WECK's Riter Gets Ink

[Philip_Airtime]

You wanna talk about the importance of radio? No, it doesn't snow in June. But there is the occasional tornado. And as we saw in Toledo this weekend, that can mean life and death. And radio is one of the most effective ways of getting a tornado warning out -- that is, if the staff is properly trained and on alert for such warnings when the weather is bad. Our announcers are instructed to immediately break into whatever is on the air with a tornado warning. Again, they don't happen often, but there was a tornado warning and a watch for the Southern Tier counties early Sunday.

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

You can call it hubris. I'll call it editing. A newspaper interview isn't quite the same as a live radio interview in that, in its final presentation, the questions are missing. I was asked about the future of radio "10 years down the road." Without knowing the question, my answer sounds premature. Now that you know what I was asked, would any of you have cause to disagree? (Also, I'm glad you still consider me "youthful," Jim... but I'm 35 now and that was 13 years ago that you hired me.Yikes!)

Appreciate the background, Brad. It certainly changes the context of the answer. Did you take up the point with the reporter after the story was printed? Newspaper reporters... always playin' with the quotes. Ten years from now? When I shake the crystal ball it keeps coming up, "It is unclear." IMHO, FM music radio will be around, but the formatics may be entirely different than what we know today. And what of talk radio. Where will that be in ten? One more thing. It was a good hire. Geneseo grads usually are.