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Mr Mike
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Posted: Sat Mar 8th, 2008 09:07 pm |
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AdamWest wrote: Turner the burner wrote:
Bring on some regulation and stop the under-served over-signalled madness.
Adam
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Turner the burner
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Posted: Sun Mar 9th, 2008 10:56 am |
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| Mr Mike you seem to be about the biggest dope who has been duped (brainwashed) by the likes of Rush and his hypocritical ilk. Last edited on Sun Mar 9th, 2008 09:09 pm by Turner the burner
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Turner the burner
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Posted: Sun Mar 9th, 2008 09:07 pm |
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AdamWest wrote: Turner the burner wrote: (How about that, Mr Mike actually posted something in his own words instead of someone else's.)
Rick, don't get too excited it was a mere sentence and a short one at that.
Personally, I am good with the proposal and ready to pick up a few signals on the cheap should owners be required to staff 24/7 and maintain studio in city of license. What would that do to Midwest or CC in Springfield? I believe all of their signals are licensed outside of the city sans AM1400.
I've always thought that your proposal on hosting a program that educates and offers practical on-air experience for a small tuition fee is a good one. It's like the southwest school of broadcasting on steroids and with a signal. Imagine a staff that pays to be on the air...oh wait, I did that already.
Bring on some regulation and stop the under-served over-signalled madness.
Adam
There are so many things that local owners could do if most frequency's weren't controlled by the handful of corporations. One of which is the concept of offering a hands on "school of broadcasting" in every aspect of radio...programming, sales, promotions, engineering and business. Where the students paid a tuition for a year of learning and preformed 80 to 90 percent of the duties. The station could have a paid staff to guide and manage and a student staff to learn and preform.
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 05:15 pm |
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Please don't throw out the "baby with the bath water". In regard to proposed regulations, I have written an letter to the FCC objecting. I'm one of those really small market broadcasters. We've been in business 36 years. The station is 55 years old. We have survived, in part, by trying to keep the overhead as low as possible. We can't afford extra people. We get storm warnings over the air through out system. These warnings go out over the air. Also, the manager lives within a matter of feet and has arrangements with the Emergency Management for our county as well as the police. He will be at the station, probably, faster than the "babysitter" at the station could get to the board from the bathroom.
We are in our city of license. So, no problem there.
Do you really want an appointed Board to argue about what you should be doing with your station? Your station that you've loved and nurtured for years? Your staion that you've come to in the middle of the night? That you've vacuumed. That you've tried to really serve your fellow citizens (your neighbors)? Afterall isn't content somewhat objective?
I believe another suggestion is in regard to playing more "local" music. Mull that over for awhile. Hummmm does my listener want to listen to Garth Brooks or to some guy who THINKS he can sing?
As I say, I view this from a different prospective than a larger company. Our second generation is now managing the stations and I always wonder if he'll be able to make it to retirement.
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 12:49 pm |
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Where we will find people. I'm sure there's lots of folks who are looking for opportunity to get back in radio and this rule change would create some jobs.
But, what about 10 years from now? I know people who teach Radio at the College level and they say the interest just isn't there. The younger generation doesn't have a passion about radio that kids had 30 years ago. Why would they? They have ipods. They can study to become software engineers and many other things more fun and profitable than Radio. Radio people in their 50's now that had a passion for radio when they were young paid their dues in a small market making perhaps $100 a week for 50 hours work. These days, College graduates can't pay off student loans and live on an entry level salary of $350 a week.
I don't think we have a talent pool large enough to support this and do it right. We could find minimum wage baby sitters to watch the automation and answer the phone, but that's not going to improve service to the community. What will a baby sitter do when the Tornado Warning comes?
Do we want to get our Storm information from them? They would need
to patch in the Emergency Management People or someone on staff on a
higher pay grade. Which is done now with automation at un-manned stations.
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Turner the burner
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 09:06 pm |
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| It would be nice if business in America worked under the desire to create jobs and employment instead of eliminate jobs and opportunity's for people in the community...in the long run everyone wins. Seems there is too much greed at the top of the economy chain and Regan's "trickle down" affect dose not work when people don't want to share the wealth. I understand that prudence is necessary especially in small markets but to walk down the halls of corporate conglomerate owned frequencies and see six stations running unmanned in the evening and overnight seems overkill to me and is a sad state of affairs for major market radio...eliminate payroll and give the big bonuses to the people at the top. "It's nice to be the king"..."oh piss boy!"
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 09:56 pm |
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| Amen!
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