[BC] What happened to fun radio?

[Steve Newman]

Thank you Doug. I actually saw the subtle beginnings in the late 70's when I 
was at CBS-FM in San Francisco. You're close enough though. I thought you 
left out the bean counters but you reference Wall Street. You hit it on the 
nose!

Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas B. Pritchett" <wbzq1300 at verizon.net>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] What happened to fun radio?


> 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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