[BC] Listening in the car

[Kent Winrich]

BTW this is a great converastion!

Couple of thoughts...

The ads.  Who is to blame for the ads?  Radio (because they allow them to go
over their air?) The ad agencies?  The client themselves?  IMHO it is ALL of
them.  Not just radio!  Yes radio should control what goes over their air,
and limit the amount of ads in a time slot.  But that is just me... I am
only an engineer.

In regards to teens...  I dont know about you, but when I was a teen or in
college, I didnt spend too much time with radio.  I was into cassettes and
CDs.  When I got older I spent more time with radio.  I found my time was
limtied and I didnt have the ability to put together "My favorite music
list" anymore.  I also grew up and spent more time with talk radio.  So I
think it is more relevant to look at what the 25+ year olds are doing than
teens.




On 8/4/06, nakayle at gmail.com <nakayle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, the news is so depressing these days who wants to hear it?  :-(
>
> But as I've said before, all broadcasters are underestimating the impact
> of the net.  I grew up fascinated with radio and spent 30 years in the
> business, but I've become so disgusted with broadcasting today that I
> spend
> almost all my time listening to stuff from the net now.  I even pay for
> some
> programs I could hear free just to get rid of the endless droning of ads,
> PSAs, promos and DJ-yak, not to mention what passes for redundant
> over-compressed music now a days.   Every teen I knows goes around with a
> ipod- not a radio.
>
> - Nat Kayle
>