Posted on 11/26/2008 11:19:15 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
CAN radio save itself?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Let us not forget that it was the NY Times which was downgraded to junk by S&P.
When will we see the liberal media ask if newspapers can save themselves? We won't. How about asking if broadcast news can save itself? We won't.
Rush just said that the IEB company is stronger than ever.
More lefty propaganda!
Radio is simply another Dinosaur Media that is circling the drain along with network TV and newspapers.
Well, I didn’t see Rush mentioned in the hitpiece.
But I don’t think the media realize what they’ve done here.
They’ve opened the door to the arguments which we’ve all been making about how radio isn’t a big cash cow.
The national hosts make bank, because they’re on 300, 500 or more stations.
But the one guy who owns a station, or the small business who owns three, five, or so stations doesn’t make much.
They didn’t touch the national host’s networks that I saw.
I don’t think this is concern.
I think this is fear and jealousy.
From the dying NYT no less!
Not all radio stations can be subsidized like NPR - some actually need good programming to survive!
I did find it ironic how CBS radio division was leading the pack LOLOLOL
How far from going under is the NY Times?
Not far enough!
Air America, No Content, Bad Angry Jock = No Listeners = No Revenue.
Same Business plan of newspapers across the country
AM talk stations in the DFW market are almost unlistenable. The programming consists of endless political call-in shows — but don’t expect to hear weighty affairs of state discussed by witty, erudite savants. Instead, it’s hour after hour of semi-literate drywall contractors from East Jesus, Alabama, calling in and spouting the same old regurgitated 1988-era crap, call after call.
The braying of these yokels is interrupted every five minutes with a break for traffic, weather, and sports, followed by ten minutes of ads for stay-hard creams, used car lots, and cheap auto insurance.
And FM is even worse. The only station around here I can listen to without screaming is WRR-FM, 101.1 mHz — a station owned and operated by the City of Dallas, if you can believe that.
We got rid of our TV some time ago, and I haven’t missed having it since. “Mega-dittos” for broadcast radio as it exists today as well — if every station on the air here in North Texas vanished tomorrow, I wouldn’t shed a tear. I mostly listen to our local EWTN affiliate (KATH-AM, 910kHz) or Internet radio now, anyway.
Corporate radio deserves to die. Bring back locally-focused radio, and the expert broadcasters who produced it.
Unfortunately, I do not put it pass Bush to bail them out... after being soundly trashed as a Nazi by them... my, what’s NPR after all?
The PC disease is hitting the GOP bad these days. They’re afraid fighting for the bank will get it burned, so they’ll give it all out in a panic.
Unfortunately, I do not put it pass Bush to bail them out... after being soundly trashed as a Nazi by them... my, what’s NPR after all?
The PC disease is hitting the GOP bad these days. They’re afraid fighting for the “bank church” will get it burned, so they’ll give it all out in a panic.
Rush talked about this today and his revenues are just fine and no radio is not dead.
Lies and wishful thinking. (Nice try, though!)
You bring up some great points.
Just please, please don’t fall for the coming fairness doctrine. Or even worse, localism.
You sound like just the kind of primary target for these things, even though the things you are seeking isn’t the goal of either of these two things. Both localism and the fairness doctrine are explicitly sought after because they will shut down talk radio.
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