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Who's minding the store?

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This morning's newscasts on WABC are from yesterday ... snow is on the way, etc.

We're still being told during the traffic reports that there's not much time left in 2014 to donate your car to Kars for Kids.

I know the usual suspects will reply that it doesn't matter ... as long as they're making money ... management knows best ... who cares ... etc.
 
the question remains--- how long can AM radio make $$$ with news-talk & sports talk.?
I doubt it will survive long with a bunch of Rush clones after Rush is gone.
and I can't see news--talk surviving on fm . sports talk may survive on AM & FM.
but AM likely will become mostly ethnic & Christian .
 
TheBigA said:
You've heard about the 1 percenters? They're the ones who still listen to AM talk.
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And that somehow excuses the obvious deterioration of the product?

I knew if anyone was going to defend on-air sloppiness, it would be you. Gee, 1%'ers listen so professionalism is irrelevant! What a pro.

I'm sure you're also fine with a waiter at a high end restaurant showing up to your table in ripped jeans and a dirty t-shirt, who then brings you yesterdays food.
 
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Welcome to the age of mediocrity! It's a Cumulus product and that's all you need to know. Minimum wage workers answering to management types that in another day and another time, would be lucky to get a job in market 367, forget about market #1!
 
flybynight said:
I'm sure you're also fine with a waiter at a high end restaurant showing up to your table in ripped jeans and a dirty t-shirt, who then brings you yesterdays food.
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We're not talking about a high end restaurant here. Are we? That's the point.

rjt45 said:
Minimum wage workers answering to management types
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It has nothing to do with the amount of money they make. It's a 1 share station on Sunday morning.
 
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It has EVERYTHING to do with how much money they make. Ever heard the expression you get what you pay for? Under paid folks, not huge on experience, working in an under populated radio station with little or no direction. Oh, and it's a 1 share Sunday morning thanks to the folks at Cumulus.
 
rjt45 said:
It has EVERYTHING to do with how much money they make. Ever heard the expression you get what you pay for?
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Where are you getting the information that they make minimum wage? Or are you just making that up?

Somebody screwed up. It happens, regardless of how much money they make.

It's a 1 share 6+ Mon-Sun. It's probably much lower Sunday morning.
 
rjt45 said:
Ever heard the expression you get what you pay for?
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Yea thats not really true.

Raiders drafted jamarcus russell with the #1 pick gave him $32 million guaranteed - he totally bombed.

Seahawks drafted russell wilson in the 3rd round gave him $3 million guaranted - he won a super bowl.
 
rjt45 said:
It has EVERYTHING to do with how much money they make. Ever heard the expression you get what you pay for? Under paid folks, not huge on experience, working in an under populated radio station with little or no direction. Oh, and it's a 1 share Sunday morning thanks to the folks at Cumulus.
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As BigA said, where are you getting this information?

This could have been a failure of the digital storage system. A failure in production to put cue markers on a prerecorded segment. An electrical glitch that reset something. And so on.

In today's radio, digital storage systems and automated on-air workflows pretty much eliminate the need for anyone in a studio. The exceptions are when there is a source material error or a mistake in the program log.

This is pretty much comparable to the need for transmitter operators. As equipment became more reliable, the need for technical hand-holding was reduced. It is at the point now where anything bad that happens that might take a station off the air is either so catastrophic or so complicated that a person at the transmitter site could not easily fix it anyway.

Or, reducing Mr Murphy's wisdom to the vernacular, "shit happens".
 
TTalkradio1 said:
No one is listening on weekends.
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Not exactly true. But what is true is that the daypart mentioned is not a high point for radio listening in general which is why "back in the day" we loaded up all the Public Affairs and other Gotta-Do-It-For-Fox-Charlie-Charlie shows at that time of the week.
 
BTW don't misinterpret any of this as "defending on air sloppiness." But it happens. On the Atlanta board, someone was blasting WSB for a similar problem Sunday at 3AM. Seriously. And WSB is the #1 station in town. So mistakes happen. They happen everywhere. If the news was a day old, switch to WINS. Easy.
 
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