Re(3): WIBW channel 13 Posted on April 26, 2023 at 05:03:46 PM by Arthur Godfrey
The public doens't even listen to THESE people...for there's little informative being said. Isn't there a site where outlying Topeka viewer read on the net to tell them why reception sucks?
More imiportantly, hasn't WIBW advised their viewers they're having issues? or is stinkin thinking to admit you're not perfect...so people will think about going out and buying a new TV instead if learning when the signal will improve?
Out outcounty parents gave up on OTA broadcasting from Topeka. 49 was never good and if WIBW's on the blink, that's it. So they went satellite and now watch cable entertainment, WIBW was only good for weather anyway to farm communities.
(My perspective from THIS side of the studio.) It's amazing what people learn about their own industry when seeing or hearing it and watching people on the other side of the transmitter! IF the quality isn't good (both reception and content) they ignore it and go find something more worthwhile. Put another way, a bored listener/viewer quickly becomes no listener/viewer at all!
That never occurs to people who don't hardly ever leave the station. Ratings dont help becasuse ratings only gauge those who do listen and their focused on which of their choices they've chosen-- which is often just the LEAST boring of their choices.
Enter satellite''s and cable's much wider choices, and research takes on an entire new generation. Almost like escaping Earth's gravity to learn just how insignificant that blue planet actually is. I learned that in the early 1980s in Wichita when, despite KAKE-TV's protest to the city council to stop them, the whole city bought into AirCapital Cablevision and OTA media ended up with a WAY smaller slice of the eyes and ears within their coverage area.
We had a captive audience until then and then with the revenue losses, broadcasters cut staff. My TV station went from 60 in the newsroom to abt 28. In six months! Since then fewer people have to do more to fill the same number of minutes. IN news, they thinned out the gathering staff, hired a few more anchors to fill that time, and now we get mostly bumps, teases, and repeats of the same weather forcasts.
If you look at it historically, you'd notice what happen to drama and live performance radio was the same thinning out when radio cut staff and just played records over and over. THen came TV and all the actors left for the little box.
Then came satellites and that's changed everything. I'm frankly a bit surprised affiliate TV that produces content even exists. Mostly they read press releases written by government and corporate PR people. To see what radio and TV USED to be like, you have to see what their program day looked like in the early 1950s. Course that's hard because except for some 90 year old engineers who remember, there's no one left to tell you about it.
Hope ya enjoyed the reminisce...if not, feel free to go back to dirty old man tell you who's got the biggest jugs on Kansas City TV. (snicker) Replies: There have been no replies.
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