Re: Article on WYAR

["Terrence M. Wood" <Terry_Wood@prodigy.net>]

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From: SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 1999 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Article on WYAR

Dan, local radio disappeared because a bunch of Yahoos came in with a lotta
bucks and made them a deal they couldn't refuse.  It didn't disappear for
any other reason.   Corporate radio from Texas and New York, doesn't even
compare to what was with Hokey Local Radio, where we did get LOCAL news and
the local schools games were broadcast.  Here in the Southern Maine/New
Hampshire Seacoast, except for Dover stations we get no news of the area,
the Local High Schools games are not now broadcast and the talk on AM has
been made a very vanilla flavor....not local talk but mostly "hot Talk" for
nitwits.  The corporate broadcaster doesn't care if it gets ratings, he's
making money and doesn't care about Portsmouth, Dover, Kittery etc, as long
as the national ads are there he's happy and that he gets a pitance of the
local ads he used to get, becasue he spreads it out over 5 to 10 stations in
the seacoast group he owns.

Terry

>
>Judging by this post, my guess would be that you have never worked in a
>real radio station, ie one that exists as anything other than a hobby to
>someone. Who would actually listen to such a station?  A few radio geeks
>with no life outside of listening to weird radio and maybe the owner's
>mother.  What, pray tell is "the best music in stereo, the likes of which
>no conventional programmer would ever dare touch"?  Give me a break.  This
>sounds like the endless posts on various music groups and
>rec.radio.broadcasting by yahoos who gripe endlessly that their local
>oldies station doesn't play <insert list of obscure mid-charting songs
here>.
>
>Radio sounds the way it does today because it works.  Hokey small-market
>radio went away because it didn't.

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