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." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rick Dau" <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>; <am@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <circa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I do all the time, Russ. Every morning, my Sangean ATS-909X goes off at5:05, 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 theweekends, 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 factthat 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 LOCALlistening 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 DXersdo 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 withintwo years and will be eliminated from the dash of all cars within fiveyears... 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_______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/ircaOpinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officersFor more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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