Paul, maybe what you're suggesting works in your situation and if that's the
case that's good but I've seen to many situations where so called local
stations have gotten away from serving the area they are licensed to.
When you hear morning shows tell the listeners to go to the station's
website for school closings during bad weather, that's not serving the area
or providing local coverage when the audience needs or is looking for it.
When you see major media groups sell their stations as is the case with what
happened in Southern Connecticut, you have to wonder.
Cox Media Group based in Atlanta, sold two AM stations that were
simulcasting to the local public radio group and one of their FM's went to
the Educational Media Foundation or K-love so the contemporary Christian
format that the California based group offers could be heard in New York
City. Is that local radio? No.
Radio is spending too much time saying one thing and doing another.
The other day, I was reading about a local group in Milwaukee that owns a
few stations. They talked about how they are involved with their community
and how they are appreciated by the advertisers and the people who live in
the area.
That may be true however when I brought up one of their stations on the
website, I heard John Tesh. Yeah thats local programming right?
These groups have the money and resources to provide local programming but
in too many cases, they don't care to.
I'm not against saving money but do it for the right reasons.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com>
To: "Rick Dau" <drummer1965...@yahoo.com>; <a...@nrcdxas.org>
Cc: <ci...@hard-core-dx.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio
It all boils down to..if you want local radio to survive, support it. Shop
the advertisers, let the local radio station know you appreciate what they
do.
Shopping at an advertiser and telling a station simple "Thank You" lets
them know what they're doing is working.. and that appreciation drives us
broadcasters to do what we do.. well, most of us.
I love radio and have made a career of it. I am not giving up on it.
Paul
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Rick Dau <drummer1965...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I do all the time, Russ. Every morning, my Sangean ATS-909X goes off at
5:05, and it wakes me up to KCJJ-1630, so that I keep in touch with
what's
going on back in Iowa City. During my workdays and when I'm at home on
the
weekends, I often listen to music on KWMT-540 out of Fort Dodge. And for
U. of Iowa sports events, I tune it to WHO.
Reading all these posts and trying to take in the inevitability of it all
just makes my sick to my stomach. I've heard scuttlebutt that the FAA is
going to do away with all NDBs within the next 15 years. So there goes
DXing longwave for those. Now I'm supposed to resign myself to the fact
that terrestrial AM AND FM radio stations will be dinosaurs in 20 years
or
so? I have listened briefly to SiriusXM, and while I enjoy the novelty
of
it, it can't replace anything that has the capability to provide the
LOCAL
listening public with news, weather (including tornado warnings!), and
everything else that inextricably identifies itself with the community
that it serves.
Dammit, I don't want this hobby to die. I enjoy it too much.
Terrestrial
radio stations have been around for nearly a century. What do we as
DXers
do if they ever go away?
In short, we as a society are depersonalizing ourselves...all for the
sake
of the "advancement" of technology and bowing down to the almighty
dollar.
I'm absolutely frightened as to what it's going to look like in 50
years.
I think Paul Harvey asked it best...."Have we outsmarted ourselves?"
73 (while I can still wish it),
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska
------------------------------
"A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio"--according to some auto-industry folks,
" AM and FM are being eliminated from the dash of two car companies
within
two years and will be eliminated from the dash of all cars within five
years... And it seems GM's Chevrolet could be one of those
automakers."***
*
** **
www.ericrhoads.blogs.com/ink_tank/****
** **
I have no idea how inevitable this is, but the blogger above seems
convinced, based on what he heard at the conference he talks about...****
** **
*Randy Stewart*
Arts Producer****
KSMU****
901 S. National****
Springfield MO 65897
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