"David Kaye" wrote in message
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RHF wrote:


- He's a pretty consistant pompous, dismissive ass...

(1) And what national VP position do you hold with a broadcaster? (2) How
many radio stations have you put on the air? (3) How many languages do
you
speak? (4) How many ratings battles have you won?

While David Eduardo doesn't need any defending by me, I can't resist the
opportunity to rag on you yokels who haven't done a damned thing in the
business and yet pontificate on subjects you know nothing about.


While I may not have some of the expertise he claims to have, I am an
engineer, and have worked for many years in radio. I speak two languages and
working on a third, not that that matters to the converasation.

That being said, I need no radio expertise at all to know a pompous,
dismissive, ass when I see one. He cares about ratings, which are made of
whole cloth and based upon a model that is non-sequitur in the real world.
We've all seen what the true meaning of polls is during the past four
election cycles. There's just no way you can legitimately, despite what some
would have you believe, base the opinions of 1,000,000 people on the dubious
reporting of a few hundred or so.

The industry, and he in particular, choose to dismiss the opinions, tastes,
and needs of a significant segment of the population (and getting MORE
significant over the next 20 years or so) with the totally inapt reasoning
that they "don't contribute significantly to sales figures" and "are not
swayed to try new products", both of which are patently and demonstrably
untrue, if you actually LISTEN to your public rather than to allow yourself
to be lead around like an animal at a petting zoo.

FWIW, I have a good friend that has known David for many years, and who
agrees 100% with my opinions of him. This person has never owned any
stations, nor won any major awards, either. But he has been in radio for
over 40 years in various positions.