CleveRadioInsider said:
Just curious who else is a shell of themselves these days...CleveRadioInsider said:
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WKDD - Not ANOTHER one!
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I like what Keith's doing as long as he doesn't use Premium Choice any longer and keeps it local. I could careless about the jocks, if they were planning on being voicetracked anyway. I'll be listening to WKDD after 10 to see how it compares to the other local Akron/Canton CHR/Hot AC stations.
Radio is a shell of itself if you must know. There are at most 1-2 live air personalities at each station. Not a good career choice for anyone for sure.
The REAL problem with radio is not the number of air-talents, live vs. tracked or where the music playlist comes from. The problem is that there are still a large number of Debbie Downers who despite their pure hatred for the business, still linger in it and trash it in public forums.
If you truly love this business and get excited everyday about it, and I do, spend your time promoting the positive aspects of our medium. (and there are plenty). Some people will always find the negatives, yet they wonder why they never got to where they wanted to be.
If you truly love this business and get excited everyday about it, and I do, spend your time promoting the positive aspects of our medium. (and there are plenty). Some people will always find the negatives, yet they wonder why they never got to where they wanted to be.
I agree Keith. But you are one of the truly fortunate ones. How many of us no longer are able to wake up every morning and work in the business we love, because our position has been eliminated and/or outsourced, and our airshift is now voicetracked or syndicated? The number rises every year
Too bad the FCC allows all these repeaters of K-Love and Air1 clogging up all the unused channels, when they could be allowing 10 or 100 watt stations that serve the communities and have live talent, be able to sell local ads, that in turn will give our out-of-work DJ's and radio personnel an opportunity to at least get back on the air in some form and get some of their dignity back. And give new talent a foot in the door. The HD2's and HD3's are all "canned", maybe some of our laid off local talent could fit there too. But, no, the big conglomerates own everything now and their bottom line is downsizing and profit. Maybe do a mandate like they did with Ma Bell years ago to break the monopoly, but did it really work in the long run?
Oh, and a real shame RCR closed down 107.3 HD2 and HD3, would be good for that purpose also.
Oh, and a real shame RCR closed down 107.3 HD2 and HD3, would be good for that purpose also.
kkennedy said:
I think some them stay because they need to make living and hold on to hope it go back to "the old days". Luckily, I'm not one of them. If someone doesn't like where they're at, then they need to make a change.
I think what makes WKDD good is the heritage factor, morning show, music (I know it's Premium Choice) and the passion from those behind the station.
Don't get too excited there Keith. You work for a company that routinely fires people on a regular basis. I don't wish for anyone to be fired from any job but Clear Channel is not the most trustworthy company for sure.
CleveFan said:
I never knew that computers, internet connections and satellites had passion. I guess it is a new age.
Years ago it was predicted that there would be one-two live air personality at each music station and for the most part that prediction was correct. Program Directors of radio stations are the last person alive in the building. (Staff meetings must be fun)
For what it's worth....the movement to few live/local air personalities started back in the early-70's when FM stations, just starting to compete with the then AM-dominant music stations, adopted "more music, less talk" as their mantra. Well, eliminating live, local on-air folks wasn't their intention, but the environment created made it possible years later when computer automation became easy and cheap.
Back in the early 70's, liner-cards became the rage, then no-talk jingles-between-records later, and eventually cold segues caught on big time even later on.
What's my point? Music radio stations for over 35 years has been "teaching" the audience that "more music-less talk" was great, and thus any type of taking was a huge negative. And, you know what? The listeners understood and agreed. The radio industry was just beginning to put a noose around it's own neck.
So, what's happened? Pandora (and other similar services), MP3 players, a few of us still have cars with CD players, a few with satellite radio.....all of these are being used by millions and millions of people daily. Hey, a juke box is a juke box, right? Only, radio plays commercials....the others usually don't.
How does radio fight the problem they created decades ago? By cutting thousands and thousands of air talent.... live human beings...the only ones who have the ability to maybe create compelling content between the music. Seems to me the radio industry is committing suicide. And, that's a real shame to the industry we all grew up loving. We are in a very different media world in 2012.
Back in the early 70's, liner-cards became the rage, then no-talk jingles-between-records later, and eventually cold segues caught on big time even later on.
What's my point? Music radio stations for over 35 years has been "teaching" the audience that "more music-less talk" was great, and thus any type of taking was a huge negative. And, you know what? The listeners understood and agreed. The radio industry was just beginning to put a noose around it's own neck.
So, what's happened? Pandora (and other similar services), MP3 players, a few of us still have cars with CD players, a few with satellite radio.....all of these are being used by millions and millions of people daily. Hey, a juke box is a juke box, right? Only, radio plays commercials....the others usually don't.
How does radio fight the problem they created decades ago? By cutting thousands and thousands of air talent.... live human beings...the only ones who have the ability to maybe create compelling content between the music. Seems to me the radio industry is committing suicide. And, that's a real shame to the industry we all grew up loving. We are in a very different media world in 2012.
But, as a counter to the more music trend of stations like the Lake, look at the number of FM music stations adopting the hot talk format, the success of public radio broadcasters and FM sports stations...all with personality on a band where more music reigns. And, with the lack of new rock artists with mainstream appeal, expect this trend to continue. Both 92.3 and 100.7 used to Rock...now they talk. Tampa just had a classic rock station go all talk...
Take a look at what cheap channel did to local heritage radio station WJER-FM (formerly located in Dover).
CC walked into town preaching of the great things they could do for the station and then they pull it out of town and move it north.
To top it off the station is voicetracked and fresh out of the oven like chocolate chip cookies formed from the CC cookie cutter machine!
CC walked into town preaching of the great things they could do for the station and then they pull it out of town and move it north.
To top it off the station is voicetracked and fresh out of the oven like chocolate chip cookies formed from the CC cookie cutter machine!
zephar70 said:
I wasn't working in the market when CC bought WJER-FM, so I can't comment on what they may have said publicly about their future plans for the station. That said, did anybody really think that CC wouldn't move WJER to the Canton area if they had the opportunity? All Gary Petricola had to do was look south to Chillicothe to see what could happen to his station. Just a few years prior to the company's purchase of WJER, they moved WFCB to Ashville, effectively turning a small town FM into another stick targeting Columbus. I'm not making a judgement call about whether either move was good for the respective markets, nor am I defending CC. The situation is what it is.
The station was actually WKKJ's old 933 frequency that moved to Asheville. When Clear Channel made the move they swapped WFCB's 94.3 frequency with WKKJ's to keep country music locally in Chillicothe. They did the same in Marion too. They took WMRN from it's original 106.9 frequency and moved it to 94.3. Afterwards 106.9 switched to 106.7 and moved to Dublin. That then caused the original 106.7 in Hillsboro to switch to 106.5 and move to Chillicothe and left Hillsboro with no local FM station. All these were local stations that CC bough and moved in central Ohio.
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