Terrestrial radio is a dead medium.
It's going to have to reinvent itself in order to compete with the technology
that's replacing
it.
We now live in an on demand culture.
The internet killed both the radio star and the video star, and it's given rise
to the
YouTube star, where everybody has been given their between clicks length
seconds of
fame.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, lightgrw <light...@...> wrote:
>
> Grock was just a shell of the station that the old 106.3 was. As far as
> sponsoring shows in the area, most of the time radio stations aren't
> bringing these acts to the area they are just promoting the show through
> advertising. The acts will still come, the venues will just have to
> find other places to promote the shows from.
>
> The old 106.3 routinely packed clubs with the shows they sponsored.
> I've been to shows that Grock promoted that only brought a dozen people
> to The Saint. It didn't surprise me at all that the station changed
> formats. Many of the old 106.3 fans bolted when the corporation took
> over and judging by the way they sometimes struggled with the shows they
> promoted, they didn't have a fraction of the audience numbers.
>
>
> charlie wrote:
> >
> > Havn't posted in awhile... I remember the original station when
> > I was in HS, FM106.3. That was a good station... Then it sold and out
> > came G rock. G rock was pretty bad when it first came out, for a few
> > years actually... But It got better. I turned on the station the
> > other day unaware of the change.. Wow, it's pure garbage! In time it
> > may get better, the same way G rock did. Who knows. But it's already
> > off to a bad since they are promoting a cheese based music style. G
> > rock differed, they did suck at first, but at least they started out
> > with "heart" promoting what the station had alwasy been about. Who
> > knows, we will see what happens.
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
>
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