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

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

While I certainly agree with Paul's comment, in some areas, particularly in the shadow of larger cities, we may be past that. There are  only a very few local stations here which actually program locally and have local advertisers in any number. One of those is a GY far enough away that their local advertisers aren't local to me. I'll have to monitor the other two to see just how many local advertisers they have left. ( I'll ignore the couple which are in SS as mine isn't good enough.

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, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio
To: "Rick Dau" <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>, am@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, March 8, 2013, 9:02 PM

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 <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx> 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 StewartArts Producer
KSMU901 S. National
Springfield MO 65897  





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