Disney's Devastating Signal About Radio

Radio Ink ^ | 8/15/14 | Eric Rhoads

[Usagi_yo]

Perhaps they had to pick up the AM stations as sort of a bundle with an FM station. Could have been an FCC requirement or just a package deal. Can’t buy the FM station without the AM station..

That’s the likely scenario because anybody who thought an AM station was a good idea would be laughed at during any management meeting on the subject.

[duckworth]

Rush! Rush! Save radio, Rush! AM radio was dead in the 1980s and I remember how boring FM music radio was — Stairway to Heaven seemed to be on an endless loop. I was at a lake in the Poconos in about 1990 at age 37 when an uncle-in-law in a lounge chair introduced me to Rush. I never looked back to FM. Rush, you can do it again! Hand-pick a bunch of talent and create a real EIB network. Buy both AM and FM stations, and also figure out a way to put these stations (with local advertising) online. If I had a choice between listening to an online station with local news and weather reports and advertising, or one without, I would choose the one with. You can do it again, Rush — Roger Ailes is 74. You’re 11 years younger. You’re both fabulous innovators. Be the new Roger Ailes!

[theBuckwheat]

The meta theme is that when people “go digital”, the gatekeepers lose control. Liberals don’t know how to respond when they cannot seduce or force people to stay on their plantation.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

AM and FM are relics of a long ago era in electronics. There are literally billions of dollars invested in legacy capital plant, (including receivers) but the sooner they die, the better.

[BCW]

I used to listen to whatever station through my Andriod on iHeart Radio....I never turn my radio on in my vehicle anymore...unless it is a CD....tech has moved us pass this....

[Jabba the Nutt]

As long as they have radios in cars and they also charge for wireless data transmission, radio AM/FM will be viable. The big change would be no limit mobile data. Then you could use the internet for your car radio. But the data transmission would also have to cover all the major and minor highways in America.

[RinaseaofDs]

Radio’s going to be fine. It’ll find a niche. The way its programmed right now isn’t going to work.

In NYC, late on weekends, or early on Sundays, you’d have a DJ with huge depth in a certain genre and it was something people taped so that they could hear it when they woke up.

All that was was an early form of podcasting. Sports on the radio still works, very well.

The business model is going to change a little. When those teens start commuting, they’ll listen to the radio. They’ll listen to their iPhones and other things too, but radio will be part of the mix.

[Biggirl]

I stopped using a portable radio to listen when it got too much to buy batteries every couple of weeks. Now when I listen it is to my android cell phone.

[raccoonradio]

Many listen via Net streaming/smartphones or HD. I do have a portable HD radio at work and can hear WRKO 680 Boston at work on WEEI-FM HD2 only it cuts out. Have better luck with TuneIn (or iHeart, since WRKO’s Howie Carr is also on a network feat. CLear Channel’s WHYN in western MA)

[SamAdams76]

I remember growing up in the late 1970s and my father would have a cardboard box of 8-track tapes on the floor in the back seat of his car. Now they had stopped selling 8-track tapes in stores for years and cars no longer came with 8-track players as even options. But my father was loyal to his Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson and Glen Campbell 8-tracks right to the bitter end.

This sort of reminds me of AM/FM listeners today. Old men in hats, driving their Buicks and Oldsmobiles at 45mph in the middle lane, both hands clenched to the wheel, as they wait for their radio show to come out of commercial.

[Kozak]

“I want AM in the car, oh and bring back a straight bench seat option while you are at it.”

And running boards and a crank starter...
(I keed I keed)

[Dr. Sivana]

Running boards would actually be kinda cool.

[raccoonradio]

Clear Channel changed their Pitt. FM talker to country to cash in...and got a so so AM station to pick up Beck, Rush, Sean etc “Now you can hear all this on AM radio!,” the promos say,,,wow! As if that’s something to brag about Better than nothing I guess