Re: Lowry Mays speaks

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

One major difference in radio today over 30+ years ago is the minor 
league feeder system is gone. Manchester NH was a vibrant market with 3 
more or less full time AM stations same with Worcester, Providence, 
Portland etc.

Satellite radio kicked in 20 years ago on FM but it wasn't til Rush 
roared onto the scene in 1990 that local in daytime was suddenly 
vulnerable.

What we forget is that local radio in many markets didn't exist until 
the early 50s as network radio was king. So in many ways we have come 
full circle.

Another thing lost today is the local radio guy going against the big 
outfits and causing fits. You will never see a Mac Richmond or R Peter 
Straus again. WMEX stole the WMCA format rock til 10 then talk because 
it worked.





On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 9:49PM -0500, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
> Do you seriously think that our parents' generation "got" Arnie 
> Ginsburg, Jack Armstrong or Dale Dorman?  Maybe you or I find today's 
> jocks less than entertaining, but from your post I gather that you are 
> hardly in the demo for either altrock or hip-hop (nor am I).  Times and 
> mores have changed over the years...the entertainment industry (and 
> society) as a whole has gotten much coarser.  Knock-knock jokes ain't 
> gonna cut it with Gen Y.
>