Re(6): Hey radio kid Posted on October 11, 2021 at 01:17:54 PM by just said it
Who are ya Radio Kid? I dont care about your name, but how old are you and what do you do in radio and what genre does your station call itself?
That was a good post you wrote. Ya knocked yourself out. You're basically rewriting what I've said in here for years but I've learned when ya have 7 active visitors and two of us are old men in diapers, well what have ya got?
Don't blame US two... I was here before you hit puberty, if you're really a kid, as was Jim. You can lament as loudly a syou want because THIS DISCUSSION BOARD is like an abandoned warehouse in the west bottoms.
Except for being a haunted house in October, nobody's here and hasnt been for years.
I didn't jock all that long because I just wasn't Robin Williams; I was a news junkie but except for a couple talk stations, THERE IS NO RADIO NEWS.
Not that engaged adults dont want to hear it, but the consolidated radio corporations arent willing to pay for it, becasue except for one spot per hour to 'sponsor' it, its just an expense.
So radio dropped it. I dont know anybody who listens to radio news, not even me. I get mine off the TV and 5 minutes on the internet.
IT occurred to me not to worry about Jim saying we in news just did 'rip and read;' First you young pups never heard the phrase but in here and never heard rip n read because there hasn't even been THAT at any station that played the music you grew up with.
I was thinkin about that this morning beause yes, being in here brings back what I did during the 1970s, doing radio news. I left it because corporate radio left it. TV news remains and god knows they have a lot of newscasts.
Before I came in this morning and fired up my Dell, I did ask myself why bother writing in here? Youre right, kid, no one cares.
This was once almost a thriving room but its that that WE ran the jocks off, corporate radio did! Long ago, I turned Walmart, a well known company into a verb. Radio's been WALMARTED.
So I dont really care how old you ARE, but I'd be interested in knowing how many years can you get out of a radio employer and make enough money to support a small family, if you can?
I said I was in it in the 70s. My newscasts here were sponsored by Bill Bill Allen Allen, a long gone northland car dealership. Ask Jim. He used to by for the McCarthy group. Ask him when's the last time he placed an ad in a radio newscast!
I used to think radio drama (Captain Midnight, One Man's Family, Suspense) from the 1950s when I was in gradeschool was long ago. It was really only 20 years before I was in radio. When it died, it died and now radio does what our smarphones do. They repeat music in our playlists.
Now its been 40 years since I was in radio. Jeez there clearly IS life after radio. For me it was TV, then computer mgt and programming, and now I just dally on the internet and water the grass cuz I'm retired, don't have to work and my how time flies!
You won't find the good old days of Gateway coming back because the midday, afternoon and evening jocks are gone. Nobody to come in and talk about radio and besides nothings happening in radio and hasn't since the Last Contest was aired. (Another phrase that is meaning less to you.)
Don't get your expectations up. Lots of people wish radio was what it once was. I read their laments, guys remenising aobut lift at KHJ or in Boston, or Houston, or Peoria. They aint comin back. It was a fun ride but if you look at the comments in this room for the last 20 years as I have, the content in here really hasn't been all that upbeat. Nobody reminesces in here and never has.
I can't remember anything interesting on KC radio since Noel Heckerson was doign play by play on Belinder road the morning of 9-11, and he was gettin all THAT from a live TV in his radio studio.
Wnen I got to work, I didnt keep listening to radio...I turned on the TV and not much work was done at the academy that day, we were all in the breakroom.
Reminded me of that day in 1963 when my high school office piped in CBS radio and Walter telling us Kennedy had died shortly after 1pm. THe school buses came early, we went home and watched TV all weekend. that was almost 60 years ago, and i remember it like it was yesterday.
But not from radio! Radio wans't bad, but technology made it obsolete for all but listening to old songs played over and over.
Yup, I'm talkin myself into agreein with you, askin myself why am I here, since I provide most of the fresh content in this message board--and I can't even upload graphics!
Whats goin in my head's the title of Govt Russian advisor Fiona Hill's new book on Trump, a blockbuster, they're talking about on TV ahead of the charges being filed on all the president's men. Its called,