[BC] Country Music plight in top towns

[Ron Cole]

< SOAPBOX >
I don't believe Satellite radio to be a threat to Terrestrial Radio.

Good local radio has a Live feel to it that can't be duplicated on Satellite
be it XM/Sirus or one of the Satellite programming services feed thought a
stations automation system.

The biggest threat to Terrestrial Radio is bad programming, over the last 10
years the over all quality of radio programming went from a somewhat
interesting and entertaining to automated predictable pabulum that is less
interesting then random play on an iPod.

To me XM/Sirus sound like a random playing iPod with low fidelity and
satellite signal fades, fine for when I travel but useless in everyday
listening.
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Ron


On 9/27/06, Bailey, Scott <sbailey at nespower.com> wrote:
>
> That would make a great FM format in Nashville. The lowest rated FM
> station in Arbs in Nashville is WRLT-FM. I like their music format
> (AAA), but it doesn't have, and has never done good. Their format
> doesn't gear to the masses of this area, especially people in the
> suburban areas. That station would be best off going to an all news
> format.
> An all news format like WINS-AM in NYC would be a winner here in
> Nashville, and other markets.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
> [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Xen Scott
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:05 AM
> To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BC] Country Music plight in top towns
>
> At 08:19 AM 09/27/2006 -0400, Cornelius wrote:
>
> >My position since the dawn of satellite radio - and in particular, the
> >terrestrial repeater quagmire was/is this: Instead of fighting
> Satellite
> >Radio, radio should have found a way to get ONTO the terrestrial
> repeater
> >system and become one of the many offerings on XM and Sirius.
>
> I would love to hear an all-news format on satellite radio, but not just
>
> the audio from
> a cable network.  The problem with using the audio from a cable TV
> network
> is that some
> information is conveyed visually, such as in a graphic.  That
> information
> never gets to the
> audio-only consumer.  Ideally, XM or Sirius would offer one or more of
> the
> major market
> all-news radio stations.
>
> Now I'm just a retired TV tech, but isn't there a big contractual
> problem
> with putting
> over-the-air radio stations on XM and Sirius?  Don't most nationally
> distributed network
> programs prohibit redistribution beyond the local market of the client
> radio station?
> Most all-news stations use radio program network sources.  A case in
> point
> would be
> WCBS-AM.  Would the CBS Radio Network permit re-transmission of their
> top-of-the-hour
> news feed?
>
> If over-the-air re-transmission of local radio were limited to that
> station's market,
> wouldn't that consume a lot of pipeline bandwidth?  I know there is the
> example of
> local TV being carried in their local market via Directv or Dish
> Network,
> but the technical
> compromise in the form of significant compression makes the stations
> difficult to watch.
> Do XM and Sirius even have the bandwidth to offer local radio into local
>
> markets?
>
> Xen Scott
>