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WCBS vs. WINS postscripts
- Thread starter Rollo-Smokes
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And, a college dropout! Look at how much that hurt his career.He's buried in KC too, at Mt. Moriah:
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Knowing people who went from local/regional public radio to NPR, I think there are more nuances than that. Good writing and good editing can be taught, but there also has to be a certain flair for it. That can develop over time, but some people just have it naturally. At least for on-air positions, NPR wanted not just writing ability, but a voice with a certain sound. Just like commercial radio, except looking for different attributes.
Then there's the whole philosophy of setting the stage with natural sound, something NPR seems to have pulled back on in recent years, but still memorably satirized by Harry Shearer in his bits on "Continental Public Radio".
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We can put a list for places listeners to go to where former WCBS-AM listeners to go to but its not exactly going to replace them. However we can can only get a tiny fraction of former listeners to consider going to other places. Its like trying to negotiate former KGO-AM and KFWB-AM listeners to look somewhere else. Yes some of those listeners can go to places like KQED-FM, KALW-FM and KCBS-AM/KRFC-FM in the San Francisco example and for KFWB-AM they can go to KNX-AM/KNX-FM, KPCC-FM and KCRW-FM in the Los Angeles Example but thats just a fraction that can do that and accept their new place to go to for news.
Listing these non-New York stations here is pointless. And, it digresses from the original topic of this thread.
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We can put a list for places listeners to go to where former WCBS-AM listeners to go to but its not exactly going to replace them. However we can can only get a tiny fraction of former listeners to consider going to other places. Its like trying to negotiate former KGO-AM and KFWB-AM listeners to look somewhere else. Yes some of those listeners can go to places like KQED-FM, KALW-FM and KCBS-AM/KRFC-FM in the San Francisco example and for KFWB-AM they can go to KNX-AM/KNX-FM, KPCC-FM and KCRW-FM in the Los Angeles Example but thats just a fraction that can do that and accept their new place to go to for news.
True too theres other parts I have to consider that are important like New Jersey Public Radio, that reaches some of the New York area suburban areas. But then again I am aiming from national news angle and not so much from the local angle this was supposed to go to.
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Except this is about New York City. Not the suburbs or some entirely different market. Or, even a national network.True too theres other parts I have to consider that are important like New Jersey Public Radio, that reaches some of the New York area suburban areas. But then again I am aiming from national news angle and not so much from the local angle this was supposed to go to.
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But there is no "New York City" radio market. There is a New York Metro Survey Area, which includes a dozen or so counties "upstate", in NE New Jersey and on Long Island which make up more than half of the population of the metro.
Understood. As a lifelong NYC resident, I tend to be provincial.
Every business has roughly the same things they have to deal with. Mine currently has to deal with everything EXCEPT air personalities [I take care of that part if or when it comes down to it] sales, music licensing, FCC, but do have to deal with other government agencies, especially three that inspect, approve and license the same damn thing; just different levels of government that have to get their greedy little paws into the business wallet, outside consultants and other things that radio stations don't have to deal with.
I'm hearing that former WCBS morning co-anchor Paul Murnane was heard today (Wednesday 10/2) on WINS.
Perfect takes on Stanford and Mullins. Drivetime clowns. Plus, political bias is bleeding through the morning presentation.
There was a lawyer in Indianapolis who practically made a career of trying to take Bob and Tom off the air. He likely spent more TSL than anyone in the market
Perhaps, but it hasn't hurt their ratings. If anything, it seems to have helped.
1010 WINS had such a tightly wound format for years it’s nice to hear them live a little