I am trying to go to the radioemporium.net site for logos and found that's not there anymore. What happened? Did they move?
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What happened to Radio Emporium?
- Thread starter icycool7227
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icycool7227 said:
Icy,
I got ahold of Safford Black today. He was the former owner/proprietor of radioemporium. He said I could repost this here:
Over the last 18 months, I have had my passion for radio go from almost an obsession to one of listless indifference. The late '90s and early 2000s were filled with consolidation, divestitures, move-ins, big personalities, and seemingly-endless format flips. I would drive for hours on end to record a new station, or an existing station that I knew would soon set its eyes on a larger market. It was a time of great excitement.
When I turn on the radio now, what I hear is stale and placeless. For years, we'd all talked and debated about "cookie cutter radio," and I personally feel that it has hit critical mass. Sure, the occasional radio news story probably piques my interest more than most, but it's nothing like it used to be.
Maintaining a content-rich and labor-intensive web site when one's interest is waning is a tough proposition. Even with frequent updates, traffic on and revenue from the site started to slip drastically early last year, which only further fueled my apathy. When the site came up for renewal towards the end of 2007, I made the decision to put it to bed, ending a nearly ten year legacy. I briefly toyed with selling the site content, but decided that I would rather power it off myself than have someone else run my creation into the ground.
I have the entire site saved on my hard drive and still have a 6'x6' shelf in my basement with hundreds of airchecks. I hope one day to resurrect my interest in radio, and if I do, the site will return with me.
For those who soldier on in the world of airchecks, transmitters, bumper stickers, and, yes, the occasional misanthropic banter about why station A will never overtake station B, or why 12+ numbers do or don't make a difference, I salute you. It's a proud hobby (and/or career), and I wish you all the best.
-Safford
Those of us who are longtime readers and posters on these boards well remember all of Safford's contributions. Thanks for the info.
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DFDubya
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Open letter to Safford,
Many of us share your disappointment in what has become of our profession/obsession. But to completely pull the site from the web deprives all of us a way tool to point to examples of the right way to do radio. It takes away a way to reminisce and it denies future broadcasters the crucial artifacts that could be re-deployed in a different environment or ownership mindset.
Even if you don't plan add new material, please consider reviving the site. If it's a financial decision, try a PayPal link or donation button. Many of us would contribute
Many of us share your disappointment in what has become of our profession/obsession. But to completely pull the site from the web deprives all of us a way tool to point to examples of the right way to do radio. It takes away a way to reminisce and it denies future broadcasters the crucial artifacts that could be re-deployed in a different environment or ownership mindset.
Even if you don't plan add new material, please consider reviving the site. If it's a financial decision, try a PayPal link or donation button. Many of us would contribute
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MikeShannon914
Guest
I agree. Even consider putting it up on a GeoCities or other freebie webhost, just to have it "live" again.
I think the biggest problem was that, when Radio-Info.com was started up, Safford put up a link to forward folks over here...Initially, it looked like this was part of his site, but I'm sure a lot of us eventually saved the direct link to the DFW radio board in our Favorites...thereby passing over RadioEmporium. Honestly, I didn't know for about a year that Safford's site was still up.
Not to take advantage here, but a lot of the station logos Safford had are on my website at www.knus99.com. We shared many of the graphics that we each found individually over the years. Same for Safford and Chris Huff (www.dfwradioarchives.com) so at least some of the info still exists out there. As far as individual station format and call letter changes that Safford used to track...it looks like Chip Kelley is handling that on his website, http://www.bigcitytvandradio.com .
Elements of RadioEmporium are saved under the Internet Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.radioemporium.com . Nothing newer than 2005 has been archived, however.
Thanks very much, Safford, for all of your contributions!
I think the biggest problem was that, when Radio-Info.com was started up, Safford put up a link to forward folks over here...Initially, it looked like this was part of his site, but I'm sure a lot of us eventually saved the direct link to the DFW radio board in our Favorites...thereby passing over RadioEmporium. Honestly, I didn't know for about a year that Safford's site was still up.
Not to take advantage here, but a lot of the station logos Safford had are on my website at www.knus99.com. We shared many of the graphics that we each found individually over the years. Same for Safford and Chris Huff (www.dfwradioarchives.com) so at least some of the info still exists out there. As far as individual station format and call letter changes that Safford used to track...it looks like Chip Kelley is handling that on his website, http://www.bigcitytvandradio.com .
Elements of RadioEmporium are saved under the Internet Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.radioemporium.com . Nothing newer than 2005 has been archived, however.
Thanks very much, Safford, for all of your contributions!
M
MikeShannon914
Guest
Oops, sorry. I thought that was your successor to 100000watts.com. Chip, with your insight and research skills, you *SHOULD* do another site! Sorry if the steam's run out...Hopefully, you'll get the motivation again one day. I know for me, I don't get much thrill out of tracking the current day-to-day DFW radio changes, but handling the historical part makes it all worthwhile.
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