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[greg.hahn]

KyDXin - are you kidding, FIBBER MCGEE, dude how old are you? The more I visit this board the more convinced i am that it's 40-50 (in number and in age) dudes who can't get an on-air gig and just want to gripe and complain. You were talking about the RUSH formula, well it seems this board has a formula. 1) Nothing is as good as it used to be when you were a kid 2) All radio companies (and reseach) are evil 3) the people who do have jobs are slacker, corp. suck-ups who are not nearly as talented as you out of work geezers! There is compelling radio being done, I think DAVE RAMSEY is a good show, I still like Terry Mieners and Ben & Kelly K (hip, funny) My girlfirend digs Lambert & Lindsey(dumb, funny). It's not the golden ages - when you had 20 people doing a radio show, but Wow! I am a board op, never had my own show, but dude seriously if you can't find something worth listening too other than streaming FIBBER MCGEE shows, maybe you should just stay home with your TIME-LIFE series recordings.

So who is right? Know-it-All, the young board op who maintains that we do have compelling radio today, or Goat Rodeo Cowboy, who, like most of us old-timers, remembers the glory days of what used to be? It's noteworthy that Goat is no longer in the business.

Look...I loved the old days, and part of me wants to say, "Goat, you are right." But if you are, all it will take is somebody with a radio station actually trying it. Then obvously the station will overwhelm all these automated, corporate-programmed wonders with their vast programming superiority, get a 25 share or so, and bill tens of millions of dollars because they have all the listeners.

And Goat can get back in radio, as he will be a highly sought-after programming consultant.

Somehow, I think the young board op has it right.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

... .. ... part of me wants to say, "Goat, you are right." But if you are, all it will take is somebody with a radio station actually trying it. Then obvously the station will overwhelm all these automated, corporate-programmed wonders with their vast programming superiority, get a 25 share or so, and bill tens of millions of dollars because they have all the listeners.

And Goat can get back in radio, as he will be a highly sought-after programming consultant.

Somehow, I think the young board op has it right.

Greg: I am going to presume you have come to the point in life where you may be able to share, to affirm this description of life. When we are young life is like a crop-duster pilot zooming across the field and every little knoll and mound seems like a serious and significant bit of terrain.

At mid-life we are like the private pilot cruising at 8,000 feet and not too many things in life look like dangerous mountains anymore.

As Sinatra poetically sang it, "In the Autumn Years of our Life" it is more like the cross country jet-liner screaming along at somewhere north of 40,000 feet. The Rockies and the Smokies show up a spectacular sights, but do not interrupt our lives.

My posts are all over the place. The Goat Rodeo Cowboy also plays the part of the Rodeo Clown. If the menacing bulls are too troublesome, distract them. If the docile bulls have lost their ability to thrill the crowd, stir them up a bit.

Actually, the "young board op" and I could be a great team, and you would probably enjoy our team, too. I was flying back from our Kentucky coal mine one day with the owner. (We were cruising at 18,000 feet.) I shared with him a rumor, a complaint that I had picked up from the rank and file. He smiled. Told me not to worry. In baseball if you can hit one out of three, you will be a star. We don't have to get everything right.

From the Crop Duster perspective, Young Board Op is right. This radio thing today is compelling. To his generation, and maybe it is HIS generation that counts the most, that is true. I'm puttering along up here at 18,000 feet today muttering: "Come On! Is this the best we can do?"

He and I are looking at the same thing. And at the end of the day, he and I want the same thing.

 

[gr8oldies]

Sometimes I wonder what Radio-Info would look like if it existed in the 70s. Would we all be talking about how we are living in radio utopia, and that these are the good old days? Somehow I have my doubts. No, Gary Burbank would suck, Wayne Perkey would Suck, Metz, Bill Bailey, Johnny Rabbitt, et al would suck, WAKY's playlist would be too small and all then owners in Danville, New Albany and Louisville itself would be cheap jerks.

If the mythical personality station were built today, if the audience even cared about personalities-mixed-with-music (which isn't guaranteed), rather than a 20 share, they may get none, and on this board? The guys who are the literal reincarnation of The Real Don Steele and Robert W. Morgan..would still suck, the playlist would still be too small and you get my drift.

 

[radiorob2.0]

Sometimes I wonder what Radio-Info would look like if it existed in the 70s. Would we all be talking about how we are living in radio utopia, and that these are the good old days? Somehow I have my doubts. No, Gary Burbank would suck, Wayne Perkey would Suck, Metz, Bill Bailey, Johnny Rabbitt, et al would suck, WAKY's playlist would be too small and all then owners in Danville, New Albany and Louisville itself would be cheap jerks.

If the mythical personality station were built today, if the audience even cared about personalities-mixed-with-music (which isn't guaranteed), rather than a 20 share, they may get none, and on this board? The guys who are the literal reincarnation of The Real Don Steele and Robert W. Morgan..would still suck, the playlist would still be too small and you get my drift.

It did exist in another form. Usually it was at a local watering hole. In some cases the overnight jocks would gossip among themselves during the quiet hours on the phone, you call the jock at station A and he would pass it along to station B. If one station had conference call abilities then all the jocks would call that station and have a gossip/bitch session.

 

[KyDXIn]

Sometimes I wonder what Radio-Info would look like if it existed in the 70s. Would we all be talking about how we are living in radio utopia, and that these are the good old days? Somehow I have my doubts. No, Gary Burbank would suck, Wayne Perkey would Suck, Metz, Bill Bailey, Johnny Rabbitt, et al would suck, WAKY's playlist would be too small and all then owners in Danville, New Albany and Louisville itself would be cheap jerks.

If the mythical personality station were built today, if the audience even cared about personalities-mixed-with-music (which isn't guaranteed), rather than a 20 share, they may get none, and on this board? The guys who are the literal reincarnation of The Real Don Steele and Robert W. Morgan..would still suck, the playlist would still be too small and you get my drift.

It did exist in another form. Usually it was at a local watering hole. In some cases the overnight jocks would gossip among themselves during the quiet hours on the phone, you call the jock at station A and he would pass it along to station B. If one station had conference call abilities then all the jocks would call that station and have a gossip/bitch session.

The following things I believe really did happen in Louisville radio history, but I am going from my memory so feel free to correct...
We would laugh about Perkey's commerical about tinkling on the ivories at Gist's Piano Center.
We'd talk about Bill Bailey showing his pregnant wife at the remote and saying, "This is what happens when you mess with the Duke!"
We'd talk about Burbank getting "shot" at his last day on WAKY.