Re: [IRCA] A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio

[Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>]

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   


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 From: Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] A amCold, Harsh Reality for Radio
 

I wonder how many of us, with whatever average age DX'ers have, which is surely well north of 40, listen to radio very much other than for DX....

Russ Edmunds
15 mi NNW of Philadelphia 
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'; Grundig G8
AM:  Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot

--- On Fri, 3/8/13, Larry Stoler <lstoler99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>From: Larry Stoler <lstoler99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio
>To: fvobbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, am@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Friday, March 8, 2013, 6:43 PM
>
>
>  
>Well said, Fred.  That's the problem and those 
who make decisions about what they feel makes good programming don't get 
it.
> 
>I never thought the day would come when I would 
listen to very little over the air radio but that's the case with me and many 
other people.
> 
>I keep up with what's going on in the industry and 
that alone convinces me that most of what's on these days isn't worth bothering 
with.
> 
>As far as Sirius XM goes, what satellite radio 
offers won't stand out after Pandora and other places to get 
music and whatever people want become standard in automobiles and that's 
coming.
> 
>Larry Stoler
> 
>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: Frederick R. Vobbe 
>>To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx 
>>Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 5:50 
PM
>>Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] A Cold, Harsh  Reality for Radio
>>
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>>Agreed.   I know people in my community paying as much as $350 p/month for “content”  which includes XM, on-line, and cable.   It blows me away at what  people will pay, and then on the other side decry poverty.    
>> 
>>And  then there are the TV spectrum auctions, which are setting up to turn local  television into a model for pay.
>> 
>>I  have the MP3 player (portable) which I plug into the dash of my truck.  I  occasionally take a SW receiver with me, connected to the in-dash, and listen  to broadcasts.  Albeit, English and non-religion is becoming  rare.   
>> 
>>But  here is a reality.   On a drive back from Illinois recently I tried  listening to local radio.   There was nothing of interest other than  syndicated fare and mediocre programming.  I was especially shocked at  larger markets.  So part of the problem with radio is not technology but  content.  The dynamic of programming has changed making radio moot to  many.  Terrestrial radio has lung cancer, and their solution is to light  up another Winston.
>> 
>>Fred
>> 
>>From:Russ  Edmunds
>>
>>
>>Younger listeners don't mind paying, but it won't be  for terrestrial radio, because they want to narrow in what they listen  to, and the only radio doing that is XM/Sirius. They aren't going to pay  to listen to most of what's on terrestrial radio now - no way - and I  doubt that radio will change.
>>
>>Since XM/Sirius already comes with 
        a pricetag, that's covered. But if they think they'll significantly 
        boost XM/Sirius revenues that way, they may be disappointed.
>>
>>Me, 
        I'd rather plug my mp3 player in than pay the freight for satellite. 
>>
>> 
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