The smart college stations will pick up on the void left by GROCK. As for
Sirius or XM I don't know what kind of future they have. I was never a that big
on pay radio to begin with and their debt is enormous. The one part of
satellite radio that isn't really apparent is the satellite and Sirius needs a
new batch of spacecraft. Geosynch satellites, the kind XM uses, are very
expensive 300 to 500 million each! A good part of the cost is for insurance in
the event that the rocket carrying your satellite decides to take a swan dive
into the ocean on it's way up.
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From: Jack Pitzer <hing...@yahoo.com>
To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:19:40 PM
Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock
For me, the biggest issue is that a whole genre of music has now disappeared,
and the
new programming is totally aimed at the early teen market.
It's definitely all about money, and unfortunately music fans that are more
interested in
more then sugary pop are going to find new alternatives.
Also, this is a blow to local clubs that advertised on GROCK, such as the Saint.
I don't know what the answer is, but I tend to think that either a new station,
probably one
of the local college ones, will rise up in GROCKS absence.
And as much as I love Sirius, it's national, with no local content.
--- In asburyp...@yahoogro ups.com, Mike Hemeon <tvnetdude2000@ ...> wrote:
>
> I've been hearing that for over 20 years now. Radio station groups purchased
> radio
station the way unqualifed homeowners purchased homes. Radio stations still
make
money, even in these hard times, if you aren't paying off a large note on the
station. I will
agree that satelite radio may not make it through but terrestrial FM still has
many years to
go before it is dead.
> I like free medium not the pay-to-play for every bit of music or information
> model. As
the economy tumbles, free radio and TV will become viable again.
> On-demand costs money and as discretionary spending goes away so will the
> demand
for "on-demand". At least until things get better.
>
>
>
>
> ____________ _________ _________ __
> From: Jack Pitzer <hing...@... >
> To: asburyp...@yahoogro ups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:45:56 PM
> Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: Save GRock
>
>
> 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 asburyp...@yahoogro ups.com, lightgrw <lightgrw@ .> 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.
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>
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