial radio, don't get their hands on all that is communication on the net.

Aw, but there the big time congloms will be with their stabl of syndicated sweethearts....
85 year old Rush Limbaugh..etc

The question these brains should be asking is, "who is the next Stern...or Oprah..." Hopefully, there will be so many entrepreneurs creating the new "radio" that these dorks will be long out of business.