[BC] "all new" format

[Steve]

Even talent shows have auditions! Maybe a good one for a lonely HD2 channel, eh? Could throw them on an IBUZZ. The hash would enhance the tape hiss and bad miking. <G>

Have a nice weekend and may your phones be silent. :)

Steve
Steve Walker Productions

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: WFIFeng at aol.com 
  To: broadcast at radiolists.net 
  Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 7:50 AM
  Subject: Re: [BC] "all new" format


  In a message dated 01/28/2006 8:39:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
  shnewman at alaweb.com writes:

  > Yeah Willie...it's bad radio at best. One step below the Jack format. Yet 
  > another iPod on Acid. <G>

  LOL! Actually, the concept of "Radio FOR the people BY the people" seems 
  somewhat "cool" at first glance. Then when you look at the more practical side of 
  things... how many people will it actually appeal to? The feeding frenzy of 
  talentless, egotistical people clamoring for their "15 minutes of fame" would 
  probably drive-away anyone who actually had talent. If such did manage get on 
  the air, how many listeners would hear (and recognize) that talent? (Most 
  listeners would have tuned-out because of the garbage that was on before the good 
  stuff.)

  I think that such a format *could* be made to work *to a degree* with very 
  careful selection and auditioning of submissions. Only the ones that actually 
  contain interesting or compelling content (and that were clearly intelligible & 
  not distorted) would get on the air. Perhaps they are already doing this, I 
  don't know... but if, say, a station could cluster programs of specific "themes" 
  together into blocks, and maintain some level of thematic consistency, then 
  perhaps there'd be a chance of making it work. Of course, charging (even 
  modestly) submitters for the privilege of airing their programs, should deter *most* 
  whackos & talentless wannabes.

  Of course, I could be totally all wet, here, too. <g>

  Willie...

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