Does any think the new owners will change the format of the dinosaur?
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Show me the station in upper east Tennessee that isn't a dinosaur.
If you study Geology, you will discover that Dinosaurs "ruled" the earth for hundreds of million of years. Mankind has not ruled the earth for a million years yet. The only way we (mankind) could have survived was with them (dinosaurs) gone. It is good to be on the top of the food chain instead part of it.
I think it is obvious when someone looks at broadcasting and starts using "dinosaurs" as a metaphor, they are thinking of a universe that spans only the period of time knows as "The Broadcasting Age". That leaves us who are storytellers and would-be historians with a question: In this word-picture of a broadcast food chain, who is on the top, and who is fish-bait for the bottom feeders.
If the dinosaurs of broadcast are still running "free range" in Eastern Tennessee, let the chamber of commerce know about it. It might be the best reason for people to move there and build the economy of the retirement food-chain industry.
If the dinosaurs of broadcast are still running "free range" in Eastern Tennessee, let the chamber of commerce know about it. It might be the best reason for people to move there and build the economy of the retirement food-chain industry.
I was going to just let the previous comment lie, but after two posts of nonsense I think the question should be asked again.
Show me the radio station in upper east Tennessee that isn't a dinosaur.
Show me the radio station in upper east Tennessee that isn't a dinosaur.
I would actually say there is less local talent, or employees, at the various radio stations than most other places.
In the case of WQUT, for instance, there is no morning show. The No. 2 station in town goes in syndication in their peak listening time.
Talk shows go without producers. Bristol gets their weather from a syndicated guy in Florida- complete with the monthly complaint about the weather being wrong and the talent being from out of town in the letters to the editor section of the newspaper.
If you're championing the fact that there are stations that aren't all automation, that's not unusual. Yet I could show you a ton of stations that are all automation, or at the very least 142 of 144 weekly hours all automation.
Don't try to change the subject or give me Smithsonian Institute museum hours.
Show me the station in upper east Tennessee that isn't a dinosaur.
You won't be able to.
In the case of WQUT, for instance, there is no morning show. The No. 2 station in town goes in syndication in their peak listening time.
Talk shows go without producers. Bristol gets their weather from a syndicated guy in Florida- complete with the monthly complaint about the weather being wrong and the talent being from out of town in the letters to the editor section of the newspaper.
If you're championing the fact that there are stations that aren't all automation, that's not unusual. Yet I could show you a ton of stations that are all automation, or at the very least 142 of 144 weekly hours all automation.
Don't try to change the subject or give me Smithsonian Institute museum hours.
Show me the station in upper east Tennessee that isn't a dinosaur.
You won't be able to.
No, I don't think so.
Talk stations in Southern California provide more local shows than we do. Music stations have more local morning shows than we do.
Furthermore, Southern California radio has got to be a whole lot more cutting edge than anything the Tri-Cities has to offer.
I'm not the world's foremost authority on Southern California radio, but if you have an example of a SoCal radio station you feel is a dinosaur, I will happily study it and compare it to anything in the Tri-Cities.
Then again, the Tri-Cities DOES have more local preachers buying time for $50 a week on AM stations urging you to come to their snake handling services than Southern California.
On that, we can agree.
So maybe there is more local programming after all!
Talk stations in Southern California provide more local shows than we do. Music stations have more local morning shows than we do.
Furthermore, Southern California radio has got to be a whole lot more cutting edge than anything the Tri-Cities has to offer.
I'm not the world's foremost authority on Southern California radio, but if you have an example of a SoCal radio station you feel is a dinosaur, I will happily study it and compare it to anything in the Tri-Cities.
Then again, the Tri-Cities DOES have more local preachers buying time for $50 a week on AM stations urging you to come to their snake handling services than Southern California.
On that, we can agree.
So maybe there is more local programming after all!
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