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Where is Sarasota Herald Tribune's Radio Babe??
- Thread starter sbe1
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The herald tribune did a re-organization of their features department several weeks back. Several full-time employees lost their jobs. I believe Dawn was working as a free-lancer with the paper. What kind of radio news comes out of sarasota anyway? Clear channel cluster down there is almost totally automated anyway isn't it????
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john david clover
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The Herald Trib is blaming radio's diminishing relevancy to their readers.
Dawn offered an insightful view into the Sarasota radio scene. Hopefully, she will be back via press, tv or even radio.
Dawn offered an insightful view into the Sarasota radio scene. Hopefully, she will be back via press, tv or even radio.
john david clover said:
"Diminishing relevancy"? The last time radio was relevant to newspaper readers was back in the 1940's before TV program listings replaced radio listings. Most newspapers have dropped all mention of radio in the past 10-15 years. Nobody's really interested except the (diminishing) ranks of radio employees.
john david clover said:
I also enjoyed Dawn's column. More likely it would re-surface via the Internet...
Newspapers did add columns in the 70's, as interest in the then-new FM and talk formats increased, but have been dropping radio columns since at least the late 1990s. The Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg Times dropped theirs around the year 2000. Until the recent interest in media consolidation, the only radio coverage you might see in those papers was puff pieces on the business page about what an amazing thing it was to have five, six or eight radio stations under one roof. The lack of coverage from the newspapers of radio's consolidation wave may be a major reason it took so long for the issue to reach critical mass... and allowed radio ownership to do critical damage to itself in the meantime...
... although I must add there is a good thing about the demise of the radio column: no more free ink for worthless brokered shows/stations that clutter most of the AM dial down there! 
RMarino said:
That's a domain owned by the Sarasota Herald Trib with a few old RadioBabe columns from 2003-2005, and about 2/3 of them are no longer online. Nothing recent, and it's not Dawn's site.
She could easily post a current news column online for free, but I'm sure would rather be paid for the time and work (wouldn't we all).
It's nice that at least one member of the print media cares about radio broadcasting, but the general public has little knowledge of, or interest in, the dynamics of a dying industry.
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