Posted on 05/21/2016 6:35:34 AM PDT by calvincaspian
Virtually every prominent mover and shaker in talk radio gathered at Hofstra University on Long Island, N.Y., yesterday for the “Talkers 2016: Bridging the Generations” conference.
On stage, radio hosts and industry experts spoke of the “disruption” in the industry — the challenges and opportunities brought on by the technical innovation sweeping every facet of communications.
In the halls, I asked a few famous talkers about the astounding “disruption” of this year’s presidential election, in which modern politics has been turned on its head.
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It sounds almost, un-disruptable.
Radio is very special and I love radio but there’s something sad:
very very few young people listen to the radio.
I’d say music on radio will disappear in like 5 years. young people have no reason to go outside of their personally-owned devices. everything is going virtual.
if the current format on talk radio does not migrate to the web it will go away it will die with the old people that treasure it.
we have few media tools. radio is one of them but it will be going away soon.
it’s a quiet crisis.
The new chaotic young people equivalent of talk radio is now probably 4Chan (mostly right) and Reddit, which is liberal.
Both are chaotic.
2016: The Year The Kings-of-Radio Became Irrelevant
Go, Laura Ingraham!
Go, Michael Savage!
Go, Sean Hannity!
Go, WhoeverElseWhoIsntBought&Sold!
The rest of you can go to hell. We’re going to the White House.
Remember The Alamo! Remember Goliad!
It’s really sad to see Megan McChubby elevated to expert status because of her father. She is not a journalist or anything but a celebrity daughter.
Getting so frustrated with talk radio. In our area, one FM station carries mostly local hosts during the day, the other national hosts. Both are increasingly airing more and more advertising that it seems to have cut significantly into talk time. Hosts like Bill Bennett did and others now - Hannity, Hewitt, Gallagher, Levinson, Rush, et al. - with the ads they work into their “talk” time, have gone incessantly way over the line. I’ve been a big fan of talk radio for decades, but am tuning out more often now because of the incessant advertising. Enjoy listening to Savage later at night of the that day’s show linked on the web with all commercial breaks removed.
Before the Internet, before cable TV was a serious contributor, there was talk radio. When conservatives were shunned to the back of the bus, there was the low tech medium of AM Radio and it was wildly successful.
During the 70s, 80s, and 90s, I thought that I was all alone in my conservative beliefs. It was refreshing to find millions of other like-minded Americans.
Any show she is on looses it's credibility for me.
....And up and coming Howie Carr and Jeffrey Kuhner!
It's gotten really bad, hasn't it? You would think they'd realize that they have passed the point of diminishing returns. More ad revenue, fewer listeners for those ads. I love Rush, but I tune out at those times during the hour (like 15 minutes before the end of the show) when I know there's going to be very little content and a whole lot of real and "fake" ads.
On the other hand, I listen more and more on the Internet or to podcasts when they're available for free. And I pay for Tammy Bruce's podcasts--fantastic content, zero advertising.
I think you are right.
Young people don’t listen to radio nearly as much as older folks.
It’s just not as big a part of their lives as radio has been to some of us older folks.
I can remember when younger, listening to the latest hits and favorite DJs on Top 40 and rock and roll stations. Today’s young people just don’t do this. Many stations don’t even have DJs anymore.
For years, I have listened to drive time radio, driving to and from work. Today’s young people just don’t listen then either; they tend to listen to prerecorded music or podcasts , not radio stations, when driving.
And talk radio doesn’t attract their attention either, even among the younger conservatives.
I’ve heard that some radio stations may go out of business. All they have to sell is airtime for ads, and, the ad rates they can charge are in turn based on listening audience as measured by ratings services. Radio audiences being down, means that ad revenues are also down.
Have you listened to AM radio on the weekends recently? It is full of program length commercials for vitamins and dietary supplements. Perhaps those companies paying for these commercial programs are giving radio stations a badly needed shot of income.
The only radio I listen to at all is one of the local sports-talk channels (we have two), and I only listen while I’m driving. I’ve never sat down and timed it, but it seems that at least 20 minutes of every hour is advertising.
Ditto that.
"Looses" actually reverses your intended meaning unless you are excited about the freed up Credibility for otherwise less credible shows in which she participates.
When I was a teenager (the 60s) we avidly followed the Top 40 songs, and the two competing teen stations would print a leaflet with their Top 40 every week. The DJs on the stations were very good, and several did character voices of special “guests” (Granny Peters, Melvin Mingdinkler, The Hollywood Reporter) which were often hilarious. Those days are long gone. I don’t think there’s anything in radio like it anymore.
Buggy whips and slide rules and typewriters went away too.
When something miles better comes along it isn’t a crisis.
Talk radio is good, I have listened to talk radio since the mid 1960’s. But the program format is now awful. IHeartRadio drives me away. I can’t listen to the endless “public service” (government brainwashing progaganda) ads, the endless repeats of “music history from 1973”, etc, etc, etc. Little or no talk show content.
I have been driven to podcasts and internet stations playing Old Time Radio broadcasts.
IHeartRadio, etc is the worst thing that ever happened to radio. It’s killing the golden goose. I can’t listen to it.
I grew up with WABC Musicradio 77.
It was the soundtrack to my adolescence.
We all carried transistor radios so we wouldn’t miss a thing.
Dan Ingram is, and always will be, the greatest Top 40 DJ in the history of the world.
Couldn’t stand Cousin Brucie.
There will never be anything like it ever again.
Like the liner notes to "The Byrds Greatest Hits":
"Dylan got onstage with them at Ciro’s to blow his harp straight into the dancing melee below as David Crosby smiled benignly at the whole scene."
Our local teen radio giant was a guy named Pat O’Day, which wasn’t his real name. He’s still around, doing commercials for Schick-Shadel rehab clinics (of which he is a one-time patient).
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