Comments on: Terrestrial Radio Keeps Killing Itself – Why? https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/01/23/terrestrial-radio-keeps-killing-itself-why/ Joe Palazzolo's Blog Sat, 13 Jul 2013 12:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Steve https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/01/23/terrestrial-radio-keeps-killing-itself-why/comment-page-1/#comment-2972 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:21:16 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=2949#comment-2972 Regular radio keeps making horrible decisions like this because it’s a business populated by people who are looking to make a quick dollar rather than do what’s right. It’s the same everywhere you go. If something seems like a hot concept, sooner or later everybody’s doing it. You mentioned Jack FM. The same thing happened in Canada. Rogers Communications launched a Jack station in Vancouver and then one in Toronto. Next thing you know, one company flips a bunch of their stations to the same IPod style play whatever format and calls it Bob. Another company calls it Dave. I think there’s even a Lloyd a Cam and a Fred floating around in various parts of the country. It’s completely ridiculous. And it’s not even like the expanded playlist format is a bad idea. it could have worked, but the problem is that just by listening for a little while you can tell that it’s still the same old radio, and that unlike anybody’s IPod, it still has a strict set of guidelines that it uses to set playlists. What good is playing stuff from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s if you’re not going to take the next logical step and play different things, the stuff that you never hear on radio? Seriously, have you ever met a person with an MP3 player filled with just singles from the bands that everybody else knows?

The good will that a station’s name has established means nothing to people in today’s radio business. They’re more than happy to gut staff and take away jobs from talented people and voicetrack everything. They’ll flip formats at a moments notice because it might make some money or because the competition did it. I can’t say it about absolutely everybody I’ve come across in radio, but for the most part, a kind or original thought would die of loneliness in what passes for the brains of these tools.

Good luck with the protest. I’ve never listened to this station, but I know well how much a good radio station means to a community, and I know how difficult it is to find one these days.

]]> By: Joe https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/01/23/terrestrial-radio-keeps-killing-itself-why/comment-page-1/#comment-2942 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:07:02 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=2949#comment-2942 Please…I’ve lost more money on Sirius than any other investment.

But as the ads all over this site (and in an upcoming post) prove – I still think there is something to this company!

]]> By: Eddie T. https://www.jerseysmarts.com/2009/01/23/terrestrial-radio-keeps-killing-itself-why/comment-page-1/#comment-2939 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:10:06 +0000 http://www.jerseysmarts.com/?p=2949#comment-2939 How about that SIRIUS stock?

(OK I couldn’t resist…:))

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