[BC] What happened to fun radio?

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

What happened to fun radio? It happened starting in the 80's.
1. Owners who were not broadcasters
2. Wall Street, who saw no difference between a radio station and a 
manufacturing plant.
3. Programmers who never worked on the air. I once worked for a 
progammer who was an MBA.........
4. When the significant part of the promotion's budget becamed dedicated 
to liability insurance and lawyers.
5. Lawyers in general.
6. More reliable equipment. What fun is it to merely click and point? 
Remember when you had to back up the left turntable 3 revolutions to get 
a clean start, but the right TT only took 2? And who could forget 
un-cued carts, etc?
Yeah, I know.......good ole days....... Trust me, they were. This ain't it.

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN
WBZQ1300 at verizon.net



Ronald J. Dot'o Sr. wrote:

>I still had good times at my Top 40, country and MOR stations in the 80's
>with real live breathing jocks, and yes (gulp) even turn tables and song
>requests.
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