Re: [IRCA] Local Radio Is Getting Tuned Out.

[GEORGE SANTULLI <gsantull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Every June, I take a car from Virginia and drive it across the country...for fun...I drive it for a company that hires drivers to "move" cars. Besides seeing the country from the seat of someone else's car...I get to listen to local radio and I move from east to west, north to south.
 
This past June, I took a car from Orlando to Seattle and not one CD was used...it was AM local radio all the way...and what a great way to learn about the country! It would be a shame if I was in Iowa and could not listen to "Trade-io" or in Sedalia, MO and not listen to the funeral viewings for that night...or McCook Nebraska with the elementary school lunch menu, or the ads for local mom and pop restaurants...this is America...and to lose local radio is like losing a part of our culture. I sent an EM to Clear Channel and told them I was taking all of their DC/Northern Va stations off my car radio! Fat chance they will respond, but I sent them my two transistors worth!!
 
George in Virginia

 

> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 21:03:57 -0500
> From: walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Local Radio Is Getting Tuned Out.
> 
> I would be one of those exceptions, Steve.. thank you. I'm turning 28 in 3
> weeks and have spent 7 years working for LOCAL radio stations, mainly AM,
> believe it or not.. but have been at. .and am now at a 50,000 Watt FM
> station doing Afternoon Drive.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Steve Francis <amdxmail@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I remember some of the more pessimistic among us predicting this around
> > 1999.
> >
> > Nobody around here under 30 knows it exists anyway - AM or FM.
> >
> > Steve Francis
> > Alcoa, Tennessee
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <
> > irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 8:48 pm
> > Subject: Re: [IRCA] Local Radio Is Getting Tuned Out.
> >
> >
> > A close friend of mine who was the production director for KFAB-1110 was
> > one of
> > people that Clear Channel canned here. So this means...what?...that Clear
> > hannel is trending towards having ALL of its stations carry nationally
> > yndicated programming 24/7? No local programming (and therefore, no DJs to
> > ay) to be allowed whatsoever?
> >
> > hat hurts.
> >
> > 3,
> > ick Dau
> > outh Omaha, Nebraska
> >
> >
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